Time for a 2012 Tune-up? Barbara Garro

Charles Geschke, co-founder of Adobe Systems, Inc., said, Our only cleverness was in the perception of what was happening, and in being quick enough to take advantage of it.   Seriously into 2012, have you thought of giving your leadership a mental tuneup? What am I talking about? Give your whole year so far a going [...]

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1. 2012: Keeping the Backside In the Chair
2. Saving Ontario Place
3. Arts Funding Revisited – The Pitch
4. Transcendental Meditation

Saving Ontario Place authorpaulcollins

Concerned volunteers are now sending letters to key politicians to help save Ontario Place.  Several months ago, Premier Dalton McGuinty announced the closure of Ontario Place, which is a historical landmark.  Plans are now under way to replace this public space with a privately run casino.  Presently, a lot of concerned citizens are mobilizing to [...]

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1. The End is Nigh!
2. Arts Funding Revisited – The Pitch
3. Art Detectives
4. Time for a 2012 Tune-up?

Who Am I? Terry L. White

As a writer, I question a lot of things – especially if the information may fit my latest writing project. It seems to me that the folks who speak the loudest – often do that for no reason at all. On the other hand, those individuals who have gentle, tentative speech are those who seem [...]

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1. What Art Is
2. The Art of Psychologist C.G. Jung
3. Fill in Your Blank (2)
4. Beauty Keeps You Young!

Transcendental Meditation Barbara Garro

Mind & Body Tune-up: Have you been thinking you need to do something? You don’t get restful sleep. Your stomach, digestive system is so fouled up you’ve got tablets at home, at work, in the car and you hate it when you forget to put them in your pocket. Would you be surprised, like I am, [...]

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1. Beauty Keeps You Young!
2. The Rembrandt Mystique
3. Selling Men Art
4. Fill in Your Blank (2)

Growing Up Italian in America Barbara Garro

Joanna Clapps Herman tells it like it was for so many Italians growing up in America in the twentieth century.  Every story becomes more telling than the next—what a grounding read. Here, Herman feeds and waters memories now that those who made those memories are nearly all gone and all the important old ones are [...]

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1. Being Italian
2. Flying with Santa
3. This Great America (story)
4. Transcendental Meditation

What Makes Certain Art Famous? Barbara Garro

Artist Paul Cezanne spoke to the question when he said: “A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. Emotion is the starting point, the beginning and the end. Craftsmanship and technique are in the middle.” You may remember reading that the first time I saw a photograph of Jean Moulin, [...]

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1. Artists Painting in Public
2. Art Buyer Worries
3. Beauty Keeps You Young!
4. Art: Real or Not?

Selling Men Art Barbara Garro

Is there a typical male art buyer? No more and no less than there is a typical male clothing buyer or car buyer. That still means they buy like men and not like women. Do more men buy animal scenes and sports-related art? Certainly. Still, most men truisms never equate to every man realities. So, [...]

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1. Art Buyer Worries
2. The Rembrandt Mystique
3. Beauty Keeps You Young!
4. What Art Is

Art Buyer Worries Barbara Garro

As a buyer, I know that buying art is the most exciting event. As a buyer, I know that I enjoy every piece of part I have purchased every single day of my life as I give it admiring glances as I pass by. Every once in a while for no particular reason, a painting [...]

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1. Artists Painting in Public
2. Selling Men Art
3. What Art Is
4. The Rembrandt Mystique

How Your Art Reveals You! Barbara Garro

How Your Art Reveals You. Your art tells your secret personality. Look around at the art you choose to display on the walls of your home. See what colors repeat again and again. See what story your art tells about you. For example,my home sparkles with red, yellow and blue, as do my paintings. Each [...]

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1. Artists Who Understand People
2. The Rembrandt Mystique
3. What Art Is
4. Conversing with Artists

A Question for Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich authorpaulcollins

I would like to ask Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich a question. Up until now, the Republican Party has talked about fighting the deficit without tax increases.  Since 2008, they have also fought US health reform while the rest of us in world actually have a free universal healthcare system which is not the best, but [...]

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1. To Kindle, Or Not To Kindle, That Is The Question
2. A Question Of Packaging
3. It Begs The Question…
4. To Have, Or Not To Have, That Is The Question

The Rembrandt Mystique Barbara Garro

Ninety times Rembrandt van Rijn asked the question, ‘Who is Rembrandt?’ And ninety times he answered himself for all the world to see. In commemoration of his 400th birthday on June 15, 2006, I spent the 4th of July with Rembrandt, another independent artist who valued his freedom. Criticized often for poor drawing technique, held [...]

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1. Art Buyer Worries
2. Selling Men Art
3. Conversing with Artists
4. What Art Is

Conversing with Artists Barbara Garro

Loving Art and Conversing with Artists - Having spent decades in Corporate America, living in the artists’ world has brought many delightful surprises and some horrifying questions. I am continually amazed by the questions friends, family, strangers, fellow artists, neighbors, and service providers ask me. Here are some examples of the worst questions that I hope [...]

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1. Artists Painting in Public
2. Selling Men Art
3. Beauty Keeps You Young!
4. What Art Is