The News Review:

- Mary Boone Gallery
- Greenvillenline.com | Gallery Title: Barack bama | The Greenville…
- Still time to enter Picture our Lakes contest
- In Photos and Words: Day 9 at the Cannes International Film Festival
- Latin American artists show works at gallery

Mary Boone Gallery
New York Times – May 25, 2007
Less familiar are some Polaroid works from 1972 and ’74 in which Mr. Clemente brushes past ideas that more mainstream postmodernists his age latched onto. In a larger photo-based work from 1976 he seems at pains to demonstrate the incompatibility of Arte Povera and erotic explicitness. This piece consists of an expert picture of a drawing (his) of two Classical-looking youths attempting acrobatic acts of onanism and a picture of an arrangement of pens paper clips and other desktop items replicating their positions. It’s just not the same. Clemente gingerly approaches large scale in some 1978 gouaches whose Pop-Conceptual style evokes Ed Ruscha.

Greenvillenline.com | Gallery Title: Barack bama | The Greenville…
Greenville News – May 25, 2007
is saluted as he addresses the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists during their 36th international convention in Chicago. With the Democratic presidential nomination within his grasp bama’s moment is also a historic juncture in nation’s story of race and politics.

Still time to enter Picture our Lakes contest
NorthernLife.ca – May 25, 2007
Consent forms can be obtained from Artists on Elgin. Signed release forms must be submitted with the  photographs(s). -  Each photo submitted must have a label attached to the back of the picture with: entrants name address phone number and email site location and date of photo. -  The contest fee is $2 for one entry; $4 for two entries and $5 for three entries. For more information phone 674-0415 email.

In Photos and Words: Day 9 at the Cannes International Film Festival
Monsters and Critics.com – May 25, 2007
Photo gallery can be found to the right. monstersandcritics… \nJames Gray talked about the origins of the film: “The idea for the film came from a New York Times photograph of a police funeral. In the photo all of these grown men were huggingin tears after one of their fellow officers had been keilled in the line of duty. And the image had such a tremendous emotion. I was anxious to make something not just thrilling but explosive dramatic and frankly filled with action. \nut of Competition: “Crossed Tracks” by Claude Lelouch\nClaude Lelouch Palme d’r winner in 1966 with A Man and a Woman has returned to the Cannes Festival with the ut of Competition screening of Roman de Gare (Crossed Tracks). I\nIn the great director\’s own words: “I hope that in Crossed Tracks you will find melodrama comedy suspense elements of the road movie and the western in short the genres and the kinds of cinema that I have always loved more than anything. ” Judith Ralitzer femme fatale and popular writer is seeking characters for her next best-seller.

Latin American artists show works at gallery
NewsK.com – May 25, 2007
More conventional but quietly appealing colored pencil drawings by Columbian artist Jaime Macias depict such things as a partly peeled orange in a still life light from a window in a room and a racehorse in front of two other horses. Bolivian artist Alvaro Posadas captures people and especially children beautifully in his realistic slice-of-life apparently impromptu color photographs. A woman in a hat stirring something in her kitchen (“Mi Cocina?) looks up at the camera in one fine photo by Posadas while a little girl beams at us with big eyes (“jos?) in another. Dense green foliage creates a wall as mysterious as the jungle itself in a superb oil painting by Nicaraguan-born artist Thelma Gomez. Almost equally engaging is Gomez’s outdoor three-quarter length oil portrait of a middle-aged woman named “Lois? wearing work clothes and a work hat smiling broadly and holding buckets under her armColumbian artist Franz Mutis brings good color to his stylized aerial view of a musical trio surrounded by facets and a sense of humor to his exaggerated depiction of a wild-eyed man literally tearing his hair on “Tuesday Afternoon at the ffice. ? The exhibit is well worth visiting during its run through June 15. ? John Brandenburg.