MYSTERIES, ARTS, MAGIC:  Mysteries, Magic and Powers of Art. The Healing Power of Art, Images, Talismans, Mantras and Masks. Can pictures influence your life and destiny? Do you believe that photos have magical powers over you, your friends and enemies? Do you know how to use photos and charts to influence others?

SHORT  FILMS REVIEWS

Fade Out/Fade In
Zombie lover Milla Jovovich (Resident Evil) is leaving the ghouls behind and stepping into the shoes of Brit actress Kate Beckinsale for Fade Out, a Hitchcockian psycho thriller. She'll be starring alongside Billy Bob Thornton as the wife of a man who's undergoing a mental breakdown.

No More War
Anti-war director David O Russell (Three Kings) has finally solved the problem of how to get people to see his 35-minute documentary about the war in Iraq.

No More Meyer
Veteran cult filmmaker Russ Meyer has died at his Hollywood home at the age of 82. The controversial adult director, whose mammary-fixated movies Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

UNBELIEVABLE BUT TRUE!

LaFemme, a patented disposable female urination device (FUD) allows females of all ages the opportunity to use the toilet while standing. READ  THE ARTICLE

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Kiki Smith is unquestionably, one of world's leading figures in sculpture, printmaking and possibly installation, for her art transcends the frontier of images and icons. This woman is a walking art encyclopedia with unsurpassed talent. Ms. Smith is American, born in Germany in 1954. The contemporary world of art and design considers her as among the most illustrious  artists of  our time. Read more about this fabulous and outstanding artist in the SECTION" WOULD YOU LIE TO YOUR DOG" by Germaine Bernard and Maximillien de Lafayette. An additional article by Curator Elizabeth A. Brown appeared in the right column.wwwwwwwwwwwww

tUSA BEST PHOTOGRAPHERS. THE MOST STUNNING PHOTOS EVER TAKEN BY AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHERS

Photographer of the Week  

t BARBARA SINGER

Barbara Singer is de facto one of  America's greatest portraits photographers. A magnificent humanistic photographer with inner visions and pragmatic esthetics. A poetess, a writer, a thinker, a visionary and a torch of human virtues. Perhaps, just perhaps, she is New York's best portraits artist-photographer.

tKiki Smith at The University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara

One of the most influential artists of her generation, Kiki Smith makes sculpture of and about the body in materials as diverse as bronze, paper, and wax. Ranging from fragments of the body to whole figures in the round, from the miniature to the monumental, from neutral or natural coloration to bright, unfamiliar hues, her sculptures are united by their sensual impact and their frank acceptance of corporeal reality. This exhibition, mixing a group of new works with examples of important recent pieces from Southern California collections in an installation designed by the artist, demonstrated the visceral qualities Smith can elicit from a variety of traditional and unusual mediums-evoking solid bodies in ostensibly fragile silk tissue or creating transitory visual effects in solid bronze. It also revealed her expressive scope: rather than argue a specific political interpretation or conform to a single way of suggesting meaning, Smith's art explores the diverse possibilities inherent in the body as subject and object, self and other. Kiki Smith, who was born in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1954, grew up in New Jersey and has lived in New York City since 1976. In the late 1970s and early 1980s she was associated with the artist's collective Collaborative Projects, Inc. (Colab), and participated in the celebrated Times Square Show of 1980. During that period she began to focus on the constituent parts of the human anatomy, a subject that continues to figure in her art. The product of a mature, established artist, the work in this exhibition functions on multiple levels. The best way to see it is without preconceptions, to approach each object as you would a new acquaintance, discovering gradually its personality, its nuances, its humor. We recommend that the viewer not seek--or trust--any fixed meaning or singular association: this is art that grows with time and a sign of its effectiveness is the sense that some of it remains provocative or mysterious.  Elizabeth A. Brown, Curator