Margreth Olin's documentary Songs of Earth to the Toronto Film Festival  Sogns of Earth, a full-length documentary by Margreth Olin about nature, experienced with the guidance of director Margreth Olin's 85-year-old father through Oldedalen in Northwest Norway, will be shown in the documentary section in Toronto.   For one year, I have walked in my father's footsteps in the magnificent nature to which he is so deeply connected. I found a peace that I believe many are missing. It has always been an adventure to walk with my father. Dad has shown me what a gift nature is.  I want to pass on that gift that I received from him, I believe in that - the finest thing you receive, you should pass on," says director, producer, and screenwriter Margreth Olin about her latest film.   Suggested to Take a Walk Olin has previously made acclaimed and award-winning documentaries such as Doing Good (Mannen fra Snåsa, 2016), Childhood (Barndom, 2017), and Self Portrait (Selvportrett, 2020). The work on Songs of Earth (Fedrelandet) began when Margreth came to her 85-year-old father, Jørgen Mykløen, and asked for advice during a demanding period in her life. He responded as he often does, suggesting they should take a walk together.   The result was the documentary Songs of Earth, which will be presented to the North American audience at the continent's most important film festival in Toronto at the beginning of September, where it will be shown in the documentary sidebar.   Margreth Olin has previously participated in Toronto with the film The Angel (Engelen) which had its world premiere there in 2009. The film festival is also one of the world's most important venues for buying and selling films, where buyers, festival programmers, and press from all over the world participate. Songs of Earth has received 5,450,000 NOK (540.00 USD) in development, production, and release grants from The Norwegian Film Institute. Excited about the Canadian Audience -We are extremely happy that the film has been invited to Toronto and will have its North American premiere there. This has been a hope and goal since the start and means a lot for the film's further life. I am excited about the reception from the Canadian audience, they live close to and love nature as Norwegians do says Margreth Olin.   Songs of Earth premieres in Norwegian theatres on September 1st and will be screened in advance at ten beautiful and spectacular places in Norway, including Geirangerfjorden, Oldedalen, Stangholmen by Risør, Gjendesheim, and at the roof of the Oslo Opera. Liv Ullmann and the Palme d'Or-winning and three-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker Wim Wenders are among the film's executive producers. The Toronto International Film Festival unspools between September 7th and 17th. Cast and Credits STARRING Jørgen Mykløen & Magnhild Kongsjord Mykløen DIRECTOR Margreth Olin PRODUCERS Margreth Olin & Lena Faye-Lund Sandvik for Speranza Film AS CINEMATOGRAPHY Lars Erlend Tubaas Øymo, Herman Lersveen, Torbjørn Martinsen, Dag Asle Mykløen SOUND Andreas Lindberg Svensson SOUND DESIGN Tormod Ringnes EDITORMichal Leszczylowski MUSIC Rebekka Karijord EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Wim Wenders and Liv Ullmann CO-PRODUCERS BBC, SWR, ARTA NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR Norsk Filmdistribusjon INTERNATIONAL SALES AGENT Cinephil Watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/YafIOotSGHM

Photo: Agnete Brun of director Margreth Olin

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The Jokeman with Les Paul and friend at The Iridium

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JACKIE JOKEMAN MARTLING ENTERTAINS LES PAUL AT THE IRIDUM IN NYC

Louie Stern Fine Arts: Matsumi Kanemitsu, In the Round, July 15-August,19, 2023

Opening, 1962 acrylic on canvas 24 x 20 inches; 61 x 50.8 centimeters “To me, I want my work to be like life—everything that is different or opposite to be in balance, like yin and yang, negative and positive, day and night. I want to be just like sunshine, like moon." -- Matsumi Kanemitsu Matsumi Kanemitsu, circa 1967. The son of Japanese immigrants, Matsumi Kanemitsu was born in 1922 in Ogden, Utah, but spent his childhood with his grandparents in Hiroshima, Japan, where he took near-daily art classes. He moved back to the United States in 1940 and joined the U.S. Army in 1941, but the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor soon led to his arrest and confinement in detention camps.                   Devastating as that experience must have been, Kanemitsu began drawing with art supplies provided by the American Red Cross and eventually made his way to Europe as a military hospital assistant. Kanemitsu returned to the United States in 1949 and plunged into New York’s postwar art scene. But as a student of Japanese painter Yasuo Kuniyoshi at the Art Students League, he also kept in touch with his cultural heritage.    By the early 1960s, he moved to Los Angeles and received a grant to work at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, producing a suite of prints that translated sumi painting techniques into lithography. With extraordinary skill and versatility, Kanemitsu also became a teacher, at Chouinard Art Institute from 1965 to 1970 and at Otis Art Institute from 1971 to 1983. Though Kanemitsu is often identified as a second generation Abstract Expressionist, his artistic legacy is bicultural, embracing Japanese ink painting traditions as well as American Abstract Expressionism and Pop art.   View More Works by Matsumi Kanemitsu Matsumi Kanemitsu painting, circa 1950s Louis Stern Fine Arts 9002 Melrose Avenue West Hollywood, CA  90069 Contact 310-276-0147 info@louissternfinearts.com  www.louissternfinearts.com louissternfineart#fineartmagazine#fineartfun

Russell Banks - A Life In letters complied by Victor Forbes

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Islip Arts Council ,seeking young artists to submit work for International Youth Day, August 12, 2023. See all details below for submission

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District 1 Youth Advisory Board is seeking artwork from youth relating to Environmental Justice. Climate change-themed work will be accepted to be showcased at Sisters of St. Joseph to the public on International Youth Day, August 12, 2023. Free to submit your work! Teens and young adults welcomed.

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YOUTH DAY CELEBRATION! August 12, 2023 At Sisters of St. Joseph - 10:30am-2:30pm FREE backpacks and school supplies for families in need (3 bag limit per family) Food donations will also be collected for Eileen's Free Bodega. https://www.d1youthadvisoryboard.com/ #islipattscouncil#fineartmagazine#fineartrun

Louis Stern Fine Arts, In the Round, July, 15-August 19, 2023

#14, 1984 oil on canvas 60 x 60 inches; 152.4 x 152.4 centimeters  “I am an intuitive painter, despite the ordered appearance of my paintings, and am fascinated by the infinite range of expression inherent in color relationships. For the past fifteen or twenty years, I have been working with systems including relatively simple numerical progressions, modular constructions, and random sequences. Images formed thusly emerged in very surprising and gratuitous ways, as opposed to being drawn or designed in what had become, for me, on hindsight, a rather self-conscious operation." -- Karl Benjamin Karl Benjamin in his studio, circa 1984. Kicking off a new series for our gallery, Louis Stern Fine Arts is spotlighting the artists featured in our current exhibition, In the Round, on view until August 19.   A Hard Edge painter renowned for his meticulously orchestrated arrangements of color and form, Karl Benjamin began his career as a public school teacher with no intention of becoming an artist. His pursuit of visual art began in the early 1950s, when he was required to develop art lessons for his young students. This inspired his own interest in color relationships and prompted him to pursue an MFA from the Claremont Graduate School (now Claremont Graduate University), which he obtained in 1960. Benjamin’s work blossomed amid the lively mid-twentieth century art, design, and architecture scene in Los Angeles. Numerous exhibitions of his work culminated in his inclusion in the ground-breaking 1959 exhibition Four Abstract Classicists, curated by Jules Langsner. Featuring the work of Benjamin, Lorser Feitelson, John McLaughlin, and Frederick Hammersley, the exhibition opened at the San Francisco Museum of Art (now SFMOMA) and traveled to the Los Angeles County Museum in Exposition Park (now LACMA). It then traveled internationally to the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, England and Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland under the title West Coast Hard-edge. Benjamin joined the faculty of Pomona College in Claremont, California in 1979 as artist-in-residence and was appointed the Loren Babcock Miller Professor of Fine Arts in 1991. He was granted emeritus status upon his retirement in 1994. His work has been featured in numerous museum exhibitions and is included in the public collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, among many others. View More Works by Karl Benjamin #37, 1964 oil on canvas 46 x 23 inches; 116.8 x 58.4 centimeters Louis Stern Fine Arts 9002 Melrose Avenue West Hollywood, CA  90069 Contact 310-276-0147 info@louissternfinearts.com  www.louissternfinearts.com #louissternfineart#fienartmagazine#fineartfun

Madelyn Jordan Fine Art: THE BACK ROOM, REVEALED, July, 21- August, 19, 2023

THE BACK ROOM, REVEALED Donald Baechler, Derek Buckner, Patrick Berran, Jean Blackburn,  Francis DiFronzo, Paul DiPasqua, John Gibson, John Kalymnios,  Daniel Kaplan, Stanford Kay, Ted Larsen, Myron Melnick, Peter Nadin,  Fay Peck, Lucy Reitzfeld, Cesar J. Santander, and William Wegman July 21 - August 19, 2023

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FRANCIS DIFRONZO  Slip Away, 2002. Oil on panel, 24 x 78 in. / Frame: 28 x 81.75 in. (detail)

Come find a treasure! Madelyn Jordon Fine Art is delighted to announce THE BACK ROOM, REVEALED an impromptu exhibition and special sale of artwork from the gallery's backroom. The exhibition will be on view from July 21 - August 19, 2023. Over the past 20+ years, MJFA has accumulated a plethora of artworks rarely seen by the public. Tucked away from admiring eyes for months and years, these unseen works come from a myriad of sources: artists we exhibited, collected, or acquired; works collectors purchased and have no wallspace for; and our art or others' personal private collections.  Now unearthed and organized into a diverse, fun and intriguing show, the exhibition excavates the gallery’s eclectic yet refined sensibility and the unbridled joy of art collecting.  All works are for sale and we are open to taking offers! This is an excellent opportunity to have quality work by renowned artists. To view all the works, click HERE

DEREK BUCKNER Coney Island, 2008. Oil on canvas, 28 x 40 in. / Frame: 33.5 x 45.5 in.

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