Every Day's Journey

                                                                                  There are many genre's of music within this world, with music being life and part of the elixir to life, people would use music as a tool to help and not destroy one another. Hip Hop has changed so much over the years and it has made a difference in the the world that you reside within. Hip Hop music was known for story telling, and partying. R&B is smooth music with words of love and memories from previous or current stories within people's lives; music has always been a form of expression for those who play any instruments, or partake in any form or musical expressions. Now when you listen to Hip Hop music you get more of drug user and people killing themselves because they have either over dose on drugs or they have an issue a.k.a Beef with other people or other artist which causes their demise or death within the industry. The artist now that partakes in making music

                         ELAINE MAYES HAIGHT-ASHBURY PORTRAITS 1967-1968 November 17, 2022 - March 4, 2023 Reception & book signing: Thursday, November 17, 6 to 8pm Deborah Bell Photographs presents Elaine Mayes: Haight-Ashbury Portraits 1967-1968, an exhibition of vintage prints of portraits the photographer made in the now-legendary San Francisco neighborhood called Haight-Ashbury. Celebrating the recent publication by Damiani of the book by FotoFocus Artistic Director and Curator Kevin Moore, Elaine Mayes: Haight Ashbury Portraits 1967-1968, the exhibition opens November 17 and will be on view through March 4, 2023. A reception and book signing with the artist, in cooperation with FotoFocus and Damiani, will take place in the gallery on Thursday, November 17, from 6-8pm. This is the first monograph of Elaine Mayes's Haight-Ashbury portraits, published more than 50 years after the photographs were taken.  Kevin Moore writes in his text for the Damiani b

  Amanda Valdez here nor there HONG KONG November 12 to December 23, 2022 Opening Reception: Saturday, November 12th, 2-5 pm "Denny Dimin Gallery is pleased to announce here nor there, a solo exhibition of new work by Amanda Valdez which will be her first with Denny Dimin Gallery in its Hong Kong location. The exhibition will be on view at our space in Wong Chuk Hang from November 12 to December 23, 2022 following major international exhibitions and her recent acquisitions by the Heckscher Museum of Art and the United States Art in Embassies program. Amanda Valdez is known for her bold abstract paintings which incorporate quilting, sewing, dyeing, weaving and painting. Her process begins with small scale drawings, which she refers to as “somatic release” in the sense of them being akin to an intuitive physical response to an emotion, experience or idea. “It evokes the moment of pencil on paper, of hands moving and responding to both materials…[and] the release o

               Ann Shelton i am an old phenomenon NEW YORK November 4 to December 22, 2022 Opening Reception: Friday, November 4th, 6 to 8 pm "Denny Dimin Gallery is pleased to announce Ann Shelton’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, i am an old phenomenon open from November 4 to December 22, 2022. Shelton is recognized as one of New Zealand’s leading photographic artists and will have her first institutional solo exhibition in the United States  in 2024. For more than a decade, Ann Shelton has explored the micro, marginal, bleak and  traumatic counter-histories of plants through her photographic and performance-based art work. Linking gender politics and the climate crisis in a critical moment,  i am an old phenomenon bears even greater significance as she reinvestigates lost knowledge pertaining to plants and their relationship to female ontology through the figure of the witch. Her previous exhibition jane says looked at plants with abortifacient and/or fertility-