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Welcome to the beginning of the new cultural arts season. The arts community has gotten a good jump-start with superb shows already up and new ones on the horizon.

Bold new beginning for Fresno Art Museum

Just three days before the fall lineup of four exhibitions is set to open, the scene at the Fresno Art Museum is a flurry of activity: paintings strewn about the floor, walls still bare, curators intense, preparators lost in the intricacies of measurement

'Radiant Child' captures brief bright light of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

Film review: It seemed artist Jean-Michel Basquiat had it all: Handsome, charismatic, talented, smart, befriended by the iconic Andy Warhol, his paintings exhibited internationally and his exhibitions sell-outs. And he was only 25. By age 27, he was dead of a drug overdose. "He was one of the people I was truly envious of but ... he was too fragile for this world," said Madonna, who had been his ...

Bo Powell:

His life is as sprawling and colorful as his artwork. Out behind Lola’s Saloon , Bo Powell is staring at the mural he finished recently for the bar’s new outdoor stage — there’s the Trinity River green space, a Fort Worth skyline, and F-16 fighter jets shooting past.

Bob Blumenthal: Life Lessons in Print

Bob Blumenthal began writing jazz criticism in 1969 while attending college. He was a contributing editor of The Boston Phoenix (1969-89) and a contributor to The Boston Globe (1990-2002), and has also contributed to such publications as The Atlantic Monthly , Rolling Stone , The Village Voice , Down Beat , JazzTimes and Jazziz . Between 2002 and 2009, he served as Creative Consultant for ...