Editorial
Carolyn J. Bennett, Publisher

I believe in miracles. As the saying goes, I expect them. A few months ago, I suffered a lot of losses -- my gallery, relationship and home, a lot of money. It was devastating. But, closing doors are really doors opening. Going through the grieving process for all those losses was painful. But it was important and necessary and allowed me to focus on what I wanted to be waiting for me on the other side of grief. And, this is it. A new life, new work, new friends, all made possible with the support and love of old friends. World Wide Art is a dream come true. When the gallery was open, I was researching how to bring it on-line. When we closed the gallery, I was offered the opportunity to open World Wide Art on the Internet. Miracle No. 1. After a few months of setting up and getting going with World Wide Art, I was offered the opportunity to create Art's New View. Miracle No. 2. Publishing is my background and I love it and I love computers, so this is the best of all publishing worlds to me! No printers to sit through the night with putting the magazine to bed, no paper so no forest depletion. Definitely the best of all publishing worlds!

For this first issue of Art's New View, we focused on interesting people and events that we found newsworthy and, often under-publicized. Our cover artist, George Rodéz, is a personal friend. Highly spiritual, intelligent, kind and loving, and a wonderful painter. An unending source of personal inspiration.

I first saw Julie Harris in her Oscar-nominated film, The Member of the Wedding. It was a movie that impacted my life. I was six or seven and my aunt and her boyfriend took me to the movies with them (and without my sister) which imade it a most important day in my young life! I was fascinated by this Southern tomboy. I recognized that we shared a certain curiosity and sense of adventure, something that's stayed with me always. As an actress, I have to say that to watch Julie Harris work is to take a master class. As a woman now in my "late middle years", I embrace her as a role model. Today, Julie Harris is still slim, still pretty, still powerful. A grande dame of the American stage.

Eileen Brennan just finished a gruelling run of Ladies in Retirement in Coconut Grove, Florida with Julie Harris. The play itself is three hours long, so for these ladies to do it eight times a week is quite a feat. The consummate character actress, Eileen Brennan was perfection in this play. I'd seen her many times in movies and on television, but it was my first chance to see her on stage. I would never miss another opportunity to see her work. Her timing never misses a beat. Her character was wacky, but never went over the edge, keeping a completely realized, sweetly damaged child in a middle-aged body.

A mutual friend brought Pablo Carreńo to the gallery in 1994 to show us his paintings. He burst into the gallery on a wave of frenetic energy, smiling, talking, laughing and in constant motion. This is an artist riding the waves of creative energy, almost out of control -- like his artwork. But he's not and it's not. This is a painter with the ability to create a photorealistic work with the most minute detail completed with perfection. From this state, his vision takes the work to its wildest proportion. He tests the limits of reality with a fearless, brash, totally irreverant eye.

Meeting Nelson Friere, a world renowned Brazilian concert pianist, was an unexpected treat in every way. First and foremost, when I heard him play my impression was that he merged with the piano and they became one instrument. He plays with the angels. And he's a generous musician. He loves playing and he gives that love to the audience. There are no walls between him and the people listening. They are part of the magic ... and it is magic.

We await your reaction to this first issue of Art's New View. Your letters will all be read and we will respond to as many as possible, publish a few, and thank all of you for taking the time to give us your views. E-mail us at justart@usa.net. Hard copy to World Wide Art, 7 N.E. 2nd Street, Suite 201, Miami, Florida 33128-1849.

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