A new mentality: Art exhibit offers insight into mental health issues Sep 1, 2008
" A Picasso study, a trio of trout on a platter, the Last Supper in crayon on a flattened brown paper bag, a tribute to Walter Anderson, a nod to jazz are among the images in Serendipity. DiFatta unfurls a large canvas that's the creation of a group of women who were in a secondary treatment center. "This is from women coming from dark places, most came from jail or prison into treatment and were on the cusp of getting their lives back together. " The long canvas is a riot of brightly colored... (The Clarion-Ledger)
'American Masters of the Miss. Gulf Coast' Aug 4, 2008
Walter Anderson, George Ohr, Dusti Bonge and Richmond Barthe - all Mississippi-born art heavyweights - had more in common than a bundle of creative vision ... However, post-Katrina, the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art is in a temporary location as it resumes construction of its new Frank Gehry-designed museum campus in Biloxi and the Walter Anderson Museum of Art in Ocean Springs continues to rebuild its visitor base ... And you have Bonge and Walter Anderson working in the modernist mode, which is... (The Clarion-Ledger)
Poetry alive (7/13) Jul 13, 2008
Commercial Dispatch Online. Saturday, July 12, 2008 9:40 PM CDT. (Columbus Commercial Dispatch, MS)
The arts: On Display Jun 14, 2007
GumTree Museum of Art, The Third Poetry, Walter Anderson lecture with William Andrews, 6 p.m. Monday, $20; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday and by appointment; 211 W. Main St., Tupelo; (662) 844-2787or ... Walter Anderson Museum of Art, Eugene James Martin: Man of Color, opening reception, 5:30 p.m. June 22, through Sept. 30; 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 12:30-4:30 p.m. Sunday; 510 Washington Ave., Ocean Springs; (228) 872-3164 or. (The Clarion-Ledger)
U.S. muffs chance to recoup in tax case Mar 28, 2007
Walter Anderson, the telecommunications entrepreneur who admitted hiding hundreds of millions of dollars from the IRS and District of Columbia tax collectors, was sentenced Tuesday to 9 years in prison and ordered to repay about $23 million to the city. But U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman said he couldn't order Anderson to repay the federal government $100 million to $175 million because the Justice Department's binding plea agreement with Anderson listed the wrong statute. (FOX59, IN)
Tom Plate Tells All Mar 11, 2007
Permit me to, as Tom certainly does, "drop a few names": Jim Bellows, Henry Grunwald, Ben Bradlee, Otis Chandler, Don Forst, Clay Felker, Walter Anderson, Shelby Coffey, Gail Sheehy, Ray Cave, Rupert Murdoch, Maureen Dowd, Mike Kramer, Sir David English, Art Cooper, Harold Hayes and Tom Wolfe. He's been employed by Time, New York, Newsday, The Washington Post, Family Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, the L.A. Herald Examiner, and London's Daily Mail. (Forbes)
Walter Anderson Museum reopening Jan 24, 2007
The Walter Anderson Museum of Art in Ocean Springs, closed for improvements, reopens Thursday with the grand exhibition, An Artist's Album of Southern Collections. The all-Walter Anderson show draws more than 150 works from more than 15 private and four public collections and includes many works that have never been on public view. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Happy New Year! Jan 1, 2007
Walter Anderson and his new play. Fiendishly clever Roger Ailes, benefactor to the elderly (he put me on CNBC's Power Lunch at age 67. (Forbes)
