The American Center for Artists is an electronic magazine that focuses on the biography and autobiography of famous and emerging writers, painters, sculptors, musicians, and other artists. It also presents new and reprinted works by these artists as well as articles about them. 

James P. White - Editor

Jules White - Art Editor / Webmaster

Film Review: The Grain
by Eduardo Correia and James P. White - Excerpt - This extraordinary film shows the life of a simple family with five members and a dog living in the north of Brazil. Their grandmother Perpetua is very sick and the love between her and her grandson is enormous. She decides to prepare her grandson Zeca for her death and she starts telling him the story of a king and queen who lost their only son mortician, liquidate, tonsorial, More...

Film Review: Adagio Sostenuto
by Eduardo Correia - Excerpt - The experience of watching Adagio Sostenuto is remarkably like being at an opera. The rich visual experience is admirably achieved by Antonio Luis Mendez. Included in the film are two Vermeer and two Rembrandt paintings which go along with the beautiful music by Listz, Debussy, Beethoven, Shubert, and Cohen. The music brings emotional needs to be expressed by the actors and the acting equally makes demands on the music. mortician, liquidate, tonsorial, More...

Two for the Show - an article about Academy Award Winners Robert Pirosh and Harry Brown by James P. White - Excerpt - I like words. I like fat buttery words such as ooze, turpitude, glutinous, toady. I like solemn, angular, creaky words such as straitlaced, cantankerous, pecunious, valedictory. I like spurious, black-is-white words such as mortician, liquidate, tonsorial, More...

This one of a kind book was designed and constructed at the Ziggurat Press by Walter Feldman in the spring of 2002. It is one of a series that searches for meaning beyond language. It has been suggested by some that one day a new kind of Rosetta stone may be found that will reveal the complete meaning.

"One of a Kind Book" by Walter Feldman
Handmade book with symbols carved from wood

First Los Angeles Brazilian Film Festival
by Eduardo Correia - Excerpt - The opening film, Bellini and the Devil, is a 90 minute thriller directed by Marcelo Galvao and produced by Theodoro Fontes. The cast includes Fabio Assuncao, Nill Marcondes, Luisa Curvo and Marilia Gabriela. In this film, the detective Bellini is in a tough situation with his personal life. He has no cases to solve, his bills are mounting up, and he is psychologically unstable. He is trusted to be in charge of Dora Lobo.s office during her holidays. While doing this he pushes his life into a new direction, trying to solve his many problems. mortician, liquidate, tonsorial, More...

Start Processing - a beginner's tutorial on using Processing. More...