It's difficult if not impossible to walk past Doris Freedman Plaza without stopping or looking back at the two coloful monumental pieces situated at the center of the entrance to the walkway. There is a hotdog vendor right beside them, and another statue across the street. They are surrounded by trees, buildings, cars, and people all around.

Spending my Thanksgiving in the faraway land of Montana, I am not truthfully exposed to art of any kind. I saw a painting or two made by a local artist nevertheless it did steer any particular emotions in me. However, today, scoping through one of art albums in a bookstore I came across a painting like nothing I have ever seen before. The painting, Dancing Girls, is made by an Iraqi painter- Hafiz Drubi. It is in a way a representation of Cubism, but in another its opposition.

                                                      Alex by Oliver Herring