October 2009
October 31, 2009 →
October 31, 2009
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Rare Confederate Virginia Colonel John Mosby Cdv Photo$810.0012 bids
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the Dutch Landscape Jannes Linders Architecture... →
The Dutch Landscape
Population growth, economic activity and lack of space all helped to shape the Dutch landscape. Photographers André-Pierre Lamoth and Jannes…
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Tales from the Golden Age | Film review | Film | The Guardian
Romanian directors relive the disastrous Ceauşescu era.
Why is the Wii wilting? | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Since launch,…
October 30, 2009 →
October 30, 2009
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Rare! Challenger 51-l Tragedy Crew Signed Nasa Photo Buy it Now$1,025
Von Gloeden Male Nude Classic Albumen Photo…
TRIBUTE TO AFRO-AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER ROY DECARAVA... →
Sweet Flypaper of Life: 1950s Harlem in Black & White
by darkjive …darkjive
Picture it. I’m in high school, late for the morning bus, desperate…
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Video: US strategy failing in Afghanistan | World news | guardian.co.uk
Sean Smith spent a month embedded with the US Army’s 501st Parachute Regiment in June this year. With inadequate…
City Pushes for Action on Performing Arts Center... →
After years of taking a back seat to other long-delayed development projects at ground zero, the performing arts center has suddenly come to the fore.
"Rock & Roll" Show Opens at Brooklyn Museum →
© Nitin Vadukul, Radiohead, St. Louis, 1993.
Are there any two art forms that pair better than music and photography? They surely sing in harmony at “Who Shot Rock & Roll,” a photo…
Obama expected to sign bill to increase cultural... →
Congress has already approved a bill that would boost the budgets of the NEA and NEH to their highest levels in about 16 years.
AO Interview: Neckface, whose “Devil’s Disciple”... →
Untitled (detail), Neckface via O.H.W.O.W.
Opening this Halloween at O.H.W.O.W. gallery in Miami is what some may call a 10,000 square feet haunted house, and others may refer to as a…
More Women Writers? Well... →
The opportunity for women’s writing to reach a wide audience online is limitless, at least in theory. Of course, the preponderance of bylines in the most august-and the most high-paying-magazines and…
AO News: Winners of ‘Rob Pruitt Presents: The... →
The First Annual Art Awards via Guggenheim.org
Last night, October 29, marked the inauguration of a new annual art event: Rob Pruitt presented The First Annual Art Awards…
Jeff Koons, MOCA and Connie Butler among winners... →
The award ceremony, which took place at New York’s Guggenheim Museum, billed itself as a performance-based artwork.
Recession Consequence - A New Improved Broadway? →
“Around 65% of the tickets for Broadway shows are bought by tourists from outside New York’s metropolitan area. A reliable choice for a family on the town has long been a splashy musical with some…
Landscape Artist Lawrence Halprin, 93 →
“As postwar America sprouted suburban malls, urban parks, corporate compounds and federal urban renewal projects, Mr. Halprin helped forge a new, sharper style of landscape architecture, often as…
Change Of Publisher - Do We Care? →
“Why should the fact that a novelist changes the merchandiser of his books be of more headline interest than, say, Martin Amis changing his dentist? Who cares? When the book trade was a cottage…
Art Awards and Irony at the Guggenheim by staff →
“Is the art world ready for its Oscar moment? Its Golden Globes, maybe. No one thanked the Hollywood Foreign Press Association at the Guggenheim Museum’s First Annual Art Awards on Thursday night,…
Not Okay? University Cuts Academics, Subsidizes... →
“To the consternation of some faculty members at Berkeley, the university’s sports program is running multimillion-dollar deficits — on top of the annual institutional subsidies — that are…
Colleges: Do We Really Still Need Faculty? →
“It seems that at some schools they have become quaint anachronisms who stand in the way of educational progress and financial efficiency. This idea that faculty do not matter seems supported by some…
United Airlines Loses The "United-Breaks-Guitars"... →
“The video nabbed nearly 6 million views on YouTube and prompted the airline to promise it would do better. But when Carroll flew into Denver International Airport on Sunday, he learned that United…
One Giant Jukebox Wherever →
“There are plenty of stores out there - Spotify alone has 6 million tracks - many people have gigabytes of music on their hard drives, lesser-known bands publish on MySpace, and music blogs post…
Record Number Of Students In US Colleges This Fall →
“The share of 18- to 24-year-olds attending college in the United States hit an all-time high in October 2008, driven by a recession-era surge in enrollments at community colleges, according to a Pew…
Britney Spears Releases Tease On Twitter →
“With 3.6 million followers, Spears is significantly out in front of any other artist on Twitter, according to data from Big Champagne. For those keeping track of figures that largely can’t yet be…
Loving The Variation In Live Theatre →
“Great performances rarely disappear. The technical elements of a show don’t vary much (disasters notwithstanding). Poor casting choices — and I could list several on the boards currently in Chicago…
New Google Music Search Might Change The Way You... →
“Although not a direct threat to Apple Inc.’s hugely popular iTunes store, the new feature is expected to bolster the music services that compete with iTunes. The move was applauded by the music…
October 29, 2009 →
October 29, 2009
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Hard Times Continue for Kodak →
Kodak, which has slashed thousands of jobs and cut executive salaries in an effort to turn around its lagging imaging businesses, just reported its fourth quarterly loss in a row.
The…
Smoke and Hot Air →
The installation echoes the artist’s concern for the relentless threats against Iran made by many countries in recent years. Sentences that include “attack Iran” are scavenged from…
Diane Arbus Photo Up for Auction at the Aperture... →
Diane Arbus Photo Up for Auction at the Aperture Benefit!!
Check it out here…
Yes.. so far this rare Diane Arbus photo has a current bid of only $1,750. Welcome to the Art…
The Making of a Photobook: Sanne Sannes’ Maquette... →
The Making of a Photobook:
Sanne Sannes’ Maquette for Diary of an Erotomaniac Tamara Berghmans Rijksmuseum…
Why Not Even Twitter Can Weaken The Power Of... →
“Narrative isn’t merely a technique for communicating; it’s how we make sense of the world. The storytellers know this. They know that the story is the original killer app.” So, all threats to its…
The Art-House Cinema Returns To Boston →
Tomorrow “the Stuart Street Playhouse reopens as a movie theater and Boston gets its first art house cinema in years.” But, at least to start, it will not be a first-run house; it will open with…
18 Photography Exhibits to See in New York City →
Here’s a mid-season list of photography exhibits on view or about to open in New York City art galleries.
CHELSEA
Andy Warhol at Danziger Projects, on view until December 12
Edward…
Deep Thought Thursday: Scary →
With Halloween approaching, I can’t help asking …
What scares you most about your art career?
What’s scary to do or to say?
What’s so scary that you haven’t done it yet?
What…
Beleagured 'Christmas Carol' producer takes show... →
The troubled stage production had its debut last year in Hollywood and will now travel to Chicago and other cities.
García Lorca's Grave Opened As Spain Confronts Its... →
“On Wednesday … under pressure from human rights activists and with the acquiescence of [Federico] García Lorca’s family, Spanish authorities began exhuming six mass graves in Alfacar. The opening…
How Big A Goldman Donation Would Quell The Anger? →
Billionaire philanthropist Peter G. Peterson says a charitable donation by Goldman Sachs would have to total “at least $1 billion” in order to “have much resonance in the public,” furious as it is…
New PAC Isn't Enough; Dallas, Get Serious About... →
“The city fathers and business leaders understand the value that an exuberant arts community has for a metropolitan area, but the urban developers still have not created a vibrant life, as opposed to…
Where Bernstein Left Off: Teaching The Classical... →
“Music institutions are feeling, it seems, a responsibility to assume the role that educational institutions are abandoning, in terms of teaching people about classical music. … But there’s a fine…
Copies Of Hemingway Papers Join Collection At JFK... →
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library “announced this week that Cuba has shared copies of 3,000 letters and documents from the Hemingway archives at the country’s Ministry of Culture. The material…
MoMA's Nouvel Tower Gets Green Light From NYC →
“The City Council put the finishing touches yesterday on the Museum of Modern Art’s request to build an 82-story tower,” designed by Jean Nouvel, “that would rise as high as the Chrysler Building,…
Group: Blind Or Deaf Actress Should Get B'way... →
The advocacy group Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts says a blind or deaf child actress should have been cast in the “Miracle Worker” role that went to Abigail Breslin, while the Broadway show’s…
October members roundup - the best of the network →
Don’t Miss – Yorkshire: Sam Taylor-Wood’s ‘Ghosts’... →
Ghosts X, Sam Taylor-Wood (2008) via White Cube
Ghosts – an exhibition of photographs by Sam Taylor-Wood – is currently in its last days at the Brontë Parsonage Museum in West…
Museum and Gallery Listings →
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Canadian Opera Covers $1.6M Shortfall With Special... →
“How could there be a shortfall when, as COC board president Paul Spafford proudly reported, for the third year in a row since moving into its new home at the Four Seasons Centre, the opera company…
Canada Launches National Arts-Awareness Initiative →
“A new, national initiative is under way to heighten Canadians’ awareness of the arts, their accessibility to art and artists, and their ‘participation in and engagement with’ the activities of the…
World's Biggest Mona Lisa by staff →
“The giant version of the Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece has gone on display at the Eagles Meadow shopping centre in Wrexham. It measures 17.5m, covers 240m sq and is 50 times bigger than the…
Google Search Could Be A Game Changer For Online... →
Google’s new music search feature, unveiled Wednesday, “was applauded by the music industry, which … is hoping the search feature will direct users to legitimate digital music outlets and in turn…
Next Week In White House's East Room: Classical... →
As part of the ongoing White House music series, “the first lady will host a Classical Music Student Workshop Concert, which will feature an appearance by superstar violinist Joshua Bell, guitarist…
