September 2009
Gustavo Dudamel arrives to warm embraces and first... →
The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s newmusic director arrives to a fanfare and then gets down to business.
'Star Wars: In Concert': a coda with Yoda →
Creative forces see the orchestral show with film clips and props as an homage to fans but also a way to get fans interested in classical music. Ah, the old Jedi mind trick. With the pop culture…
Green Day musical is a record-breaker for Berkeley... →
Tissue Culture Lab at the VivoArts School for... →
What does it mean to work with living, semi-living or formely living beings? What’s the meaning of tissue culture for artistic purposes versus health application? Or the development of…
Connect Weekly – Art Road Trip by staff →
Hey Artloggers, welcome to the quarterly quarterly Road Trip edition of the Weekly Connect Newsletter. This week we take you to Boston, Philly, DC, Atlanta, Seattle, SF & LA with shows…
Image of the day →
I discovered the work of Edward S. Curtis while i was visiting the Medicine Man exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London. Curtis documented the American West as well as the rites…
MoMA’s "New Photography 2009" Showcases Artists... →
Delaunay.
© 2009 Sara VanDerBeek, image courtesy the artist and D’Amelio Terras Gallery, New York.
New Photography 2009 opens at the Museum of Modern Art today. This year,…
$27 million worth of Miro, Rembrandt, Matisse and... →
Joan Miro piece thought to be among those stolen Via Monterey County Herald
Approximately $27 million of artwork has been stolen from a home in Monterey, California on Friday afternoon….
Pasadena Playhouse the latest to put out an... →
Transparent New Home for Poetry →
For nearly 25 years Poets House has been an anchor for poets and poetry lovers. It now opens a spacious new home in Battery Park City.
Staff-Wide Buyout Offer At Smithsonian →
“The Smithsonian Institution is offering all of its [6,000] employees a voluntary buyout plan to reduce its workforce, meet its tightened budget goals and restructure the organization to match the…
Van Dyck Self-Portrait On The Block →
“The last self-portrait painted by Sir Anthony van Dyck, within months of his death in 1641, is to be sold by trustees of the family which has owned it for almost 300 years, and is expected to fetch…
Sixties… →
Sixties Chicks Left to Right: LaVone Hardison, Elise Campello, Jenny Shotwell, Melissa Fleming
'A Steady Rain' pours on the charm →
Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig add much-needed wattage to a thin cop drama. That roar swelling over Broadway these days is the sound of fans lined up behind police barricades at the stage door for…
Links for 2009-09-29 [del.icio.us] →
Tate Modern| Future Exhibitions | Level 2 Gallery: Jill Magid
Authority to Remove marks the final chapter of American artist Jill Magid’s long involvement with the Dutch secret service, the…
The 'Spurban':... →
Choreographer Trey McIntyre “liken[s] the spurban (which is short for spur-of-the-moment urban performance) to the hot lunch jam scene from the 1980 movie Fame and the T-Mobile commercial in which…
Metaphors: They're Not Just Figures Of Speech,... →
“[C]ognitive scientists have begun to see the basic metaphors that we use all the time not just as turns of phrase, but as keys to the structure of thought. By taking these everyday metaphors as…
Open Call: Museum of Contemporary Art in Panama by... →
For all you artists using Arlo/Artists, the new artist portfolio website application, & Artlog, our friends at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Panama are hosting a special open call through…
Making A New Arts Center Work In A Working-Class... →
“A night on the town in Lansdale [PA], a blue-collar borough of 17,000 people, hasn’t the widest range of options, but 60 or so more were just added - conveniently located between the hardware and…
The Google Book Search Deal Is Not Evil →
Tim Wu: “[The complainants’] premise is that the monopoly that the settlement creates is invaluable - and that without the settlement, we can create a competitive market for putting out-of-print…
Steppenwolf Makes The Business News →
“[T]here is some hope out there for the business we call show. Our very own Steppenwolf Theatre Company has been named on of the top 15 places to work by the Wall Street Journal’s Top Small…
Buzz Aldrin & Hasselblad →
While down in Florida to cover the launch of the new Hasselblad H4D medium format camera system at the Kennedy Space Center, PDN Gear Guide writer and resident papparzzo…
Buffalo's Albright-Knox Shuts Down One Of Its... →
“The Albright Knox Art Gallery is scaling back again to help get through the economic crisis. It is now official. The Collectors Gallery, featuring local artists, will close permanently at the end of…
How Dallas's New Wyly Theatre Is Like Madison... →
Designing a theatre with a flexible configuration is hardly a new idea. Yet the cost of labor to change configurations is so high that theatre managers usually end up sticking with just one or two…
September 30, 2009 →
September 30, 2009
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Bert Stern Signed Most Famous Marilyn Monroe In Vogue$800.00
Original 1957 Walt Disney Autograph W Photo,…
Phillips after… →
Phillips after 5 One more reminder: tomorrow, as part of Phillips after 5 in DC’s Phillips Collection, three local art bloggers have been invited to share their perspectives about some of…
Cirque Du Soleil Founder Blasts Off For Space... →
“Dubbed the ‘Poetic Social Mission,’ [Guy] Laliberte’s time in space will include a two-hour act on Oct. 9 centering on a story written by 2002 Booker Prize winner Yann Martel,” to be broadcast…
With Doctorow, Harvard Book Store Unveils Book... →
“Author E.L. Doctorow — who is doing a reading later in the evening — will be on hand to celebrate the machine’s debut, and to give it a new name. Sadly, he won’t be cracking a bottle of Champagne…
Get Small: The Art Of Nano-Sculpture →
“Craftsmen in India, China and elsewhere have been carving or writing on grains of rice and sand for years. But now a handful of artists are going smaller still, often applying the tools of…
Hair Takes A Day Off To March For Gay Rights →
“The producers canceled a Sunday matinee so that the cast and crew could attend and perform at a march for gay rights in Washington on Oct. 11. That unusual — and expensive — decision to skip a…
At Hotel Bel-Air, The Baby Grand Goes Silent, Too →
“The lounges of top-tier hotels are a distinct musical niche, a rarefied, murmurous, dimly lit world in which [Antonio] Castillo de la Gala is a highly polished fixture, even a minor legend.” Now,…
Explaining The Ukulele Orchestra of Great... →
“[T]he happy surprise of encountering something completely different from the Tiny Tim-style hamming or banjo-plucking embarrassment of your imagination doesn’t wholly explain the deep love the…
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Cellist Philip Blum... →
“Philip Blum played cello with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for 54 years, the last 12 of them while battling cancer. … ‘He used to say if he wasn’t in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra he’d be…
Donmar's Starry Strategy Pays Off With 98%... →
“London’s Donmar Warehouse has revealed that its West End season at the Wyndham’s Theatre recorded average attendances of 98%, including 13.5% of first-time theatre bookers. … According to Donmar…
Disney Targets Kids With Online Storybooks →
“In what it bills as an industry-defining moment — though rivals are sure to be skeptical about that — Disney Publishing plans to introduce a new subscription-based Web site. For $79.95 a year,…
From An Outreach Program, Boston Ballet Gets A... →
Twenty-year-old Isaac Akiba, who was “promoted to Boston Ballet’s company last month,” is “the first Boston kid to rise to its ranks through Citydance, a program that has introduced dance to more…
Britain's Latest Foothold: American TV →
“British actors seem to have invaded American television. … Depending on who you ask, it’s either a monstrous conspiracy to reclaim some shred of George III’s lost colonial empire, or the tanking…
When A Dead Author Has A New Book On The Way →
“A new wave of posthumous books by iconic authors is stirring debate over how publishers should handle fragmentary literary remains. … Many are incomplete or appear in multiple drafts, raising…
Harvard Dorm Puts Books Behind Bars →
“The students who have long cherished the small library inside Dunster House, Harvard’s oldest dormitory, discovered a new feature there this week: two brass bars stretching across nearly every…
Need Your Help - Let's Make Arts Journalism Viral →
Friday we’re hosting a National Summit on Arts Journalism and presenting ten projects to provoke questions about the future of coverage of the arts. We need your help! Please consider embedding the…
American Gothic Knockoff Sculpture Is A Public-Art... →
“[S]ince being put up in Pioneer Plaza for display last December, God Bless America has become, by most estimates, one of the top public-art attractions in a city that believes, even with a tight…
In Wake Of Baltimore Opera, A Wave Of Operatic... →
“One-off performances and shoestring productions may not replace what a permanent opera company has to offer.” And yet: “One wonders if so many people would have realized they cared so much had the…
Hey, Hot Shot! Confab and Print Trade →
Picked for: 2009-09-29
Jen Bekman Projects hosts the first Hey, Hot Shot! Confab and Print Trade at the White Rabbit on the LES. Mingle with the “Hot Shots” photographers, panelists, and fellow…
Art Review: America, Captured in a Flash →
Robert Frank’s disturbed and mournful song-of-the-road portrait of a new homeland is the subject of a 50th-anniversary exhibition now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Young Associates Fall Benefit →
Picked for: 2009-10-01
The Chelsea Art Museum’s Young Associates hold their annual Fall Benefit featuring the unveiling of the brand new ROOF DECK, live music by Your Vegas & Paul and the Patients,…
14th Brooklyn (84th Ny Infantry) Cdv Photo Album →
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Pope John Paul Ii Autographed 12” X…
Henry T. Hopkins dies at 81; painter and museum... →
Henry T. Hopkins, a distinguished museum director and educator who played a leading role in establishing Los Angeles’ art scene, has died. He was 81.
Newslinks for Monday September 27th 2009 →
Installation view of Anish Kapoor’s work at the Royal Academy of Arts in London via BBC
Anish Kapoor, the first living artist to exhibit at the Royal Academy of Arts in London,…
Berlin Wall Project to close Wilshire at midnight →
Original plans called for the street to be closed beginning in the afternoon. Organizers wanted to retain a ‘historical’ rather than ‘block party’ feel to the event.
Pakistani Artists Find a Contemporary Voice →
The works in “Hanging Fire,” the first large-scale American survey of contemporary Pakistani art, at Asia Society in New York, offer a taste of the country’s increasingly vibrant art scene.
