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ART AND CULTURE
Florida Naturally features 34 works in color photography, painting and bronze sculpture
Now through August 20, Florida Naturally features 34 works in color photography, painting and bronze sculpture.
Transmodernity, border thinking, and global coloniality
Postmodernism as an epistemological project still reproduces a particular form of coloniality. A decolonial perspective requires a broader canon of thought that would require taking seriously the epistemic insights of critical thinkers from the global South.
Ecotones Mitigating NYCs Contentious Sites
Given the global and local challenges of climate change the Landscape Architecture profession is at the forefront of New York Citys sustainability efforts
Collaborating with governments regulatory agencies community groups and design profess
Bassist from Winnipeg given Oscar Peterson Award
Winnipeg-born bassist Dave Young has been handed the 2008 Oscar Peterson Award by the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal.
Record Numbers Flocked To British Museum In 2007
"More than 850,000 people viewed the attraction, giving the museum its highest attendance figures since the Tutankhamun display of 1972. The collection boosted overall visitor figures from 2007-08 to six million."...
Lustwarande 08 - Wanderland (2008-06-28 - 2008-09-28)
From June 28 til September 28, 2008 Fundament Foundation in Tilburg is presenting Lustwarande 08 - Wanderland, the third edition of the international exhibition Lustwarande, in the setting of the Baroque pleasure-garden De Oude Warande in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Lustwarande 08 - Wanderland will show recent developments in international sculpture, with an emphasis on the ephemeral and the grotesque. These works will combine with the labyrinthine character of the Baroque pleasure garden to create a surrealist "wanderland", a contemporary synthesis of Alice's Wonderland and the garden of Bomarzo.
Adobe announced dates and locations for its MAX 20082009 event series
MAX is the premier industry forum for designers developers and business decision makers focused on creating and delivering rich engaging digital experiences across mediums a
Broadway for Musikids, with McArdle, Murney and Brier, Plays the Zipper July 6
"Some of Broadway's favorite leading ladies – including Andrea McArdle, Julia Murney and Kathy Brier – take to the stage of the Zipper Factory July 6 in Broadway for Musikids.
Image of Salisbury Cathedral Drawn By Autistic Savant - A Living Camera - For Sale at Bonhams
Autistic savant, Stephen Wiltshire, the subject of a BBC documentary on his artistic skills, produced an extraordinary pen and ink drawing of Salisbury Cathedral which will be sold by Bonhams on 25th September at Knightsbridge This is probably the first time such an item has ever been auctioned.
Once owned by the late Ted Heath, Prime Minister from 1970 to 74, who lived latterly in the cathedral close, the picture is being sold to aid the making of a religious CD - the oratorio of...
Aldeburgh Festival, Snape Maltings, Suffolk
By Martin Hoyle [Financial Times, 23 June 2008]
Last Thursday György Kurtág and his wife Márta played pieces from his piano collection Játékok on the sonically upholstered upright with its almost woolly sound now favoured by the composer, making his often spiky fragments into the musical equivalent of comfort food.
Foxs Fringe Promos Leave Many Questions Unanswered
LOS ANGELES (AdAge.com) -- The marketing for the upcoming Fox series "Fringe" continues to live up to the show's name. One radio spot is for a fictional car dealership that's suddenly interrupted by static and a creepy voice that urges listeners to "find the pattern." Another ad sounds like a police scanner, with an officer suggesting an incident might be linked to "the pattern." A third spot is a fictional news brief that makes mention of, yup, a "pattern."
New York, New York is known for its soaring skyscrapers, but as you explore New York City, look also for small architectural jewels. Follow these links for an architectural tour of New York City, from art deco details to modernist masterpieces. Also find information about Ground Zero and construction of the New World Trade Center.
City of Belfast Completes Biggest Ever Branding Consultation
Belfast City Council is today unveiling a new brand identity for Belfast the result of the biggest branding consultation exercise ever undertaken for the city
The new brand has been created following a year-long international re-branding researc
Mantegna, Andrea: Judith with the Head of Holofernes (1495)
Some poems are remembered by a single line. Paintings don't come to bits so easily, and there are no dictionaries of famous pictorial quotations. But the same thing can be true. With certain pictures, a single detail is their gift to the world. The rest of it is no more than its setting.
The Courtauld Cézannes, Courtauld Gallery, London
Oddly missing from the Courtauld Gall-ery's show, The Courtauld Cézannes, is the man who gave his name to both: namely Samuel Courtauld, the industrialist turned collector whose millions, made from rayon, brought Impressionism and Post-Impressionism to Britain.
Banned TS Eliot portrait goes on show
A portrait of the poet T S Eliot rejected by the Royal Academy in 1938 because it featured phallic references will be displayed at the National Portrait Gallery in a new exhibition.
The Boy Who Loved Books, By John Sutherland
John Sutherland has had a substantial career as an academic writing about books. This touching, and in places extremely funny memoir, shows how his leap into literature was far from straightforward.
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Bruce Pike, a middle-aged paramedic, is adept at distinguishing a suicide from an error in judgment; his own turbulent adolescence accounts for this grim bit of wisdom. Growing up in a conservative Australian mill town not far from the coast, he and a daredevil buddy are swiftly drawn by . . .
Theatre Museum Announces 2008 Award Winners
The Theatre Museum has announced the recipients of its 2008 Awards, which will be presented on October 21 at its gala at the The Players Club. American radio and television personality Joe Franklin will be the recipient of The Theatre Museum's Career Achievement Award; film director...
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FEATURED BLOGS VIRTUAL GALLERIES DRAWING TOOLS Soprano Dessay makes a stunning S.F. debut in Lucia
By Richard Scheinin [Mercury News, 19 June 2008] Through the decades, the touchstone role of Lucia in Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" has been sung in San Francisco by Lily Pons, Joan Sutherland, Beverly Sills and other luminary sopranos. It's time to add Natalie Dessay to the list.
By PIA CATTON [NY Sun, 23 June 2008] When you really don't know something, it's best just to admit it. And earlier this year, an embarrassing fact emerged: I didn't know Mozart's music as well as I thought I did. The catalyst for this admission came while at the barre during a ballet class. My teacher bellowed, in that way that only ballet teachers can, "Feel the music. This is Mozart." |
(Photo by Terrence McCarthy)
How To Get a Speedy, Remedial Introduction to the Composer
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The mud has long-since dried at the Glastonbury Festival, and
whether it's simply through the goodness of their hearts or, more
likely, the fact they no longer have to bolster ticket sales, Jay-Z
and Oasis are finally making nice.|
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