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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.

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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.

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Ecotones Mitigating NYCs Contentious Sites

Ecotones Mitigating NYCs Contentious SitesGiven 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

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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.

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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."...

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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. 

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Adobe MAX 2008 2009

Adobe MAX 2008 2009Adobe 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

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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

Kurtag.pngBy 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.

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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."

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New York City

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.

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City of Belfast Completes Biggest Ever Branding Consultation

City of Belfast Completes Biggest Ever Branding ConsultationBelfast 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.

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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.



Breath

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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Soprano Dessay makes a stunning S.F. debut in Lucia

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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.

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Correcting a Mozart Deficit

How To Get a Speedy, Remedial Introduction to the Composer

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."

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Confessions of a Hair Model

The Craigslist ad read, "Looking for hair model. Must be willing to have hair cut ��� $100." Taking the job would bring me a hundred dollars closer to paying this month's rent, so I tried to picture my hair shorter.

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Another strike to stop La Scala shows

Less than a year after it suffered a three-week strike, famed Italian opera house La Scala is set for another labour stoppage.

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Mansfield bicentennial goes out with a bang

MANSFIELD -- The crowd clapped and cheered as two F-16 jets roared over the Mansfield Motorsports Park grandstand Friday.

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The non-efficient citizen

Consumerism grounded in indebtedness means financial dependence as opposed to democratic freedom. In the consumerist system, the individual who asserts him or herself through authentic freedom is regarded as a non-efficient citizen.

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Jay-Z, Oasis make nice-nice

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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Lawsuit Against Louis Vuitton, LAs MoCA About Documentation

"By bringing class-action lawsuits against Louis Vuitton North America and L.A.'s Museum of Contemporary Art, a Los Angeles art collector and his attorneys say they are sounding an alarm on behalf of people who shop for art prints that can cost thousands of dollars: Let the buyer be savvy, and let the seller beware. The suits in Los Angeles Superior Court rely on an obscure chapter of the California Civil Code called the Fine Prints Act. Together Louis Vuitton and MOCA potentially are liable for millions of dollars."...

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Early Australian Tattoos Similar To Rock Art Of The Time

"Body art was all the rage in early Australia, as it was in many other parts of the ancient world, and now a new study reports that elaborate and distinctive designs on the skin of indigenous Aussies repeated characters and motifs found on rock art and all sorts of portable objects, ranging from toys to pipes."...

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Remembering George Carlin

Even 200 years from now, some comic somewhere will believe in only one god: George Carlin.
"My God has a bigger dick than your God."Which is the reason we fight wars, and isn't that the truth.We don't really need another remembrance of George Carlin, especially from someone who did not know him personally. But I can't help it: he is my moral compass in times of doubt and uncertainty. What do I think about war? What...

 
 
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