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US Museums Assoc. Sets New Rules For Antiquities Acquisition

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

"These new guidelines suggest no works exported from their country of origin before 1970--the date set by the Unesco convention on the illicit trade of the same year--should enter North American collections."...

Louvre Gets A Major Hit Of Islam

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

"The Louvre's bold new Islamic art wing had its first stone laid by Sarkozy yesterday , launching the museum's most daring project since IM Pei created the giant glass pyramid 20 years ago. The world's most visited museum will have Europe's biggest purpose-built exhibition space for an Islamic art collection, which France hopes will reconcile the secular republic with the world of Islamic heritage."...

A.S.Byatt on Penelope Fitzgerald

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

In The Times A.S. Byatt discusses her former teaching colleague Penelope Fitzgerald.

Will Eisner profile

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

In The Times Paul Karasik profiles Will Eisner, granddaddy to the superhero generation.

Esterhazys Revised Edition

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

At hlo Lajos Janossy writes about Esterhazy Peter's 'Revised Edition', in The shadow of a father.

Eros review

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

The most recent addition to the complete review is our review of Helmut Krausser's Eros.

Pack a Plan: Financial Preparation for Your Move to Los Angeles

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

If you ask actors moving to Los Angeles to detail their financial plan, their responses will often include the amount they've saved and the number of months they can float by.

Merchandising Clauses for Actors

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Merchandising has expanded beyond superhero and cartoon-character lunch boxes, T-shirts, and action figures into more diverse territory.

Art Review/Auction: San Franciscos Southern Exposure

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

An auction for an influential SF art venue yields some terrific art finds.
As I like to do once in a while, I have invited a guest writer to pen a piece discussing the visual arts, and this time SF's Jennie Rose comes in with a terrific discussion on one of the Bay area's most influential art venues.Jennie Rose on Southern Exposure at SFIn the late 1980s and early 1990s, San Francisco galleries and non-profit arts...

Theater Review (LA) : The Voice Of The Prairie by John Olive at the Colony Theatre

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

A tale of the early days of radio, broadcast from the American Prairie.
The Colony Theatre in Burbank is presenting a great yarn about the first days of radio in the USA. It's called The Voice of The Prairie, by John Olive, and it’s a humdinger, especially if you're a history buff and/or love excellent acting. The story concerns Davey Quinn, who has a special ability to tell stories about his life. A...

eHarmonys Newest Commercials

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

They couple is young and both have nice bodies. How hard could that match have been?
I assume I'm not the only one who is sick to death of the newest eHarmony commercial. What a couple of dweebs. "Oh, you'll know, you'll know," Lee says, nodding to Anne Marie. "This is what they were talking about." Anne Marie goes on to say how, when she first heard his voice on the phone, he sounded "really...

Theater Review (LA): American Tales by Jan Powell and Ken Stone for The Antaeus Theatre Company at Deaf West Theatre

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Mark Twain and Herman Melville, set to music, make for a thoroughly enjoyable evening.
The Antaeus Company is as fine a group of actors as you will find anywhere in Los Angeles. Every year about this time they put on their Classics Fest, presenting works in progress from a as far back as fourteen years (Troilus and Cressida) to a fully staged piece that was especially written for Antaeus, American Tales. The latter is a musical based...

Gay Activist Wayne Besen Attacks James Dobsons Radio Hall of Fame Nomination

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

It doesnt make any sense to take this approach to furthering the cause.
The Museum of Broadcast Communications is accepting votes for its 2008 Hall of Fame induction ceremonies. One of the persons nominated in the “national active” category is the infamous Dr. James Dobson, along with other long-standing radio personalities, Bob Costas, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, and the notorious Howard Stern.The libel...

Stratford adds new dates for Brian Dennehy double bill

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

American actor Brian Dennehy's appearance at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival is proving to be a hot ticket.

The British Museum Exhibition presents Hadrian ~ Empire Conflict

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

LONDON - The British Museum presents Hadrian: Empire and Conflict, on view through October 26, 2008. The Roman Emperor Hadrian (117 to 138 AD) is best known for his passion for Greek culture, interest in architecture, his love for Antinous, and of course the eponymous wall he built between England and Scotland, then Caledonia. This exhibition will look beyond this established image and offer new perspectives on his life and legacy, exploring the sharp contradictions of his personality and his role as a ruthless military commander.

Op Art Revisited exhibited at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

BUFFALO, NY - Organized by Albright-Knox Art Gallery Associate Curator Holly E. Hughes, the exhibition includes 43 paintings and sculptures from artists central to the Op Art or Optical Art movement, such as Josef Albers, Richard Anuskiewicz, Bridget Riley, Julian Stanczak, and Victor Vasarely. Through the use of parallel lines, concentric circles and electric colors, these artists manipulated depth, perspective, space, and color to create an “optical illusion.”

Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center shows Facebook / Images of People in Photographs

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY.- While the Facebook social networking website has proven to be enormously popular, linking millions of photographs of faces to searchable biographical data, the notion of collecting and cataloguing pictures of people is not a new one. In the 1920s August Sander created a typological catalogue of more than six hundred photographs of German people from all walks of life, in his monumental lifelong project to document the residents of his native Westerwald, near Cologne.

Eleanor Antin ~ Historical Takes solos at San Diego Museum of Art

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

SAN DIEGO, CA - The San Diego Museum of Art presents Eleanor Antin: Historical Takes, on view through November 2, 2008. Organized by SDMA, this solo exhibition features the work of celebrated conceptual artist Eleanor Antin. The exhibition is the first to focus on Antin’s recent series of large-scale tableaux photographs based on Greek and Roman history and mythology, which are presented together for the first time.

Two Warhols and Three Lichtensteins Stolen from The Arbergs Museum

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

BALSTA, SWEDEN - Two Warhol's and three Roy Lichtenstein's were stolen from the Abergs Museum. Carina Aberg, an official at the Abergs Museum, stated to Art Daily, “Early this morning, the 18th of July, burglars broke up a door in Abergs Museum, rushed in and quickly grabbed exactly what they wanted, they must have known where there were a couple of Warhol-pictures and three Lichtensteins. We send along pictures of the stolen artwork. Police have no trace of the burglars and the artwork could have already left the country."

Isamu Noguchi at Yorkshire Sculpture Park ~ Noguchi and Iconic Designers

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

WEST BRETTON, UK - Works range from monumental sculpture situated in landscaped gardens to smaller interior works, designs, drawings, furniture, dance sets, and works on paper. The first major European exhibition of work by renowned Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi (1904–88) opens on July 18, 2008, at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, near Wakefield, England.

Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum exhibits Jonathan Green

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Myrtle Beach, SC - The Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum will offer an in-depth tour of the works of noted South Carolina artist Jonathan Green at 2 p.m. Tuesday, July 29. The tour will be led by Museum docent Chuck Lichy and is free and open to the public. Green’s works are part of the Museum’s current exhibit Jonathan Green: The Artist & The Collector, which includes 31 paintings by Mr. Green, along with 40 works from his private art collection.

Delaware Art Museum presents Gifted ~ Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Wilmington, DE - The Delaware Art Museum presents Gifted: Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection, an exhibition featuring more than 30 works of art given to the Delaware Art Museum since its reopening in June 2005, on view July 12, 2008 – November 9, 2008. Paintings, prints, photographs, sculptures, and ceramics—including works from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel collection—will be featured. Gifted offers visitors a glimpse into how the Museum’s collection grows through the generosity of collectors.

Museums in Madrid Increase Attendance in First Half of This Year

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

MADRID - The three great museums in Madrid, Spain. . . The Prado, Reina Sofia and Thyssen-Bornesmiza Museum, received during the fist six months of 2008 a total of 3,024,878 visitors, data that reveals an increase in visitors with respect to the numbers of 2007. The Prado Museum, which is ahead of the others, has received a total of 1,532,251 visitors. Of these six months the month that had more visitors was May with 287,826.

The Robie House - Frank Lloyd Wright

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

The Robie House in Chicago is perhaps Frank Lloyd Wright's most famous Praire style home. Photo and resources.

Painting with fascinating story at Martime Museum

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Museum curator Sarah Riddle receives the painting of the Jane Slade from Fiona Doe, niece of Mrs Adams, Jane Stephenson, Mrs Adams daughter and Mrs Adams.

See Stephen Rings exhibition of photographs and paintings inspired by North Devon

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

FOR SHEER drama and colour, Stephen Ring's latest collection of photographs and paintings is hard to beat.

Famous paintings re-framed in Penryn

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Lynn Blake, who does the guilding at Sully's Picture Framing. A small independent picture framing company in Penryn was given the rare opportunity to frame up to 70 paintings made by the late Falmouth painter ...

First Ballerina Painting By Edgar Degas Now On View at VMFA

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Edgar Degas painted "Portrait of Mademoiselle Eugenie Fiocre in the Ballet 'La Source'" in about 1867-68. It was the artist's first ballerina painting.

Raja Ravi Varmas painting displayed at Museum in Chennai

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Chennai: A colour print of a painting by Raja Ravi Varma is the special exhibit of the month at the Government Museum, Egmore.

Paintings of eco-friendly theme displayed

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Cultural activities are booming as excitement for the Olympic games mounts. There's a painting exhibition by Liu Zhong.

Lincoln Center Gets Theatrical Garden To Play With

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

"Architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien have redesigned Harmony Atrium between West 62nd and 63rd Streets as a "theatrical garden" featuring 20-foot-high walls of plants and rods of falling water. The goal is to transform the space... into a 7,000-square-foot round-the-clock gathering place and a gateway to Lincoln Center's performing arts campus."...

MIA Gives Concerned Artists A Soapbox

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Local artists in Minnesota are being given an opportunity to air their concerns about the future of a regional art program at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. MIA's exhibition program is unique among large U.S. museums, and the recent resignation of the program's curator sparked alarm. "The chief worry is that artists would no longer be able to choose and organize shows by their peers."...

Denvers Museum Of Contemporary Art Director Steps Down

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Cydney Payton, who led a passionate charge to construct Denver's first stand-alone museum devoted to contemporary art, has announced her resignation from MCA Denver in late October, the building's first anniversary....

The Contradictions Of Corbusier

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Le Corbusier's own idea of the perfect space seems curiously telling. Having spent a lifetime at the cutting edge of progress, expanding his reputation and designs to maximum scale, he found his ideal home in his cabanon - a spartan, one-roomed wooden hut on the Côte d'Azur, where he spent every summer from 1952 onwards....

Why Artists Shouldnt Explain

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

"No serious art is easy to interpret. Nor is there ever a single valid interpretation of art. If art is good, there are many things to be said about it and much that will remain unsayable."...

The Creators Map review

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

The most recent addition to the complete review is our review of Emilio Calderon's The Creator's Map.

Tibor Fischer profile

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Tibor Fischer's new novel, Good to be God, is due out in September, and he's profiled in The Budapest Sun.

Chinese takes Akutagawa Prize

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Yang Yi won the Akutagawa Przie, and the Yomiuri Shimbun thinks that now Japanese literature turns page with foreign writers, as this: "is a symbol of literature's globalization".

Speed signing

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

At least there are a lot of copies to sign, but we're not sure what this says about Salman Rushdie the writer, who apparently is taking inordinate pride in his speed-signing prowess.

They removed the veil

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

They adopted the headscarf back in the 1980s at the same time as political Islam began to grow. Now they are part of a global trend towards secularisation in which more and more women are shedding their headscarves and veils.

The global chess board

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

How might US foreign policy develop with Barack Obama as president? According to Zbigniew Brzezinski, Obama's main geostrategic adviser, America must expand its influence in Eurasia and confront both Russia and China if it wants to remain a super power.

Gay Activist Wayne Besen Attacks James Dobsons Radio Hall of Fame Nomination

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Theater Review (LA): Desert Sunrise by Misha Shulman at the Lillian Theatre

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

West Bank combatants meet in a moving, tragic-comic play written by an Israeli Army veteran.
If you have ever been in the desert you might have seen a beautiful sky at sunrise. A beautiful, award-winning play by the name of Desert Sunrise recently opened at the Lillian Theatre in Hollywood, where it is given a first-rate production with three powerful and moving performances. The story concerns a chance meeting between a Palestinian...

Infomercials: Snake Oil Salesmen of the 21st Century

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

They fill the late-night TV void with mindless glitter.
It’s hell being an insomniac these days. I can’t read or venture online in my comfy bed, because my husband would kill me. Honestly. He’s a staunch proponent of getting a good night’s rest and claims to need at least eight hours of sleep. I would hear about it the next day if I happen to turn over in my sleep too many...

Dancing Zambonis among 19 cultural projects to get $1.5M

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

An ice show featuring a dance for Zambonis and a play about the life of disabled athlete Rick Hansen are among 16 projects that will get money through a fund to support cultural development in the period leading up to the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

U.S. comic sleepwalks for laughs in Montreal

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

American comedian Mike Birbiglia aims to sleepwalk his way through Montreal's Just for Laughs festival.

Bachchans bring Bollywood glitz to Toronto

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Bollywood's first family, the Bachchans, has landed in Toronto at the start of a world tour of their extravagant new musical.

Painting for Eternity ~ The Tombs of Paestum at Martin Gropius Bau

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

BERLIN - With its three large Doric temples, Paestum became a well-known site early on thanks to engravings by Piranesi (1777/78) and Goethe’s impressive descriptions in his Italienische Reise (1787). However, many people are unaware that Paestum contains one of the greatest treasure troves of ancient fresco paintings: During excavations in the 1960s, around 200 richly painted tombs from the Lucanian period (4th century B.C.) were discovered.

History of New Arrivals to America at Minnesota History Center

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

ST. PAUL, MN.- For many, Ellis Island is the ultimate symbol of American immigration and the immigrant experience. The Minnesota History Center opened a new exhibit celebrating the stories of the more than 12 million immigrants who entered the United States through the New York City federal immigration station. On exhibition through 21 September, 2008.

JMW Turner Watercolours from The Courtauld at Wordsworth Museum

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

GRASMERE, UK - Outstanding works by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), from The Courtauld in London, will be displayed together for the first time in this exciting exhibition at the Wordsworth Museum and Art Gallery. The variety of style and technique seen in these works is evidence of the Turner's extraordinarily inventive approach to the making of landscape in watercolour.

Greek Olympic Art Exhibit from the British Museum at the Shanghai Museum

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

SHANGHAI.- Less than one month before the Olympic Games begin in Beijing, the famous discus thrower and more than a hundred sculptures and porcelains from ancient Greece have visited China, where thanks to a temporary exhibit in Shanghai have been discovered by over 330,000 Chinese visitors at the Shanghai Museum.

Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center shows Facebook / Images of People in Photographs

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Chinese Gardens for Living ~ Illusion into Reality at Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Dresden, Germany - This summer an exhibition by the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden in association with the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), Beijing, will be presenting contemporary art from China. “Chinese Gardens for Living: Illusion into Reality” will show works by famous Chinese designers, architects, painters and photographers who have explored the philosophy behind the Chinese garden.

Maurice de Vlaminck’s Exhibit at Musee du Luxembourg in Paris

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

PARIS - This exhibition brings together works of the period 1900-1915, from Maurice de Vlaminck’s (1876-1958) earliest known paintings - Vlaminck’s career started when he was 17, but none of his juvenalia has been preserved - in which he already asserted his characteristic violence, down to the works produced at the beginning of the First World War, which reflect his contemporary research on the rendering of space.

Sea Creatures in Glass at Harvard Museum of Natural History

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

CAMBRIDGE, MA - Many years before they were commissioned by Harvard University to make the “Glass Flowers,” father and son artists Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka meticulously shaped glass and wire into lifelike models of marine animals. Renowned for their beauty and exacting detail, the Blaschka marine invertebrate models were commissioned by universities and museums throughout world during the 19th century. Sea Creatures in Glass will be on display through January 4, 2009.

VanLandigham Estate

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Built in 1913, the VanLandingham estate in Charlotte, North Carolina was designed to suggest a mountain retreat.

creole

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

French Creole buildings borrow traditions from France, the Caribbean, and many other parts of the world. Join us for a photo tour of French Creole architecture.

Painting exhibit to open

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

A painter's view of northern Michigan's landscapes and waters is the theme of an exhibition of 26 oil paintings by Peggy Hawley at Lake Street Studios in Glen Arbor.

Painting of Official Town Seal Presented to Historical Society

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

First Selectman Mary Ann Drayton-Rogers recently presented an original painting of the official town seal, a gift to the town from the artist's family, to the Oxford Historical Society.

TV hosts remarks painting of pagans false, irresponsible

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Editor, the Gazette: It is difficult to express my outrage at Kathie Lee Gifford's utterly tasteless and inflammatory comments made about Pagans on the 'Today' show.

DIY: Velvet Painting Follow-Up

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Curator Viola Delgado looks on as Benito Huerta prepares his paints for his painting on velvet demonstration last Saturday.

City center plays host to 3rd summer carnival

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

The Eula Mae Amaker Family Life Center will host its third annual summer carnival from July 17-20 on the city high school's grounds at 950 Park Avenue.

Big Easys art comes to Cantor: Spared artwork...

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Cantor Art Center's spectacular summer exhibit, "Spared from the Storm: Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of Art" is a welcome break from work, the heat or Green Library.

Public Art When Its Lost Its Public

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

"With thousands of murals and sculptures in public spaces, the question of what to do with such art that its owner no longer wants is likely to come up more and more."...

Auction House Says Art Sales Were Up Sharply In First Half Of 2008

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

"Christie's sold 1.8 billion pounds ($3.6 billion) of art and collectibles over the six months, compared with 1.6 billion pounds in the same period a year earlier, according to an e-mailed statement reld today. Auction sales include London-based Christie's fees."...

Cleveland Museum of Art Names New Chief Curator

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

"The museum announced Tuesday that C. Griffith Mann, director of the curatorial division of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, will take up his new duties in Cleveland by mid-September... Mann, 39, rose quickly from a curatorial fellowship in 1999 to the top curatorial post at the Walters in 2007."...

New Yorks Other Booming Art Market

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

"At the same time that art museums and galleries have developed larger collections, they have fewer options to expand. Perhaps inevitably, an art services industry that has sprung up in the dark warehouses of New York City's boroughs is also growing."...

Cruising The Art Market

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

"Auctioning 'fine art' on cruises, often to first-time bidders who have never met a reserve or inspected a provenance, has become big business." But the practice has led to complaints from buyers over the quality of the art offered, and the inflating of its value by auctioneers and dealers....

Indian writing In English

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

At Little India Abhinav Maurya wonders at some length: How Indian Is Indian Writing In English ?

Nepali writing abroad

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

At Nepalnews Indra Adhikari reports that Nepali literature blooming in Diaspora.

Francophone writing in the Indian Ocean ?

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Aline Groeme-Harmon looks at the enigma of the local Francophone literature.

Bessie Head Literature Awards

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

They've announced this year's winners of the Bessie Head Literature Awards (in Botswana).

Chinese non-fiction bestsellers

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

We'd rather hear about the most popular fiction titles, but at Bloomberg John Liu at least offers a run-down of the non-fiction bestseller list in China.

C.K.Stead review-overviews

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

The most recent additions to the complete review are our review-overviews of two of his recent books: the collection Book Self: The Reader as Writer and the Writer as Critic and the novel My Name was Judas

Crazy Jamie

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Jamie has escaped. Description: Brown hair, freckles, and wearing soiled blue-and-white-striped pajamas. On the loose in Studio City. This is her story.

Young Animals: Violent and Barely Human

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Are youths becoming like animals in the public eye? Why does society view its own children with terror?
I am not a scary person; as much as I would like to pretend otherwise, no one is fooled. I have an affable face and there's nothing I can do about it. Unless I'm riled, my demeanor around strangers tends toward the polite, friendly innocence of a youth "raised properly". Which, to my intense irritation, leads to comments like "isn't he sweet" or...

Art Review/Auction: San Franciscos Southern Exposure

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

An auction for an influential SF art venue yields some terrific art finds.
As I like to do once in a while, I have an invited a guest writer to pen a piece discussing the visual arts, and this time SF's Jennie Rose comes in with a terrific discussion on one of the Bay area's most influential art venues.Jennie Rose on Southern Exposure at SFIn the late 1980s and early 1990s, San Francisco galleries and non-profit...

Theatre Review (LA) : The Voice Of The Prairie by John Olive at the Colony Theatre

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Theater Review (NYC): The Strangerer by Mickie Maher

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

A fine existential play comes to New York, and will either baffle its audience to catharsis or bore it to sleep.
The Strangerer is a 90-minute attempt to murder Jim Lehrer that goes nowhere. The premise of a theater-loving, existential hero Bush is absurd, and the format of reinterpreting the first 2004 Presidential Debate only adds to the absurdity. What is the point of committing such a pointless, arbitrary act for the purposes of theater? The point, my...

Edmonton cultural venues get $6.5 million

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Edmonton's Citadel Theatre and Winspear Centre received a $6.5 million cash infusion Tuesday from the province and the city of Edmonton.

Mets high-definition operas headed for DVD

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Six high-definition Metropolitan Opera productions that first aired live in cinemas are to be released on DVD this September.

9 to 5 musical to make leap from L.A. to Broadway

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

The musical adaptation of 1980s workplace comedy 9 to 5 will indeed be making the jump to Broadway, producers announced Tuesday.

Painting the Palmer House Green

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

The shadow of Ralph Nader hangs low over the Green Party's national convention in Chicago, but the perennial candidate is nowhere to be found.

Choirs Of Angels: Painting In Italian Choir Books

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Some two dozen of the most splendid examples from The Metropolitan Museum of Art's little-known but precious collection of choral manuscript illuminations will be exhibited in the Museum's Medieval Sculpture ...

Painting for Eternity: The Tombs of Paestum at Martin Gropius Bau

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

With its three large Doric temples, Paestum became a well-known site early on thanks to engravings by Piranesi and Goethe's impressive descriptions in his Italienische Reise .

Painting her sons final images of Iraq

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Suzy Shealy was one of those preppy Southern moms whose artistic streak found expression in what she calls "crafty-type things": cross-stitched towels, Christmas ornaments, knitted scarves.

Steve Hill enjoys the ambience of Plein Air painting. - Contributed photo

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Crow Valley Pottery has invited some 15 artists to participate in the upcoming - Plein Air on Orcas' show.

Be a Home Designer

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

If you dream of designing houses and other small buildings, but don't want to spend the years it takes to become a registered architect, then you may want to explore career opportunities in the field of Building Design. Here's how to begin.

Munch Prices Soar Because Of Famous Theft

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

According to auctioneers, works by Edvard Munch have significantly increased in price as a direct result of the 2004 robbery of the artist's The Scream and Madonna....

Cubas Artists Head for Success Abroad

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Sales of Cuban art skyrocket, while Wilfredo Lam, an internationally recognized master, receives his first major American show. Is Cuba going the way of Russia and China?...

Brooklyn Museum Puts The Fakes Out Front

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

"While most major museums have some fakes in their collections, few like to advertise the fact. But in an unusual move, the Brooklyn Museum is planning an exhibition for 2009 that will call attention to a group of forgeries among its collection of Coptic sculptures."...

Minneapolis Institute Tries To Reassure Local Artists

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Minneapolis Institute of Arts director Kaywin Feldman moved Tuesday to reassure Minnesota artists of the museum's continued commitment to showcasing their work....

You Dont Paint Me Flowers...

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

"Despite the phenomenal marketability of flower paintings, no one does them any more. What proliferates instead is botanical art. Flower portraiture is not of itself contemptible; the greatest Dutch flower painters were aware that the flowers they were depicting were worth more than their depictions, and treated them with a special awe and excitement; but they were never unaware of their fragility."...

The Iraqi Looting That Wasnt?

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

A story in The Art Newspaper disputes the widely reported news that important Iraqi archeological sites have been looted or damaged since the American invasion. "No one had bothered to challenge the reports, the evidence or the logic, not least because many ancient sites were in hostile terrain and couldn't be double-checked."...

Romanian translations

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

The Observer Translation Project promises to host Romanian fiction, poetry, literary criticism and literary history, and news about Romanian writing abroad, all translated into English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.

BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

They've announced the winner of the BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction, and it is The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, by Kate Summerscale.

Reading in ... Turkey

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

The usual dismal statistics -- this time from Turkey -- ("While Turks spend an average of five hours a day watching television, they devote only six hours in an entire year to reading") but also some efforts to improve the situation (like sentencing criminals to read).

California Dance Network Launches New Website

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Do you have an interest in providing professional services to California's dance community, perhaps as a designer, composer, teacher, development director, manager, or presenter?

Good Rep, Bad Rip, Soap Tip

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

What do you consider a good agent? I know I'd like to work with an agent who has a manager's heart and obviously someone with good connections, an agent with vision. And that's where I stop.

Correspondence

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

The first-ever publication in Mittelweg 36 of correspondence between theology student Hans-J�rgen Benedict and Hannah Arendt, dating back to 1967-68, represents something of a sensation. It offers a precise insight into Arendt's evaluation of the student movement.