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An Awfully Big Blog Adventure (Free subscription) | yesterday
As a break from editing the bare breasts and sex out of my Egyptian novel Eye of the Moon for a US publisher, I’m reading Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Jeff Jarvis’s What Would Google Do? simultaneously. The three make very odd companions while I shift from 1500 BC to the 16th century, and then on to the digital world of now. In What Would Google Do? Jeff Jarvis suggests we have to...
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Vulture (Free subscription) | yesterday
Last year, Twilight proved to zillions of shrieking Twi-hards that no matter how passionately you love a florid, overwritten, hilarious book, the movie can be even better . How will this year's installment, New Moon , fare with a new director (the non-vagina-having Chris Weitz) and a new love interest (Jacob Black, played by Taylor Lautner)? Good news! Once again, Hollywood magic has delivered a version...
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Lloyd Austins (Free subscription) | yesterday
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
She was one half of the of the environmental artist known to the world as Christo The flame-haired artist Jeanne-Claude – or Mrs Christo, as she sometimes called herself – worked with her husband to mummify the Pont Neuf, to envelop a series of Miami islands in flamingo pink nylon, to bind the German Reichstag building in aluminium fabric and to erect 7,503 billowing saffron "gates"...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
US artist Jeanne-Claude, whose dramatic installations included wrapping fabric around the Reichstag in Berlin, has died following a brain aneurysm.
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Martinique, the French Caribbean paradise that famously inspired several of Paul Gauguin's most celebrated works, will again take center stage of the Caribbean art world when it hosts the seventh annual Contemporary Art Market of Le Marin, November 27-29, 2009. Some 8,000 visitors are expected to attend the event and experience the latest creations produced by 100+ artists...
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Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | yesterday
Julia – dir. Erick Zonca [Edited from a previous “ defense ” of Julia , which was written before a number of US critics got on board with the film] Over the past ten years, a number of films have showcased the many talents of Tilda Swinton, whose uncanny screen presence can’t really be likened to anyone else working today. Other than maybe Asia Argento, I can think of no other...
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BrothersJudd Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Death of the Cool : Cool was once associated with reticence, savoir-faire, and irony, none of which is much practiced or regarded these days. (Robert McHenry, November 20, 2009, American) Who and what was cool? Cary Grant was cool, and of course Steve McQueen . Thelonious S. Monk (anybody remember when Time captioned a picture of him “Melodious Thunk”?) and Horace Silver, Fairfield...
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SpoilerTV (Free subscription) | yesterday
NOTE: We hope to have full size ones later. "The Slave of Duty"--While Agent Hotchner takes a leave of absence from the BAU, the team (Shemar Moore, left, and Joe Mantegna, right) must regroup to solve a home invasion case, on CRIMINAL MINDS, Wednesday, Dec. 9 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Adam Taylor/ABC Studios ©2009 ABC Studios. All Rights Reserved....
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frogsmoke.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Last week was the 169th birthday of Claude Monet, the founder of the impressionist movement in art. Digital artists were challenged to add modern elements to Monet's paintings. I particularly liked this one: Many more here
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L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The artists attracted attention for decades by wrapping buildings and with temporary environmental projects such as 'Running Fence' in California in the 1970s and 'The Gates' in New York City in 2005. Jeanne-Claude, whose collaboration with her husband Christo in creating massive environmental works of art such as the 24-mile-long "Running Fence" in California in the 1970s attracted worldwide...
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Abduzeedo by design - (Free subscription) | yesterday
We love comic books and superheroes and it's hard to explain why, however we could say that it's one of our first contacts with art, even though they are commercial. Now imagine if a famoust artist like Pablo Picasso were alive and decided to paint about superheroes? That is what Mike Esparza decided to play with, he created a superhero series with the Picasso's Cubist style. I get a lot of my inspiration...
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Obituary: Responsible for HBO's 'Autopsy' series -- Documentary producer Gaby Monet Jacoby died Oct. 31 after a long illness.
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damge | 21/10/2009
Rembrandt's J'Accuse Movie Do you want to download Rembrandt's J'Accuse Movie ! Rembrandt's J'Accuse is undoubtedly one of the most successful movies in the recent years. It won the hearts of millions of fans and people are eager to download Rembrandt's J'Accuse movie , to add it to their collection of all time favorites. Everyday millions of users across the globe search the net for websites that...
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liz level | 20/10/2009
Salvador Dalí is a master of surrealism and one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Why not explore the places where he lived and painted, and discover the most interesting museums that exhibit his work? These are unusual spaces that can only be found in Dalí’s native Spain, where the memory of the painter is very much alive.
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bestshill | 08/10/2009
To say the least, the use of Christian religious iconography in a sincere manner has not been the stuff of contemporary artists or art collectors. On the contrary, and in the last few decades in particular, artists have taken delight in lampooning the depiction of all things bible. You can probably name a few of them without thinking, as opportunistic politicians frequently use their work to raise