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Uncertain Times (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
photograph by Edmund Shea This is a cropped (cropper unknown) image from the cover of Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, In Watermelon Sugar New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1969 . I saw Richard Brautigan speak at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY, sometime in October of 1981. I don't remember much about what he said, but I had enjoyed his...
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Erkan's field diary (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
Jon Beech, Untitled, 1997found in Works on Paper: The Natalie and Irving Forman Collection at The Albright-Knox Art Gallery Erkan's one new interest is to check out the Quran blog at the Guardian. Thanks to Christian, I have become...
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
BUFFALO, NY.- Over the past few years the nationally regarded private collection of abstract art, including paintings, sculpture, and works on paper owned by Natalie and Irving Forman of Santa Fe, New Mexico has been gifted to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. In 2005 the Gallery exhibited many of the paintings and sculptures. This year's exhibition will present an intimate look at more than 130
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
BUFFALO, NY - Over the past few years the nationally regarded private collection of abstract art, including paintings, sculpture, and works on paper owned by Natalie and Irving Forman of Santa Fe, New Mexico has been gifted to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery . In 2005 the Gallery exhibited many of the paintings and sculptures. This year’s exhibition will present an intimate look at more than 130 works...
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 19/07/2008
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,...
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fix buffalo today (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
THE ARGUMENT: Buffalo provides a challenge, not a legacy; it taunts the uninspired until they flee to a city where legacy’s flow will carry them along, like New York, San Francisco or Seattle. Buffalo requires a substantial commitment, like that of a drowning man to his condition. In Buffalo, we wrestle with God, Job’s God, and the fact of being is enough.I begin to understand this after asking my...
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
Buffalo , NY - A new installation now on view at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery celebrates the Gallery long tradition of collecting with approximately 120 paintings, sculptures, and photographs dating from the 1850s to the present. This presentation of many of the best-loved works in the Gallery’s permanent collection will be on view through 2009.
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Erkan's field diary (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
When to publish blog posts for increased popularity By Jean Yves Chainon A US software developer, Jake Luciani , has determined the best days and times to publish blog posts, analyzing the connection between timing and popularity on social bookmarking sites such as Del.icio.us , Digg , Reddit and Mixx . The conclusions are straightforward: Thursdays are the best day, and the best times are between...
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JSOnline (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
The week ahead Openings: TV Monday: "Life's a Trip," 10 p.m. Travel Channel (new series) Thursday: "Tougher in Alaska," 9 p.m. History Channel (new) Saturday: "Big Gi...
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 01/04/2008
BUFFALO, NY - Jennifer Steinkamp, a nationally touring retrospective exhibition organized and circulated by the San Jose Museum of Art, offers a comprehensive view of one of the most important and prolific female video and new media artists of our time. Steinkamp creates stunning 3-D installations that explore architectural space, motion, and the phenomenon of human perception. Fusing abstract painting,...
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Network-Centric Advocacy (Free subscription) | 21/03/2008
Seth's Blog.has a good riff on engagement, big groups, fundraising and volunteering. We need to work harder in thinking of valuable things online volunteers can do to help move an agenda. Do they help you write thnak you notes? Do they call other volunteers? Do you send them phone lists and calling scripts so they can phone bank your member to remind them of upcoming events. We are not afraid to let...
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Big World (Free subscription) | 22/01/2008
“vivica fox gallery” video: …realization of idea and form," says Dreishpoon, fine art author and senior curator of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in…Also of the soon [...]
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Original Signal (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Mark Rovner has an insightful post about the current state of fundraising and non-profits.The short version: most big charities are based on direct mail fundraising, and as you're read here before, direct mail is dying. What to do?I'll start with the bad news: I despair for most of the top 50 non-profits in the US. These are the big guys, and they're stuck. Unlike the Fortune 100, not known for being...
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PSFK Trend: PSFK (Free subscription) | 05/12/2007
Rarely any of us can focus on one task at a time; we are constantly in a flux of workplace motion, stealing seconds here to save time somewhere else. The Bureau of Workplace Interruption is a time-stealing agency that sees these seconds as an opportunity. Artist Chris Barr promises to create interruptions that challenge the [...]
