Daddy's Roses (Free subscription) | yesterday
We are in Venice Italy today, November 6, 2009. We arrived, after an all-night flight from Atlanta via JFK in New York, at 9:45 this morning. Our ship will sail at 1:00 PM tomorrow. Here is information about Venice that I found before we left Atlanta. Average Temperature during the month of Nov: 39-52 Based on my internet-site reading, the following are the Top Ten Things to See in Venice. Canal Grande...
Amanita.net (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Great, my iPod doesn’t know where the tunes are. The library seems intact but it will only play a few songs. [etoile] I seem to have downloaded a different version of Honky Tonk Badonkadonk than @codawann used. Dammit. [etoile] [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
What do the following dead people have in common: Albert Camus, Jackson Pollock, James Dean, Jayne Mansfield, General George Patton and Princesses Grace and Diana? Diana's inclusion in the list should be the killer clue that this is a roll call of celebrities who departed this life in a car crash, although road traffic accidents are a common-enough experience for us civilians, too – and not...
Eye Level (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
"My ten millionth grandfather was Jonathan Edwards," critic Dave Hickey told us last week as part of the Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture Series at American Art. He added, "But I'm not going to give you any of that." What he...
Midwest Rock Lobster (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Chicago Day 5 Part I: The Exchequer I try to eat here at least once every trip to Chicago. Only time I didn't, one of the GraphExpo trips, we flew in one night, did the trade show and went to the hotel, did the trade show the next day and flew back that evening. I don't think I even made it to the Loop on that trip. Good food, great atmosphere, reasonably priced, and as an added bonus, the greeter...
Shikow (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
I leave for Youngstown on November 9th. I still have to get my ticket. I'm a bit nervous. I have yet to be away from Sogee for so long. I hope she'll be okay. Two months is a good long while. She says she might visit Korea in December. I'm sure she'll find her visit back home surprising. When I visited America after being in Korea, it didn't even seem like America. It was more like a fuzzy dream that...
Modern Art Notes (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
In yesterday's examination of the Hirshhorn's Anne Truitt retrospective I discussed how Truitt didn't fit neatly into the categories that critics and scholars have built up around post-war art. Sure, Truitt's a minimalist, but only kind of. Sure, Truitt made sculptures, but she didn't do much sculpting. And so on. As such, the Hirshhorn's Truitt show provides an opportunity for a re-consideration...
Snarkmarket (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
This Halloween story from Fake Steve Jobs reads like the lost script to the funniest episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm that never got made. (And there’s already a pretty funny one about Halloween.) Thing is, I don’t give out candy. I know that’s what the kids want, but I’m sorry. Candy is poison. Would you hand [...]
The Wooden Spoon (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
From Prospect Magazine , 'One difference between the avant-garde in classical music and in visual art, however, is that late 20th-century music was apt to defy these organising principles, while visual art did not. Although some viewers may fret that they cannot understand what is in front of them, it takes no more cognitive effort to “see” a painting by Mark Rothko than it does to look...
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Pre-Raphaelite master's femmes fatales show a strikingly erotic imagination
KyiMayKaung (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
FORT BRAGG, Calif., Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- If you ask Hobbs Ferretti, he'll tell you Fort Bragg has gone to the dogs. Okay, Hobbs is a dog - a Chihuahua-Miniature Pinscher mix - and can't actually talk. But that's all right because Fort Bragg has an animal communicator,...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
Born: 3 June, 1926, in New York. Died: 1 October, 2009, in New York, aged 83.
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Hyman Bloom’s name is usually associated with 1940s expressionism. He was discovered in 1942 by Museum of Modern Art curator Dorothy Miller, who launched his reputation by including thirteen of his paintings in one of her regular exhibitions of contemporary...
Bernie's Paintings (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
This morning I was lucky enough to be invited to a private view of the new "Drawing Attention" exhibition at Dulwich Art gallery. This is an exhibition of Master Drawings from the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada. The exhibition covered drawings and watercolours from Italian 16Th Century drawings to modern drawings by some of the Abstract Impressionists and other modern masters. There were...
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