Modern Art Notes (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
An artist interested in tackling a big subject -- a subject such as mankind's dependence on oil -- has a tough job: You can't do it in one picture. Photographer Edward Burtynsky understands that. For the last 12 years he's taken hundreds of pictures in an effort to document our relationship with oil. A thrilling, haunting exhibition of 56 of them, "Edward Burtynsky: Oil," is on view now...
KentNewsNet.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Students may be rewarded for faculty's hard work - at least that's what the faculty union is urging. The American Association of University Professors is asking the 819 tenured and tenure-track faculty members who are set to receive the $2,855 bonus checks to consider donating the money to a worthy cause: student scholarships or local charities.
Noded (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Reading Stuff: I've pick up a copy of The Americans by Robert Frank. It is an absoute marvel. From what I been able to research he did all the images with a Leica and one or two lens (50mm and 90mm). Sekret Project Stuff:I really like playing with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and have been thinking about a CSS...
Personal Cyber Botanica (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
His characters are nameless, yet each of us… dancer… boxer… prisoner… trumpeter… dreamer… runner…. juggler… invisible painter… Vita Precarie by Danijel Zezelj taken from Globalproject He was influenced a lot by painters and photographers such as Velasquez, Caravaggio, Cezanne, Vermeer, Diane Arbus and Robert Frank. Wordz by Octavio Paz,...
The Best American Poetry (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Before I pushed the pause button on this blog yesterday—to share a Veterans Day sign of peace—you may remember I was fantasizing about hustling Johannes Vermeer, the Sphinx of Delft, into the small elevator at the back of the Metropolitan...
Lens Culture (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
We were thrilled to hear about this new exhibition, Three Concerned Women , opening this week at the Griffin Photography Museum in Massachusetts. Susan S. Bank, Stella Johnson and Rania Matar share an interest in a humanist approach to photography. Their long-term projects have taken them to Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. Susan Bank 's self-published book, Cuba: Campo Adentro drew praise...
John Goodman's Health Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
This is Robert Frank, writing in The New York Times: If the Mayo model is better and cheaper, why hasn’t it swept the market like wildfire? He gives six separate answers (that’s right: six!) and all of them are wrong! The answer, supplied by yours truly in A Framework for Medicare Reform is that (1) Medicare punishes Mayo [...]
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
New York, NY – Rick Wester Fine Art, Inc. (RWFA) is pleased to present Jeff Mermelstein’s first one-person exhibition in New York in three years, Twirl / Run. Comprised of selections from two related projects, Twirl / Run further extends the artist’s exploration of the streets of New York in all its random, chaotic organization. On exhibition November 12 through January 16, 2010....
Art reviw Alex Stalenbertg (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
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Memex 1.1 (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Anthony Lane has a lovely piece in the New Yorker about the new exhibition of Robert Frank’s famous visual study of his adopted country. Here’s how it begins: In June, 1955, Robert Frank bought a car. It was a Ford Business Coupe, five years old, sold by Ben Schultz, of New York. From there, Frank [...]
Bigthink - Site Features Feed (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
So wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald. To which Ernest Hemingway replied, ``yes. They have more money.'' Could they one day end up having more fingers? Toes? Brains? The economist Robert Frank wonders about that , picking up on Robert Saffo's suggestion that advances in artificial intelligence, robotics and personal genetics will be so expensive that they will lead, as Saffo put it, to the rich person ``evolving...
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
SANTA MONICA, CA.- Peter Fetterman Gallery in Santa Monica celebrates the beauty and elegance of fashion photography with two outstanding exhibitions. “Lillian Bassman: Women” includes more than 50 images (many of them not seen since publication) by the 93-year-old doyenne of 20th Century fashion photography. Ms. Bassman (born 1917 in Brooklyn, New York) was appointed Art Director at Junior...
ArtCal (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
BLT Gallery 270 Bowery, 2nd Floor, 212-260-4129 East Village / Lower East Side October 22 - December 19, 2009 Opening: Thursday, October 22, 6 - 8 PM Web Site BLT Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition featuring two prominent contemporary photographers, Gerald Dearing and Steve Pyke. BLT found the juxtaposition of these two notable photographers essential in portraying photography at its barest...
KentNewsNet.com (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Eric Fingerhut, chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents, presented a lecture at the Kiva last night as part of the Celebration of College Teaching Conference.
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
When the Rolling Stones returned to the U.S. for a 1972 tour, they let photographer Robert Frank bring a crew of film cameras along for the ride with the intention of releasing an honest, behind-the-scenes look at a big band’s life on the road. The final cut was a bit more raw than the band [...]
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