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The Cultural Blah Blah Team
Monthly Archive for January, 2007
NYT: Bloomberg and Council Change Arts Financing
As Altria stops giving as much the city starts to give more…coincidence? You gotta love one thing about Bloomberg, his absolute love for anything artistic
NYS: Jasper Johns Without Flags
“Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting, 1955–1965,” opens Sunday at the National Gallery of Art in DC
NYS:Sketches for a Master’s Scrapbook
Review of Cartier-Bresson’s exhibit at ICP
NYS:The Family Circle of Hell
New Exhibit on Family representation in Film and Photography opens at the Guggenheim in NYC
NYS Spotlight On Lincoln Kirstein
2007 is the year of Kirstein in NY; a man who changed the face of NYC culture and created the New York City Ballet amongst others…interesting article
Trekking to the Barnes
If you have a romantic nature and a sense of adventure, visiting the Barnes Foundation from Manhattan can be a very “doable†art pilgrimage. This is a feasible mini adventure to approximate other art journeys to Rodin Crater, City, or Lighting Field. I had a wonderful Sunday deciphering NJ Transit to SEPTA to the “main line†local train, a very comfortable and affordance ride while taking in the late Fall foliage, flowing rivers, and steel bridges along my way to Marion, Pennsylvania.
One of the SEPTA ticket machines the Trenton, NJ stop wasn’t functioning and I was stressfully trying to manipulate the buttons and was jamming in my crinkled five dollar bill while the train was waiting. One of the kind conductors ushered me onto the train with a friendly joke and didn’t charge me the extra five dollars he was supposed to–contrary to Flaubert’s assertions, life in the provinces is a pleasant break indeed! I enjoy no such camaraderie or nurturing as I am being elbowed in the ribs while packed onto the 6 train each morning in the city.
Continue reading ‘Greed! Death! Art! Corruption!…………Pennsylvania? by Tiffany Stevens’
IHT: The designer Newson teams up with Gagosian Gallery
Read on…very interesting but what of the future of “Design Art” and was Eames right?
Have a look at this show that is opening tonight at MOMA through February 12 in the evenings. Its free to the public and is a must see!!
Well Men’s Style.com certainly thinks so…have a look, maybe they will bring creativity back to fashion…
http://men.style.com/fashion/style_notes/011207
Read more on the upcoming Foundation Louis Vuitton in Paris being designed by Frank Gehry…aint bad….
