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Bohemian rhapsody
Sunday, June 14th, 2009
Somewhere, in hippie heaven, Jerry Garcia is chuckling into his beard. The late titan of tie-dye, whose love of the colourful T-shirt style became a sartorial trademark during his reign as frontman of the Grateful Dead, would surely be chuffed that hippie fashion, an oxymoron to the most stylish of snobs, is making a big comeback.
25 Brilliant Animated Short Movies
Thursday, March 27th, 200825 Brilliant Animated Short Movies | Monday Inspiration | Smashing Magazine
Beautiful animated short movies are excellent for tedious coffee breaks and uninspiring monday mornings. To put some beautiful story in a short 2-5 minutes sequence isn’t easy, but even in this case designers and artists are quite creative and manage to come up with very surprising and unusual results. The selection below is supposed to make you cry, laugh, feel bizarre or even shocked — in every case being absolutely smashed.
Wayang Wong Bharata survives on love, devotion
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008Wayang Wong Bharata survives on love, devotion | The Jakarta Post
The vast archipelagic nation of Indonesia is blessed with a wealth of indigenous cultures that stretch across from Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam to Papua. So diverse and various is Indonesian culture that the national slogan Bhinneka Tunggal Ika — “Unity in Diversity” — is an apt reflection of this plurality.One art form that is part of this richness is the wayang (traditional puppetry), influenced by Hinduism, and the history of which can be traced as far back as the 9th Century in Indonesia.
Strawberryfields forever! forever. forever.
Monday, March 17th, 2008TheStar.com | World | Paul McCartney’s ex awarded $48M
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LONDON–Paul McCartney was ordered Monday to pay Heather Mills $48.6 million (dollar figures U.S.) to settle their divorce.
The Business of the past: Artifacts from Asia
Saturday, January 26th, 2008More: Bangkok’s Independent Newspaper
A suspected smuggler allegedly boasted he had more items from the Ban Chiang area than Thailand itselfGovernment agents raided many museums in California on Friday in search of antiquities believed to have been illegally obtained and smuggled into the US from Thailand and China, Southeast countries including Thailand, the Guardian online reported.
National Center for the Performing Arts of China
Monday, December 24th, 2007National Center for the Performing Arts of China – China – Performing Arts – New York Times
Peter Parks/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Peter Parks/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
The new National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing is meant to establish a cultural core next to Tiananmen Square, a political center.
Vancouver Art Gallery taking steps to relocate
Sunday, November 25th, 2007globeandmail.com: Vancouver Art Gallery taking steps to relocate
Vancouver Art Gallery taking steps to relocateMARSHA LEDERMANVancouver — The Vancouver Art Gallery is preparing to pursue a move from its current building to a former bus-depot site a few blocks away.The VAG has been interested in the site at West Georgia and Cambie Streets, next to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, for some time and has now decided to pursue the parcel of city-owned land as its sole property of interest.
Sarbanes-Oxley affects Hawaii nonprofits big time
Sunday, November 25th, 2007starbulletin.com | Editorial | /2007/11/25/
Sarbanes-Oxley affects Hawaii nonprofits big time
As CEO of the University of Hawaii Foundation, one of the largest nonprofit organizations in Hawaii, Donna Vuchinich gets to rub shoulders with high-powered venture capitalists, real estate tycoons and other well-to-do donors. However, it’s not all about cultivating the rich and famous. In addition to poring over spreadsheets and communicating with her large board of trustees, Vuchinich is helping to oversee the Centennial campaign, the largest fund drive in the foundation’s history.
Painting for the ‘white man’
Friday, November 23rd, 2007FT.com / Arts & weekend / Collecting – Painting for the ‘white man’
It is not only the skyline that is changing fast in Shanghai. China’s economic miracle is also making itself felt in the country’s nascent art market and Shanghai is set to rival both Beijing and Hong Kong as the plum marketplace in 21st-century China.Europeans, if not yet the Chinese, have alighted on the city as the mainland venue for top-notch international art events. This autumn has seen a flurry of firsts. In September was the inaugural ShContemporary, China’s first truly international, modern and contemporary art fair, directed by Swiss dealer Pierre Huber and former Art Basel impresario Lorenzo Rudolf. In October came China’s first international art, antiques and jewellery fair, the creation of Shanghai-based Belgian Maximin Berko and Nicolo Mori, his Italian business partner. This was followed by the Shanghai eArts Festival, China’s first – and the world’s largest – festival dedicated to digital arts.
Oceanic Art and Native North American Art – Metropolitan Museum -
Friday, November 16th, 2007As an object of Western fascination Oceanic art has come a long way. Christian missionaries tried to eradicate it. Scientific explorers anthropologized it. Modern European artists mined it for new expressive possibilities, which led Western sophisticates to revere it as real art, worthy of the same appreciative attention they would pay to Rembrandt.
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