Pre-Drip Pollock

from The New York Times Jackson Pollock, Before the Drip “Mural,” his largest painting, is back in New York for the first time in 20 years, at the Guggenheim. By Jason Farago Jackson Pollock’s 20-foot-wide “Mural”(1943), originally commissioned by Peggy Guggenheim and...

Go Or No Halo

from WaPo via Greenwich Time Amazon’s new health band is the most invasive tech we’ve ever tested by Geoffrey A. Fowler and Heather Kelly, The Washington Post Amazon has a new health-tracking bracelet with a microphone and an app that tells you everything...

No Stream – CD

from The New York Times No, I Am Not Getting Rid of My Thousands of CDs Our chief classical music critic writes in praise of going to a shelf, pulling out a recording and sitting down to listen. By Anthony Tommasini Credit… By Javier Jaén In the late 1970s, when...

Dylan Catalog Sold

from AP The Dylan catalog, a 60-year rock ‘n’ roll odyssey, is sold  By DAVID BAUDER NEW YORK (AP) — Bob Dylan has sold publishing rights to his catalog of more than 600 songs, one of the greatest treasures in popular music, to the Universal Music Publishing...

Ikea Catalog Gone

from Business Insider via MSN Ikea is getting rid of its iconic catalog, one of the most popular books in the world, ending a 70-year print run insider@insider.com (Grace Dean) After almost 70 years, Swedish furniture giant Ikea is scrapping its iconic catalog. The...