by | Feb 13, 2009 | Culture Music Art
from AP via Google News Gabriel pulls out of Oscars over 65-second limit 32 minutes ago LOS ANGELES (AP) — Peter Gabriel’s minute in the Oscars spotlight will lack one important element: Peter Gabriel. The Academy Award-nominated singer won’t perform at...
by | Feb 13, 2009 | Culture Music Art
from the LA Times Nutty for Nutella: spreadable joy Robert Gauthier, Los Angeles Times SLATHER IT ON: Homemade hazelnut-chocolate spread. The Italian chocolate and hazelnut spread has its devoted fans. By Amy Scattergood February 11, 2009 Do a Google search for...
by | Feb 13, 2009 | Culture Music Art
from the Arizona Republic Gandhi’s eyeglasses to be auctioned in NYC 3 commentsFeb. 12, 2009 11:48 AMAssociated Press NEW YORK – Mahatma Gandhi’s (Ma-hot-ma Gand-hee’s) distinctive wire-frame eyeglasses, a pair of worn leather sandals and an...
by | Feb 12, 2009 | Culture Music Art
from the NY Times Art in Two Germanys Often Spoke the Same Tongue Hans Grundig Estate and Vg Bild-Kunst, Bonn/Artists Rights Society “To the Victims of Fascism (Second Version),” a work from the late 1940s by Hans Grundig. More Photos> By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN...
by | Feb 10, 2009 | Culture Music Art
from the NY Observer The 20th Century’s Vermeer, or a Masturbatory Hack? Ignored by the academy, scorned by knife-wielding critics, Pierre Bonnard gets the last laugh BY MARIO NAVES The old man faces us, naked from the waist up. His bald head, covered in shadow...
by | Feb 8, 2009 | Culture Music Art
from the NY Times Nothing comes from nowhere, least of all art. Every body of work has its points of origin, its logic of personal urgency and cultural impetus, the coordinates of which are often found in an artist’s childhood. Sometimes the logic eludes us....
