R-rated sculpture outside Hunter Museum, Chattanooga!
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:06:13 AM
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| One needs to be careful walking on the grounds outside the Hunter Museum in Chattanooga, Tennessee. This sculpture is of a very beautiful dancer cast out of metal....yet she is quite nude and very detailed. The Hunter Museum has a free audio recording which explains the art piece and the artist. I shot this myself earlier today with my new Ipad! |
New study shows architecture, arts degrees yield highest unemployment
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:06:13 AM
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| College kids may choose to spend their campus days studying the glories of Plato, Shakespeare and Le Corbusier. But, as a new study points out, there may be a steep price to pay. Recent college graduates with bachelor’s degrees in the arts, humanities and architecture experienced significantly higher rates of joblessness, according to a study being released Wednesday by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. Among recent college graduates, those with the highest rates of unemployment had undergraduate degrees in architecture (13.9 percent), the arts (11.1 percent) and the humanities (9.4 percent), according to the study. The recent... |
PHOTOS: Day bracketed by dramatic sunrise, sunset (Washington State)
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:06:13 AM
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| Tuesday was a day that started with a stunning sunrise, as seen above in this photo by Associated Press photographer Elaine Thompson. The day was bracketed with another stunning display of color at sunset, courtesy of our dryer than usual December. Rain is expected to return later in the week. |
God Bless the USA - Lee Greenwood 9/11 Tribute
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:06:13 AM
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| Great Lee Greenwood Tribute with some 9/11 stills. |
Milky-way-spins-around-mount-rainier-in-time-lapse-video
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:06:13 AM
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| Photographer Don Jensen is on a roll with Mount Rainier. Last week, he brought us this time-lapse video of stars circling the mountain, and now he’s taking his work one step further. |
Obama's Ministers of Culture and Agitprop
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:06:13 AM
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| Immediately after President Obama took office, his Hollywood benefactors clamored for the creation of a "Secretary of Culture." Tinseltown was disappointed with the administration's crony arts czar choice (Chicago lawyer Kareem Dale), but left-wing artists and entertainers have now been mollified. Instead of one government-supported arts czar, the White House has designated an entire herd of them. On Tuesday, as part of Obama's "Winning the Future" initiative, the president designated members of the liberal activist group Creative Coalition as official "America's Champions of Change for the Arts." This is the latest in a series of "public engagement" efforts overseen by... |
NEA to Develop 'Logic Model' to Help Weigh the Worthiness of the Arts
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:06:13 AM
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| The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has plans to develop a "logic model and measurement framework" that supposedly will help it weigh the impact of art on society and, presumably, when, why, and how that impact affects governmental funding of the arts. Here's an excerpt from the Statement of Work governing the project, which NEA intends to outsource to a "capable" contractor. "SECTION B SUPPLIES/SERVICES AND PRICES B.1 GENERAL Historically, generations of artists, philosophers, and social science researchers have struggled to define the role and impact of art in terms of public value. They have asked questions as fundamental... |
Wisconsin Budget Panel Votes To Cut Arts Funding 66 Percent (Dems: "cynical attack on the arts")
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:06:13 AM
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| MADISON, Wis. -- The Legislature's budget-writing committee has voted to cut state funding for the arts by 66 percent. Gov. Scott Walker had proposed cutting funding for the Wisconsin Arts Board by 73 percent. The Joint Finance Committee voted Thursday to restore about $350,000 of the cut with taxpayer money if federal matching funds are available. Total money for the arts would drop from $1.6 million a year to $535,000. The committee also agreed with Walker's recommendation that the independent board be made a part of the state Tourism Department. Democrats railed against the proposal, saying there was no justification... |
Philadelphia Orchestra filing for bankruptcy (to escape union contracts)
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:06:13 AM
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| (CBS/AP) The world-renowned Philadelphia Orchestra, long considered one of the best in the nation, will be filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection - an apparent first in recent history for a major U.S. orchestra. |
Best! Oscar! Ever!
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:06:13 AM
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| Every year since 1929, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has crowned the year’s finest film. But which is the greatest Best Picture winner of all time? We entered the past 72 title-holders — beginning with 1938’s “You Can’t Take It With You” and ending with 2009’s “The Hurt Locker” — into a March Madness-style tournament, adjudicated by Post film critics Lou Lumenick and Kyle Smith. |
WikiLeaks reportedly gets info on ‘pillars of society’
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:06:13 AM
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| Former Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer on Monday gave WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange data on about 2,000 clients that he contends may have evaded taxes, published reports said. At a press conference in London, Elmer told reporters about 40 politicians and “pillars of society” were among the individuals he gave Assange information on, the reports said. Elmer told The Observer newspaper during the weekend that the individuals named in the data include “business people, politicians, people who have made their living in the arts and multinational conglomerates — from both sides of the Atlantic.” Elmer once headed the Cayman Islands office... |
Denis Dutton, RIP (Arts & Letters Daily Editor)
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:06:13 AM
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| Arts & Letters' founder/editor/curator was Denis Dutton, who died on Tuesday from cancer at the age of 66. He was the scion of the Dutton publishing family, a Californian who had moved to New Zealand to be a professor of philosophy and aesthetics at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch.* I traded e-mails with Denis, then joined him for lunch when he next passed through Manhattan. He was unlike anyone I'd ever met. Denis was a very sly, very funny, supereducated, and widely allusive lunch companion. . . . . . Still, it was not tough to discern, even if... |
Public broadcasting on the chopping block in Virginia
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:06:13 AM
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| Sesame Street residents, beware. State funding for public broadcasting is again on the chopping block in the package of budget amendments Gov. Bob McDonnell plans to submit to the General Assembly for consideration in 2011. The governor is proposing a $2 million reduction in the next fiscal year and a full phase-out by the close of the following year to save $4 million, according to administration figures. McDonnell included public broadcasting funding cuts in budget amendments he submitted to the legislature in the spring as part of a four-year plan to eliminate state support. They were rejected. While the governor... |
Can Conservatives Win Back the Arts? (American values are coming back into the culture)
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:06:13 AM
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| Despite the Left’s best efforts, conservative and American values are coming back into the culture. After years of declaiming against the Left’s domination of our culture, I’m startled and delighted to discover that the tide is beginning to turn. My fellow conservatives should take note and lend a hand. For the last three decades or so, the usual conservative approach to the arts has been threefold: We complain about what’s being produced; we fret about the influence it will have; then we give up with a shrug. We complain because it seems to us the anti-American Left has made of... |
Naked Men in National Museums
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:06:13 AM
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| What in the name of Gilbert Stuart is going on at the National Portrait Gallery? A week ago, CNSNews' Penny Starr reignited the culture war with an arresting story about the staid old museum that began thus: "The federally funded National Portrait Gallery, one of the museums of the Smithsonian Institution, is currently showing an exhibition that features images of an ant-covered Jesus, male genitalia, naked brothers kissing, men in chains, Ellen DeGeneres grabbing her breasts and a painting the Smithsonian itself describes in the show's catalog as 'homoerotic.'" Film of the crucifix with ants crawling on Jesus is from... |
Smithsonian Christmas-Season Exhibit Features Ant-Covered Jesus, Naked Brothers Kissing...
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:06:13 AM
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| FULL TITLE: Smithsonian Christmas-Season Exhibit Features Ant-Covered Jesus, Naked Brothers Kissing, Genitalia, and Ellen DeGeneres Grabbing Her Breasts The federally funded National Portrait Gallery, one of the museums of the Smithsonian Institution, is currently showing an exhibition that features images of an ant-covered Jesus, male genitals, naked brothers kissing, men in chains, Ellen DeGeneres grabbing her breasts, and a painting the Smithsonian itself describes in the show's catalog as "homoerotic." “This is an exhibition that displays masterpieces of American portraiture and we wanted to illustrate how questions of biography and identity went into the making of images that are canonical,”... |
SanFran/NEA Stimulus Success Story of the Day!
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:06:13 AM
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| San Francisco/NEA Stimulus Success Story of the Day: #1 of 37Today's Profile: Alonzo King LINES BalletAccording to CNSNews.com:CNSNews.com presents this week’s “Golden Hookah” to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for distributing $1.4 million in special economic “stimulus” grants to 37 “arts” organizations located in the City of San Francisco.Money for the grants was slipped into the $787-billion economic "stimulus" law that President Barack Obama signed in February 2009.While the NEA says the grants were awarded on the basis of artistic merit and excellence--and that political affiliation was in no way a part of the selection process--"arts" groups in... |
Video: The Golden Hookah Award: 37 'Arts' Organizations in San Francisco Got $1.4 Million...
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:06:13 AM
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| Complete title: The Golden Hookah Award: 37 'Arts' Organizations in San Francisco Got $1.4 Million in Federal 'Stimulus' Money Golden Hookah Award CNSNews.com presents this week’s “Golden Hookah” to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for distributing $1.4 million in special economic “stimulus” grants to 37 “arts” organizations located in the City of San Francisco.Money for the grants was slipped into the $787-billion economic "stimulus" law that President Barack Obama signed in February 2009.While the NEA says the grants were awarded on the basis of artistic merit and excellence--and that political affiliation was in no way a part of the... |
Idaho group honors Borglum, sculptor and Klansman
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:06:13 AM
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| BOISE, Idaho • A private group that drew attention in 2007 by naming U.S. Sen. Larry Craig to its “Idaho’s Hall of Fame” amid furor over his sex-sting arrest has elevated Mount Rushmore sculptor and Ku Klux Klan member Gutzon Borglum to its 2010 class of honorees. Borglum, born in Idaho Territory in 1867, chiseled heads of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt into South Dakota’s Black Hills. In the 1920s, he was also in the Klan. Recently, America has been debating the ambiguous legacy of another ex-Klansman, U.S. Sen. Robert Byrd, a West Virginia Democrat... |
Saturday morning fun: Design your own Arts and Crafts tile!
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:06:13 AM
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| Create your own designs inspired by the tiles of William de Morgan. Save your finished design in the gallery, print it, and send it to friends. From Wiki: William Frend De Morgan (16 November 1839 – 15 January 1917) was an English potter and tile designer. A life-long friend of William Morris, he designed tiles, stained glass and furniture for Morris & Co. from 1863 to 1872. His tiles are often based on medieval designs or Persian patterns, and he experimented with innovative glazes and firing techniques. Galleons and fish were popular motifs, as were "fantastical" birds and other animals.... |
Emporio Armani S/S 2010 Jewellery
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:06:13 AM
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| Famed Italian fashion house Giorgio Armani’s young, urban upscale label Emporio Armani shines brightly with their S/S 2010 collection of bright, big and blingy jewelry and chunky accessories for women. You are making a bold, glittery and identifiable statement my friend, if you’re wearing an expensive Emporio Armani. |
Art and the Christian
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:06:13 AM
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God, the Creator, a lover of the beauty in His created world, invited Adam, one of His creatures, to share in the process of "creation" with Him. He has permitted humans to take the elements of His cosmos and create new arrangements with them. Perhaps this explains the reason why creating anything is so fulfilling to us. We can express a drive within us which allows us to do something all humans uniquely share with their Creator. God has thus placed before the human race a banquet table rich with aesthetic delicacies. He has supplied the basic ingredients, inviting those...
James Cameron Talks About the Future of 3D!
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:06:13 AM
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| Fox Entertainment held a special session at the World Economic Forum in Davos with James Cameron, director of Avatar. Clips of the movie were shown and James talked about the making of the film. Here, he answers the questions: How did you make a 3D movie, and what is the future of 3D? James has "greyed out" a bit! http://www.economicvindicator.com/2010/02/james-cameron-talks-about-future-of-3d.html |
Priest uses his talent for unusual mission
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:06:13 AM
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| POMONA, Calif. | There's no steeple out front, no rows of pews inside, not even so much as a crucifix on display. Still, this cramped little art studio in the middle of what, until not very long ago, was a street with as many broken dreams as it has potholes, is the closest thing to paradise that the Rev. Bill Moore has found. It's the place where the 60-year-old Catholic priest serves God by creating abstract paintings that he sells by the hundreds. No ordinary preacher, the man known as Father Bill throughout Pomona's fledgling arts district long ago... |
Man says wife can beat him each week
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:06:13 AM
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| Man says wife can beat him each week Li Xinran A. MAN with a violent wife has taken the unusual step of signing an agreement with her that allows his spouse to beat him once a week. Zhang, 32, said his wife Chen, who is skilled in martial arts, frequently beats him during disputes over petty things such as who will wash the dishes, Chongqing Evening News reported yesterday. Both Zhang, a photographer, and Chen want the marriage to continue and have sought a way to end her violent tirades. "I don't want to beat him very often, but I... |
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