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Passion flowers
Sun Art CriticThe delicate blossom of Schlumbergera, commonly known as the Christmas cactus, blooms once a year for just a day and a half. So when the plant in Bethesda artist Amy Lamb's home began to show signs of flowering re-cently, she got her camera ready. Lamb,...Tags: Arts, Biology, National Institutes of Health, Colleges and Universities, University of Michigan
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What Patti Smith and Neil Young won't be doing at BEA
Jacket CopyAn encore of the stunning 1996 performance by Neil Young and Patti Smith is probably too much to hope for from their upcoming discussion together at BEA.... -
BLOCK EVENTS HIGHLIGHT MUSEUM AS TEACHING, LEARNING TOOL Spring and summer activities celebrate Block’s collections and role at Northwestern
TribLocal - EvanstonEVANSTON, Ill. — Three new exhibitions and related educational programs at Northwestern University’s Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art this spring demonstrate the museum’s …... -
Museum of Contemporary Art looks back at the '80s
A group of young people clustered around a video monitor at the entrance to the Museum of Contemporary Art's survey of the art of the 1980s. Playing was "Wild Style," the rawest, coolest movie ever made about rap and graffiti. Charlie Ahearn shot it in...
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Pictures of a punk poet: Patti Smith's photographer tells story behind the still images
Lehigh Valley MusicIt was 1969 when Judy Linn, a recent college graduate fascinated with photography and living in New York City, met a struggling young poet. Linn says she was obsessed by the medium, and her new friend was obsessed with being...... -
Getty gets NEH grant to organize huge contemporary art archive
Culture MonsterThe Getty Research Institute has received a $230,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant to help it organize a huge archive on modern and contemporary art that it acquired last summer. The NEH announced $17 million in grants, including $1.4... -
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Helen Frankenthaler dies at 83; abstract painter
Helen Frankenthaler, a New York artist whose bursts of color achieved by pouring thinned paint onto canvas from coffee cans helped point art in fresh directions after the initial post-World War II explosion of Abstract Expressionism, has died. She was 83....Tags: Arts, Helen Frankenthaler, Obituaries, Museum of Modern Art, Culture
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Critic's Notebook: Patti Smith's 'Woolgathering'
Los Angeles Times Book CriticOne thing I've always admired about Patti Smith is her refusal to be characterized. Rocker, poet, artist, mother: She seems to inhabit each of these roles almost effortlessly, moving among them as if the only difference was in our heads. And why not?...Tags: Gravy, Sam Shepard, Poetry, Los Angeles Times, Artists
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Tribeca coin to 'Mapplethorpe': Projects selected for All Access program
Tribune Media ServicesA biopic of Robert Mapplethorpe, with James Franco attached to star, is among the in-development features to snag grants as part of the Tribeca Film Institute's All Access Program. Pic from writer-director Ondi Timoner is among the six narrative films...Tags: Movies, James Franco, Tribeca, FX Networks, LLC, TriBeCa Film Festival
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Chicago Cultural Center builds a morbid, intriguing cabinet of curiosities
You're going to die.
We're all going to die. Death is our common fate.
As novelist Chuck Palahniuk put it in "Fight Club," "On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero."
This universality of death — through centuries,...Tags: Arts, Music, Grateful Dead (music group), The Holocaust (1934-1945), Chicago Cultural Center
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Patti Smith's Photography Sets up a Visual Dialogue With Some of Her Biggest Influences
Patti Smith: Camera Solo
October 21 – February 19
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 600 Main Street, Hartford, (860) 278-2670, thewadsworth.org.
Rock-and-roll-band-fronting poet Patti Smith, who turns 65 at the end of the year, has been...Tags: Jean-Luc Godard, Arts, Broward Health, Poetry, Fine Arts
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