About twenty of Madison Wisconsin’s bluegrass musicians, as the collective Pickers’ Local 608, gathered at Audio For The Arts on Sunday, March 6th 2011, to record their own version of There Is Power In A Union, with special featured guest banjo man Bill Evans.
Archive of posts filed under the Current Affairs category.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: Royal Ballet Opera
Alice on Her Toes, at a Rare Tea Party By ROSLYN SULCAS Published: March 1, 2011 LONDON — How do you make a full-length story ballet in 2011? Christopher Wheeldon must have asked himself that as he prepared “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” his much hyped new full-length work for the Royal Ballet, set to a [...]
The Google Art Project
Definitely worth checking out The Google Art Project. It offers access to portions of the collections of 17 museums. Roberta Smith of the New York Times wrote a review today, here. The Wired Review is here.
D.C. Art & Science Evening Rendezvous
D.C. Art & Science Evening Rendezvous Feature presentations by Lee Boot, Carol Christian, Gunalan Nadarajan, and Thomas Skalak Wednesday, February 16, 2011, 6 p.m. Keck Center, 500 Fifth St., N.W., Room 100 Photo ID and reservations are required. No charge. Email cpnas@nas.edu or call 202-334-2415 More information
Farewell to Kodachrome
Eastman Kodak Co announced that the last rolls were hitting the shelves in June 2009. Kodachrome is the first successful color film and perhaps still the most beloved. Indeed, the end is at hand with the last lab in the world that processes the famed color film, Dwayne’s Photo in Parsons, Kansas, discontinuing its processing [...]
Scientists Discover New Ancient Human Species
Scientists say an entirely separate type of human identified from bones in Siberia co-existed and interbred with our own species. The ancient humans have been dubbed Denisovans after the caves in Siberia where their remains were found. Read more.
Art and Justice
As someone who once thought about becoming a lawyer, and turned to art instead, I am always intrigued by conjunctions of the two, so I was fascinated to discover that a book has just come out that examines the iconography of Lady Justice and her blindfold. Randy Kennedy’s review in the New York Times says [...]
Old Masters and Modern Science
I do not post as much as I would like to these days, but do feel compelled to note this recent review by Michael Kimmelman in today’s New York Times, titled Old Masters and Modern Science. It looks at an exhibition at the National Gallery in London about the chemistry of painting. According to Kimmelman, [...]
Ann: Illuminating the Science: Art and Climate Change
Thursday, April 22 at 3pm + 6:30 pm Martin E. Segal Theatre, Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Ave at 34th Street, New York City Free! First come, first served http://web.gc.cuny.edu/MESTC/events/s10/illuminating-science.html
Ann: MIT Sustainability Summit 2010: Mind the Gap: Collaborate and Communicate for a Sustainable World
The second annual MIT Sustainability Summit, titled “Mind the Gap: Collaborate and Communicate For a Sustainable World” will be held on April 23 in Microsoft New England Research and Development Center. This event will cap off the week-long celebration of the 40th anniversary of Earth Day at MIT. The theme of the Summit focuses on [...]
