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Gregg Chadwick "La Palabra en el Tiempo" (The word in time) 48"x48" oil on linen 2005

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A ray of light that stabbed like an arrow Drawing and text / Rikuo Fukamachi August 6, 1945 Approx. 2,200m from the hypocenter Ushita-machi (now, Ushita-minami 1-chome) "A tremendous flash of light stabbed like an arrow yet filled every space. I was in the entrance hall, just about to leave the house. The blast blew me, the house, the walls, and all our furniture away. I lost consciousness and lay buried under the rubble until I heard my mother's voice calling me." Child's skeleton in the rubble Drawings and text / Tomiko Ikeshoji (Kubo) August 7, 1945 Approx. 1,500m from the hypocenter Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital Senda-machi 1-chome "In the ruins of a private home outside the hospital grounds, I found the skeleton of a child. At that instant, mysteriously I saw on those bones the cute face of a child. It was a face without injury, without suffering, the face of a first or second grader. I was overwhelmed. Why was such a child here? Yet I never even shed any tea...

ARTIST FOCUS GROUPS for the MINETA SAN JOSE AIRPORT PUBLIC ART ACTIVATION Three meeting dates/times/locations to choose from: Tuesday, August 9, 2005 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. San José Museum of Art, 110 South Market Street, San José Saturday, August 13, 2005 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. New Langton Arts, 1246 Folsom Street, San Francisco Monday, August 15, 2005 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Works/San José Gallery, 30 North 3rd Street, San José The Mineta San José International Airport Public Art Master Plan creates a framework for a unified program of Art & Technology that will identify San José as a diverse global center for innovation and change. Gorbet+Banerjee, a multi-disciplinary artist team was selected as the Arts Activation Team to identify sites and design appropriate infrastructure (platforms) to accommodate the Airport Public Art Program. The initial phase of their design process is to meet with the regional arts community in a series of meetings to inform the design of ...

Thanks to Zeke , an Art Bloggers Conference will be included in Artivistic , an international art conference set for September in Montreal. From the Artivistic Website: "Artivistic :an international transdisciplinary event on the interplay between art, information and activism that will take place September 22 to 24, 2005, in Montreal QC (Canada). Integrating performances, exhibitions, interventions, workshops and panels by diverse practitioners and theorists in a multilingual setting, Artivistic is part of an evolving landscape of inclusive events which celebrate the power of engaged art as a catalyst for positive change. The event aims to promote open transdisciplinary + intercultural dialogue and research on activist art, to create and facilitate a human network of diverse peoples, and to inspire, proliferate, activate."

"Rue Mosnier with Flags" Édouard Manet 25 3/4 x 31 3/4 in. oil on canvas 1878 On a day of national celebration in France, the Getty Museum's collection of French paintings provides a link to Paris. The AP reports today that Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the guest of honor, joined French President Jacques Chirac on the official reviewing stand at the Place de la Concorde to view the Bastille Day Parade. Brazilian President Silva was invited to the observances as part of "the year of Brazil in France," which aims to promote economic and cultural ties between the two countries. After the parade finished, Chirac and Silva stood at attention outside the presidential Elysee Palace as sirens sounded across Paris to observe two minutes of silence in solidarity with London. Manet's "Rue Mosnier" was painted two years before July 14th was declared the French national holiday in 1880. The holiday is known as the Fête Nationale in France and ...

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