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Krazy Kat Caught in an Alley by Kent Chadwick: New Poem Published in Pontoon by Floating Bridge Review

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Krazy Kat caught in an alley  By Kent Chadwick                         ________                         ________                         ___   ___             Krazy Kat Caught in an alley                         caterwauling             night in Garwood                         New Jersey      ...

Defending the Muse: Michael Stein and Paul Georges

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Paul Georges The Studio 120”x79 1/2” oil on canvas 1965 The Whitney Museum Collection, New York Courtesy Paul Georges Estate Michael Stein's new novel "The Rape of the Muse" ponders the worth of art and the place of beauty in our contemporary society. Stein's re-imagining of painter Paul Georges' trial for libel in 1980 updates the events to the 21st century and fleshes out the characters with a post September 11th ennui. When Georges' trial took place in 1980, the Neo-Expressionist boom in art was just beginning. Emotional, brightly colored paintings using the figure as a theme filled galleries in New York and Europe. In that time Paul Georges’ artwork was included in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum in New York, the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. But still, Georges was an outsider looking in on an art world that often considered narrative painting to be atavistic at best - reactionary at worst. Paul Georges ...

Theater of Memory: New Exhibit Opens October 4, 2011 at the Monterey Peninsula College Art Gallery

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Gregg Chadwick Theater of Memory 48"x48" oil on canvas 2011 Theater of Memory New Paintings by Gregg Chadwick Curated by Melissa Pickford Monterey Peninsula College Art Gallery Opening on October 4, 2011 Runs until November 4, 2011 One could say we all create paintings as we distill meaning from the rush of life. Experiences, moments, thoughts, actions, memories, and dreams mix together and overlap in our minds and hearts bringing patterns and understanding in our everyday life. My paintings in the exhibit, Theater of Memory at the Monterey Peninsula College Art Gallery, echo this cognitive-emotional process. My artworks evolve through a series of painting sessions in which colors and images overlap, merge, and flow. At times, my paintings begin close to home with remembered dreams of family members. In the title painting, Theater of Memory , my much loved late nephew Luke Chadwick appeared unbidden, but at the perfect moment. His faint smile recalled a day ...

Memo From David Axelrod: Obama in good position for 2012 with liberal base, electorate

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TO: Sunday Show Producers FR: David Axelrod, Senior Strategist Public polling released this week makes clear that Americans strongly agree with the President’s plan to create jobs and provide economic security for the middle class and believe that leaders in both parties should move quickly to pass the American Jobs Act. Members of the media have focused on the President’s approval ratings as if they existed in a black box. Following the intransigence of the Republicans during the debt debate, the approval rating of the GOP brand dropped to a historic low. The approval rating of Congress dropped to a near historic low. Americans are still dealing with the impact of the financial crisis and recession and the long-term economic trends that have seen wages stagnate for many, and that is manifested in their anger towards Washington. There’s no doubt that Americans are calling on leaders in Washington to take immediate action to address their economic challenges -- exactly what the ...

James Turrell: Present Tense - Opens on Thursday, September 15, 2011 at the Kayne Griffin Corcoran Gallery in Santa Monica

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James Turrell at Kayne Griffin Corcoran In 1966, James Turrell began experimenting with light at Santa Monica's Mendota Hotel, which he used as his visual laboratory. Turrell covered the windows, leaving slits that allowed prescribed amounts of light from the street outside to shine through the openings. After these experiments Turrell expanded his work, using halogen projectors to beam light across darkened rooms. From a distance the projected shapes appeared solid, but as viewers moved closer the numinous forms vanished revealing nothing more than light cast against flat walls. Two of these Cross-­‐Corner Projections, Carn White (1967) and Phantom Blue (1968), will be included in James Turrell: Present Tense. which opens tomorrow - Thursday, September 15, 2011 at the Kayne Griffin Corcoran Gallery in Santa Monica. James Turrell: Present Tense is part of Pacific Standard Time , which documents the Los Angeles art scene from 1945-1980. Pacific Standard Time is an unprecede...

The Birth of the L.A. Art World: Pacific Standard Time 1945-1980

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Ed Ruscha Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas 64.5" x 121.75" oil on canvas 1963 Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire © Ed Ruscha Opening this month in Southern California are a series of art exhibitions, Pacific Standard Time , documenting the Los Angeles art scene from 1945-1980. Pacific Standard Time is an unprecedented collaboration of more than sixty cultural institutions across Southern California. Initiated through grants from the Getty Foundation, Pacific Standard Time will take place for six months until April 2011. In a Teaser for Pacific Standard Time , Anthony Kiedis from the Red Hot Chili Peppers Takes Artist Ed Ruscha for a Ride The Getty Museum's comphrehensive exhibit of the period, Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950-1970 , opens on October 1, 2011. More at: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950-1970

You Can't Blow Out a Fire: The Life and Death of Steve Biko

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Peter Gabriel and Youssou N'Dour Perform Gabriel's Song Biko at Friends United Against Malaria - Genève, Switzerland on 08/10/2005. Today, September 12, 2011, on the anniversary of Steve Biko's death at the hands of the South African security police, I reflect on the impact Mr. Biko had on South Africa and the world. I stand with Artists for a New South Africa and proclaim, "Biko lives on!" On September 12,1977 Steve Biko died in in police custody in South Africa. The leader of the black consciousness movement in South Africa, Steve Biko, was 30 years old. Mr Biko had been in custody since August 18, 1977. He was the 20th person to die in custody during an 18 month stretch in 1976-1977. Steve Biko left a wife and two children. Steve Biko's Biography Steve Biko was born in South Africa in 1946. He became active in the anti-apartheid movement in 1960s when he was studying medicine at the University of Natal. Steve Biko organized the South Africa...