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Great Read on Getty Museum's Blog "The Iris" -Looking at a Painting as a Conservator

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Fascinating Article - Looking at a Painting as a Conservator https:// shar.es/1tUy0E   via @ thegetty

EL VY - Return to the Moon (Political Song for Didi Bloome to Sing, with...

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World Elephant Day

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RT @ NatGeo In honor of # WorldElephantDay , a gallery of the beloved animals in the wild: http:// on.natgeo.com/1J36JR3  

Jersey Rain

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Jersey Rain  by  gregg   chadwick Via Flickr: Gregg Chadwick 30"x40" oil on linen 2015   Inspired by Robert Pinsky and Robert Chadwick  JERSEY RAIN by  Robert Pinsky Now near the end of the middle stretch of road What have I learned? Some earthly wiles. An art. That often I cannot tell good fortune from bad, That once had seemed so easy to tell apart. The source of art and woe aslant in wind Dissolves or nourishes everything it touches. What  roadbank  gullies and ruts it doesn’t  mend It carves  the deeper , boiling tawny in ditches. It spends  itself regardless  into the ocean. It stains and scours and makes things dark or bright: Sweat of the moon, a shroud of benediction, The chilly liquefaction of day to night, The Jersey rain, my rain, soaks all as one: It smites Metuchen, Rahway, Saddle River, Fair Haven, Newark, Little Silver, Bayonne. I feel it churning even in fair weather To craze distincti...

Basque Ghosts: A Review of Gabriel Urza’s First Novel — ”All That Followed”

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by Gregg Chadwick Author Gabriel Urza’s family has roots in Spain’s Basque region. His new novel “All That Followed” http://amzn.to/2eyXpMY shows us the faces of civil wars — the Spanish Civil War of the 1930's, the Basque separatist movement, and the small wars that families and couples often find themselves fighting. Urza recounts a fictional tale based on real events that explores the kidnapping and killing of a young politician by even younger separatists in the late 1990s. Urza limns a town where everyone knows where bullet holes were left by Franco’s murderous thugs decades before. Ghosts of the murdered seem to arrive in the slanted rain —  txirimiri in Basque. In a Rashomon like retelling of the politician’s murder, three disparate voices speak in alternating chapters: Joni, an aging American expat teacher. Mariana, the victim’s young wife. And Iker, a student activist turned abductor. Joni and Mariana’s pain and loss are balanced with Iker’s hunger for ...

The Golden Ratio in Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Frescoes

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A fascinating new study by Brazilian researchers* entitled "More Than A Neuroanatomical Representation in The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo Buonarroti, A Representation of the Golden Ratio" presents a compelling look at Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel frescoes. (*DEIVIS DE CAMPOS, TAIS MALYSZ, JO~AO ANTONIO BONATTO-COSTA, GERALDO PEREIRA JOTZ, LINO PINTO DE OLIVEIRA JUNIOR, ANDANDREA OXLEY DA ROCHA) "We report our use of Image Pro Plus Software 6.0 to demonstrate mathematical evidence that Michelangelo painted “The Creation of Adam” using the Divine Proportion/Golden Ratio (G R) (1.6). The GR is classically associated with greater structural efficiency and is found in biological structures and works of art by renowned artists. Thus, according to the evidence shown in this article, we can suppose that the beauty and harmony recognized in all Michelangelo’s works may not be based solely on his knowledge of human anatomical proportions, but that the artist also pro...

Santa Monica Art Studios Face Drastic Rent Hikes

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Santa Monica cultural groups feel squeeze from airport rent hikes http:// fw.to/ef2ByTh   # SantaMonicaArtStudios # Home