from: Mike Brenner
www.nytimes.com
Even as the economy limps along, more of the nation’s wealthier families are cutting out the car ride and chartering planes to fly to summer camps.
Monday, July 25, 2011
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Putting Ai Weiwei in perspective, the MAM panel - Art City
From: Mary-Louise Schumacher
Putting Ai Weiwei in perspective, the MAM panel - Art City
It was telling that it was the political science professor and not the art experts who best articulated the meaning of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's detention at a recent panel discussion at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
See also:
See also:
- Panel Discussion: Ai Weiwei: The Collision of Art ...
- China and Taiwan Reunite Painting
- Ai Weiwei, Freed Chinese Artist, Said to Be Back a...
- Ai Weiwei accepts visiting lecturer position at Be...
- Ai Weiwei's sister gives details of his confinemen...
- seems like Berlin is the place to be (at least for...
- more "dissidents" heading to Germany...
- two very smart, very perceptive, but opposing view...
- more on Milwaukee's Summer of China from Thirdcoas...
- contemporary Chinese art lecture TONIGHT!
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Urge Members of Congress to Support the NEA
Federal: Urge Members of Congress to Support the NEA capwiz.com
The Americans for the Arts Action Center provides you all the one-click tools, tips and information you need to voice your support for more culture in our communities, more arts education in our schools, and more arts in our daily lives.
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
more on Milwaukee's Summer of China from Thirdcoast Digest
Milwaukee Art Museum's Grinning Chinese Warriors | ThirdCoast Digestthirdcoastdigest.com
Yue Minjun's large-scale work is witty, visceral and political.
Art, politics, China and Ai Weiwei : A panel discussion at MAM | ThirdCoast Digestthirdcoastdigest.com
A vast China show at the Milwaukee Art Museum | ThirdCoast Digest
As the Milwaukee Art Museum runs a major show of Chinese art, a daring artist collides with a totalitarian state.
A vast China show at the Milwaukee Art Museum | ThirdCoast Digestthirdcoastdigest.com
A once-in-a-lifetime convergence of Chinese art from the Forbidden City and beyond.
World’s Biggest Contemporary Art Buyer? Qatar!
Shocker of the Day: Qatar World’s Biggest Contemporary Art Buyer
You may know Qatar as the home of Al Jazeera but this small kingdom in the Persian Gulf is a major contemporary art buyer, according to Art Newspaper.
see also: more on Qatar as the world’s biggest contemporary art buyer - from Art Kuwait
hyperallergic.com
You may know Qatar as the home of Al Jazeera but this small kingdom in the Persian Gulf is a major contemporary art buyer, according to Art Newspaper.
see also: more on Qatar as the world’s biggest contemporary art buyer - from Art Kuwait
two very smart, very perceptive, but opposing views on the new China
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| Wang Qingsong, Requesting Buddha No. 1, 1999. |
Counterpoint - Debunking Myths About China ... - New York Times
18 Jul 2011 – Hypotheses that do not stand up to facts and yet still dominate people's consciousness are harmful.
China will NEVER be the next global Superpower
China: The Next Superpower? By. Lior Paritzky. – July 20, 2011 ... A general feeling around the world that China will be the next global superpower is ...
Before they collide in nearly a million years, two newfound stars may offer insight into supernovae and Einstein's gravity.
news.nationalgeographic.com
When two such massive objects are whirling around each other, they stir up the space-time fabric, creating ripples like those made by a stone thrown into a pond. As these ripples, called gravitational waves, are produced, the star pair loses some of its energy, causing their orbits to slowly shrink.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Artist Wangechi Mutu: 'My lab is the female body'
Artist Wangechi Mutu: 'My lab is the female body'
edition.cnn.com
Merging magazine cutouts, painted objects and even motorbike parts, Kenyan artist Wangechi Mutu creates layered images of fantastical figures, transforming the female form into something both powerful and primal.
more "dissidents" heading to Germany...
Iran arrests dissident actor and blogger
Monday, July 18, 2011
Egypt's "the real Indiana Jones" Fired!
CAIRO -- Egypt's antiquities minister, whose trademark Indiana Jones hat made him one the country's best known figures around the world, was fired Sunday after months of pressure from critics who attacked his credibility and accused him of having been too close to the regime of ousted President Hosni Mubarak.
Sunday, July 17, 2011
seems like Berlin is the place to be (at least for China's dissident writers and artists)
Ai Weiwei Hoping to Teach in Berlin; Liao Yiwu “Ecstatic” to Be There (Updated) | China Digital Time
chinadigitaltimes.net
Ai Weiwei has accepted a position as visiting lecturer at the Berlin University of Arts. The conditions of his release, however, forbid travel outside Beijing for a one-year period, and it is therefore unclear whether or when he will be able to start....
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Ai Weiwei's sister gives details of his confinement
Dissident artist who was released last month after 81 days in a Beijing jail on tax evasion charges, spent his days of confinement in a tiny room with only a bed for furniture, and two police officers who closely monitored his every gesture.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Ai Weiwei accepts visiting lecturer position at Berlin's University of the Arts.
Ai Weiwei Accepts Job Offer At Berlin's University Of The Arts www.huffingtonpost.com
BERLIN — A German university says recently released Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has accepted an offer to join the Berlin institution as a visiting lecturer. Berlin's University of Arts said Wednesday it was unclear when Ai will be able to start in his new position due to his legal troubles in China.
BERLIN — A German university says recently released Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has accepted an offer to join the Berlin institution as a visiting lecturer. Berlin's University of Arts said Wednesday it was unclear when Ai will be able to start in his new position due to his legal troubles in China.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Ai Weiwei, Freed Chinese Artist, Said to Be Back at Work
A Swiss gallery owner who represents Ai Weiwei that the artist is creating art again though he cannot meet with journalists to discuss it because of the conditions of his release.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
China and Taiwan Reunite Painting
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| The bulk of the artworks in the National Palace Museum, Taipei are from 2,972 crates of shipped artifacts that once made up the imperial collections of the Forbidden City, Beijing |
China and Taiwan Reunite Painting - NYTimes.com
By ANDREW JACOBS (NYT)The reunification of an ancient painting at a museum in Taiwan has become a metaphor for the possibility of reconciliation between the two countries.
Link to the website (which was very difficult to find) on the exhibit: Landscape Reunited
Panel Discussion: Ai Weiwei: The Collision of Art and Politics
www.mam.org
Join Melissa Chiu from the Asia Society, New York, Kathryn Kanjo from the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Barrett L. McCormick from Marquette University, and Brady Roberts from the Milwaukee Art Museum as they discuss issues surrounding art and politics, including the recent situation with contemporary Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.
Lubar Auditorium
Free with Museum admission
Closing The Hedge Fund Manager Tax Loophole Would Raise $4 Billion Annually From The 25 Richest Managers
This is a no-brainer. The top 25 hedge fund managers earned a total of $22 billion a year and are taxed at a lower rate—costing the government $4 billion—because the money is treated as capital gains, not income.
During the negotiations regarding raising the nation’s debt ceiling, congressional Republicans have gone to the mat to defend all manner of unwarranted tax breaks, including those for oil companies and corporate jet owners. Despite the drain on the Treasury caused by these tax breaks — and the negligible benefit they provide — Republicans have threatened to allow the nation to default on its obligations rather than abandon them...
Closing The Hedge Fund Manager Tax Loophole Would Raise $4 Billion ...
 | Think Progress In fact, according to calculation by RJ Eskow, closing this loophole would raise more than $4 billion per year just from the 25 richest hedge fund managers: ... |
During the negotiations regarding raising the nation’s debt ceiling, congressional Republicans have gone to the mat to defend all manner of unwarranted tax breaks, including those for oil companies and corporate jet owners. Despite the drain on the Treasury caused by these tax breaks — and the negligible benefit they provide — Republicans have threatened to allow the nation to default on its obligations rather than abandon them...
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
NYTimes review of Milwaukee-based Tyson Reeder's exhibit
"Milwaukee-based art-world multitasker
TYSON REEDER
For his first New York solo show in five years, Tyson Reeder focuses on paintings of heads and landscapes at Daniel Reich.
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