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Guess what – The NY Times Looks For New Culture Editor according to Nikki Finke, in the Deadline Hollywood Daily blog.
There’s so many things going on in New York, it can be challenging to keep up and while the NY Times has some of the best coverage – I think it misses a lot [...]

MICHAEL KIMMELMAN muses on why visitors to the Louvre, or any modern museum, don’t look at the Art, anymore, they just snap a picture.    By the way, I do tend to stop and look and would rather take in a place the the Louvre, in several visits – trying to see it all at [...]

Got this from Amy Crehore’s blog

Most of the galleries shown here I’ve been to at some point over the last two years – but I’m wondering if the Art Market is going to stay depressed for a while – while those that still have disposable income could afford and get better deals now (recent [...]

Maybe it missed me, till today, but Bauhaus movement is 90 years old – see Smashing Magazine’s 90 years of Bauhaus Celebrated.

Sounds like Berlin is where people are going to be celebrating Bauhaus but there’s actually a lot of it in New York, though I’m surprised there doesn’t appear to be a major exhibition [...]

I went to this show of J. Wales Wilson for the photos of Turkey that were taken around the time a friend of mine, Nancy Hoffman, lived there, in the late 1980’s.
The other  reason I went – recently saw Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul at the Metropolitan and was hungry for more [...]

Just read the Louvre Online to Open Database in English for those of us that don’t read or speak French.  According to the New York Times ArtsBeat blog post:
On Wednesday, the museum plans to announce that it will make an English-language version of its online database available on its Web site, louvre.fr, starting Thursday. [...]

Having read the New York Times article tonight -  For Annie Leibovitz, a Fuzzy Financial Picture i’m reminded of Michael Jackson’s financial troubles (mainly self inflicted) and, hard times befall even the most successful artists, and this is a complicated story that leaves as  much unsaid, as what it says.
“…On July 29, Ms. Leibovitz was [...]

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There’s so much going on in New York City it’s hard to keep up – Pretty tired of Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective show at the Met, seen enough Bacon for a while.  The Napoleon III and Paris show was a dissipointment, it was little more than two rooms of old photos, most which [...]