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The Charlie Rose site announced big changes back in January, and I may have missed the addition of new content during the past month or so. The new Charlierose.com is loaded with thousands of hours of new and archived interviews.
The efforts that have gone into this unprecedented venture are truly remarkable. For over a […]
Simon Schama’s Power of Art: Flipping through the channels to watch a movie the other evening, I happened to stumble on the first episode of this BBC series airing in the US on PBS. With 8 episodes, the series looks at Caravaggio, Bernini, Rembrandt, David, Turner, Van Gogh, Picasso, and Rothko.
Despite the somewhat hokey […]
On one nondescript January morning, the Washington Post hired Joshua Bell, a world-renowned violinist, to play anonymously in L’Enfant Plaza. Thousands will stream by over the course of the morning. Does anyone stop to listen for free to a virtuoso who regularly commands over $1,000 a minute? Does it matter?
Take a […]
Getty Images gathered together portfolios from up and coming photographers:
This list of names is more than alphabetical – it’s hypothetical, hopeful and perhaps even controversial. Gathered by a curatorial team of creatives from around the world, it’s a list of the individuals we believe will change advertising imagery in 2007 and for years to come. […]
L’homme qui plantait des arbres (The Man Who Planted Trees) - If you’ve got thirty minutes, take some time to watch this quiet, moving and stunningly animated film. The dreamlike animation style is quite unlike anything I’ve ever seen. Take a break from the holiday festivities, expand the video viewer to full screen, […]
A luminous interactive installation has transformed the V&A’s John Madejski Garden this winter. Volume is a sculpture of light and sound, an array of light columns positioned dramatically in the centre of the garden.
Though lo-res videos from the installation have been making the rounds online, here is the hi-resolution video (mp4).
Volume responds spectacularly to human […]
The documentary photographer Leonard Freed died last week. Take some time and check out Magnum’s tribute.
from The Online Photographer
While browsing the magazine section at Border’s this evening, I stumbled across craftzine and found this wonderful project inside: Random Screen. This could make for a fun Christmas break project.
Random Screen is a mechanical thermodynamic screen that the user can’t control and that functions without any electricity. Conventional tea candles illuminate and generate the […]
Alright, this is the last Wall Street article for the day. Museums are beginning to open up their collections to the Web for tagging: Why Museums Want you to Catalog their Works
The idea: If works are labeled with simple terms that describe their content, a broader audience will be able to find them, particularly as […]
Matisse - Le Bonheur de Vivre
From the Weekend Edition of the Wall Street Journal: A Modern Masterpiece
(view a high resolution photo of the painting)
But if his technical procedure was like that of the Renaissance masters, the result was something like the opposite. This nearly 6-by-8-foot canvas was so untraditional — and so subversive — that […]
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