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Silhouette a Berlino. © Stefano Corso

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The psnob handbag

A little insight about the psnob purse

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Events: singles; author talk; meet artist; Ugandan Jews; musical; Maccabi Film Festival

NY Jewish cultural events in the coming weeks include singles events; an author talk;... more

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Riflesso

Un mio lavoro libero eseguito con la modella austriaca Florentina in un vecchio... more

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Onde di pietra nella terra dei Navajo

Sinuose onde di pietra, erose dalle acque e dal vento. Fessure di roccia dove i raggi... more

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Confini

Berlino, ho cercato di giocare fotograficamente con luci, riflessi e giochi di linee,... more

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Events of Jewish interest this week in NYC: art, beer, film, and Jewish Body Week

Selected NYC Jewish cultural events from October 16th through October 25th, 2009.

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Brian Jungen: Crafting Everyday Objects Into Art

Artist Brian Jungen says that one of the best ways to get people to look at artwork is... more

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Events of Jewish interest this week in NYC: art, beer, film, and Jewish Body Week

Selected NYC Jewish cultural events from October 16th through October 25th, 2009.

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In-perfetta solitudine

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Design Loves Art

"Design Loves Art. Say what? For some L.A. art dealers, the contemporary art... more

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LIES THAT DIE & DREAMS THAT REDEEM ON VOICES OF TRUTH - ONE-ON-ONE WITH HAWAI`I'S FUTURE

What are the three biggest lies about Hawai`i today? We hear and see them all the... more

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Art 101: BWAC's Fall 2009 Show: The Words of Color

In previous articles last May and July I discussed Brooklyn Waterfront Artists... more

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In una realta surreale

Foto scattata al volo ad un bambino che gioca a racchettoni, esponendo sul muro in... more

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Ernesto Yerena - Con O Sin

Process documentary of Ernesto working on a "Con O Sin" HPM in his studio. Shot purely... more

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The Art Guys release film retrospective of thought-provoking, humorous work.

"The Art Guys: Home On The Range" is a DVD anthology of The Art Guys’ performance... more

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L'oblio della ragione

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Zen and the Art of Rural Regeneration

"The scene is pure postcard Japan. Layered mountain peaks shrouded in forests capped... more

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A Legacy of War: Fake Art in Vietnam

"Even the director of the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum here doesn’t know how many of the artworks and artifacts under his care are genuine and how many are extremely skillful copies. But he says he is going to try to find out.

There are nearly 20,000 of these mystery objects, on the walls and in storage, including paintings, sculpture, lacquerware, pottery, ancient statues and traditional crafts.

“We are making efforts to have a comprehensive review of items on display and in our warehouse,” said the director, Truong Quoc Binh. “After we evaluate the whole exhibit, we will try to label them all to show if they are original or not.”

Mr. Binh has been addressing questions about authenticity a lot lately. Curators and artists have been aware of the issue for years, but it became a matter of public discussion only in April, when it was raised at a conference on copyright in Danang.

In large part, the confusion is a legacy of the war with the United States, which ended in 1975, and to a lesser extent of a brief border war fought with China in 1979.

In the late 1960s, fearing that the United States would bomb Hanoi, then the capital of North Vietnam, museum officials removed hundreds of important artworks for safekeeping in the countryside.

To replace them on the museum walls, it commissioned copies: some by the original artists, some by the artists’ apprentices, some by skilled copyists in the museum’s restoration department. They were brilliant reproductions — or variants, as the Vietnamese called those paintings copied by the original artists.

But now “it’s a disaster,” said Bui Thanh Phuong, the son of Bui Xuan Phai, a prominent painter. “Viewers can’t be sure if what they are looking at is genuine or fake.” Mr. Phuong said he does not know which of the museum’s seven paintings attributed to his father, who died in 1988, are real.

In some cases it was apparently not even clear whether the originals or their copies were sent into hiding, said Nguyen Do Bao, the former chairman of the Hanoi Fine Arts Association, who delivered the paper that gave rise to the controversy at the copyright conference in April.

“There was no oversight,” Mr. Bao said in an interview. “When the artists took them home, they could make more than one copy. They could keep the original. We had no way of knowing.”

At the conference he told the audience, “Owing to poor management, the museum lost many original artworks during this time,” and added that researchers had not been allowed to examine works “while the public doesn’t know that they are reproductions.”

Asked in the interview why he was bringing up the issue now, after so many years of public silence, he said, “Now we have more freedom and democracy and we want to raise our voices to make sure the museum is not displaying copies.”""Even the director of the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum here doesn’t know how many of the... more

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This Is No Time To Treat The Arts As An Extravagance

Jordan Levin writes, "I know, with jobs and homes and dreams of better lives being lost by the millions, art and culture seem like a luxury. But I would argue that they're an essential aspect of being happy and civilized. More, I would argue that thinking culture is a frill, a disposable ornament for a comfortable life, has helped get us into the mess we're in.

Take the ethical failure that led to the financial crisis, the development of a criminally selfish system where the only thing that mattered (and still matters) is how much money is made, regardless of common sense or fairness or actual value produced for anyone but a few executives at the top. You could attribute the cancerous growth of that kind of thinking, at least in part, to the disappearance of the arts from our educational system and the downgrading of culture to consumer pop culture.

After all, the arts teach us morality, humanity, the range of identity, the importance of beauty and ideas and qualities you can't quantify, the values we hold in common. Unlike American Idol, they teach us that there are qualities that matter more than fame. They teach us all this through miraculously pleasurable experiences that at their best are akin to spiritual revelation, and that even in their lesser occurrences are a source of delight and understanding. Why does that constantly have to be defended as worthwhile? How can you love music without appreciating that beauty and form matter? How can you be moved by the novels of Junot Diaz or Charles Dickens and not absorb a sense of morality and fairness?

Instead of declaring the inherent value of the arts, the cultural community increasingly falls back to defending itself in economic terms. The arts provide jobs, boost other spending, help revitalize cities and neighborhoods by drawing educated young people looking for a certain quality of life. Studying music boosts math skills, and studying painting could lead to a career in commercial graphic design. All perfectly reasonable arguments. But when the economy is tanking, making dances won't make as much money as making widgets, and if economic viability is your only defense, you're going to lose.

No, a dance concert doesn't have the audience of a Harry Potter movie. But treating it as an elitist, incomprehensible, negligible activity shoves dance much further to the margins than it deserves. It also creates a self-fulfilling prophecy: We don't cover dance because nobody's interested, but the fewer people know about dance, the less likely it is that they'll be interested.

And why wouldn't we be interested? Shouldn't we be? Yes, we need to focus on lifting ourselves out of the ditch right now.

People need a place to live, enough to eat, and a job to do. But as things get better, maybe more of those jobs could have to do with teaching or making or presenting art, rather than creating still more incomprehensible and ultimately worthless investment schemes.

Goldman Sachs already has too much money, and it sure doesn't make the rest of us feel like dancing."Jordan Levin writes, "I know, with jobs and homes and dreams of better lives being... more

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Tutte le canzoni sono cantate

The psnob handbag

Events: singles; author talk; meet artist; Ugandan Jews; musical; Maccabi Film Festival

Riflesso

Onde di pietra nella terra dei Navajo

Confini

Events of Jewish interest this week in NYC: art, beer, film, and Jewish Body Week

Brian Jungen: Crafting Everyday Objects Into Art

Events of Jewish interest this week in NYC: art, beer, film, and Jewish Body Week

In-perfetta solitudine

Design Loves Art

LIES THAT DIE & DREAMS THAT REDEEM ON VOICES OF TRUTH - ONE-ON-ONE WITH HAWAI`I'S FUTURE

Art 101: BWAC's Fall 2009 Show: The Words of Color

In una realta surreale

Ernesto Yerena - Con O Sin

The Art Guys release film retrospective of thought-provoking, humorous work.

L'oblio della ragione

Zen and the Art of Rural Regeneration

A Legacy of War: Fake Art in Vietnam

This Is No Time To Treat The Arts As An Extravagance

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