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The Buffalo and Native Americans
The Buffalo and Native Americans — History.com
The Buffalo and Native Americans Video Clip (1:52) The buffalo was an essential part of Native American life, used in everything from religious rituals to teepee construction.
Philip Guston: Small Oils on Panel 1969-1973
Looks like a very interesting show of Philip Guston’s post-Abstract Expressionist work at the McKee Gallery in NYC:
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Although the MCKEE GALLERY has mounted many PHILIP GUSTON shows over the last 35 years, it has never exhibited the small oil panels together as a group. The early figurative acrylic panels were begun in 1968, [...]
Man on Wire
The Sundance channel is running a marvelous documentary about the Frenchman, Philippe Petit, who, in 1974, walked across a wire between the World Trade Towers, in NYC. What an engaging meditation on so many things, beauty, dreams, risk, mystery…the Towers… Petit was immediately arrested after making 8 crossings on his walk, and people demanded to [...]
Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins
I asked my Advanced Typography students to visually “animate” this poem by Billy Collins, expecting to see 2D typographical layouts, but Nick Garcia produced this great start for a video animation of the poem.
Anne Greenwood at Pendleton Center for the Arts
A friend and former classmate at Moorhead State University, Anne Greenwood, opens a show at the Pendleton Center for the Arts on July 17, 2009. Her recent work titled, ‘Winter Count’, features embroidered pictographs of stunning originality. In her artists’ statement, Anne says that the work is deeply autobiographical and connected to her background as [...]
Black Hills of South Dakota
With the criteria of a one day drive, this years’ summer vacation took us to the Black Hills. Custer State Park is simply great for hiking. There is a lot of elevation, but the views are amazing. Here is one of the hikes we made listed on Backpacker.
Regulus calendula, or what we call spring in Minnesota…
There is hope…a Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Regulus calendula) showed up at our bird bath today. This beautiful little migrant bird marks an end to this very long winter in Minnesota, probably a week or so ahead of the Warblers that will be coming through in May. Last year, on a hike along the Mississippi river, near [...]
First Impressions: What does the world’s oldest art say about us?
A recent New Yorker article gives a great overview of the current state of our understanding of cave art, remarkable stuff:
After a visit to Lascaux, in the Dordogne, which was discovered in 1940, Picasso reportedly said to his guide, “They’ve invented everything.” What those first artists invented was a language of signs for which there [...]
Miles Davis - Ascenseur pour l’échafaud (Elevator to the Gallows)
Now that I’ve opened the pandora’s box of music, it’s going to be hard to stop. All of the Miles Davis fans know of this one, but if you haven’t discovered this yet…here you go. In this promo to the film, listen to the background music, that’s Miles. The soundtrack is fabulous, that is, if [...]
Emerson String Quartet
I saw the Emerson String Quartet perform this Shostakovich piece in St. Paul, MN. The music is about war and conflict, and we were in throes of the bad period of the Iraqi war, so it was a powerful and moving experience. And, it made me want to go out and buy everything Shostakovich had [...]
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