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Nontraditional galleries flourishing
From the New York Times's Bushwick Journal: Art Galleries With Less of a Profit Motive Flourish in Brooklyn . There are drawbacks to putting an art gallery in one's living room, among them having to keep the floors spotless and hide dirty socks. But there are definite benefits, too: no overhead, for one, which comes in handy if the art market, in keeping with most other markets these days, happens to sputter to a hal...
Victory!
From the CBS News Political Hotsheet: Vilsack Adviser Predicts Vegetable Garden On White House Lawn By Summer. Vilsack adviser Neil Hamilton, the chair and director of the Agricultural Law Center at Drake University Law School in Iowa, says yes. "I believe that by this summer there will be a garden - another garden, a vegetable garden - on the White House lawn," Hamilton said at a weekend legal seminar at Yale Unive...
A true third place
From Seattle's The Stranger: More Than a Bookstore. But here's the thing: Even as people downstairs were fearing for the future of Seattle's bookstore industry, Ravenna Third Place Books was thriving upstairs. Customers browsed the stacks contentedly; a group that gathers monthly to discuss science-related topics was sitting in a semicircle; and the store's newest addition, a branch of the popular Capitol Hill Greek ...
March 6, 2009
Revolutionary Road:Marred Sophistication, Trapped Dreams By Sarah Hanssen Sam Mendes's Revolutionary Roadwas one of the most highly-anticipated and critically acclaimed films of 2008. Sarah Hanssen weighs in with some thoughts on the film's successes and deficiencies. Art of the Theater in Adriana Lecouvreur By Linnea Kickasola The Met's recent production of Adriana Lecouvreur was a warmly updated vers...
Wait wait, I've got an idea
These two articles are oddly appropriate next to each other. From the LA Times: Artists are Losing Jobs Fast and Furiously. According to new research announced today by the National Endowment for the Arts, working artists are unemployed at a higher rate than other workers, and at a rate that is rising more rapidly than other professions. Presumably as a result, more artists are leaving their profession. Couple that...
Is a literary revival on the way?
From the New York Times: Amazon to Sell E-Books for Apple Devices. "A couple months ago a lot of people thought Amazon was slavishly imitating the Apple model," said Bill Rosenblatt, president of the consulting business GiantSteps Media Technology Strategies. "It turns out they have a different model than Apple. They are smarter than everyone thought." The developments also suggest that, true to his word, Steven P. ...
Apples, journaling, vitamin C
Via Very Short List and the Utne Reader: Some Writing Each Day Keeps the Doctor Away. In today's overly scheduled world, researchers from the University of Missouri tried to figure out what's the minimum time commitment that people need to benefit from writing. They found that people were healthier after just two minutes of written for two days, a total of just four minutes....
America's Favorite Food Intellectual
From Mother Jones: Michael Pollan Fixes Dinner. MJ: When you first wrote the mantra "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants," did you have any idea what kind of reaction you'd get? MP: Well, I studied my poetry in school, and I knew there was something about the way it sounded that made it easy to remember. After writing The Omnivore's Dilemma I wanted to write a book that got past the choir, that got to people ...
