Category: Art, Entertainment, Sports & Music
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My recent post on peace and happiness reminded me of one of my paintings whose title was Serenity. I have never put up my paintings for sale. But I did end up selling just one and it was Serenity. A good friend of mine really, really wished to have it. She is a psychologist / counselor and wanted the painting…
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One of the out-of-left-field suprises in jazz last year was the album Kinsmen, by Indian-American saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa. As a self-deprecating ethnic joke, his brother had given him a CD called "Saxophone Indian Style" — but when Mahanthappa listened to it, he was amazed to hear South Indian Carnatic music played so well on the…
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RIP, Michael Jackson. ———— Buzz Aldrin wanted to be the first Moonwalker, but thwarted, in the final moments, by simple logistics. "In the end the decision came down to logistics. The lunar landing craft's hatch was located on Armstrong's side. It would have too cumbersome, and perhaps even dangerous, for Aldrin to have climbed over…
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Kutner committed suicide on House. First, if you don't watch House, you're missing out. Second, and this is really cool — this happened because Kal Penn is leaving to go be an associate director of the White House Office of Public Liaison. How often do you see an actor do that?
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I guess to be perfectly accurate, in Mexico he was more of a "green" revolutionary – a Norman Borlaug of sorts. This is the first time I have heard of Pandurang Khankhoje, an Indian nationalist who traveled the world seeking support for India's freedom from British rule. For a while Khankhoje settled in Mexico where he applied his training as…
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A second post on the same day about altered images – or at least an extrapolated one. This one does not involve plagiarism or copyright infringement. Rather it is an exercise in the restoration of national vanity. The president of the United States is widely perceived to be the most powerful person in the world. So far only…
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The famous Obamaicon with which we recently had some fun on A.B. (here and here) has now become a subject of controversy. The Associated Press is alleging that artist Shepard Fairey used an AP photo to create the image without permission. The AP wants a share of the credit and compensation. NEW YORK (AP) — On buttons,…
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Here is an instance of art inadvertently augmenting life, captured in a photograph. The picture shows snow being cleared in front of the Denver Museum of Art after yesterday's heavy winter storm. The art work behind appears to be lending a hand.
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Long time reader and family friend, Jatinder Bhatia has sent me the link to an upcoming Math-Art exhibition in Washington D.C. (Dean, don't throw up your hands yet!) The interesting thing about the exhibition seems to be that the mathematically inclined artists have deliberately expressed math concepts as "real' art. While most of the pieces are two or three dimensional visual depictions, I…
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On my last trip to India, I did not have an opportunity to go to an art gallery or museum but I did have two enjoyable art related encounters. One was the search I undertook for a recently published but hard- to- find book about my first art teacher, the late Abani Sen, which put…
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