Category: Art, Entertainment, Sports & Music
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The illustrious ex-New Republic man of letters, and current Harvard Professor for the Practice of Literary Criticism, James Wood has weighed in in the New Yorker on Richard Price’s _Lush Life. The short of it is that he quite liked the book — but he also made a great show of saying that reviewers who…
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I’ve blogged here before about the importance of jazz artists expanding the repertoire to avoid putting out the umpteenth version of a tune from the canon of jazz standards. As great as those songs are, they’ve been played so well, so many times, that it’s hard for a contemporary musician to outdo past recordings. That’s…
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Fellow blogger Elatia Harris of 3 Quarks Daily recently suggested that I should display all my art work in one place on the blog. Agreeing that it is a good idea, I have created a new page for the purpose. There are not many more paintings or sketches that I plan to post beyond what…
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Cross posted from Fluff-n-Stuff ————————————————————– Last weekend, I took S on a much anticipated birthday treat- a concert featuring Joshua Bell, violinist extraordinaire, playing the Red Violin concerto, Oscar-winning score by composer John Corigliano, an astonishingly young-looking 70 year old. All that I knew of Joshua Bell, was primarily that he was young, kind of…
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Edmund Hillary, who along with Tenzing Norgay was the first known person to have climbed to the summit of Mount Everest has died at the age of 88. On May 29, 1953, they became the first men to climb the 29,035 feet to the top of the highest mountain peak in the world and safely return,…
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Indian sand sculptor Sudarshan Patnaik has created a twenty foot statue of Jesus and other Christmas figures on the sands of a beach near the eastern Indian city of Puri. Not quite lasting images but certainly spectacularly painstaking. Nearby is a figure of Santa. An older statue of Jesus from Christmas of 2004.
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"Very few artists have painted sunsets before, during and following major volcanic eruptions." —C. S. Zerefos, V. T. Gerogiannis, D. Balis, S. C. Zerefos, and A. Kazantzidis, Atmospheric effects of volcanic eruptions as seen by famous artists and depicted in their paintings, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, v.7, pp.4027-42, 4029 (2007) My scattered contributions to AB…
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Many thanks to my husband for sending me the link to this You Tube video. Enjoy.
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Sometimes it seems like only yesterday and at other times depressingly long since I set a tentative foot in the blogosphere. It is neither. Today is Accidental Blogger’s second anniversary and we at A.B. are probably as surprised as our readers by the blog’s moderate longevity. On our first anniversary, I was effusive and adopted…
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I had the chance to spend an hour and a half talking with the late great keyboardist Joe Zawinul in June for Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio, not knowing that he had a rare form of skin cancer that would kill him in early September. When I arrived at his study for the interview, he…
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A recent article in the New York Times evoked a warm feeling of childhood nostalgia for me with an unlikely actor’s name: Boris Karloff. For most people, Karloff is the dangerous yet vulnerable monster of the classic horror film, Frankenstein (1931), which celebrates its seventy fifth birthday this year. His strongest association for me, however,…
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Picasso, Monet, Matisse, Miro, Kandinsky, Warhol, Van Gogh and a self portrait by Edvard Munch. One of the best of Jackson Pollock. A leading museum of fine art in Europe or America? How about the basement of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran? Earlier this year I posted an article by Indian journalist Manoj…
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