Elegy for the Summer of Love In the ’60s, Alain Dister took his camera and long hair hitchhiking across the country to capture communes and clinics in the age of psychadelica. "When I first took some pictures in America, during the summer of 1966, I had no...
MIA's new album, "KALA"
Ok, so the weather outside is frightful...what a fantastic day to pick up M.I.A.'s outrageously lovley new album, "Kala," plug in and settle into your work station so you can plough through that overflowing inbox of yours with 1000s of emails.
The playful melodies on this summer's hit "Mango Pickle Down River," will have you dancing around the office. The London-born Sri Lankan rapper-singer-political artist specializes in a wonderous new kind of world music -- a global sound clash complete with a perfect balance of imagination and invention. This song is definitely on 'repeat' on the i-pods of hipsters trekking around town this summer; featuring a group of aboriginal kiddie rappers known as the Wilcannia Mob, the song comes complete with a droney didgeridoo that makes for one of the most groovey and unconventional bass lines of 2007!
The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama Rubin Museum of Art (RMA) Hosts The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama Exhibition runs through September 3, 2007 One of my favorite museums in NYC is running a fantastic exhibition currently. The Rubin Museum of Art is...
One Year Countdown to Beijing Olympic Games The Chinese capital of Beijing is adopting eco-friendly technologies in transportation, power supply, water and waste management to ensure a "green" Olympic Games, according to the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology. Beijing plans to use 100 hybrid-electric vehicles...
From the acclaimed author of The Epicure's Lament, comes a grand new novel of literary contention in which two competing biographers collide in their quest for the truth about a great artist.
Oscar Feldman, the "Great Man," is a New York city painter of the heroic generation of the 40s and 50s. Rather than focusing on abstract canvases like Pollock and Rothko, he stubbornly holds to painting one subject alone—the female nude. Upon his passing in 2001, he leaves behind a wife, Abigail, an autistic son, and a sister, Maxine, herself a notable abstract painter.
His Holiness, The Dalai Lama I wanted to share with you a great passage from a recent interview his Holiness, the Dalai Lama conducted with Deutsche Welle, (the German international broadcaster). In the interview, the Dalai Lama stated that his main purpose is not the issue of...