News from Stuff - 07/18/2011
Website names most ugly buidlings
Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but then again, so is ugliness and the members and editors of travel website VirtualTourist.com have some very strong opinions about buildings that fall into the latter category.
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News from Gay City News - 07/17/2011
Savage Pride
It was all very queer at the Good Gay Lady, the New York Times, on the Wednesday of Pride Week, when a month of events programmed by the newspaper’s GLBT & Allies affinity group reached its zenith.
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News from The Malaysian Insider - 07/17/2011
World’s top 10 ugliest buildings
LONDON, July 17 — Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but then again, so is ugliness and the members and editors of travel website VirtualTourist.com have some very strong opinions about buildings that fall into the latter category. With this in mind the site has announced its third annual list of the world’s top 10 ugliest buildings and ...
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News from ABS-CBNNEWS.com - 07/17/2011
Travel Picks: Top 10 ugly buildings around the world
LONDON, England - Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but then again, so is ugliness and the members and editors of travel website VirtualTourist.com (www.virtualtourist.com) have some very strong opinions about buildings that fall into the latter category.
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News from Animation World Network - 07/15/2011
Massive Insight Brings Film Realism to Engineers, Architects and Researcher
Massive Software, developer of the Academy Award winning animation system, has introduced Massive Insight and issued a call for entries for an exclusive beta testing program.
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News from Los Angeles Times - 07/15/2011
New museums to marvel over in Amsterdam, Rome and Paris
The Hermitage Amsterdam, Rome's MAXXI and the Pinacothèque de Paris add a welcome burst of energy to the European art scene. In a wide-ranging trip to Europe this year, I found three major new museums to love: in Amsterdam, the first satellite branch of Russia's celebrated Hermitage; in Rome, a long-awaited museum for contemporary arts that is a work of art itself; and in Paris, a picture ...
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News from Reuters via Yahoo! News - 07/15/2011
Travel Picks: Top 10 ugly buildings around the world
LONDON (Reuters) - Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but then again, so is ugliness and the members and editors of travel website VirtualTourist.com (http://www.virtualtourist.com) have some very strong opinions about buildings that fall into the latter category.
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News from CNN - 07/13/2011
'Dallas' vs. Dallas: TV & what's real
The city of Dallas spent years enjoying -- then overcoming -- the reputation of "Dallas," the primetime soap opera. Now, there's a new "Dallas" heading to TV, but can it capture how this city changed?
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News from CNN - 07/13/2011
'Dallas' vs. Dallas: Where TV stops and reality begins
Jessica Angelly stood outside the Sixth Floor Museum last week, taking in the sights of downtown Dallas with family and friends.
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News from Bangkok Post - Thailand's English news - 07/12/2011
Basel Capital of Swiss creativity
Balanced delicately in the cabin car 1,410 metres above Blechenland, the Black Forest, the stunning panoramic view overlooks the borders of Germany, France and Switzerland. Bright clear skies and the smell of refreshing pine trees, however, could not fully erase the repetitious images of election campaigns that littered the streets of Bangkok. Still, it was a brief welcome break not to confront ...
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News from GOOD - 07/11/2011
Weighing the Death Penalty vs. Life Without Parole
When it comes to executing, the United States is a top world contender. Last year, the U.S. lagged behind only China, Iran, North Korea, and Yemen in the volume of citizens it killed. But it's getting harder and harder to execute prisoners in the United States. In 1994, 328 people were sentenced to death in America; in 2008, only 111 received the sentence. And many who are sentenced to death ...
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News from Art Daily - 07/10/2011
Art and Activism Projects of John and Dominique de Menil Wins International Book Award
John and Dominique de Menil at the opening of “The John and Dominique de Menil Collection,” Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1962. Photo credit: © Adelaide de Menil.
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News from Gay City News - 07/10/2011
Savage Pride
It was all very queer at the Good Gay Lady, the New York Times, on the Wednesday of Pride Week, when a month of events programmed by the newspaper’s GLBT & Allies affinity group reached its zenith.
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News from Arts Journal - 07/08/2011
Lee Rosenbaum's cultural commentary
The official announcement is not scheduled until Monday. But the word has gotten out that George T.M. Shackelford , chair of the Boston Museum of Fine Art's European art department and its senior curator of modern art, will become senior deputy director of the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, where he will play an important role in planning for the museum's expansion into its planned Renzo Piano ...
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News from ArtInfo via Yahoo! News - 07/08/2011
Cy Twombly, Reclusive Legend of Modernist Painting, Dies at 83
American artist Cy Twombly , known for his large-scale, calligraphic scribble paintings, has died in Rome after several days of hospitalization. He was 83. The celebrated painter had been battling cancer for a number of years and died on Tuesday, according to a statement from Gagosian Gallery , which represents the artist. Still actively collaborating on forthcoming shows only months before his ...
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News from ArtInfo via Yahoo! News - 07/08/2011
To Fulfill Brancusi's Last Wish, Romanian Poet Treks Across Europe to Bring His Corpse Home
Poet Laurian Stanchescu is on a quest to bring Constanin Brancusi 's bones back to his native Romania. Inspired by the legendary story that Brancusi walked to Paris when emigrating there in 1904, Stanchescu is headed to Paris on foot to draw attention to his cause. Representing 84 of the sculptor's relatives, he intends to deliver a letter with his request to French president Nicolas Sarkozy ...
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News from Boston Globe - 07/07/2011
MFA's department chair George Shackelford leaving for Kimbell
George T.M. Shackelford, one of just six curatorial department chairs at the Museum of Fine Arts, will leave the MFA...
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News from Los Angeles Times - 07/07/2011
Visiting the Cy Twombly Gallery in Houston in the week of his death
It wasn't conceived as a shrine, exactly, but the small, windowless Cy Twombly Gallery on the campus of the Menil Collection in Houston certainly feels like one this week. In the wake of Twombly's death in Rome on Tuesday at...
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News from Curbed SF - 07/07/2011
Green Roofs: A Chat With Paul Kephart, Principal of Rana Creek (the Living Roof People)
Click here to view the full photogallery.Tell us about what's in store for the Transbay Transit Center's rooftop urban park. We know it's got a graywater and rainwater system. Any other details you can share? This is going to...
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News from Guardian Unlimited - 07/06/2011
Will no one halt the vandalising of London's skyline? | Catherine Bennett
Buildings such as the Shard are proof positive that the capital has become a greedy developer's playground The creator of London's Gherkin, Ken Shuttleworth, likes to think of his work as "outrageous". "I'd rather have controversy," the architect once said, "than produce a dull, boring building that nobody comments on." Unesco duly commented, when it was finished, on the unfortunate way ...
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