Art Basel Miami Beach and Associated Art in Miami
at the Cisneros Foundation brunch This was the fifth time I’d gone to ABMB ( Art Basel Miami Beach ) and the multi-ring circus that includes the peripheral art fairs, local museums, collectors who run private museum spaces, temporary public projects and various lectures, performances, film showings and parties. I decided to take it easy and be guided by the interests of several friends who were also in Miami for the events, spending two days with tv news producer, Jake Haselkorn, who’s spent the past 20 years covering Asia and my good friend, Berta Sichel , Director of the Film Department at the Reina Sophia Museum, Madrid, as well as meeting up with Artblog’s Roberta and Libby for a day. The following are random snapshots rather than any attempt at a synthesis
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Art Basel Miami Beach and Associated Art in Miami
On November 17, 13,200 bloggers from across the globe participated in BloggersUnite: Fight For Preemies . Their posts about the rising rates of premature births raised the awareness of approximately 3 million readers. Through a mix of sobering facts, statistics and moving personal accounts, these bloggers poignantly illustrated the impact premature births have on both the individuals involved and on our society as a whole.
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Fight For Preemies: 13,000 Blog Posts Reach 3 Million Readers
As of December 1, 2009, new FTC guidelines went into effect requiring bloggers to disclose any time they are compensated for endorsing or reviewing products or services. Bloggers should now be disclosing any time they receive payment, free products or services, or perks in return for a post on their blogs. Also any relationship with a company or organization that can be viewed as creating a conflict of interest should be disclosed
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Bloggers Must Comply With FTC Disclosure Guidelines
Last week I wrote about help for people struggling with their mortgages and it got me thinking that there’s a lot of financial struggle that goes on before you lose the house. The evening news gives us the big stories of foreclosures and credit card debt, but those stories don’t mention the other necessities like the electric bill, or that tank of oil you need to heat the house. Did you know that there’s a government program that will help pay for your heating costs
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Help With Bills
Despite apparent industry subterfuge and a last-minute effort by councillor Norm Kelly to yank out most of its teeth, the billboard tax levy bylaw passed virtually intact today. The end result is it'll generate an additional $10.4 million annually; communtiy groups had hoped it would be officially directed mostly to community art initiatives, but as it stands, it just enters the general revenue stream. Allotment will get more specific in the 2010 Budget Committe, but hey, it's a start.
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Well, well
It was almost exactly eight years ago that I decided to move back to Canada as I had just accepted the position as the Director of the Canadian Craft & Design Museum in Vancouver. The museum was hidden in a courtyard at the corner of Georgia and Hornby across the street from the Vancouver Art Gallery . I was aware of some of the problems the institution had experienced over the years, and was not unaware that there were probably deeper issues than they were willing to divulge, as they were unable to cover the costs for me to fly to Vancouver for my interview
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What is it about Craft? The Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery Faces an Uncertain Future
The United States Postal Service estimates that roughly 97 million customers visit the post office during the holidays. Are you going to be one of the many standing in line this year to buy your Christmas stamps, purchase your boxes, or mail your gifts to your loved ones? Well, you don’t have to! The USPS Holiday page is organized to help you streamline your holiday postal tasks.
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I have been thinking about King Tut: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs at the Art Gallery of Ontario quite a bit lately. Actually I have not been just thinking about it, I have been troubled by it. As a former museum director / curator I have to admit that I have a huge issue with Blockbuster exhibitions
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Toronto Art Critics Talk Art: David Balzer, Otino Corsano, Rosemary Heather, Charlene Lau, Leah Sandals, Nadja Sayej and Murray Whyte
Handmade earrings-Handcrafted Jewelry-Hummingbird Jewelry Here are some tips to increase your handmade jewelry sales at craft shows. With over 25 years of experience selling handcrafted jewelry at craft fairs there are many important marketing techniques that many people overlook. The set up of your booth should be welcoming and open
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How to Increase Handmade Jewelry Sales at Craft Shows
I have been wondering lately “Where has the last month and a half gone?” I had what I thought was a very attainable and manageable goal of writing two to three blog posts a week. Seemed manageable enough, but ….. So, this posting is actually my attempt to not only get back on track, but also to acknowledge that I am just not getting out to see as much art as I would like to
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James Fowler’s Skin @ MADE and PieceWORK @ the Gladstone Hotel
15.01.- 18.01.2010 ORNARIS – Trade Fair for Innovations and Trends Zurich (Switzerland) 18.01.-21.01.2010 CONSUMEXPO – International Consumer Goods Fair Moscow (Russia) 22.01.-26.01.2010 maison & objet – Home Decoration, Giftware and Tableware Trade Exhibition Paris (France) 24.01.-27.01.2010 Interiors Birmingham Birmingham (Great Britain) 25.01.-27.01.2010 ASIA EXPO London (Great Britain) 27.01.-30.01.2010 CASA – Trade Fair for Modern Lifestyle Salzburg (Austria) 29.01.-31.01.2010 CREATIV SALZBURG – Intern.Trade Fair for gifts,home accessories,design-&lilestyle articles,paper,office+ station.goods,floristry,handycraft supplies,art products,toys.. Salzburg (Austria) 05.02.-08.02.2010 Formland – Trade Fair for Skandinavian Design, Table Top, Giftware, Handicraft & applyed Art Herning (Denmark) 12.02.-16.02.2010 Ambiente – Internationale Frankfurter Messe Frankfurt/Main (Germany) 17.02.-20.02.2010 BioFach – World Organic Trade Fair and Vivaness – World Trade Fair for Natural Personal Care and Wellness Nuremberg (Germany) 15.01.-18.01.2010 MACEF – Gifts and Housware Fair Milan (Italy) 29.01.-02.02.2010 Christmasworld – Internationale Frankfurter Messe Frankfurt/Main (Germany) 27.02.- 07.03.2010 EXPOCASA – International Household, Furniture and House Decor Exhibition Turin (Italy 19.01.-24.01.2010 imm cologne – The international furnishing show Cologne (Germany) 29.01.-31.01.2010 FORMA Kevät/Spring – Furniture Fair Helsinki (Finland) 07.02.-10.02.2010 DECOoh! decoration (formerly Decoforce) – Contemporary Home and Garden Decoration Brussels (Belgium) 09.02.-13.02.2010 Stockholm Furniture Fair Stockholm (Sweden) 13.01.-16.01.2010 Heimtextil – International Trade Fair for Home and Contract Textiles Frankfurt/Main (Germany) 16.01.-19.01.2010 DOMOTEX HANNOVER – The World of Flooring Hanover (Germany) 20.01.-21.01.2010 Tissu Premier – European Fabric Preview Lille (France) 27.01.-29.01.2010 PITTI IMMAGINE FILATI – Exhibition on Yarns, Fibre and Knitted Fabrics Florence (Italy) 08.02.-11.02.2010 Texworld – Worldwide Textile Rendez-vous Paris (France) 09.02.-12.02.2010 PREMIÈRE VISION – The World’s Premier Fabric Show Paris (France) 09.02.-12.02.2010 INDIGO Fashion edition – International Exhibition of Creative Textile Design Paris (France) 17.02.-20.02.2010 BioFach – World Organic Trade Fair and Vivaness – World Trade Fair for Natural Personal Care and Wellness Nuremberg (Germany)
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Trade Fairs in Jan. & Febr. 2010 in Europe
Nathan Myhrvold giving a TED talk about some of his many interest (click image to see video). Photo by Neil Hunt from flickr.com (CC BY-NC 2.0). I usually don’t post about newspaper articles, but Jack Lang sent out an email on the molegular gastronomy maillinglist today about an article in New York Times: “After Microsoft, Bringing a High-Tech Eye to Professional Kitchens” featuring Nathan Myhrvold .
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Nathan Myhrvold in NYT – news on upcoming book
In New York the Experimental Cuisine Collective has been arranging regular seminars since 2007, in Paris Hervé This’ monthly seminar has been running for many years – and now finally the London Gastronomy Seminars are about to launch. To their upcoming event on November 30th they have invited Hervé This, Tony Conigliaro and John Forbes to speak about on Flavor extraction .
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London Gastronomy Seminars
Does food fit into this table? Here at Khymos I aim to cover things related to food and chemistry, and as I stumbled over a periodic table of cupcakes (with clickable “elements” linked to recipes) I couldn’t resist to dig a little deeper. And look what I found! The periodic table of elements is iconic, but the periodic table has also become an organizing metaphor for all sorts of things, including food .
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TGIF: Periodic tables of food
On the borders of the Sahara Desert is a picturesque oasis that breaks the endless horizon of sand with its beautiful buildings and massive date palm plantations. It is estimated that the city of Biskra is home to approximately a hundred and fifty thousand date palm trees that are very important to the economy of city. With a population of over two hundred thousand, Biskra is the capital city of the Biskra Province and is a fascinating destination in Algeria for visitors to explore.
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Travel to Biskra
My name is Danny Ferrone . I am from Chicago Illinois and I am the founder of the Fight Forever Foundation – a foundation that is Fighting to Cure Cystic Fibrosis , a deadly lung disease that affects 100,000 people worldwide. I would like to take the time to express my deep gratitude to the directors, teachers and faculty at Scuola Leonardo Da Vinci in Milan . I came to Italy with the absolute necessity to learn Italian to be able to communicate the important messages of my foundation and to be able to communicate and collaborate with organizations here in Italy who share in our mission of finding a cure for Cystic Fibrosis.
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Thanks to the directors, teachers and faculty at Scuola Leonardo Da Vinci in Milan
Raise your hand if you have never taken a picture at the end of a school course. Come on! We’ve all done it at least once and cherish those memories ever after. That’s why Scuola Leonardo da Vinci in Rome is launching its first best picture contest open to current students, former students, friends, relatives, in a word, to everybody.
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Scuola Leonardo da Vinci in Rome best picture contest 2009
Watch the edges; yet another birth, another coming-to, another attempt at elucidation, lucid, try lucidity, for a change, just watch the edges, and also, try to aim at the opaque, but where’s the opaque in the translucid, and how, how does it Elucidation: an act of explaining that serves to clear up and cast light on . The splendid, harsh ambiguity of words, the clustering of them, the annoying coming-to, they do not leave us they do not, they do not leave us, an act of explaining, take that, an act, ex-plain, serves, clear, clear up, cast, cast, cast, light.
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The Expecting Creator Of Matter
Every year the school hosts both the “ Miss and Mister Scuola Leonardo Da Vinci Contests ” as a fun way for students to give special recognition to their friends and classmates for their effort in learning Italian. Again, there was a large showing of people who came to the event. Some people already knew each other from their morning and afternoon lessons, but there were many new faces who participated too. New students and veteran students of all ages, friends of Scuola Leonardo Da Vinci and other Italian people from Milan all came out for the event. Overall the event was a success and another great way for everyone to come together, have fun and meet new friends.
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That’s Right, Scuola Leonardo did it Again! “Mister Scuola Leonardo Da Vinci has been crowned.”
ARTINFO has reported on the new retail outlet of gallery mogul Larry Gagosian.. “The sleek, 2,500-square-foot, bi-level space, which opened to the public this past weekend, also inaugurates London import (and Gagosian artist) Damien Hirst ’s publishing company and retail shop Other Criteria on the lower level, making for a kind of casual art emporium with a fancy ZIP code.” ArtInfo I’m not against making money from art, but I can’t help thinking some of the super-famous art dealers and artists are taking advantage of poor rich folk. At the end of the day though, it’s a reflection of society rather than the gallery or artist
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Gagosian Store