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Birthdays Today, April 22: Jack Nicholson, Kaka, Marshawn Lynch, Willie Robertson

He played the role as Jack Torrance on The Shinning and he won three Academy Awards… he is Jack Nicholson and he’s our Top#1 Famous Birthdays Today, April 22. He was born in Neptune City, New York in 1937 and, from Yareah, we wish him and his family all the best in this special day. Congrats and happy birthday, Jack Nicholson!

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Famous Birthdays Today, April 22: Press photo of Jack Nicholson after being nominated for an Academy Award for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.. AP Wire Photo – ebay

When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman’s part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

Jack Nicholson

When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don’t agree with, or maybe I just haven’t thought of it or whatever, I’d be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it’s going to become predictably my work, and that’s not fun.

Jack Nicholson

More famous birthdays Today, April 22: Kaka, soccer player born in Brazil in 1982; Marshawn Lynch, football player born in California in 1986; and Willie Robertson, reality star.

Happy birthday to all of them. Have a very nice day, dear friends.

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Mel Ziegler explores the Nature of Politics and National Identity

The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College will present A More Perfect Union, on view from July 2, 2016 through January 1, 2017, and featuring Mel Ziegler’s multi-year project Flag Exchange.

Mel Ziegler

Flag Exchange comprises weathered American flags from all 50 states gathered by the artist as he traveled across the country, offering new replacement flags for tattered ones flying at homes, post offices, businesses, and other public locations. The Tang exhibition marks the culmination of the project and the first time the complete Flag Exchange will be exhibited, with a full complement of 50 flags.

The installation will feature one flag from each state, ranging in size from five-by-eight feet to 18-by-36 feet, and hanging from the walls and ceiling of the Tang’s first-floor gallery space. Each flag will have the name of the state where it was collected embroidered on its edge. Ziegler’s installation will complement a large stage and built-in tiered seating, creating a space evocative of a political convention in the gallery.

Drawing upon resources within Skidmore College and beyond, the Tang will organize a series of programs wherein the public and Skidmore faculty and students can gather to consider and discuss national identity, the power of iconography, and the nature of politics in this presidential election year.  Debates, lectures, performances, community meetings, and an election-night party will be featured.

“Mel Ziegler’s piece provokes our curiosity about the many stories behind these flags, the ways in which people define and display nationalism and patriotism, and what the flag means in an increasingly diverse country,” said Ian Berry, Dayton Director of the Tang Teaching Museum and exhibition curator. “Steeped in both potent symbolism and humble physicality, Mel’s use of the American flag as the mode of expression in this work encourages individual introspection and collective conversation about our country’s complex identity. His extensive multi-year travel project brought him to communities all across this country—touring like a political candidate. His performative project is a monumental achievement, and we are thrilled to see it come together at the Tang.”

Mel Ziegler began Flag Exchange more than five years ago, when he was inspired to trade his first flag at a barn in Tennessee. Since then, Ziegler’s visits to city halls, factories, and homes have evolved into a wide-ranging documentary project in which he gathers flags while also compiling doorstep conversations with flag owners from across the country. Ziegler’s trade of new flags for old creates a medium for rich storytelling and geographical mapping. Although the original owners of each flag will remain anonymous, the Tang will share on its website elements of the stories Ziegler has gathered.

Ziegler has been exploring themes of national identity and civic engagement throughout his career—redefining public art through the integration of site-specific works in public areas and subtly blending the conceptual with a deeply socially engaged practice. In 2005, the Tang presented the first retrospective examining the work of Ziegler and his longtime collaborator, the late Kate Ericson, in the exhibition America Starts Here: Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler, a collaboration with the MIT List Visual Art Center that was accompanied by a catalog of the same title.

About Mel Ziegler:

Throughout his career, Mel Ziegler has created art through engagement with individuals and communities. With Kate Ericson, he traveled across the United States organizing social-interventionist art projects. These joint works include Camouflaged History,where the duo painted a house in Charleston, South Carolina, in a U.S. Army camouflage pattern consisting of 72 municipally approved colors; and Peas, Carrots, Potatoes, in which they constructed an American flag out of baby food jars inscribed with the infants’ pre-lingual sounds.

Ziegler’s solo works include Smell The Flowers, for which he worked with the U.S. military in a project for the Cheekwood Museum of Art and Botanical Gardens; and Breathe In, Breathe Out, for which Ziegler collected 4,000 samples of breath from people in the same community and combined them in an air tank used to fill car tires, sports balls, and other needs of the same citizens. Ziegler’s work is in the collections of the Tang Museum; Whitney Museum of American Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; SFMOMA; the San Diego Museum of Art; and the Albright-Knox Museum in Buffalo. Ziegler is the founder and executive director of the nonprofit Sandhills Institute in Rushville, Nebraska, which is a catalyst for developing new models of artistic citizenship in America’s heartland. Ziegler is the Chair of the Department of Art and the Paul E. Shwab Chair of Fine Arts at Vanderbilt University. He lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee.

300 works of art that have helped define Europe’s art history

Ministries of culture and cultural institutions from 28 European Union countries, plus Norway, have collaborated with digital culture platform Europeana, to identify 300 works of art that have helped define Europe’s art history.

The Art Gallery of Jan Gildemeester Jansz

From Paul Gauguin’s Femmes de Tahiti to the Sălciile de la Chiajna Willows at Chiajna by Romanian Ștefan Luchian, the Europeana 280 collection brings together iconic and unique, famous and lesser-known works – all of which have contributed to European art movements from Renaissance to Cubism. This unique collection is available online as part of a campaign to enable people across Europe to engage with their art heritage and to demonstrate our shared European roots.

Europe’s Culture Ministries were invited to work with their museums, galleries and libraries to choose at least 10 works of art that have contributed to Europe’s art history as part of the Europeana 280 campaign.

Jill Cousins Executive Director of Europeana said:

“Through the Europeana 280 campaign, Culture Ministries and 158 cultural institutions from across Europe have brought together a collection of more than 300 paintings, drawings, photographs, posters, illustrations, sculptures and other objects telling a unique story of how Europe’s art heritage has evolved over time.

Everyone can now discover and celebrate these treasures online by getting involved in the #Europeana280 campaign through social media, related apps, or in person through a series of virtual reality events and digital installations across Europe from April to November 2016.”

A new virtual exhibition Faces of Europe showcases over 100 items from all 29 countries taking visitors on a journey with artists through the centuries, exploring a changing Europe through their works and role in society. The Europeana 280 collection can further be explored and enjoyed online via Europeana Collections, through apps DailyArt and ArtStack and the new Europeana colouring app based on works in the collection CREATE as well as Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest using #Europeana280.

And it’s not just online that you can experience the Europeana 280 collection – people will also have the chance to interact with them in public spaces across Europe.

#BigArtRide is a virtual reality event touring ten cities across Europe – The Hague, Amsterdam, Paris, Brussels, Rome, London, Berlin, Prague, Wroclaw, and Bratislava – celebrating the Dutch Presidency of the EU. Two participants in squares in different European cities (one Dutch, one elsewhere) will put on virtual reality headsets, get on their bikes and race together through a virtual city that they populate with artworks from Europeana 280 along the way. Members of the public can help or hinder their progress by using oversized bells and pumps while the race is broadcast on large screens in both city squares.

In museums and galleries in other cities across Europe, digital installations – Jumping Jacks – combining art with interactive technology and moving, dynamic human bodies will let participants project their own body transformed by cut-outs from the Europeana 280 artworks onto walls and ceilings, – creating their own unique, moving artworks.

Europeana 280 is supported by the European Commission as part the development of Europeana. It is also part of a celebration of the launch of the new Europeana Art History Collections, which introduce the public to artists and artworks from across the whole of Europe, from the cave painters of Altamira to the Surrealists, and from ancient Roman sculpture to modern design.

155 of the pieces of art chosen by Europe’s museums, libraries and galleries to share through Europeana 280 have been made available under open licences that allow re-use, whether that’s for enjoyment, or for use in research, education or new designs, apps or services.

HBO News: Bill Maher’s April 22 lineup

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REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER CONTINUES ITS 14TH SEASON APRIL 22, EXCLUSIVELY ON HBO; LAWRENCE WRIGHT IS THE TOP-OF-SHOW INTERVIEW GUEST; THOMAS MIDDLEDITCH IS THE MID-SHOW INTERVIEW GUEST; CHARLES COOKE, LESLEY STAHL AND VAN JONES ARE THE ROUNDTABLE GUESTS

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER continues its 14th season FRIDAY, APRIL 22 (10:00-11:00 p.m. live ET/tape-delayed PT), with a replay at 11:30 p.m., exclusively on HBO. Allowing Maher to offer his unique perspective on contemporary issues, the show includes an opening monologue, roundtable discussions with panelists, and interviews with guests. Journalist Lawrence Wright is the top-of-show interview guest. Actor Thomas Middleditch is the mid-show interview guest. The roundtable guests are author Charles Cooke, journalist Lesley Stahl and political commentator Van Jones.

Other HBO playdates: April 26 (4:30 p.m.), 27 (1:40 a.m.) and 28 (3:30 a.m.)

HBO2 playdates: April 22 (2:05 a.m.), 23 (7:15 a.m., 11:30 p.m.) and 26 (10:35 p.m.)

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER is also available on HBO NOW, HBO GO and HBO On Demand.

The show has already been renewed for a 15th season of 35 editions, scheduled for 2017.

Politico has hailed Maher as “a pugnacious debater and a healthy corrective to the claptrap of cable news,” while Variety noted, “There may not be a more eclectic guest list on all of television.”

Maher headlined his first special on the network in 1989 and has starred in ten solo specials to date, including the hour-long presentations “Bill Maher: Live from D.C.,” “Bill Maher…But I’m Not Wrong,” “The Decider” and “I’m Swiss” (both nominated for an Emmy® in the Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special category), “Victory Begins at Home,” “Be More Cynical,” “The Golden Goose Special” and “Stuff That Struck Me Funny,” and two half-hour stand-up specials, plus the specials “30 Seconds Over Washington” and “Comic Relief VI™.” Maher is also an executive producer of the innovative news magazine show “VICE,” which returns for its fourth season immediately following this week’s show on HBO.

The executive producers of REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER are Bill Maher, Scott Carter, Sheila Griffiths, Brad Grey, Marc Gurvitz, Dean E. Johnsen and Billy Martin; co- executive producer, Chris Kelly; producer, Matt Wood; director, Paul Casey.

Mirantis and QCT Give Enterprises an Easy Onramp to OpenStack Private and Public Clouds

Mirantis Unlocked: QCT

Mirantis, the pure-play OpenStack company, and QCT(Quanta Cloud Technology), are partnering to offer Mirantis Unlocked Appliances, turnkey, rack-based appliances featuring Mirantis OpenStack. Customers will now be able to buy the QCT QxStack Mirantis Unlocked Appliance for Cloud Native Applications featuring hardware and software from QCT and Cumulus Networks.

Through the Unlocked Appliance program, Mirantis collaborates with Unlocked Technology Partners such as QCT and Cumulus Networks to design and pre-validate an optimized configuration that leverages Mirantis OpenStack, the most popular and hardened OpenStack distribution on the market. The appliance is a pre-validated and pre-integrated turnkey environment designed for developing and deploying cloud native applications and container-based environments at scale, and delivered and supported by Certified Rack Partners such as FusionStorm. Customers are able to onramp OpenStack into their data centers in days, giving them access to agile development on their OpenStack platform.

QCT is a leading provider of advanced hardware and integrated systems to cloud data centers and a subsidiary of systems technology leader Quanta Computer Inc., a Fortune Global 500 company with $30B revenue in 2015. The company is a longtime supporter of open source cloud projects, including Open Compute Project and OpenStack.

“Mirantis Unlocked Appliances gives enterprises a fast, easy way to exploit the flexibility and cost-savings of OpenStack. They are off-the-shelf, optimized solutions that reduce time-to-value while also reducing risk in OpenStack deployments,” said Mirantis co-founder and CMO, Boris Renski. “The addition of the QCT Mirantis Unlocked Appliance brings hyperscale platforms as an alternative in Unlocked Appliances.”

“Together with Mirantis, we are extending the power of hyperscale datacenter design and OpenStack to our customers around the world,” said Mike Yang, general manager of QCT. “By offering a faster, easier route to OpenStack in production, service providers and enterprises can begin offering customers faster response times, better services and more flexibility in their business.”

“Appliances built on Mirantis OpenStack are rigorously tested and certified to run right out of the box, reducing the risk and complication associated with OpenStack deployments,” said FusionStorm vice president, Pre-Sales and Professional Services, Core Technologies, Jim Glueck. “Customers can get the full OpenStack experience in days.”

To learn more about Mirantis Unlocked Appliances, visit: https://www.mirantis.com/appliances.

About QCT

QCT (Quanta Cloud Technology) is a global data center solution provider extending the power of hyperscale datacenter design in standard and open SKUs to all datacenter customers. Product lines include servers, storage, network switches, integrated rack systems and cloud solutions, all delivering hyperscale efficiency, scalability, reliability, manageability, serviceability and optimized performance for each workload. QCT offers a full spectrum of datacenter products and services from engineering, integration and optimization to global supply chain support, all under one roof. The parent of QCT is Quanta Computer, Inc., a Fortune Global 500 technology engineering and manufacturing company. More at http://www.QCT.io.

About Mirantis

Mirantis is the pure play OpenStack company, delivering all the software, services, training, and support needed for running OpenStack. More customers rely on Mirantis than on any other company to get to production deployment of OpenStack at scale. Mirantis is among the top three companies worldwide in contributing open source software to OpenStack, and has helped build and deploy some of the largest OpenStack clouds in the world, at companies such as Cisco, Comcast, Ericsson, NASA, Samsung and Symantec. Mirantis is venture-backed by August Capital, Dell Ventures, Ericsson, Goldman Sachs, Intel, Insight Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Siguler Guff & Co., and WestSummit Capital, with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. Follow us on Twitter at @mirantisit.

Auctions in New York. L’Éternel Printemps by Rodin ranks among his most skillful renderings of embracing lovers

Sotheby’s 9 May Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art will feature a rare and exquisite marble of one of Rodin’s most celebrated forms. Conceived in 1884 and carved in 1901-02 from a single block of marble, Rodin’sL’Éternel Printemps ranks among his most skillful renderings of embracing lovers. It comes to auction this May with an estimate of $8/12 million.

Auctions in New York. L’Éternel Printemps by Rodin

This sculpture is believed to be the fifth of ten known uniquely finished carvings of the subject in marble, and was singled out in Frederick Lawton’s 1906 biography on the artist as the most magnificent of the series.  A Rodin marble of this subject has not appeared on the market in over two decades, and the present example is appearing at auction for the first time this May.

This marble was commissioned by the German diplomat Hellmuth Baron Lucius von Stoedten (1869-1934). Baron von Stoedten, who lived between Berlin and Paris, was a close friend of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, who played a seminal role between artist and patron in the commission of this marble. Rilke was famously inspired by Rodin’s sculptures and wrote a series of poems in their tribute. The friendship between these three great minds of the late nineteenth century tells an intriguing story behind this carving of L’Éternel Printemps.  Other marbles from this series belong in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest (1901); the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg (1906); The Museum of Decorative Arts, Buenos Aires (1907); the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1906-07) and the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen (1907-1910).

L’Éternel Printemps was one of Rodin’s most celebrated sculptures of the 1880s. The passionate theme preoccupied Rodin throughout his career, and calls to mind the story of Paolo and Francesca—Dante’s mythical paramours who were condemned to spend eternity locked in a maelstrom of passion.

Rodin later stated that he was listening to Beethoven’s 2nd Symphony when he first conceived of L’Éternel Printemps, and certainly the passion and romance of the great German composer can be felt in this marble sculpture. While his original works dealt in more allegorical terms, Rodin later began treating his subjects with a modernist expressionism. As we find in L’Éternel Printemps, there is a marked increase in the eroticism of his art and a corresponding growth in the daring movement of the poses; this could be a reflection of the artist’s studio practice, in which he would allow the models to move freely and independently.

The auction of L’Éternel Printemps this May follows Sotheby’s London February 2016 sale of Rodin’s lifetime cast Iris, Messagère des dieux, which achieved a new auction record for the artist in GBP when it sold for £11.6 million / $16.7 million. Once in the collection of Sylvester Stallone, the same cast last appeared at auction in 2007, when it sold for a then-record £4.6 million.

Brockton exhibitions. Voices of the Indie Craft Community at Fuller Craft Museum

Brockton exhibitions. On May 7, Fuller Craft Museum will celebrate CounterCraft: Voices of the Indie Craft Community in its D. Tarlow gallery.  This revolutionary exhibition will showcase the boundless imagination of makers in the DIY culture and the progressive principles upon which it has developed.  Exhibiting artists include Elaine Bay, Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Tracy Bull, Liz Collins, Betsy Greer, Heidi Kenney, Xander Marro, New Craft Artists in Action, Erin Riley, and Caitlin Rose Sweet.  The exhibition is curated by Faythe Levine, artist, photographer, filmmaker, and curator.

Tracy Bull, A Collection of Feathers, 2016. Glass, wood frame, 25″ x 15″ x 1.5″

The “indie craft” movement encourages makers to express their unique viewpoint on the world through objects created with elevated technical skill, and new or established techniques.  Other tenets of the genre include social consciousness and activism, DIY methodologies, upcycled materials, and the merger of traditional practices with renegade messaging.

The May 7 panel discussion will explore the development of the indie craft movement along with current trends and future directions.  Discussions may also include the notion of “craftivism” and how the focus on social change through craft-based media has inspired their practice, the DIY movement, and the community at large.

About the Curator:

Faythe Levine is based in Middle Tennessee where she is immersed within rural queer community and works as a multi-media  artist, independent researcher, freelance curator, author, and collector. Over time her portfolio has developed ongoing themes of community, creativity, awareness, process, empowerment, and documentation. Levine’s two most widely known projects, Sign Painters (2013) and Handmade Nation (2009), are both feature-length documentaries with accompanying books that have toured extensively in formal and renegade outlets. All of her work aims to communicate honesty, authenticity, and quality of life.

About the Panelists/Artists:

Betsy Greer is a writer and maker in Durham, North Carolina. She’s been popularizing the craftivism movement, the place where craft and activism intersect, since 2003 and loves seeing the ways in which people use their creativity to change the world for the better. Her current project, “You Are So Very Beautiful,” collects handmade signs from all over the world and leaves them behind for people to find in an effort to utilize craft’s benefits for both maker and recipient.

Elaine Bay is a multimedia artist who works closely with current events to reflect tomorrow and today. Currently living in the Boston area, Bay’s collaborative efforts include different disciplines, such as music, art, science, and technology from all over the globe. Bay pulls content from historical and current source materials, including the Internet, to weave together the complexities of the world.  Her interdisciplinary and collaborative practices include video, installations, dynamic websites, animated gifs, photography, music, performance, zines, wallpaper, Riso, and screen-printing to create awareness.

For eight years, Deb Dormody was a co-owner at Craftland, Providence’s multi-functional shop housing a teaching studio and artists’ gallery to showcase fine art and craft from local and national independent artists. Additionally, Deb founded If’n Books and Marks in 2000.  She currently sells and exhibits her handmade blank journals and photo albums in boutiques and galleries around the country. She is the Director of Operations and Programs for the Alliance of Artists Communities, an international association of artist residency centers representing more than 400 organizations worldwide.

TV Shows Today, April 20: Empire, Criminal Minds, Heartbeat

Well, it’s Wednesday and, of course, we have great television shows to enjoy today. First, we recommend the series Empire. Today’s episode: Time Shall Unfold. Season 2. Episode 14. 9:00 pm. FOX. From Wikipedia: Empire is an American musical drama television series which debuted on Fox on January 7, 2015. Although filmed in Chicago, the show is based in New York and it centers on a hip hop music and entertainment company, Empire Entertainment, and the drama among the members of the founders’ family as they fight for control of the company.

Our second choice is for Criminal Minds. Today: Devil’s Backbone. Season 11. Episode 21. 9:00 pm. CBS.

And our last recommendation is for Heartbeat. Today’s episode: The Land of Normal. Season 1. Episode 5. 8:00 pm. NBC.

We hope you eenjoy the shows. Have a very nice day, dear friends.

TV Shows Today, April 20 Video: Anika Calhoun Reveals Her Baby’s Father from “Time Shall Unfold” | EMPIRE

Birthdays Today, April 20: Miranda Kerr, Jessica Lange, Shemar Moore, Carmen Electra

She is a model, author and entrepreneur.. she is Miranda Kerr and she is our Top#1 Famous Birthdasy Today, April 20. From Yareah, we wish her and her family all the best in this special day. Congratulations and happy birthday, Miranda Kerr!

Famous Birthdays Today, April 20: Miranda Kerr David Jones Sydney – Organics Valentine’s Day Event. Source: flickr. Author: Eva Rinaldi

I feel like life is really short, and it’s important to enjoy yourself and embrace whatever comes your way, whether it’s a challenging day or a great day, just welcome it with open arms. No matter who you are, you can’t escape challenges; they are part of life.

Miranda Kerr

I try my best to eat healthy the majority of the time so that I feel good and have more energy. I am so passionate about eating healthily, I am actually certified in nutrition. I try my best to eat organic whenever possible, but it’s important not to be too strict about it. Just do the best you can.

Miranda Kerr

More famous birthdays today, April 20: Jessica Lange, Academy Award winner actress born in 1949; Shemar Moore, actor; and Carmen Electra.

Happy birthday to all of them. Have a very nice day, dear friends.

Famous Birthdays Today, April 20 Video: Inside Miranda Kerr’s Malibu home

Uruguayan Photographer Roberto Fernández Ibáñez exhibits at Stanley Street Gallery

Stanley Street Gallery exhibits the photography of Roberto Fernández Ibáñez, his images mirror the numerical data contained within a graph, rejecting the nature of the information, thus creating mountains of uncertainty.

Photographer Roberto Fernández Ibáñez exhibits at Stanley Street Gallery

Artist Statement:

I always liked landscapes, both the natural and the imaginary ones. I walk in the first ones with my body, and with my mind in the latter. But there are mountains and valleys in which we go through without knowing it. They are unpredictable, unstable and sometimes discouraging. In them we are but data, dots in a fictitious landscape not created by Nature but by human mind’s abstraction.

I reject the language used to show trends, its statistical models and their projections. But even though their materialistic look, I perceive a kind of aesthetic behind the graphs and their changing geometry. Mountains and mathematical graphs: landscapes similar in shape, but opposite in essence. Behind the ephemeral financial status of companies or countries and the changes in environmental and social trends, lays the serene presence of perennial, undulated mountains that call me to inner peace and reflection.

So, when the heavy weight of technology, speculation and political interests exhausts me, I search and find shelter in my own mountains. I mold and print them like a hermit in the red cavern of my darkroom, as a cave artist would do.

Based in the real, my mountains belong to an imaginary world, an inner space that beats in my hands and in the memory of that hominid ancestor who followed the creative impulse that we today call art.

Quick Details:

Artist: Roberto Fernández Ibáñez.

Exhibition: Mountains of Uncertainty.

27th April – 14th May 2016. Opening Thursday 28th April 7-9pm.

Country of Origin: Uruguay.

A featured exhibition of the Headon Photo Festival.

1/52 – 54 Stanley Street, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010.