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Into The Pixel

from The NY Times Pixels Floating on the Art World’s Margins John Sweeney By HAROLD GOLDBERG LOS ANGELES — The annual E3 convention here is known for the glitzy premiere of video games with huge budgets, and for its boisterous hustle and bustle. But tucked between the two rowdy convention halls is a quieter area resembling [...]

Indiana Jones And The Industry of Doom

from The Hollywood Reporter Steven Spielberg Predicts ‘Implosion’ of Film Industry by Paul Bond George Lucas echoed Spielberg’s sentiments at an event touting the opening of a new USC School of Cinematic Arts building, saying big changes are in store. Steven Spielberg on Wednesday predicted an “implosion” in the film industry is inevitable, whereby a half [...]

The History of Art in GIFs

from Tumblr The Temptation of St Anthony – Salvador Dalí [ click to view all the GIFs at Tumblr.com ]

Orwellian Rule Anew

from Shelf Awareness It’s 1984 All Over Again: Orwell’s Book Sales Spike Daily disclosures about America’s surveillance apparatus have sparked renewed interest in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Wall Street Journal reported that by early yesterday, sales of the dystopian classic had jumped noticeably, with one edition rising more than 7,000% in its Amazon rankings, moving from #13,074 on Monday [...]

Hamburger Hamlet Founder Harry Lewis Gone

from KSWT Harry Lewis, founder of Hamburger Hamlet, dies LOS ANGELES (AP) – Harry Lewis, founder of the Hamburger Hamlet chain whose regular customers included Ronald Reagan and Elizabeth Taylor, has died at age 93. The Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/1bqkpkA ) reports Lewis died Sunday at a convalescent home in Beverly Hills. His son, Adam, tells [...]

The Sizlacks

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40 Years of Art History in 65 Boxes of Transparencies

from The NY Times He Captured Modern Art, and Now Is Letting It Go By DAVID W. DUNLAP Help yourself to D. James Dee’s luscious, sprawling photographic archive of the modern New York art scene. He has about 250,000 color transparencies and slides, ranging in size from 35 millimeter to 8 by 10 inches, documenting the [...]

Dog’s Best Bird

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Itch A Skitch

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HENRY MILLER MADE ME DO IT by James Frey

from big think On Writing: Henry Miller Made Me Do It by JAMES FREY I became a writer after I read Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller when I was 22. I couldn’t believe somebody wrote that book.  I couldn’t believe somebody said what he said and lived how he lived and wrote this book.  I was just [...]