Category: Art

  • For Your Consideration—Crystal Ball Edition Part II

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    by Jim Keller Admittedly, last month’s column was thrown together between health battles, and birthday and Oscar celebrations—oh wait, those last two were on the same day, no lie! Without further ado, I give you the remainder of a short list of films—some of which you might be hearing about for years to come as…

  • Culture Desk: Abstraction in Art and Music—Reviews of Various Recent Museum Exhibitions and a Concert at Carnegie Hall

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    by Bernie Langs The basic definition of abstraction, gleaned from the ubiquitous Internet encyclopedia, is “a process by which concepts are derived from the usage and classification of literal (‘real’ or ‘concrete’) concepts, first principles, or other methods. ‘An abstraction’ is the product of this process—a concept that acts as a super-categorical noun for all…

  • For Your Consideration–Crystal Ball Edition

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    by Jim Keller With February’s Academy Awards quickly becoming a distant memory, let’s gaze into the crystal ball and see what 2013 has in store. There, we can see shimmering particles slowly come together to create what will become concrete images, baring the faces of tomorrow’s contenders. What controversy awaits? What new names will become…

  • Life on a Roll

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    Berylline Hummingbird on a Wire by John Ratliff III, Falls Church, Virginia March 2013

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    Double Rainbow in Denver by Christina Pyrgaki March 2013

  • CULTURE CORNER Book and Film Reviews: Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald & Celebration Day featuring Led Zeppelin

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    by Bernie Langs I waited impatiently for five years to view and listen to the one-time concert of the 2007 Led Zeppelin Reunion performance, and immediately bought the film the week it became available in November 2012. Celebration Day, the video of the occasion, was well worth the wait. I would venture to say that…

  • For Your Consideration – Chasing Gold Edition

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    by Jim Keller Last month, I revisited my preliminary predictions in all of the major categories and offered up my final take on the season to date. Since then, the votes have been cast, the nominees announced, and two of the major awards programs came and went—all leaving in their wake a pile of bruised…

  • Life on a Roll

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    Light by Elodie Pauwels February 2013

  • For Your Consideration – And They’re Off! Edition

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    by Jim Keller The Oscar race can be best thought of as a horserace in which each studio bets on their thoroughbreds and hopes that they can at least place in the end. In this analogy, the studio is the owner, the public relations department is the jockey, and the horse is the actor or…

  • CULTURE DESK Reviews: Various Art Exhibitions and an Evening at Carnegie Hall

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    by Bernie Langs On a much too hot and humid Thursday in early October, I was determined to see as many top notch art shows in Manhattan as I could and succeeded beyond my expectations. I began the day at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see the exhibition, “Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years”…