by Claudine Isé | Sep 16, 2009 | Blog
Looks pretty intense. The film looks at the 1954 CIA coup in Iran from the perspective of two different women. It won Neshat the best director award at the Venice Film Festival, but apparently some of the initial newspaper reviews are coming in mixed. (Via L.A....
by Claudine Isé | Sep 16, 2009 | Blog
Remember the “North Carolina Sewer Monster” from last Spring (which turned out to be not a monster exactly but a roiling pile of worms)? Yes, I know you tried really hard to burn the image of that creature out of your memory through heavy drinking and a...
by Claudine Isé | Sep 16, 2009 | Blog
Here’s our midweek summary of this n’ that and other chit-chat happening in the world of art and beyond. *Keith Olbermann gives Christopher Knight “Best Person in the World” status for pointing out potentially communist imagery in right-wing...
by Meg Onli | Sep 15, 2009 | Blog
Let me preface this by saying that I am not stoned. But, I seriously wished I was when I watched this week’s pick. Be prepared to be entranced by the skills of Michael Moschen, a fit man with some serious juggling skills. Who knew there was such a thing as...
by Meg Onli | Sep 15, 2009 | Blog
This season’s theme for SAIC’s Visiting Artist Program is Living Modern. The program will be linked with the exhibition of the same title at SAIC’s Sullivan Galleries. “Bridging the historic roots of American modernism with the critical...
by Claudine Isé | Sep 14, 2009 | Blog
Conventional wisdom tells us that the the time to buy art is when you’re older and have attained a degree of financial security, right? I’ve learned from personal experience that this kind of logic is completely backwards. Sure, now that I’m older...
