Archive for March, 2012
#DoesArtMatter
NYC-ARTS, WNET’s multi-platform New York-area arts and culture resource, is launching a new social media campaign, #DoesArtMatter, to start a public dialogue about the role of the arts in modern society. It's on on Twitter and Tumblr, and at Facebook.com/NYCdashARTS.
Thinkers from Rumi to Rockefeller have written about the importance of art to More...
Librotraficante, the Banned Book Caravan
by Latinopia
Activist Tony Diaz, reacting to Arizona's ban on ethnic studies books, organizes book smugglers (librotraficantes) to bring the books to the children of Tucson. Special Video Report.
Video filmed by Jesús Treviño in collaboration with Carlos Calbillo of Houston, Texas and Michael Sedano of the Latino literary blog La Bloga, re-posted wi More...
Nursing | My Funny Valentine
by Henry Denander
Nursing When I came back from the hospital I wanted to tell my son about what they had done to me; I’d suffered from a really painful kidney stone and I had rushed to the hospital to get it removed. I told him there’d been one doctor and two nurses present and I was about to tell how they had performed a cystoscopy; by inserting More...Support TimeWave
TimeWave is an international festival that fuses art and technology. Support TimeWave now in their fund-raising efforts.
TimeWave's organizers share these thoughts:
“The two axial principles of our age – tribalism and globalism – clash at every point except one: they may both be threatening to democracy.” – Benjamin R. Barber, Whi More...
Where Won’t ‘The Hunger Games’ Count?
by Todd Alcott
A few years ago, I was involved in developing a movie based on a popular series of YA novels, a science-fiction thriller series set in a dystopian future and featuring a female protagonist trying to make her way in an oppressive, brutal society.
Because it was not just one novel but three, it was incumbent upon me to lay out not just one movie b More...
Teaching Trayvon
by Ulli K. Ryder
I am a college professor who often teaches about race and ethnicity. Last week one of my classes reached the point in our syllabus where we were to discuss Civil Rights and Black Power. Having taught this before I know it can be tricky. One of the great things is that my students – most of whom are under 21 years old – have so benefited from th More...
Can We Be Successful ‘Pro-Ams,’ Not Underemployed ‘Professionals’?
by Diane Ragsdale | State of the Artist
In 2004, Demos published a pamphlet by Charlie Leadbeater and Paul Miller called Pro Am Revolution. The authors, who define ‘pro-ams’ as amateurs who work to professional standards, write:
The 20th century witnessed the rise of professionals in medicine, science, education, and politics. In one field after another, amateurs and their ramshackl More...
Art! Aliens! Explosions!
by Lainya Magana | Argot and Ochre
Cai Guo-Qiang and his team are gearing up for the Chinese artist's first West Coast exhibition that promises an opening event like no other — and I am sooooo jealous. On April 7th, in honor of his alien-themed exhibition, "Sky Ladder" at MoCA's Geffen Contemporary, Cai has plans to launch spaceship-like fireworks off the roof of the Geffen, sho More...
