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Volkswagen Reprises Blue Lagoon GLI for 2021 Show CarFebruary 23, 2021 at 6:03 PM Among water-cooled Volkswagen aficionados, the Mark 5 2004 Jetta GLI in a color called Blue Lagoon has become a unicorn. With this in mind, for 2021 Volkswagen rolled out a Jetta GLI concept car that reprises its sought-after predecessor. Volkswagen limited the GTI 1337, a special edition made two years prior to the Blue […]
The post Volkswagen Reprises Blue Lagoon GLI for 2021 Show Car appeared first on The Truth About Cars.Tags: Design, Germany, Marketing, Events, Autos, Volkswagen, Gli, Blue Lagoon, Jetta, Enthusiasm, Enthusiast, News Blog, Show Cars, Show Car, Tuner Car 31 people like this. Like The Group Of Seven Has Defined Canadian Art For 100 Years. It’s Time To Move OnFebruary 23, 2021 at 4:29 PM After 101 years of reproducing the Group of Seven’s art to the point of saturation, it feels like the time has come to give other, contemporary voices the same opportunities. – The WalrusTags: Art, Visual, Group of Seven, 02.19.21, Group Of Seven Has Defined 6 people like this. Like San Diego Cultural Advocate Larry T. Baza, 76, Of COVIDFebruary 23, 2021 at 4:01 PM “For more than four decades, Baza used his voice advocating for San Diego’s artistic and cultural community at the local, state and national levels. He served on countless panels, boards and commissions, including the National Endowment for the Arts, California Association of Local Arts Organizations, Chicano Federation of San Diego County, National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, San Diego Community Foundation and Diversionary Theatre.” – San Diego Union-TribuneTags: Art, People, San Diego, Baza, 02.22.21, Larry T Baza 49 people like this. Like William Nicholson’s Alphabet BookFebruary 23, 2021 at 3:56 PM William Nicholson’s Alphabet book, published in 1897, is an ABC book like no other. A talented artist, illustrator and print-maker, Nicholson used simple woodcuts and minimal text to show the good, bad and ugly of Victorian society. It contains a self-portrait, a family joke and E for Executioner.Find copies of William Nicholson’s Alphabet bookTags: Books, Design, Abc, Children's Book, Rare Books, Nicholson, William Nicholson 37 people like this. Like How The Smithsonian Is Celebrating Its 150 YearsFebruary 23, 2021 at 3:32 PM “The Smithsonian was always about how it could help the country reimagine itself, understand itself,” said Bunch, a historian and founding director of the popular National Museum of African American History and Culture. “The work we did with early aviation, even the way we collect history, which was always trying to ensure future generations understand how we got where we are. The notion is to help people recognize that they create the future.” – Washington PostTags: Art, Visual, National Museum of African American History, 02.22.21 48 people like this. Like He Invented New Instruments To Express The Soul Of His Troubled HomelandFebruary 23, 2021 at 2:58 PM Joaquín Orellana, one of Guatemala’s leading composers, calls his creations útiles sonoros (“sound tools”), and many of them are de-and-reconstructed versions of his country’s national instrument, the marimba. “The ingenuity of Orellana’s inventions,” writes Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, “often hovers between playfulness and cruelty.” – The New York TimesTags: Art, Music, Guatemala, Corinna da Fonseca Wollheim, Orellana, 02.19.21, Joaquín Orellana 2 people like this. Like “Black Art’s” Blackout: Who’s Absent from HBO’s Survey of “Today’s Top African American Artists”?February 23, 2021 at 2:55 PM Although it gives us fascinating inside-the-studio glimpses of several important artists at work, Black Art: In the Absence of Light insufficiently illuminates the depth and breadth of work African-American artists are producing today. – Lee RosenbaumTags: Art, Hbo, Ajblogs, 02.23.21 39 people like this. Like Governor: NYC Movie Theatres Can ReopenFebruary 23, 2021 at 2:27 PM Governor Andrew Cuomo said “cinemas in the city will be permitted to operate at 25% capacity, with no more than 50 people. Moreover, other safety measures such as masks, social distancing and heightened sanitizing measures will be required.” – VarietyTags: Art, Media, Andrew Cuomo, Audience, 02.22.21 15 people like this. Like Charles Hill, Heroic Undercover Art Detective, Dead At 73February 23, 2021 at 2:03 PM “Hill’s willingness to take major risks in order to find some of the world’s greatest stolen artworks” — most famously, Vermeer’s Lady Writing a Letter With Her Maid (in 1993) and Munch’s The Scream (in 1996) — “made him one of the most celebrated art detectives in the world.” – ARTnewsTags: Art, Uncategorized, Munch, Hill, Vermeer, Charles Hill, 02.22.21 15 people like this. Like Cuban Artists Demand Removal Of Culture MinisterFebruary 23, 2021 at 1:28 PM The Cuban activist group 27N submitted a legal request for Alonso’s removal to the National Assembly of People’s Power on February 3 on behalf of nearly 1,300 artists, intellectuals, and activists. – ArtnetTags: Art, Issues, Alonso, 02.22.21, National Assembly of People 's Power 14 people like this. Like Why Is The Turkish Government Trying To Sue This Cultural Organization Out Of Existence?February 23, 2021 at 1:05 PM “While art philanthropist Osman Kavala has been jailed in Turkey for more than three years without conviction, the country has now filed an unprecedented lawsuit in an attempt to dismantle his Istanbul-based arts organization Anadolu Kültür. … Kavala’s various initiatives to support cultural memory projects for Kurds, Armenians, Yazidis, and other marginalized groups in Turkey have long made Anadolu Kültür a target of government scrutiny.” – HyperallergicTags: Art, Turkey, Istanbul, Issues, Kavala, Osman Kavala, 02.16.21, Anadolu Kültür 22 people like this. Like Getting At What Truth Really Is (Not That Simple)February 23, 2021 at 12:32 PM “True seems to be that which is in accordance with the facts or reality, the way things simply are. But it is not as simple as that. For there are not only ‘brute facts’ (eg whether Germany invaded Belgium in 1914), but also more complex phenomena, where interpretation and the weighing of evidence apply (eg, the causes of World War One). How we make sense of things has a great deal to do with what truth means.” – 3 Quarks DailyTags: Art, Germany, Ideas, Belgium, 02.22.21 18 people like this. Like Using Social Media To Preserve The Uyghur Language — And Keep It Up To DateFebruary 23, 2021 at 12:02 PM Uyghur, a Turkic language that uses the Arabic alphabet, has about 10 million native speakers, most of them in the Xinjiang province of northwestern China. With the Chinese Communist Party engaged in a campaign to suppress the Uyghur minority and their language (including scrubbing Uyghur websites based in China from the Web), a WeChat group of academics, translators, and other professionals called “Tilchilar” (Uyghur for “linguists”) is doing crucial work to document the language and make sure ...Tags: Art, China, Chinese communist party, Words, Xinjiang, 02.20.21 The 9 best Airbnbs in Orlando, from a family home with its own arcade to a condo right by Disney SpringsFebruary 23, 2021 at 11:42 AM Tags: Florida, Cdc, Disney, Trends, United States, Airbnb, Interior Design, Orlando, Disney World, Ritz, Disney Springs, Winter Park, Airbnbs, Lake Buena Vista, Paul Oswell, Downtown Orlando 64 people like this. Like Star Soccer Star Touts Ballet Training For PerformanceFebruary 23, 2021 at 11:38 AM The images shared by the ballet company had soccer fans’ heads turning when they emerged. Such a sports star dabbling in ballet may have seemed unheard of, but it wasn’t a new trend. – Irish TimesTags: Art, Dance, 02.22.21 40 people like this. Like How To Design A Memorial For The COVID Pandemic?February 23, 2021 at 11:04 AM Several places in Italy and Great Britain are considering the question, and a few memorials have already gone up. “[They] are not intended as sweeping monuments to the historical moment, but simple places to grieve and reflect.” – The New York TimesTags: Art, Italy, Great Britain, Visual, 02.22.21 19 people like this. Like Why Joffrey Ballet Is Only Now Making Work To StreamFebruary 23, 2021 at 10:31 AM Staging a full-length performance digitally “would break the bank,” says artistic director Ashley Wheater, who doesn’t really like streamed dance much. “I’m embracing it because there’s nothing else, but it wouldn’t be my choice. … [Nevertheless,] if it’s the right content, it can be really powerful.” – Chicago MagazineTags: Art, Dance, Ashley Wheater, 02.22.21 39 people like this. Like Will Upright Citizens Brigade Ever Reopen? ‘I Don’t Know’, Says Amy PoehlerFebruary 23, 2021 at 10:03 AM In a feature interview for The New York Times Magazine, the co-founder of the famed, and now troubled, improv company and school said, “It’s been brutal for us. We’re basically using the fire of COVID to start some new version. We’re changing our school and our theater to not-for-profit.” (She and her co-founders have said they’ll give up leadership of UCB when that happens.) “Whether or not we’ll be able to get there, I don’t know.” – VultureTags: Art, Theatre, Amy Poehler, New York Times Magazine, UCB, 02.22.21 27 people like this. Like Douglas Turner Ward, Pioneering Black Theater Artist, Dead At 90February 23, 2021 at 9:35 AM A writer and director as well as an actor, he wrote a 1966 New York Times Op-Ed titled “American Theater: For Whites Only?” that inspired the Ford Foundation to fund the creation of the Negro Ensemble Company, with Ward as artistic director. Both he and the troupe amassed nominations and awards, and the NEC counts some of the world’s most admired Black actors as alumni. Ward was also a playwright, and just last year published his magnum opus, a trilogy titled The Haitian Chronicles. – The New Yo...Tags: Art, People, NEC, Ford Foundation, Ward, New York Times Op Ed, Negro Ensemble Company, 02.22.21, Douglas Turner Ward Pioneering Black Theater 2 people like this. Like France Is Trying To Raise Millions To Buy De Sade’s Filthiest ManuscriptFebruary 23, 2021 at 9:02 AM “The French government is appealing for corporate help to acquire the manuscript of the Marquis de Sade’s notorious The 120 Days of Sodom, valued at €4.5m (£3.9m), for the National Library of France.” – The GuardianTags: Art, France, Words, Marquis de Sade, de Sade, 02.22.21 31 people like this. Like It’s A 17,300-Year-Old Kangaroo: Australia’s Oldest Rock Art IdentifiedFebruary 23, 2021 at 8:34 AM “A nearly-life-size depiction of a kangaroo — realistic genitalia included — is the oldest known rock painting in Australia. Scientists recently pinpointed its age to 17,300 years ago with a technique that had never been used on Australian ancient art before: measuring radioactive carbon in wasp nests from rocks near the artwork.” – Live ScienceTags: Art, Australia, Visual, 02.22.21 29 people like this. Like Facebook Ends Australia News Ban After Deal With GovernmentFebruary 23, 2021 at 8:01 AM The [agreement is that] the government may not apply the code to Facebook if the company can demonstrate it has signed enough deals with media outlets to pay them for content. The government has also agreed that Facebook and other platforms which would be subject to the code would be given a month’s notice to comply.” – The GuardianTags: Art, Facebook, Media, 02.23.21, Facebook Ends Australia News 24 people like this. Like The Oldest Known Globe to Depict the New World Was Engraved on an Ostrich Egg, Maybe by Leondardo da Vinci (1504)February 23, 2021 at 7:00 AM  Tags: Google, Art, Maps, London, College, Southeast Asia, History, Atlantic, Cambridge, Belgium, Newfoundland, Kim, North America, Library Of Congress, Pacific, Columbus 139 people like this. Like "Can only have been painted by a madman."February 23, 2021 at 7:05 AM Words by Edvard Munch in tiny letters in the most famous version of "The Scream," The Art Newspaper reports. Can we be sure that the artist wrote these words? Mai Britt Guleng, the curator of Old Masters and modern paintings at the National Museum of Norway, says yes. First, the handwriting matches up to other samples of Munch's handwriting. Second, the writing is tiny: “Had this been an act of vandalism by another person, the size of the letters would probably have been larger and the whole tex...Tags: Art, Writing, Law, Munch, Edvard Munch, Reuters, Don, Kiki, Ann Althouse, Insanity, Mai Britt Guleng, Guleng, The Scream, Destruction Of Art, National Museum of Norway 36 people like this. Like 'That is our job in theatre – I'm gonna make you love me!' Noma Dumezweni meets Harriet WalterFebruary 23, 2021 at 3:18 AM The stars of stage and screen chat about playing witches, seeing ghosts and stepping into another legend’s shoesThey have enjoyed huge success on TV with The Undoing and Killing Eve, respectively, but Noma Dumezweni and Harriet Walter started out on stage. They met in 1999, when Dumezweni played a witch and understudied Walter as Lady Macbeth for the Royal Shakespeare Company. The pair caught up to discuss Dumezweni’s role as Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, theatre ghosts ...Tags: Television, Film, Theatre, Culture, Stage, Broadway, Harry Potter, Royal Shakespeare Company, Black Lives Matter, Walter, Noma Dumezweni, Hermione Granger, Noma, Lady Macbeth, Harriet Walter, Dumezweni 41 people like this. Like |
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