I expected the Pierre Menard Gallery's current show of works by the feminist writer and artist Kate Millett to be heavy-duty, in-your-face and angry, but was pleased to find, for the most part, colorful, simple brush-strokes that looked like Japanese characters.
I never thought I was in Venice or at the Met, but the vibrancy and professionalism of the production and the performers far surpassed what I'd expected to hear--especially in a college dining hall.
In his 3-05-09 post "Probe the Past to Protect the Future," Washington DC business-advocate-re-turned investigative journalist Andrew Kreig says it's "nonsense"for the country to look forward without addressing the "wrongs" of the recent past "nonsense"....I'm not anxious to delve back into the murky recent past. By temperament, like Obama, I would...
If Heide Hatry’s provocative photographic show—Heads and Tales--at the Peirre Menard Gallery, (10 Arrow St. in Cambridge) is meant to shock: it does.
The Boston arrest of street artist Shepard Fairey, along with the AP suit and countersuit concerning a copyrighted photograph of Obama, are part and parcel of Shepard Fairey's art--which as a whole is a provocative--and, now, increasingly lucrative--challenge to authority. Still, it's nice that someone is making money at a time when the world...
Kudos to Boston's Institute for Contemporary Art for mounting a spectacular 20-year restrospective of Shepard Fairey's work--which runs through August 16, 2009.
In a talk at Harvard's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, New York Times Business Columnist Joe Nocera offered background and commentary on the current financial crisis. In answer to the question posed by the talk's title: The Economy: Where are we Headed," he resoundingly proclaimed, "I don't...
Watching the Obama inauguration ceremonies on TV, I felt disappointed by poet Elizabeth Alexander’s “Praise Song for the Day”…but agree with Martha Swartz of Philadelphia, who points out in her email newsletter that that the poem works better read than heard. It’s included below. Martha, a lawyer who regularly sends out political commentary, also...
Scientia Advisors is offering five free Webinars for anyone interested in trends in the health care and life science industries.
This post briefly reviews three January 2009 Webinars on how blogs and other social media tools can best be used to grow businesses.
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