A thousand years of inspiration (Financial Times)
Handmade in India" is a phrase that's been associated with cheap and cheerful wares for a generation....more...The ?big picture? (Bonita Daily News)
Size matters in art. Anyone who has spent time in museums and galleries probably knows this instinctively....more... Bernd Becher (Independent)
Bernd Becher, photographer: born Siegen, Germany 20 August 1913; married 1961 Hilla Wobeser (one son); died Rostock, Germany 22 June 2007....more... Stiletto Shoes stays atop the latest fashion trends (Portsmouth Herald)
PORTSMOUTH ? When one hears the word "stiletto," thepicture it conjures up is of something sleek, sharp and just a bit dangerous. There are stiletto knives and stiletto heels, but to Marlene Allen, the owner of Stiletto Shoes on Deer Street, the... ...more... outer space art (Phoenix New Times)
Ever since we could use our eyeballs, humans haven't been able to shake a major staring problem with the night sky. The ancient Babylonians were so obsessed that they created the first-known practice of astrology ? which we now use as fodder for cheap come-on lines in bars. In the mid-20th ......more... Star Wizards (American Heritage)
By late February of 1977 Richard Edlund, a visualeffects cinematographer, knew he was in trouble. With his budget long exhausted and an inflexible release date looming, the risky new adventure movie he?d spent nearly two years working on still had no opening shot....more... How texting is redesigning the T-shirt (The Star-Ledger)
T-shirts would seem to be among the most low-tech of products. But the art of T-shirt production, especially shirts with out-there designs and slogans, has become a decidedly Web-savvy affair....more... Berlin's art scene, once wild and free, is increasingly commercialized (Calendarlive.com)
BERLIN ? There's a Starbucks near where the orgies used to be, and although the aura of Bohemia is distinct, things aren't as unhinged as they were 17 years ago when punkers, pornographers, anarchists, squatters and artists of all persuasions landed amid the rust and drizzle of this liberated city....more... 70s poster icon is back, so anyone for Tennis Girl? (The Scotsman)
IT WAS the poster that adorned the walls of countless adolescents at the end of the 1970s and fuelled a million male fantasies. Caught in bright sunlight, a woman tennis player, lopes off court, rather indiscretely scratching a naked buttock....more... |