Posted new edition of All Art Friday. Today's spotlights are on Artists Network University, Joan Miro Prize winner Roni Horn, Swedish photographer and filmmaker Carl Kleiner's fun tribute to Alexander Calder (video included), wood-chip sculptures, and Shahzia Sikander's animation "The Last Post" (video included).

The roundup highlights exhibitions at Walker Art Center (the group show "Painter Painter"), Japan Society ("The Graphic Impact of Japanese Prints"), Minneapolis Institute of…

Hey all, I just became a regular contributor on Huffington Post & here's my first contribution. Please check it out & let me know what you think. If you don't like reading you can skip ahead to the end & watch the vid.

Melinda

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/melinda-hill/americas-got-talent_b_2875308.html

A few weeks ago there was a considerable stink raised in some literary circles about what makes a “real author.” Some of the blog posts were downright insulting and vitriolic whereas others presented a more calm and measured argument. I’m sure many of you out there know what I’m talking about— and the…

I've posted Thought for the Day, a quote from Walt Whitman's "To Think of Time" in "Leaves of Grass".

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/03/thought-for-day_17.html

My name is Fumi Hancock, some know me as Dr. Fumi Stephanie Hancock. I am the founder and President of Adassa Adumori Foundation, Inc; a US based 501(c) 3 Organization based…

No one ever said getting published and building an audience was easy.

Wait a minute...yes they have. There are lots of online gurus who say this all the time. Can’t write? No problem! Can’t tell the difference between an infinitive and a run-on sentence? Who cares!…

The Thought for the Day is a quote from the Fragments of Heraclitus.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/03/thought-for-day_25.html

This is my first blog posting for She Writes...but I have been writing a daily blog on blogger.com called "Oh, for the love of my children," since January and my blogging partner in crime, Julie Farley and I have been blogging together on our "Perfect Mamas Confess" website since the beginning of summer.  I am copying Julie's latest Perfect Mamas Confess blog here now.  There is a follow up to this blog on our PMC blog and I will re-post them tomorrow so you can follow…

Because no one really cares if you’re miserable?

Maybe.

Or perhaps, because there are already far too many unhappy individuals in the world?

Could…

Question: How much dysfunctional, cynical, delusional, pathological and sociopathic behavior can be crammed into a 30-minute TV block? Apparently many. And apparently many times over because this seem to be the blueprint for a “successful” reality TV show nowadays....

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