Maureen E. Doallas's Blog – June 2012 Archive (31)

All Art Friday

Today's All Art Friday spotlights a guide to New York City's public art; an interactive tool to map an exhibition of land art; the microWave project, which puts artists together with businesses willing to provide space for "pop up" shows; Installator, a site that shows you what's involving in installing art exhibits; and the new Bret Price sculpture "Hublot", acquired by the Smithsonian Museum of American Art. The featured video is KCET's "Jackrabbit Homestead".

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Added by Maureen E. Doallas on June 29, 2012 at 7:20am — No Comments

Illustrator Allen Say

Illustrator and author Allen Say is the subject of an Oregon Art Beat profile I've made available today.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/06/illustrator-allen-say.html

Added by Maureen E. Doallas on June 28, 2012 at 5:58am — No Comments

A Todd Boss Poem, in Motion

Celebrating the conclusion of this month's "Trees" theme at TweetSpeakPoetry, I've posted an animation of the Todd Boss poem "The Trees - They Were Once Good Men":

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/06/todd-boss-poem-in-motion.html

Added by Maureen E. Doallas on June 27, 2012 at 7:31am — No Comments

An Apple's Use (Poem)

I've posted a new poem, "An Apple's Use", about the death of brilliant mathematician and philosopher Alan Turing. This year is the centenary of Turing's birth. I've included a number of resources, as well as an introductory video, about him.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/06/apples-use-poem.html

Added by Maureen E. Doallas on June 26, 2012 at 6:24am — No Comments

Monday Muse Asks Did You Know?

Today's post is the second in an occasional series presenting something about poets, poets, or poetry that you might not know.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/06/monday-muse-asks-did-you-know.html

Added by Maureen E. Doallas on June 25, 2012 at 7:09am — No Comments

Tough Guy (Poem)

I've posted a new poem, "Tough Guy", in response to today's photo prompt of Orson Welles at Tess Kincaid's Magpie Tales.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/06/tough-guy-poem.html

Added by Maureen E. Doallas on June 24, 2012 at 11:25am — No Comments

Thought for the Day

The Thought for the Day is a quote by Louise Nevelson. I've included a video excerpt from the film Louise Nevelson: Awareness in the Fourth Dimension.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/06/thought-for-day_24.html

Added by Maureen E. Doallas on June 24, 2012 at 7:57am — No Comments

Saturday Sharing (My Finds Are Yours)

Today's edition of Saturday Sharing offers links to pictures, pictures, and more pictures. You won't be able to see them all in a day but start, perhaps with the New York City Municipal Archives Online Gallery, move on to the Image Archive at 50 Watts, and then take a turn around Pattern Pulp. The video feature: "Why Do Old Books Smell?"…

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Added by Maureen E. Doallas on June 23, 2012 at 7:55am — No Comments

Poem for Image-ine Series

My poem "Walking Rain" is paired today with a Randall David Tipton watercolor for the Image-ine series at TweetSpeakPoetry:

http://www.tweetspeakpoetry.com/2012/06/22/image-ine-walking-rain/

Added by Maureen E. Doallas on June 22, 2012 at 7:31am — No Comments

All Art Friday

All Art Friday spotlights art books, "Desks as Portraits", Hung Liu's gorgeous paintings (and an interview with NEA), and the "Labyrinth" installation by Motoi Yamamoto (video), created with table salt. The round-up highlights exhibitions of the work of Patrick Graham (AU's Katzen Center, Washington, D.C.), Elizabeth Kray and Stanley Kunitz (Poets House. New York City), and James Havard (Zane Bennett Contemporary, Santa Fe). Also featured is an exhibition of African American quilts at…

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Added by Maureen E. Doallas on June 22, 2012 at 6:54am — No Comments

Lynette Wallworth's Coral: Rekindling Venus

Coral reefs have engaged the attention of Australian artist Lynette Wallworth for years, resulting in the creation of her film Coral: Rekindling Venus, for which I provide the trailer in today's post, which includes additional information about Wallworth and the film's fascinating Website.…

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Added by Maureen E. Doallas on June 21, 2012 at 6:35am — No Comments

Wednesday Wonder: Sydney Light Show

Today's Wednesday Wonder is Urbanscreen's installation light project for the Sydney Opera House. Watch as the opera house's "sails" collapse.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/06/wednesday-wonder-sydney-light-show.html

Added by Maureen E. Doallas on June 20, 2012 at 6:10am — No Comments

Southern Dream Catcher (Poem)

I've posted a new poem, "Southern Dream Catcher", inspired by bottle trees.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/06/southern-dream-catcher-poem.html

Added by Maureen E. Doallas on June 19, 2012 at 6:20am — No Comments

Monday Muse: Vermont's Poet Laureate

Monday Muse profiles Sydney Lea, Vermont's Poet Laureate, who succeeded Ruth Stone.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/06/monday-muse-vermonts-poet-laureate.html

Added by Maureen E. Doallas on June 18, 2012 at 6:16am — No Comments

Thought for the Day

Poet Kay Ryan provides the Thought for the Day:

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/06/thought-for-day_17.html

Added by Maureen E. Doallas on June 17, 2012 at 8:20am — No Comments

Saturday Sharing (My Finds Are Yours)

Explorers and the curious will enjoy today's finds, which include the Royal Society of London's online picture library and a showcase of Greco-Roman archival materials.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/06/saturday-sharing-my-finds-are-yours_16.html

Added by Maureen E. Doallas on June 16, 2012 at 6:50am — No Comments

All Art Friday

Today's All Art Friday spotlights range from Anne Harris's unsettling paintings and drawings, to Mercury impact craters named after famous artists, to Mia Wen Hsuan Liu's "Guggen' Dizzy", to a wonderful William Wegman feature video.

The roundup highlights exhibitions of the work of Clyfford Still and Edward Gorey (Norton Museum of Art), Toulouse-Lautrec and his contemporaries (Milwaukee Art Museum), Canadian artists (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art), and Isaac Julien (San…

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Added by Maureen E. Doallas on June 15, 2012 at 7:11am — No Comments

The Haiti in Maggie Steber's Eyes

For more than two decades, the much-honored, award-winning documentary photographer Maggie Steber has filmed in Haiti, concentrating her camera not only on Haiti's suffering and the evidence of the island nation's considerable socio-political problems but also on what she calls "the moments described by the beauty of the Haitian people". Today's post brings you Steber's moving film Audacity of Beauty.…

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Added by Maureen E. Doallas on June 14, 2012 at 6:27am — No Comments