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Go see this show please at Toomey Tourell Fine Art in San Francisco at 49 Geary Street. Take the elevator, go down the hall. It's like Silence of the Lambs , when they arrive in Lecter's holding area and find the police officer flayed and hung up in the air, dead and resplendent. Indeed there's blood everywhere, but it is all paper and string, cut and falling, elegant and wispy, stark and heavy. Go see this Lyndi Sales , for you will hear her name again. The show is sold out. It's mad in this economy, but this quaint little show is littered with the telling red pins of American art galleries -- "They're sold." From Toomey Tourell -- A brief rationale on the work[by the artist]: All the works I created are part of the airline crash series. The Helderberg crash happened 20 years ago during the Apartheid era and remains unresolved and is still a controversial issue today in South Africa. At the time of the crash there were political sanctions against our...

This is someone I have been following on twitter for a while and just now got to dig into her blog a bit...LOVE what i have found. and she says : I just adore the idea of spreading some positive messages via fence stitching. In this time of global financial stress it really is all too easy to get depressed and despondent about it all. And some would suggest that the powers that be are all too happy for us to do so.. For more Radical Cross Stitch click here .

Here are Li'l E's two grandpas, spending down a little bit of time before going to see The Wiz at the Marin County Theater, as part of K's school's spring production. Really, it does not get more beautiful and important than this. Li'l E sat through the performance that followed in its entirity. Two proud grandpas watched him make his way through the crowd afterward, still awake and congratulating the performers.

Kul Wadhwa, Wikimedia FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Wikipedia Gets a Corporate Partner By Geoffrey A. Fowler On Wednesday, the Wikimedia Foundation — the organization that runs online community-edited encyclopedia Wikipedia — announced its first large content partnership with a major company, Orange, the European telecom brand of France Telecom. The deal will allow Orange to develop co-branded Wiki channels on its mobile and Web portals. The two will also begin working together to develop new services and features around content from Wikipedia. For Orange, the motivation is simple: Wikipedia is popular with Web users, more so in Europe than any other part of the world. “We are looking to partner with some of the best Internet brands, so that our customers have access to the best of information on the Web,” said Orange spokeswoman Carolyn Owen. But for the nonprofit Wikimedia, partnering up is more complex. Orange will share some revenue out of the deal with the foundation, but Ms. Owen ...

This just in from "The God Blog." A source told Jewish Journal editor-in-chief Rob Eshman that the University of Southern California and Hebrew Union College-Jewish institute of Religion, which already share some faculty and facilities, are working on a deal to fold the L.A. campus into USC as a Jewish studies program. “Its a win win,“ the source said. “HUC gets a big chunk of money for what it owns—about a block of prime real estate by the USC campus—and USC gets to solidify a Jewish studies and outreach program that it has been building for some time now.“ Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles has been having big problems -- a consolidation of resources may present a novel and impactful solution. VERY INTERESTING.

Watch more Artbabble ! To view Maxwell Anderson's Museums and the Web Annual Conference (#mw2009) Plenary Address -- click here . It is AMAZING. Amazing, what one great leader in this age has done for a museum, its team and a municipality...and then a universe on-line. It takes a village, sure -- donors have clearly stepped forward, there are already acres in place, many important museum professionals make all this possible, the public, the on-line community, etc. But whatever it is that gives me a sense that this one cat's had such a great impact must hold some truth, if even that he has served as a symbol, which is at least half the game, right? But check the succinctness and eloquence here. I'm only half way through in MY watching...wish I was there.

Nina Simon's Musuem 2.0 's got a new post that baselines a lot of the on-going issues related to museums and social media. To read the blog post click here . Nina's observations are broad and significant. She also links to a colleague's blog: Additionally, it was the second time that week alone that I first heard a piece of major news via news stories posted by friends. Not via television, a news website, or the paper. Facebook. And it hit me. I didn't need the Boston Globe anymore. Or the White County News. My friends were editing all the news I needed. No, not editing. Curating. - Susie Wilkening Reach advisors Very interesting, but, um, "Ouch," on the whole Boston Globe thing , right? I mean what happens if all the news goes away and all that we are left with is the trading of Facebook's "5 Beers I Like" polls? Clearly this is not what Wilkening is espousing and I think we are all profoundly curious and smart enough that ...

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Please join us on Sunday May 10 at The Jewish Museum, when the exhibition They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust opens to the public at The Jewish Musem (Fifth Avenue at 92nd St, NYC), 11:00am-5:45pm. We hope you can also come on Thursday May 14 for a special public program with us at The Jewish Museum moderated by Dave Isay (StoryCorps and NPR). The members' opening is on May 5. 'http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/MayerJuly Mayer Kirshenblatt has made it his mission to remember the world of his childhood in living color, lest future generations know more about how Jews died than how they lived. This unique project is a blend of memoir, oral history, and visual interpretation, the culmination of a forty-year collaboration with Mayer's daughter Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett. Intimate, humorous, and refreshingly candid, the project is a remarkable record -- in both words and images -- of Jewish life in a Polish...

... Vook tries to address a big problem for book publishers as they expand onto digital formats. For all the hype and initial success of devices like the Kindle, they threaten to strip traditional books of much of their transportive appeal. Images on the jacket cover, inviting fonts and the satisfying feel of quality paper are all largely absent, replaced by humdrum pixels on a virtual page. Even worse, on multipurpose reading devices like the iPhone, more immediately gratifying pastimes like video games are a click away for readers with short attention spans. “Publishers are going to be confronted with the idea that either the words on the page have to be completely compelling on their own, or they have to figure out a way to create new sorts of subliminal draws in the new medium,” said Sara Nelson, the former editor of Publishers Weekly and a publishing industry consultant... I was very taken by this piece in the NYTimes today by Brad Stone . I am working on something like this for ...

FROM: For a land already in a bad mood, shootings slap around the American psyche By TED ANTHONY , Associated Press April 4, 2009 ...Without excusing one whit of the violent tendencies that ended with so many bullets in so many bodies from Binghamton to North Carolina to Alabama to California in the past month, isn't it time, finally, to figure out where this national dream makes a wrong turn? "Maybe research can prevent further tragedies of this type," a man named Charles Whitman wrote one day in 1966. Then he ascended a tower at the University of Texas, looked out over the campus, pulled out a shotgun, three rifles and three pistols and killed 16 people. Forty-three years and countless reams of research and lost loved ones later, we have not figured it out. Today, the American Civic Association in Binghamton says so. The Pittsburgh Police Department says so. The vulnerable people at the Pinelake Health and Rehab Center in Carthage, N.C., say so. Of Jiverly Wong, Bingham...