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What an amazing day!

I was visiting my family in suburban Maryland when I came across the BlackRock Center for the Arts . Fascinating...well, for me. I guess there've been spaces like these for a long time, but there's something about moving a "Center for the Arts" into a commercial center like this that stuck with me. Why? Because "art centers" are often focused on alterity and suburban commercial centers are generally focused on homogeneity . The Suburban Museum. "In the early 1990s, a group of Germantown, Maryland residents began to promote the concept of an arts center that would be located within their own community. Their idea became a rallying point for Germantown's active civic leadership. Within a year, the Germantown Cultural Arts Center, Inc. (d/b/a BlackRock Center for the Arts) was founded as a not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) organization to develop, own and manage BlackRock." (For more read here .) Out here you got your Blackhawk Museum . It's cars....

Went to day to check out the possible new site to do the Bowls project with Charming Hostess . This was fantastic! It means I finally got to the source of The Luggage Store ...brilliant corners. The trippy thing is it ends up the alley is named after Alfred Andrew Cohen , a Jewish figure in Bay Area history with a lot of ties to the East Bay, especially Alameda. It's a funny way this all ties back in around to Magnes .

New Endowment Chairman Sees Arts as Economic Engine By Robin Pogrebin August 7, 2009 ...He was particularly angered, he said, by parts of the debate over whether to include $50 million for the agency in the federal stimulus bill, citing the comment by Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” in February, that arts money did not belong in the bill. That kind of thinking suggests that “artists don’t have kids to send to college,” Mr. Landesman said, “or food to put on the table, or medical bills to pay.”... ...“I don’t know if there’s a theater in Peoria, but I would bet that it’s not as good as Steppenwolf or the Goodman,” he said, referring to two of Chicago’s most prominent theater companies. “There is going to be some push-back from me about democratizing arts grants to the point where you really have to answer some questions about artistic merit.” “And frankly,” he added, “there are some institutions on the precipice that should go over it. We might be o...

I have been a part of Wellesley College's American Cities Internship Program for the last four years at Magnes. It happens that we are now one of the longest running sites, saying goodbye to my fourth intern this summer. I went to my first dinner this week for the Program. I had always forgone the dinners and events, thinking it better that some woman I work with go, even though I was always the one supervising and mentoring the interns. In fact, I have stayed in-touch with all of them and have done all I can to help them professionally. Rachel did a lot this summer. She was guest tweeter for Magnes, for one thing. She and I read about Michael Jackson's death at the same moment together in the office on twitter. Rachel really added a lot and she's got skillz, especially as a photographer. You gotta give it to folks, if you want 'em to give back, so Rachel's photographic work graces the cover of the latest edition of the Magnes newsletter opensource and we hel...

Question: Who made the cube at Astor? Tony Rosenthal , who created “Alamo,” the eternally popular revolving black cube in Astor Place in the East Village, and many other public sculptures, died on Tuesday in Southampton, N.Y. He was 94. The New York Times By WILLIAM GRIMES Published: July 31, 2009

I do blog maintenance for a blog I love and helped to make for the Western Museums Association called westmuse . I am sure many, many more of us are cleaning out blog comments from spam folders these days. It's the new chore. And blog comments in spam recently are often like this, right?: What’s up, is there anybody else here? If there are any real people here looking to network, leave me a post. Oh and yes I am a real person LOL. Peace, Diet pills planet cazmo how to sometimes I like them. They seem like kind messages, even if nefarious...so I'm sharing that one. Thanks for the kind greetings, Diet pills. LOL.

Joseph John Barretto and Michael David Marton are to affirm their partnership on Sunday in a rooftop ceremony at their home in New York. The Rev. Jude Geiger, a Unitarian Universalist minister, is to lead the commitment ceremony. Mr. Barretto (left), 34, is the director of fund-raising and communications at the New York City Anti-Violence Project, an organization that provides services for gay, lesbian, bisexual, H.I.V.-positive and transgender people who have been victims of violence. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and is a candidate for a master’s degree in public policy and administration from Columbia. He is the son of Josefina Dueñas Barretto and the late Rodolfo M. Barretto Jr. His mother is a registered nurse at West Valley Hospital in Goodyear, Ariz. Mr. Marton, 36, is the vice president of two businesses owned by his mother, Agnes Marton: Dentorium Products, a distributor of dental laboratory supplies, and Gam Real Estate, which manages commercial properties. Both a...