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Scene & Heard: Photo exhibits offer escape from winter Journal Times Both the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago opened significant photo exhibitions in recent weeks, each of which is worth braving the … ... Read more

Poster prints are a great way to give a meaningful and affordable gift. Watching frantic shoppers searching for a decent gift within their budget around major holidays such as Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Father’s Day and Mother’s day can be both comical and frightening. Don’t be caught unprepared for the next gifting holiday when you can prepare a thoughtful and meaningful gift Read the rest of this entry »

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, is welcomed by top U.S. commander Gen. ... Read more

This Hamlet is funny Shilpa Nair Anand learns that Rajat Kapoor, who is into theatre and films, is one artiste who does not stick to formulaic commercial films with an eye on money Photo: R.V. ... Read more

Bike fun at last weekend’s Cross Crusade kiddie race. (Photo © J. Maus) This is just a selection from the many bike events going on this weekend. For more, including regular weekly or monthly events, see the Shift calendar . Friday, October 23 5:30: Kidical Mass Meet at SE 34th and Taylor. Mellow pace, plenty of stops to play and snack. Saturday, October 24 8:45am – Sunday: Bagby Hot Springs Bike Camping Cycle Wild’s last camping trip of the season is going to be a good ... Read more

Once an industrial section of cold cement warehouses and rusting rail yards with a flurry of yellow taxicabs passing through, Chel-sea now sparkles with art galleries, trendy new restaurants and its first expensive residential explosion. The conversion has been gradual with an unusual symbiotic relationship be-tween the industrial and the art mart.

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The Museum Of Modern Art, New York Casey Spooner and Fischerspooner dancers Vanessa Walter, Ryan Lawrence, Katie Rayle, and Jennifer Sydor perform at The Performing Garage, New York, April 25, 2009 Photo © 2009 Luke Guilford Performance 6: Fischerspooner November 1, 2009 6:00–9:00 p.m. The Museum Of Modern Art, New York 11 West 53 Street New York, NY 10019 (212) 708-9400 http://www.moma.org MoMA WELCOMES PERFORMA 09 WITH A LIVE PERFORMANCE BY FISCHERSPOONER ON NOVEMBER 1 O ... Read more

We know that there are those among our readers who are not Facebook fans of eCool and therefore don’t see the many updates we post there about things happening in and around Rome. Thus, in order that all eCoolers have equal access to all that’s hip and happening in Rome, today we’re publishing a list of links that will probably be of interest to Rome-antics. We’re also taking this opportunity to show you a photo recently taken by Susan Sanders at the Pantheon, where the plaster covering ... Read more

The following is reprinted from The Best of The Best of Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader . Think everything you read in the newspaper or see on the news has been checked for accuracy? Think again. Sometimes the media will repeat whatever they’re told … and Joey Skaggs is the guy set out to prove it. Photo: Joey Skaggs MONKEY SEE, MONKEY DO Joey Skaggs ‘ career as a hoax artist began in the mid-1960s when ... Read more

Empty Words is an installation by Jürg Lehni and Alex Rich. A plotter punches characters into paper, mechanically visualizing the artists’ favorite song titles. The sheets are installed as a narrative panorama on the gallery walls. Visitors are invited to produce their own artworks and to find the balance between auto-manifestation and technological constraint. You can go and see it at the Swiss Institute Contemporary Art in New York till October 31st. The right photo is by Marc Wathieu.found at ... Read more