…and the wheels of contention start spinning
Banksy, the secretive street artist from Britain recently descended on the decrepit Packard plant, leaving his mark behind in the form of an image of a young boy holding a can of red paint and the words “I remember when all this was trees.” Is the piece graffiti or art? Is the piece public property or abandon for anyone to take? Read on and decide.
Source: Autoblog
Rick Norsigian, a painter from Fresno, California turns a $45 investment into millions. Behold the power of garage sales.
Update: Finding $200 million at a garage sale isn’t as easy as it use to be. The picture goes negative.
Source: CNN
Ossining MATTERS Presents
deSoL
An Evening of Latin Rock
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Get ready for a night of great music for a great cause, with Latin-infused rock sensation deSoL. A hit on stage and on the radio, deSoL has shared marquees with R.E.M., The Legendary Wailers, Los Lonely Boys, Suzanne Vega, and Widespread Panic. The band has appeared at a number of music festivals including Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, and SXSW. Ossining MATTERS is thrilled to be hosting them here at OHS!
OHS students will also perform.
Tickets are on sale now!
Email us for ticket information tickets@ossiningmatters.org
Purchase tickets online (3/15/10)
Register for our Online Auction
The auction will open on Wednesday, April 28th and close on Monday, May 10th at 11:59PM.
neologism |nēˈäləˌjizəm|
noun
a newly coined word or expression.
Once again, The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly neologism contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternative meanings for common words.
The winners are:
1. Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs.
2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.
3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4. Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.
5. Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent.
6. Negligent (adj.), describes a condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in your nightgown.
7. Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.
8. Gargoyle (n), olive-flavored mouthwash.
9. Flatulence (n.) emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.
10. Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.
11. Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam.
12. Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.
13. Pokemon (n), a Rastafarian proctologist.
14. Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.
15. Frisbeetarianism (n.), (back by popular demand): The belief that, when you die, your soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
16. Circumvent (n.), an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.
The Washington Post’s Style Invitational also asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.
Here are this year’s winners:
1. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
2. Foreploy (v): Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
3. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
4. Giraffiti (n): Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
5. Sarchasm (n): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn’t get it.
6. Inoculatte (v): To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
7. Hipatitis (n): Terminal coolness.
8. Osteopornosis (n): A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit).
9. Karmageddon (n): its like, when everybody is sending off all thesevreally bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it’s like, a serious bummer.
10. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
11. Glibido (v): All talk and no action.
12. Dopeler effect (n): The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
13. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you’ve accidentally walked through a spider web.
14. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
15. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a grub in the fruit you’re eating.
A New York woman attending an art class lost her balance and fell into Pablo Picasso's "The Actor" and tore it. The accident occurred last Friday at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The canvas measures 77.25 by 45.38 inches. The vertical tear from the accident is about six inches long and positioned in the lower right-hand corner. The Met said the damage should be repaired in the coming weeks, well in time for a major Picasso retrospective featuring some 250 works at the museum opening on April 27.
The Actor was painted in the winter of 1904-1905, and is representative of from Picasso's critical Rose Period, when the artist moved away from the downbeat tones of his Blue Period to warmer hues. The hard edged color field in the piece give a suggestion of the Cubist style to come.
Museum officials are rumored to be debating whether to impose tougher restrictions on the length of visitor's finger and toenails in the viewing areas. Metro-area manicure and pedicure professionals are confident that this was an isolated incident and will have no lasting impact on the industry. Time: Top 10 Art Accidents
Mr. Pinkney was named as a Caldecott honoree, the runner-up prize, five times before winning this year’s top medal. Mr. Pinkney is a member of the Ossining Arts Council and everyone at the OAC is extremely proud of his achievement. Congratulations Jerry! Illustration by Jerry Pinkney
Join us for an exclusive and intimate artists’ reception! You and other select guests will have the opportunity to meet the personalities and discuss the experiences behind this stunning exhibition.
The artists of Co-Elaborate challenge the myth of the isolated artistic genius and offer testament to the countless stylistic and thematic breakthroughs born of conversation and interaction.
Featured in Co-Elaborate are Colette Aimee Burmester, Abigail Cohen, Cibyl Delaire, William Giese, Catherine How ard, Christopher Knight Johnson, Melanie Kress, Karin Mansberg, Lauren Matthews, Sophia Moreno-Bunge, Kate Ryan, OAC member – Mark Sadan, Sandra Neva Schulze, Nandita Scil litani Kripanidhi, and Ashley Smith, among many others.
If you can’t attend the reception, contact the Center at 203-797-1786 to make an appointment for a private tour with the curator.
Catherine Howard, Curator
Computer scientists at Stanford University have cannibalized pieces and components from a number of broken digital cameras to construct a beast that may someday soon dramatically improve the quality of the most pedestrian digital photography. Marc Levoy, the professor behind the prototype, says the “Frankencamera’s” will be completely programable and will make critical adjustments for light zones and dark zones of an image independently. Those separate exposures will then be merged together within the camera, much like High-Dynamic-Range images are created with digital tools like Photoshop today.
The promise of this technologic advancement will greatly improve exposes, but Levoy has no illusion that it will make the average snapper into an artist.
Source: npr.org
Next Wave Art
Cocktail Reception with the Artists and Curator: Tue, Oct 6, 6—8pm, Dorothy W. Levitt Lobby
Exhibition: Oct 3—Dec 20
Next Wave Art returns for its eighth year, opening up BAM’s spaces to some of Brooklyn’s most exciting artists including Diana Al-Hadid, Paolo Arao, Olive Ayhens, Michael Bell-Smith, Alison Brady, Angela Dufresne, Echo Eggebrecht, Jacob Feige, Nicola López, Ester Partegàs, Shinique Smith, and Christopher Ulivo.
The past two decades has seen the rise of Brooklyn as a prominent arts and cultural capital that continues to expand. The media and subject matters tackled by Brooklyn-based artists are extremely varied, however a tendency towards experiment, alternative spaces and media, and personal voice are common denominators. Curated by Dan Cameron and running concurrently with BAM’s Next Wave Festival, Next Wave Art offers an insight into Brooklyn’s vibrant contemporary art scene while fostering a vital dialogue between performing and visual arts.
LOCATIONS
Leonard Natman Room
Echo Eggebrect, Paolo Arao, Olive Ayhens
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House Lobby
Olive Ayhens, Michael Bell-Smith, Diana Al-Hadid
BAMcafé
Alison Brady, Jacob Feige, Shinique Smith
BAMcafé Gallery
Angela Dufresne
BAM Harvey Theater
Echo Eggebrecht, Christopher Ulivo, Nicola López, Ester Partegàs
HOURS
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House Lobby and Leonard Natman Room
Open Monday – Saturday, from noon—11pm, Sunday from 1pm—11pm.
BAMcafé and Gallery
Friday & Saturday from 8pm until the end of BAMcafé Live and two hours prior to all Howard Gilman Opera House performances. This includes Saturday and Sunday matinees.
BAM Harvey Theater
Open to ticketed visitors only, one hour before BAM Harvey Theater performances.
All venues are accessible by appointment, Monday – Friday, 10am—6pm. Please contact BAMart to arrange a visit at 718.636.4101 or BAMart@BAM.org
