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In an Instant.

In an Instant. "Would a doctor come right here?" David Steiner, 65, reflects on how the night of June 5, 1968, changed his own life forever. (LA Times reg. req.)
posted to MetaFilter by scody at 11:41 AM on June 5, 2008 (24 comments)

What act / That roars so loud, and thunders in the index?

This one's for all the editors out there! Remember when index cards were actually used to create... indexes?
posted to MetaFilter by scody at 3:11 PM on December 20, 2007 (21 comments)

"an arch gesamtkunswerk dedicated to the conceit of a museum of homelessness"

The Homeless Museum.
posted to MetaFilter by scody at 2:24 PM on December 15, 2005 (17 comments)

enjoy the silents

Neomuet films. Look old; are new.
posted to MetaFilter by scody at 2:46 PM on September 19, 2005 (5 comments)

Bust a streetlight, out past midnight!

Big Star, named after a Memphis grocery chain and arguably the most influential cult band in the pop pantheon (not to mention composers of "That '70s Show" theme song, as rendered by Cheap Trick), releases a new studio album on Rykodisc on Sept. 27. Fronted by the legendary Alex Chilton (yes, the same one) and Chris Bell (Jody Stephens and Andy Hummell rounded out the original lineup), Big Star reformed in 1993 with the Posies' Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow, and have played live off and on since -- but this is the band's first release of new material since the dark, brooding Third/Sister Lovers in 1978. O my soul! Power pop fans rejoice!
posted to MetaFilter by scody at 6:25 PM on July 26, 2005 (40 comments)

"Hey, this is Red Rocks! "

"A number of people I talked to there felt like the Red Rocks show was a religious experience. Nobody was prepared for what the band did. It stunned everybody." 22 years ago today, U2 filmed their "Under a Blood Red Sky" concert at Red Rocks amphitheatre outside Denver, Colorado.
posted to MetaFilter by scody at 1:17 PM on June 5, 2005 (47 comments)

Escaping with the clothes on her back.

A thin, white garment embroidered with flowers. This was the only possession of Lola Rein as she hid for seven months in a hole in the ground to escape the Nazis, and the only connection to the mother who had made it for her.
posted to MetaFilter by scody at 12:55 PM on May 9, 2005 (20 comments)

From the land of the living, to the air and sky...

Paul Hester, Aussie drummer of such antipodean bands as Split Enz and Crowded House (as well as occasional television performer), has committed suicide at 46.
posted to MetaFilter by scody at 10:10 PM on March 27, 2005 (41 comments)

You reported on stolen Expressionist lifting drink! You get nothing!

Respected arts reporter David D'Arcy has been dumped by NPR apparently in response to complaints by MoMA, who were unhappy with his recent coverage of the controversy surrounding Egon Schiele's Portrait of Wally. (D'Arcy's previous report here.) The portrait was stolen by the Nazis in 1939; since 1997 it has been on loan to MoMA from the Leopold Collection. The concerns and controversy surrounding the Nazis' looting of art, of course, continue to be thorny issues.
posted to MetaFilter by scody at 4:34 PM on March 10, 2005 (14 comments)

Uke gotta see these!

Are they ukuleles, or are they books? Think Joseph Cornell goes Hawaiian.
posted to MetaFilter by scody at 11:01 AM on February 22, 2005 (8 comments)

Mapping Sitting

Mapping Sitting explores the uses and traditions of photographic portraiture over the past century in the Middle East.
posted to MetaFilter by scody at 12:38 PM on February 3, 2005 (5 comments)

Cheney's puppet, huh? Cheney can kiss my wooden ass.

All About George. He's curious, he's clever, he's cool, he makes millions without words. Just one of many online exhibitions at PhotoArts. (via Everlasting Blort.)
posted to MetaFilter by scody at 10:42 AM on January 21, 2005 (9 comments)

Gabba gabba hey!

Hey, ho! He's...gone. Today Johnny Ramone joins Joey and Dee Dee at the great Blitzkrieg Bop in the sky (though admittedly he might not have much to say to either of them). This comes just days after a benefit/tribute concert in L.A. commemorating the 30th anniversary of the first Ramones gig. Catch the new documentary End of the Century in the meantime. Then again, maybe you'll just wanna be sedated.
posted to MetaFilter by scody at 9:37 PM on September 15, 2004 (45 comments)

is a 7-member art project, conceived (somewhat) as...

The Movement is a 7-member art project, conceived (somewhat) as a multimedia version of the games Telephone or Exquisite Corpse, in which each member "adds a voice to the work -- a voice which expands the work, a voice which modifies the work, a voice which contests the work" through text, image, or sound. Initiated by writer/musician/radio host Julius Nil, the brother alter-ego of Olias Nil (himself the alter-ego of Seth Cohen) of the late, lamented Fire Show and Number One Cup. Includes work from Nil's Fire Show/Number One Cup collaborator, musician/photographer M. Resplendent .
posted to MetaFilter by scody at 1:02 PM on July 21, 2004 (1 comment)

Is it live or is it... Edison?

"Close your eyes. See if you can distinguish the voice of the New Edison from that of the artist. Did you ever believe it was possible to recreate the human voice?" As featured on the July 16 episode of NPR's Next Big Thing, Thomas Edison's promotional tone tests have been recreated by composer Nicholas Brooke for the stage, which New York MeFites can see at the Lincoln Center Festival later this week. (More wonderful phonographic ephemera here, by the way.)
posted to MetaFilter by scody at 10:10 PM on July 19, 2004 (1 comment)

vilnius in old photographs

Vilnius in Old Photographs, including panoramas, monuments, and environs, as well as an informative history of photography in Lithuania. Part of a larger virtual exhibition of Lithuanian cultural heritage.
posted to MetaFilter by scody at 3:48 PM on April 29, 2004 (10 comments)

For every game, take your turn, turn, turn

Pastimes and Paradigms: Games We Play from Cornell's Division of Rare & Manuscript Collections. Fascinating (if overly alliterative) collection of an incredible array of antique and contemporary boardgames and related materials. Hey, hey, hey, it's fun to play! (via Monkeyfilter)
posted to MetaFilter by scody at 3:43 PM on March 12, 2004 (4 comments)

Ikea does not suffice.

Extra ordinary, every day. Online exhibition drawn from the Bauhaus Collection at Harvard's splendid Busch-Reisinger Museum (which also includes fine holdings of Austrian Secessionism, 1920s abstraction, and German Expressionists). Fellow MeFi modernism buffs, you may start drooling...now.
posted to MetaFilter by scody at 1:47 PM on August 19, 2003 (4 comments)

Czech your film

Czech and Slovak staged photographs, including post-surrealist portraits, middle European dreamscapes, and theatre of the absurd staged for the camera.
posted to MetaFilter by scody at 11:01 AM on August 13, 2003 (6 comments)

Hear Comes Everybloom

Did you miss Paddy Dignam's wake? Ah well, there's still time to celebrate Bloomsday -- if you're in Dublin, you can (among many other delights) take a stroll across the newly-opened James Joyce Bridge. Or, if you have a spare $60,000, you could even buy your very own Ulysses first edition. As for me, I'll be hoisting a crystal cup full of the foaming ebon ale which the noble twin brothers Bungiveagh and Bungardilaun brew ever in their divine alevats, cunning as the sons of deathless Leda. (And as for Paddy? -- Dead! says Alf. He's no more dead than you are. -- Maybe so, says Joe. They took the liberty of burying him this morning anyhow.)
posted to MetaFilter by scody at 12:31 PM on June 16, 2003 (34 comments)

Malevich

Happy birthday, Kasimir Malevich! The Guggenheim has curated an exhibition (currently in Berlin and coming to New York in May) to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the birth of this Russian avant-garde painter who, among other things, was a major influence on El Lissitzky and worked alongside Liubov Popova. The story of how the show itself came to be -- featuring many works never before seen in the West -- makes for rather dramatic reading, to boot. (NYTimes link; reg. req.) [more inside]
posted to MetaFilter by scody at 1:20 PM on March 31, 2003 (8 comments)