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NYC ARTS Museums National Museum of the American Indian—Smithsonian Institution Listings NMAI Art Market

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:01:25 -0500

NYC ARTS Museums National Museum of the American Indian—Smithsonian Institution Listings NMAI Art Market:

…and i’m here today…come by and save me…take me to lunch?

a choreographer’s approach to the world

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:16:07 -0500

a choreographer’s approach to the world

nixta: Ah, Fox… All 193% of Republicans Support Palin, Romney...

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:21:48 -0500

nixta:

Ah, Fox… All 193% of Republicans Support Palin, Romney and Huckabee

(via @pmbatty)

"Arts training is based in humiliation (especially in the Dance world, where it is so ingrained)."

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:38:12 -0500

““Arts training is based in humiliation (especially in the Dance world, where it is so ingrained).””

- Philip Seymore Hoffman
Speaking at the symposium, Art in the Time of Crisis: Arts Inventing Culture

"Un jour, j’étais âgée déjà, dans le hall d’un lieu public, un homme est venue vers moi. Il..."

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:00:31 -0500

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Un jour, j’étais âgée déjà, dans le hall d’un lieu public, un homme est venue vers moi. Il s’est fait connaitre et il m’a dit: >

Je pense souvent a cette image que je suis seule a voir encore et dont je n’ai jamais parle. Elle est toujours la dans le même silence, émerveillant. C’est entre toutes celle qui me plait de moi-même, celle ou je me reconnais, ou je m’enchante.

Très vite dans vie il a été trop tard. A dix-huit ans il était déjà trop tard. Entre dix-huit ans et vingt-cinq ans mon visage est parti dans une direction imprévue. A dix-huit ans j’ai vieilli. Je ne sais pas si c’est tout le monde, je n’ai jamais demande. Il me semble qu’on m’a parle de cette poussée du temps qui vous frappe quelquefois alors qu’on traverse les âges les plus jeunes, les plus célèbres de la vie. Ce vieillissement a été brutal Je l’ai vu gagner mes traits un a un, changer le rapport qu’il y avait entre eux, faire les yeux plus grands, le regard plus tristes, la bouche plus définitive, marquer le front de cassures profondes. Au contraire d’en être effrayée j’ai vu s’opérer ce vieillissement de mon visage avec l’intérêt que j’aurais pris par exemple au déroulement d’une lecture. Je savais aussi que je ne me trompais pas, qu’un jour il se ralentirait et qu’il prendrait son cours normal. Les gens qui m’avaient connue a dix-sept ans lors de mon voyage en France ont été impressionnes quand ils m’ont revue, deux ans après, a dix-neuf ans. Ce visage-la, nouveau, je l’ai garde. Il a été mon visage. Il a vieilli encore bien sure, mais relativement moins qu’il n’aurait du. J’ai un visage lacéré de rides sèches et profondes, à la peau cassée. Il ne s’est pas affaisse comme certains visage a traits fins, il a garde le mêmes contours mais sa matière est détruite. J’ai un visage détruit.

One day, I was old in a public hall, a man came towards me. He told me his name and he said to me: “I have known you forever. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, I came to tell you that for me I find you more beautiful now than when you were young, I didn’t like the face of your youth as much as I do this devastating face”

I often think that a I am only looking at a picture of myself that doesn’t speak. It is set, always in silence, marveling. Amongst all of this I like myself, I agree, I am enchanted.

Very fast in life it’s too late. At eighteen it was already too late. Between eighteen and twenty-five years my face went in unexpected directions. At eighteen years I have grown old. I do not know if it’s the same for everyone, I never asked. It seems to me that I was talking about the time in life when youth surges, when one peaks, when one crosses youth, the most famous of life. This aging was brutal as I watched it win my face one by one, changing the relationships that existed between them, making the eyes bigger, the eyes sadden, the mouth more final, marking the forehead with deep cracks . Instead of being terrified of what I saw taking place I watched this aging of my face with interest as though I was enveloped in a story. I also knew that I was not mistaken, that one day the aging would slow again and take a normal pace. People who knew, me when I was seventeen years old during my trip to France, were impressed when they had seen me two years later, when I was nineteen years old. This face, again, I care for it. It was my face. It got older still, safe, but relatively less of it would. Now scored by deep wrinkles and dry, with broken skin. It has not collapsed as some faces with delicate features do, it has retained the same shape but the material is destroyed. I have a destroyed face.

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- L’AMANT by Marguerite Duras

f as hi on Outerwear and checksworking class and the strong...

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:32:00 -0500

f as hi on

Outerwear and checks
working class and the strong union movement
cashmere, suede and soft glove leather
androgynous undertones
dressy but relaxed
air steward uniform
wide lapels, broad shoulders
herring-bone tweed
bags either very large or very small
silhouette is dangerously figure-hugging
with suite trousers so tight that they
could be leggings with creases

from the fall issue of DV Man

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:29:00 -0500

dancers are the athletes of god.

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:32:57 -0500

dancers are the athletes of god.

The U.S. Goverment Exacts up to 9% Interest on Banks

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:44:24 -0500

What is your credit card rate? Mine is 13%, but then again I only have a modest credit line with American Express. Up until now I was under the impression that our government simply handed over $700b in RISKY TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) loans with the great expectations that the recipients would repay.

To date we have earned $6b in interest fees from banks. Revealed in a linked GAO (Government Accountability Office) report, by the Propublica website devoted to shining sunshine on the abstraction that can be the US Treasury’s activities, the underlying rules of the bailout were a bit more comforting that the digested sound bytes bounced off of satellites around the world. Below is a table compiled by the Treasury Department:

TARP Dividend Payments Received as of June 30, 2009 (Dollars in thousands)

Program: Capital Purchase Program (CPP):
Dividend payments received: $5.2b;
Cumulative dividends not declared and not paid: $5.9b;
Noncumulative dividends not declared and not paid: $802m.

Program: Targeted Investment Program (TIP):
Dividend payments received: $1.1b;
Cumulative dividends not declared and not paid: [none];
Noncumulative dividends not declared and not paid: [none].

Program: Automotive Industry Financing Program[A] (AIFP):
Dividend payments received: $159.6m;
Cumulative dividends not declared and not paid: [none];
Noncumulative dividends not declared and not paid: [none].

Program: Asset Guarantee Program (AGP):
Dividend payments received: $107.5m;
Cumulative dividends not declared and not paid: [none];
Noncumulative dividends not declared and not paid: [none].

Program: Systemically Significant Failing Institutions Program (SSFI):
Dividend payments received: [Empty];
Cumulative dividends not declared and not paid: [none];
Noncumulative dividends not declared and not paid: [none].

Program: Total:
Dividend payments received: $6,650,758b;
Cumulative dividends not declared and not paid: $5,962b;
Noncumulative dividends not declared and not paid: $802m.

Source: Treasury OFS, unaudited.

It’s a GREAT exhibition, but I guess, as so often happens...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:19:34 -0500

It’s a GREAT exhibition, but I guess, as so often happens in life, the politics of it all eclipses the genious…

[adapted from Kahlil Gibran's 'On Woman']

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:16:31 -0500

escritores y poetas tratan de comprender la verdad sobre el amor,
pero aún hoy el corazón se les escapa.
para que mirarla a través del velo del deseo y de ver sólo la forma de su cuerpo.
y la miran a través de la lupa de la auto-percepción y encontrar en su extravagancia y la resistencia sólo tonto.

El amor de ayer fue un feliz amor? Es el amor de hoy muy diferente?
¿Es el amor remodelado cuando se estira a través de kilómetros, miles?
En el pasado, caminaba ciegamente en la luz. Ahora, ella camina los ojos bien abiertos en la oscuridad.
Es aterrador el amor hoy en día? Con todas nuestras entradas de datos y puntos de venta de información estamos dispuestos a amar?
Por último, ¿el amor se nos escapan?

Writers and poets today try to understand the truth of love,
but still today the heart escapes them
For they look at her through the veil of desire and see
only the shape of her body
And they look at her through the magnifying glass of self-perception

eat seasonal

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:15:18 -0500

eat seasonal:

here is a great site where you can plug in your city and state and find out which fruits and vegetables are grown and harvested locally, in your area.

nixta: phronk: Arnold Schwarzeneggar flips off lawmakers (via...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:24:31 -0500

nixta:

phronk:

Arnold Schwarzeneggar flips off lawmakers (via Wired and @late2game)

early afternoon cravings

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:39:13 -0500

each time , after our online conversation is finished
i sit, still, staring at the dialogue box on the screen
carefully rereading our entire exchange on the glowing screen
from beginning to end:
what I said, what you said
how i responded, how you responded
the whole thing is still there on the screen
burrowing a painful emptiness into me
as my eyes follow the rows of characters you had made
i can hear your voice
i can recognize the rise and fall of your voice
your quivering hovering over an english consonant
while your mind races to find the right word
the text of the last line stares back at me
like a sharp cliff before a bottomless depth,
“Raul has signed out.”
i’m stuck for a moment
confused by my emotions
unclear of my intentions
certainly uncertain of yours
i know you’re a fan of the short verse
perhaps driven by a supreme confidence
in the honesty and passion of a week
if you have a verse
these eyes in new york are craving a long read
a long kiss
and a night-long lie in bed that ends only in the afternoon

Smithsonian Institution :

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:26:13 -0400

Smithsonian Institution ::

a novel use of social media to raise necessary funds from a vaired constituency and across a vast geographic space.

Merce's Memorial

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:48:06 -0400

Merce’s Memorial
Merce’s farewell
Merce’s final, intimate kiss goodnight to his City

standing there last night under the impossibly high ceiling of the Armory suddenly having the vast open space feel intimate with familiar abstract sounds, familiar faces and the most exquisite and familiar dances ever to have graced the Armory on Park Avenue.

The young, athletic bodies dancing in a center space then disperse, unseen, to reappear on three diagonally situated stages. Lithe bodies bound and rebound, contract and extend, leap and land on mere toes.

Thank you dancers, administrators, audience and Merce!

NYC ARTS Things to Do Native New York

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:56:09 -0400

NYC ARTS Things to Do Native New York

Photo

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:21:12 -0400

steamy corners

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:36:43 -0400

steamy corners

12 Meatless Dishes for Meat-Lovers

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 08:40:15 -0400

12 Meatless Dishes for Meat-Lovers