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On Richard Rawlins Gotcha at Alice Yard, Woodbrook, Port of Spain Once more, art confronts us with the intersection of ideas. Richard Rawlins' recent exhibition, Gotcha , raised questions over the place of modern practices of design within the traditional realm of art and painting, of politics and art and of installation work and non-traditional formats for creating design and for expression (specially designed lapel buttons are part of the work). The work, recently shown at Alice Yard, comprised a series of politically-themed paintings ( are any paintings not concerned with politics? ) displayed in various spaces within the Woodbrook backyard space. The work used simple designs ( are there such things? ) which pushed quite close to iconography (the artist plans a series of limited edition prints to be sold at a later event in a few months time). White elephants, dangling flies that become pianos, non-performing arts academies and lego politicians all suggest what we all know...

FROM THE INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE (IMDB) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060714/ Morgan! Poster SEE RANK Morgan! (1966) Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (original title) 97 min - Comedy | Drama | Fantasy - January 1966 (UK) 7.2/10 Users: (729 votes) 16 reviews | Critics: 11 reviews Morgan, an aggressive and self-admitted dreamer, a fantasist who uses his flights of fancy as refuge from external reality... See full summary » Director: Karel Reisz Writer: David Mercer Stars: David Warner, Vanessa Redgrave and Robert Stephens

Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:16:33 +0000 To: tqnews@hotmail.com From: no-reply@wordpress.com Subject: [New post] A Southern Symphony WordPress.com A Southern Symphony thecynicalarab | June 28, 2011 at 12:16 AM | Categories: Cynicism | URL: http://wp.me/pVKFu-dz Book Rationale To provide a historical background and account of events in respect to my parents, both Lebanese immigrants - one from Southern Lebanon and the other from the Southern district of Beirut. A presentation of stories they have told me during the course of my life - from the loss of friends to the [...] Read more of this post Add a comment to this post WordPress.com | Thanks for flying with WordPress! Manage Subscriptions | Unsubscribe | Reach out to your own subscribe...

Alma, tell us All modern women are jealous Which of your magical wands Got you Gustav and Walter and Franz Alma Gluck married Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel. She was the talk of the continent.

There may be as many as 20 films of which I'd say, "Don't die without having seen it." This film is on that very short list. Watch Alexander Nevsky (1938, Sergei Eisenstein) in Action & Adventure | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com

Detail from print of the drowned Leander in the arms of Hero 'His admiring eyes more pleasure took...'

"Musketeer Gripweed without whose help these memoirs could not have been written."

During the First World War, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German POW camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are sent to a seemingly impenetrable fortress which seems impossible to escape from. LikeTelevision Watch Movies and TV Shows

General Admission , an exhibition by Tessa Alexander. What does it mean to carve a small society up into fractions? What are the functions and implications of these divisions; how are these divisions, based on class, race, education, political affiliation, sexuality, gender and even disability, reflected in everyday life? A glimpse might be had from Tessa Alexander's latest show. FROM THE ORGANISERS: General Admission looks at this latest trend of dividing a space using rather imposing scaffolding creating sections within an area purely based on economics and naming these sections VIP and even VVIP relegating the General Admission section to the very back of the space so you become the outcast. This very disturbing trend has become the norm and it seems the past and where we have come from is repeating itself. In this body of work I look at "General Admission" who does this apply to? Are we not all general admission, did carnival, jouvert, steel pan, doubles, sno cone e...

Cave Dweller reports he loves his new job at the convenience store. Who would have thought?

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Zack Mills and Kyle Chandler in "Super 8." Not a bad film. At times a little creepy and always suspenseful. The deliberate attempt to re-create that awe and wonder of early Spielberg blockbusters (think ET) is a little heavy-handed but works. The special effects and some action sequences feel loose. But all in all this is affecting and effective. One underground shot is brilliant. Stay for the super 8 footage that plays during the credits: this is perhaps the film's best part. STARS: ***

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Wendell McShine. SEE more here .

1) violence 2) violence against men 3) vigilante justice 4) crimes of passion ? 1) it is violent, though that fact does not make it glorify anything. If anything it is a realistic depiction of a human situation. All the controversy is misplaced. 2) well clearly there is something romanticized about the idea of "hell has no fury like a woman scorned". And somehow, you get the sense that if this was a video about a man killing a woman who horned him things would not be the same. Yet, is there not a double standard in criticizing women in positions of power enacting violence and not doing the same for men? Thus 3) what may be wrong about this is that is romanticizes vigilante justice in general. Or does it? Is this video social document or normative standard? After all it is just a pop video. And actually it is one of the few videos out there reflecting something that is unfortunately very real. 4) doubtful. Thus, to me, the most pressing question in this video is: WHAT IS RIH...

Not nice RR. Not nice at all. SEE MORE here .

It didn't matter to us that we didn't know what the poems were saying, it was how he read them that blew us away.

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Detail from Christopher Cozier's "all that's left" FROM THE ORGANISERS: Christopher Cozier. Open Studio. Saturday, June 11; Sunday, June 12, 3 to 9 pm. Three projects will be installed in Cozier's studio with related studies and drawings for sale: • “Tropical Night” series, shown in “Infinite Island”, Brooklyn Museum, NY, and also in “Afro Modern” at the TATE Liverpool • “Now Showing”, a silkscreen edition produced for the TTFF • My latest silkscreen edition, “all that’s left,” launched by David Krut Projects, NY, and on view in “Fugitive Vision” Please call 714-3609 for directions. ABOUT 'FUGITIVE VISION': David Krut Projects is pleased to present Fugitive Vision, a group exhibition of works by Christiane Baumgartner, Christopher Cozier, Joseph Hart, Whitney McVeigh, Ryan and Trevor Oakes, Phil Sanders, Sara Sanders, and Mary Wafer. The human eye continuously absorbs and categorizes an endless flow of visual information, encountering, simultaneously and u...

FILM REVIEW : X-Men: First Class *** James McAvoy and the great Michael Fassbender in Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: Origins X-Men purists scoff when I say I enjoyed X-Men Origins: Wolverine . Apparently the first few films in the franchise were more faithful to the spirit of the X-Men (though there are question marks over Halle Berry’s infamously bad wig in the first film). So fans everywhere should be relieved to learn that the latest reboot of the franchise, X-Men: First Class , is not bad and is even at moments intensely enjoyable. The film is an interesting combination of the buddy/bromance genre that Judd Apatow and company have made de rigueur in Hollywood in recent years (witness The Green Hornet , Batman and Robin ) and, well, X-Men comic book stuff. We get a lot of the background facts that established the ground-rules in the later movies and learn the back stories of the major characters: we find out how Professor X ends up in a wheelchair, what turns Magneto ‘bad’ (though t...

SEE more from inside painter Che Lovelace's studio here .

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer. Brendan Behan

Prompts to access successive videos should appear in the window as each on ends. From 'A Coney Island of the Mind' Number 20 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti The pennycandystore beyond the El is where I first fell in love with unreality Jellybeans glowed in the semi-gloom of that september afternoon A cat upon the counter moved among the licorice sticks and tootsie rolls and Oh Boy Gum Outside the leaves were falling as they died A wind had blown away the sun A girl ran in Her hair was rainy Her breasts were breathless in the little room Outside the leaves were falling and they cried Too soon! too soon!

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25 minutes of sheer genius! A must see! If you need to watch it in segments, do so, but by all means, watch ALL of it! I suggest you pause it if you need to look away for even 10 seconds. NINOTCHKA ART PROJECT "Copyright is for losers" [IHAV_02] from INSTITUTO HUMANO AUDIOVISUAL on Vimeo .

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Glass ceiling: 'Shattered' by Linda Ahwal-Kowlessar, 2004, tempered glass, currently on display at the 'Women in Art' exhibition at the National Museum and Art Gallery. *** THE IDEA that art can have a gender: that the sexes approach art differently and that the products of male and female artists differ in clear ways is one that some people still seem to cling to. Consider VS Naipaul’s latest comments which have triggered controversy (and at least one cool feature on the UK’s Guardian website). In an interview at the Royal Geographic Society at the UK on Tuesday, Naipaul was asked if he considered any woman writer his literary match. He replied: “I don’t think so.” Of Jane Austen—whose work he has dismissed as “gossip” —he said he “couldn’t possibly share her sentimental ambitions, her sentimental sense of the world”. Naipaul said he felt that women writers were “quite different”: “I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woma...

Over drinks with a friend the other day the conversation turned to the following question: stranded on a deserted island for the rest of your life what books would you want to have with you? Now being stranded on a deserted island might mean you'd be a little preoccupied with others things like fighting off the animals or hunting for food but you'd surely find time for some good literature! 1. The Bible This one is a no-brainer. Most of Western literature, in some form or fashion, is traced to these texts which never fail to startle and inspire in every sense of the word. A must have. 2. The Tempest and/or The Complete Works of William Shakespeare . The Tempes t is widely accepted as Shakespeare's last and--in the views of some--best and most atypical play. An elegy that is something of an homage to all that came before it from the Bard: Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that ...