Your Ear Can Be Your Guide

by SETH KUGEL

Published: September 30, 2007

For New York visitors, the current offering of narrated neighborhood walks and museum art talks can add texture and entertainment as you traipse through town. Read more...

MoMA Audio Guides
Download "unofficial" audio guides for the Museum of Modern Art here. Send us your own audio guide to MoMA and we'll add it to this page.
ART IRREVERENCE
A few alternative museum tours have cropped up in response to the audio tours available from museums themselves. Because museum commentary is generally erudite and positive, be ready for backlash. The Marymount Manhattan College students and professors, whose irreverent, layman-talking-about-art discussions: (www.homepage.mac.com/dave7/ArtMobs/FileSharing52.html) got a lot of news coverage when they were made in 2005, are still lots of fun.

What will be the key looks for autumn/winter 2007?

Know your alphabet

From fitted silhouettes, chunky heels and pearls for the girls to regimental colours, glossy macs and Xavier Delcour's luxurious tailoring for the boys, Maggie Davis presents a complete A to Z of the clothes, the colours and the styles coming your way this season.
Sunday August 26, 2007
The Observer

Weekend Explorer: The East Village

Art and Unrest in the East Village - Dig into the roots of rebellion and creativity that have made the East Village a mecca of counter culture for a century and a half. With John Strausbaugh.

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Swiss Artist Christoph Büchel To Present New Work

Opening reception Wednesday 29 October, 7 - 9 pm

Swiss artist Christoph Büchel creates hyper-realistic environments that are, in essence, like walking into a mind at work. His detailed installations are three-dimensional renderings of interior spaces and/or situations that often convey extreme psychological mindsets, such as that of a survivalist, a homeless person, or an agoraphobe. These fictitious yet highly believable environments – rooms within rooms – are carefully constructed so that the institutional framework of the art museum and all reference to the gallery context are removed. Read more...

Helvetica’s 50th birthday - September 21, 2007

Valencia Community College - PAC (Performing Arts Center)

Don’t miss out on this ONE NIGHT ONLY screening of this feature-length independent film about typography! Celebrate Helvetica’s 50th birthday with AIGA Orlando at Valencia’s East Campus – Building 3! Tickets are selling fast, so visit http://orlando.aiga.org/ to purchase yours now! Bring cash for popcorn and treats!

Helvetica is graphic designer and filmmaker Gary Hustwit’s feature-length film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It examines the life and legend of the most universal of all the faces—Helvetica—which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007. The film is further an exploration of how the typeface inhabits the culture and environment. Shot in high-definition on location in the United States, England, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, France and Belgium, the film is currently in post-production and is slated to begin screening at film festivals worldwide starting in early 2007.

http://www.helveticafilm.com/clips.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTUGhsNk6bk&mode=related&search=

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Fassbinder: Berlin Alexanderplatz

"P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents in collaboration with Kunst-Werke (KW) Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin and the Media Department at The Museum of Modern Art, the first U.S. gallery exhibition that will feature the newly restored version of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s monumental, sequential film Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980). Based on Alfred Döblin’s 1929 novel, this recently restored epic will be a long overdue introduction of a masterpiece of German cinema to a younger American audience. The more than 15-hour epic will be divided into 14 screening rooms—one for each episode of the film. This exhibition will be on view in the Third Floor Main Gallery from October 21, 2007 through January 7, 2008.
...Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945–1982) was a leader of the New German Cinema movement. Political and social corruption in postwar Germany was a primary theme in his work. Hailed as a cult hero during his life, he was a prolific filmmaker, having directed more than 40 productions including Love is Colder than Death (1969), Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1973), The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979), Lola (1981) and Querelle (1982).
...Fassbinder: Berlin Alexanderplatz is presented as a part of Carnegie Hall’s first major international festival—Berlin in Lights—a 17-day celebration of the city of Berlin that will run from November 2–18, 2007, with close to 50 events presented throughout all five boroughs of New York City, at Carnegie Hall, and partner venues. For more information about Berlin in Lights, please visit carnegiehall.org/berlininlights."

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P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center - 22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City, 11101

Welcome to the Changents Alpha site

We believe the key to change starts with people who take amazing actions... that become riveting stories... that can turn into mass movements. And so, we launched Changents with this simple but elegant idea:

Hand the keys over to the world's do-gooders (a.k.a. Change Agents) — big or small — to tell their stories; provide their friends with the tools to get behind them; and show our members the impact of their positive actions ricocheting across the Internet.

Video upload, personal profiles and other community features are coming soon... but there is plenty to get you going right now!

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PANTONE Goe System

"The graphics industry has dramatically transformed itself since the introduction of the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM® 45 years ago. Gone are the cut-and-paste hard copy graphics of yesteryear, replaced by the computer-driven hardware and software of today. To address the evolving demands of the printing, design and publishing worlds both now and for the future, Pantone, Inc. introduces the PANTONE Goe System.

This new vision of color, from inspiration to application, offers creative and reproductive flexibility. It provides an extended range of 2,058 chromatically-arranged solid colors that are easy to locate and specify using guide, chip and software formats. Colors were designed to be printed with uniform and industry typical ink film thicknesses, thus enabling equal drying times and more control for matching color on press. Goe colors are simple to mix using only ten Mixing Bases plus PANTONE Clear. The inks are readily available worldwide and receptive to aqueous and UV coatings.

Packaged in the artfully designed GoeCube, the Goe System brings the 2,058 colors to you in a variety of formats."

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REFRESH YOUR CREATIVITY: Three Excellent Exercises

Feed Your Mind

Ray Bradbury is the author of more than 500 published works—short stories, novels, stage plays, screenplays, TV scripts, poetry.

Exploring become his oxygen and the secret of his prolific creativity. Bradbury told Jack Foster that he had read a short story, an essay and a poem every day since childhood.

"If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines and music," Bradbury said, "you will automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry period in my life because I feed myself well."

Make an exploration list for your life. Fill it with readings, films, music.

Become a Sponge

Ian Schrager and Philippe Stark collaborated on designing boutique hotels like the Clift in San Francisco and the Hudson in New York City.

"Whenever we start a project, we're both voyeurs," Shrager says. "We take in information like a sponge."

Exploring is about asking questions and absorbing insights.

Make a list of 50 questions for a project you're about to begin.

Anticipate

Several years ago, Rodney Dangerfield was phoning me from time to time about a product idea. I didn't see much potential, so after three or four calls, I said, "I gotta tell you, Rodney, there's little hope or money in this product. Why are you so interested?"

A pause followed, and I could visualize him tugging his collar, as in his comedy routines. After a moment, he said, "It's not the money, Sam, it's the anticipation. Anticipation is the greatest thing in life."

I don't totally agree—there's much to be said for the pleasures of in-the-now moments—but anticipation does provide a powerful zing.

List three projects or activities you're looking forward to.


Excerpted from "zing! Five steps and 101 tips for creativity on command" by Sam Harrison, MacHillock Publishing/IPG Distributors. Harrison is a speaker and seminar leader and also an instructor at Portfolio Center in Atlanta. "Zing!" is available at bookstores, by calling (800)888-4741, or by visiting www.zingzone.com.

Put Your Content in My Pocket

by Craig Hockenberry

"While these articles are specifically targeted at the iPhone, many of the ideas and concepts I’m presenting can be useful and effective with other mobile devices. The processing power of these devices will continue to increase, bringing an end to the “dumbed down” mobile web, and it’s likely that the iPhone is just the beginning of an exciting new chapter in the storied life of HTML."

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ABOUT CREATIVE TIME

"Creative Time presents the most innovative art in the public realm. From our base in New York, we work with artists who ignite the imagination and explore ideas that shape society. We initiate a dynamic conversation among artists, sites, and audiences, in projects that enliven public spaces with free and powerful expression."

Art Underground

Todd Heisler/The New York Times

Published: 20070802

Images of New York subway mosaics from the Squire Vickers era.

Artist Biography: Tezuka Osamu

From Shelley Esaak

Depending on where you look or who's talking, you'll see Tezuka referred to as the God, Father, Godfather, Grandfather, Emperor and/or King of both manga and anime. ("Manga" and "anime," then - remember those two types of art.)

Whichever of these titles you wish to give the man, it is wholly deserved. He didn't "merely" change the future of manga and create anime as we know it, he worked ceaselessly. Over the course of his career, Tezuka created and wrote more than 700 manga series containing an estimated 170,000 pages of drawings, and another 200,000 pages of anime storyboards and scripts.

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Tezuka Osamu website

The Art of Founding Type

By John Downer

This text was first published in 1995 on the back of a poster introducing the Not Caslon typeface.

Caslon types have been in existence now for about half as long as the art of typefounding has been practiced in the western world. The first Latin types produced by William Caslon in England around 270 years ago were made the way virtually all movable types had been made up to that time: they were cast one character at a time, each by hand. But typefounding has never been just a simple matter of molding hot metal. In fact, the production process that was used in Caslon's time was painstakingly intricate and included no fewer than four distinct tasks, each involving a separate set of skills.

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