New York Times: Listening to the Globe

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/01/30/arts/music/20120131-lomax-interactive.html

Selec­tions recorded by the eth­no­mu­si­col­o­gist Alan Lomax that are included on a new album, “The Alan Lomax Col­lec­tion From the Amer­i­can Folk­life Cen­ter,” and will be part of the Global Juke­box, a huge online dig­i­tal col­lec­tion of tra­di­tional music dat­ing to the 1930s

Kaleidoscopic Video of Ferrari Formula 1

http://www.nowness.com/day/2011/11/29/1747/art-basel-miami–marco-brambilla

Art Basel Miami: Marco Brambilla

The Artist’s F1-Inspired Short Gets Behind Ferrari’s Wheel

Video artist Marco Bram­billa shares his densely hyp­notic and kalei­do­scopic 3D film RPM, com­mis­sioned by Fer­rari in cel­e­bra­tion of their lat­est auto mas­ter­piece, the 458 Spi­der, and pre­mier­ing at Art Basel Miami tonight. Assem­bling footage shot on loca­tion over sev­eral months at the Ital­ian For­mula One Grand Prix in Monza with imagery from the Scud­e­ria Fer­rari archives and the artist’s own record­ings, RPM is a vis­ceral, cubist rep­re­sen­ta­tion of a For­mula One driver’s state of mind dur­ing a race.

 

More Intelligent Life on Andy Warhol and the Art Market

http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/arts/a-one-man-market

Andy Warhol is an art-world colos­sus whose work accounts for one-sixth of contemporary-art sales. How did that hap­pen, and is he really worth it? Bryan App­le­yard can­vasses the experts …

From INTELLIGENT LIFE mag­a­zine, November/December 2011

 

The Singh Twins: Grand Clashes in Miniature

http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2011/11/singh-twins?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/bl/grandclashesinminiature

IT SEEMS an unlikely suc­cess story: iden­ti­cal twins of Indian ori­gin, born in Britain, become famous artists for depict­ing their home city of Liv­er­pool and other more con­tro­ver­sial scenes in the style of Mughal minia­ture paintings.

 

New York Times on Experimental Filmmaker Ernie Gehr

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/movies/ernie-gehrs-films-traffic-in-images-and-light.html

Movies
No Block­busters Here, Just Mind
Expanders
Pub­lished: Novem­ber 11, 2011
A two-day show in Los Ange­les will fea­ture nearly a
dozen short works by the film­maker Ernie Gehr.