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

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Rick Meriki’s 1 Minute Video of Travel in 11 Countries

MOVE from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

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French Band Air Contributes New Music to Georges Méliès Film

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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.

 

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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

 

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Off Book | Generative Art – Computers, Data, and Humanity | PBS Arts

http://youtu.be/x0OK1GiI83s?hd=1

 

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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.

 

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Errol Morris on an aspect of the J. F. Kennedy assassination

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2011/11/21/opinion/100000001183275/the-umbrella-man.html

The Umbrella Man:  On the 48th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Errol Morris explores the story behind the one man seen standing under an open black umbrella at the site.

 

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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.

 

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New York Times: Los Angeles: City of Art video

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2011/10/03/arts/100000001087883/los-angeles-city-of-art.html

 

 

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