Another You-Tube video, with images compiled by the same person, focuses exclusively on Vincent Van Gogh’s self-portraits. This one runs just under one minute.
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A friend sent this fabulous “Women in Art” You-Tube video link to me this week. It lasts about three minutes, and I promise you will be smiling by the time it’s run through… if not by the third or fourth frame.
It is mesmerizing. I wish every child could see it. I’m sure it would inspire interest in art, museums, and the very process of making art.
Another book I picked up at the Portland Art Museum in September was “The Rescue Artist,” by Edward Dolnick.
An entertaining whodonit about the theft of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” from the National Gallery in Oslo, I’d put the book down in the middle–distracted by the myriad other things in my life–until NetFlicks delivered “Stolen,” a very weird documentary about the theft of $300 million worth of art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
In 1990, thieves absconded with 13 masterpieces — including works by Rembrandt and Vermeer — from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, pulling off the greatest art heist in U.S. history. Rebecca Dreyfus’s investigative documentary delves into this modern mystery, piecing together clues gleaned from archival documents, art critics, historians, collectors and informants (both… Continue reading
Almost two years ago now, I gave my boyfriend (now husband) a subscription to Netflix.
His mother had moved in with him temporarily to recuperate after she had fallen and broken her hip. As a result, we were “grounded” for much of the winter with all three of us spending a lot of time together in the living room, her make-shift bedroom.
Netflix is a DVD rental service that allows members to maintain a list of—must-see—movies (recent releases and old-time favorites), documentaries, serialized television shows, and other programming (current inventory is something like 65,000 titles).
You can have as many as three disks at home for viewing; as soon as one is returned, another from the pending queue is immediately sent out to replace it. We… Continue reading
Director Robert Greenwald explores the dirty underbelly of how the big box behometh maintains its hold on the market place while undermining local business infrastructure in this 2005 documentary, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price.
It also examines how Wal-mart’s personnel practices abuse and disregard the needs of the people who desperately need the jobs the company offers, despite its minimal benefits and illegal personnel practices. Seemingly, Wa-Mart counts on government subsidies not only to build its stores but to also provide health and human services to its employees who can’t afford or are not eligible for their health insurance plan.
The company is systematically destroying small town America. At the same time it offers substandard wages and horrendous living conditions–essentially sweat shops–in China, Bangladesh, and Honduras.
Government is essentially subsidizing Wal-Mart’s… Continue reading
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