BM doesn't need sculpture face-off to pull in visitors (Guardian Unlimited) How should museums engage with the new? And do they have to? Statuephilia , an exhibition of contemporary sculpture at the British Museum, is yet another attempt by a venerable British cultural institution to get its taste of the current popularity, or at least headline-grabbing capacity, of 21st-century British art. us.rd.yahoo.com
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City of ghosts: Is Berlin finally a fitting place for Jews to visit? (Independent) From a distance, we must have looked like just another bus load of British tourists, trudging from site to site on a guided tour of Berlin. But if you'd come a little closer you would have realised we weren't ordinary sightseers, because this particular coach trip was made up entirely of British Jews. Most of our party were Orthodox, many of them were wearing skull caps, and nothing stands out ... us.rd.yahoo.com
Reflex Stock Launches Exciting New Editorial Image Collections to the Worldwide Publishing Industry (PRWeb) Reflex Stock, the leading independent supplier of royalty free stock photography, images and illustrations has today (October 1, 2008) launched a new collection of rights managed editorial images.Included in the new collections is Heritage Images, an image collection distilled from the vast image resources of the British Library, Guildhall and the British Museum. Most of the images are ... us.rd.yahoo.com
Events on Oct 10, 2008 (Seattle Weekly) I'd love to report that there's an Air Supply hipster revival kinda thing underway, but alas, there isn't. At least none that I've caught wind of. Perhaps the Aussie-British group's infamous soft-rock is too toxic for even ironic appreciation or a "Yacht Rock" spoof--after all, they were the... us.rd.yahoo.com
WHAT'S DOING - Oct. 5, 2008 (Lancaster Online) TODAYJam session. Cocalico Valley Jammers, Denver Fire Company, 425 Locust St., 1-5 p.m.; free. Call 859-3545.Concert. Turning Point, St. Matthew Lutheran Church, 700 Pleasure Road, 4 p.m.; offering. Call 569-0588.Concert. Gap Male Chorus, Garden Spot Village, 433 S. Kinzer Ave., New Holland, 7 p.m.... us.rd.yahoo.com
Movie stuff (The Kansas City Star) “BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN” With its mix of horror and humor, this is the rare sequel that surpasses the original. 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Film Vault, KC Central Library. us.rd.yahoo.com
