Feb 17 Costa Rican Art Returning Home By Larisa Epatko About 4,500 pieces of Pre-Columbian artifacts, including ceramic bowls and animal-shaped vessels, taken from Costa Rica are returning soon to their country of origin. Continue reading
Feb 17 Thursday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, some of the antiquities that were believed to be looted have been located. Continue reading
Feb 16 Conversation: Borders Files for Bankruptcy By Molly Finnegan On Wednesday, the bookstore chain Borders filed for Chapter 11 reorganization after accumulating more than $1 billion in debt and failing to pay publishers that supply its inventory. Continue reading
Feb 16 Talking About Girl Talk When Gregg Gillis takes the stage, he's accompanied by two industrial grade laptops, 30 or so fans and lots of confetti. It's all part of the music project he calls Girl Talk. Continue reading
Feb 16 Merle Hazard and You: And the Winner Is... By Paul Solman We have an update on our country-country lyric contest, inspired by the econo-crooner Merle Hazard. Those of you who frequent these pages often will remember our series late last month where Merle lyricized about the financial crises in… Continue reading
Feb 16 Wednesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a contemporary art auction turns into arts funding protest. Continue reading
Feb 16 Costa Rican Artifacts Returning Home In 2011, the Brooklyn Museum plans to return to Costa Rica about 4,500 pre-Columbian artifacts taken legally around the last turn of the century. Here are some examples. Continue reading
Feb 15 Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Turns 100 The story of Taliesin and Frank Lloyd Wright's time spent there will soon be celebrated this year with months of tours, receptions, photography, concerts, and a number of exhibits including artifacts and archival photos. Continue reading
Feb 15 Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Turns 100 "Frank Lloyd Wright: Organic Architecture for the 21st Century" at the Milwaukee Art Museum celebrates the 100th anniversary of the architect's Taliesin. Continue reading
Feb 15 In Search for Inspiration, Studio 360 Finds 'Spark' at the Source "Spark: How Creativity Works," a new book by the producer of Studio 360, draws on interviews with nearly forty creative minds to draw lessons about what it means to be creative. Continue reading