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This week on guest post day, I’m delighted to have Kara from Mother Henna here to talk to us about creative ways to address and honor our grief.From colorful celebrations like Dia de los Muertos to more solemn ceremonies like Blue Christmas mass, Kara has gathered an impressive list of resources to help you or someone you love navigate the difficult waters of the holiday season.In my work as a pastor, and later as a soulcare specialist, I found that those who are experiencing grief are severely

Philadelphia Museum of Art Arshile Gorky Agony, c. 1947 (The Museum of Modern Art, New York; A. Conger Goodyear Fund) © 2009 Estate of Arshile Gorky / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective October 21, 2009 – January 10, 2010 Philadelphia Museum of Art 26th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway Philadelphia, PA 19130 http://www.philamuseum.org MUSEUM TO PRESENT THE FIRST RETROSPECTIVE IN NEARLY THREE DECADES TO EXPLORE THE ACHIEVEMENT OF ARSH

How can community colleges improve learning and create knowledge for diverse student populations? One answer is CUNY’s bold model as envisaged by Chancellor Matthew Goldstein to reinvent the two year college. Senior University Dean for Academic Affairs John Mogulescu, who is leading the planning for a new community college, recently discussed the origins of the project, the need for innovation and the ongoing faculty collaborations that are informing the entire process. His remarks were conta

Do It With Others – (DIWO) at the Dark Mountain :: Call for Mail-Art projects across physical and digital networks towards an open exhibition at HTTP Gallery :: Deadline: November 26, 2009. We live in a time of social, economic and ecological unravelling. All around us are signs that our whole way of living is already passing into history . – Uncivilisation, The Dark Mountain Manifesto. The Dark Mountain Project is ‘a new cultural movement for an age of global disruption.’ It aims to

For some Turkish publication called “Express” ??? Pelin Tan is a generous and irreverent person living near the Bosphorous Dear Brian, as you might remember when we met last time we were discussing about the question of autonomy in contemporary art practices. In your writings, in terms of this context, you focus on collaborative, ethical-aesthetic and collective art practices. Could you tell us bit about it with some examples of projects, practices and your engagements? I began as a

M any readers are undoubtedly suspicious of self-indulgent exercises in libertarian wankery, but this excellent dialogue from Reason raises some interesting questions about the nature of governance, freedom and culture. As someone who grew up in a pretty liberal milieu, I instinctively found myself nodding along to Kerry Howley’s comprehensive vision of cultural libertarianism. But I’m not sold yet. The reason, I think, is that I am less and less confident in my own assumptions about wha

Warner Brothers PicturesA scene from “Where The Wild Things Are.”“Where the Wild Things Are,” a film based on Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book, hit theaters on Friday. The book is loved by 4- and 5-year-olds, but this PG-rated movie is probably too scary for them. Child development experts debate whether, when it comes to the big screen, live-action films are easier for preschoolers to identify with and enjoy than complex animation. But the live-action G-rated movie seems increasingly ra

Why David Sometimes Wins; Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement. Marshall Ganz. 2009. Oxford University Press. reviewed by Duane Campbell To most people, even to union activists, the struggle to create the United Farmworkers Union (now part of the Change to Win Federation) is a tale from long ago and far away. Even to those of us who participated in these events, the memories of the great battles of the 60’s and 70’s are passing in importa

Can lawmakers who don’t have the courage or intelligence to outlaw texting while driving really be expected to create a saner tax structure? Hmmm. Developing a fairer tax environment is much less an economics problem than it is a political dilemma and, as many of you observed, it is unlikely that anything “tax” will be improved upon until there is some serious facial (and cultural) change in Washington. Politicians focus on one issue at a time, and pretend to have problems dealing with inter

The Western film industry, which has traditionally viewed India merely as a market for its movies, is suddenly keen to tap into Indian capital and talent. In early summer, Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks closed a whopping 5 million co-production deal with Indian industrialist Anil Ambani’s Reliance Big Entertainment. And Charles Darby, the legendary British special effects artist who worked on epic movies like Titanic and Matrix, is building a special effects studio in Mumbai that he hopes wi