Off to a family wedding. Enjoy the weekend.
While I’m away, check out the blogs I read everyday. They’re listed to the right of this post, under “blogroll” and “fellow foodies.” And, read about some great artists and art orgs under “artists and thinkers”and “art orgs and collectives.” Looking for a restaurant? I’ve listed some of my favorites in several cities under “good eats.” Know of a link that I should have up here? Send it to me!
I have been thinking a lot about my work lately, well, my artwork, to be more specific. For some reason, I long had an aversion to “documentary photography.” Not necessarily as a category or genre for everyone, but for myself and my “art.” I adamantly did not want to be a documentary photographer. Recently, however, I have been looking through my archives, and noticing some things I had brushed off before. This is especially the case when it comes to family photographs. In the past, snapshots and family photographs did not belong in my artwork. But now I am looking at them with a new eye. Maybe there is a lot to be said for taking a good photo and documenting a moment in time, a person at an age and place that they may never be again.
Here are two from the same month and year, April 2005. I’ll let you know how this interest in documentation develops . . .
(from the Miami Herald)
The Atlantic Greenway Network Master Plan and Dade Boulevard Bike Path Project will be presented at a community workshop at 6 p.m. Aug. 30.
The presentation takes place in the Community Room at the Miami Beach Police Department, 1100 Washington Ave.
Residents, business owners, and neighborhood and business associations are invited to attend and provide input for the projects.
The Atlantic Greenway Network is being designed to promote alternative transportation and community enhancement in Miami Beach’s South, Middle and North Beach neighborhoods.
According to the city, the goals are to increase safety for pedestrians and bicyclists, diminish gaps while improving network connections, and establish future bikeways.
The Dade Boulevard Bike Path project will run adjacent to Dade Boulevard from Bay Road to 23rd Street and will be designed to extend the existing Venetian Causeway bikeway to destination points within Miami Beach.
It is conceived as a major east-west connector bicycle-pedestrian trail that will improve connections to places such as City Hall, the Convention Center, the Jackie Gleason Theater and the Beachwalk.
For information about the projects, call Christine Leduc at 305-673-7080 or e-mail cleduc@miamibeachfl.gov.
I was listening to the podcasts I subscribe to from the Miami Herald through itunes. I came across this story which really got my attention. Recently, police descended upon a group of people in Noriel Batista’s home in Coral Gables. What they interrupted was a Santeria ritual to initiate Batista himself into a special order of priesthood within Santeria. Apparently, the police had been called by a neighbor who was angry about practices of animal sacrifice which are associated with Santeria.
(Crown of Oshun, from “At the Crossroads: Afro-Cuban Orisha Arts in Miami“)
What’s striking isn’t that some people don’t agree with practices of Santeria, but that they just don’t want it in Coral Gables. As Ernesto Pichardo, a santero who won a Supreme Court case to protect religious freedoms of Santeria under the Constitution, explained, ”‘it’s OK if it’s in Little Havana, or it’s all right if we do it in Hialeah,” said Pichardo. “`As long as it is marginalized, and only appears in the lower strata of society, then it’s OK.”’
Brooklyn Museum Summer Movie Series
July – August 2007
Escape the summer heat with cool movies at the Museum on Sunday afternoons this August!
Sunday, August 12, 2007
2p.m.
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor
Pollock (Ed Harris, 2000, 122 min., R)
3 p.m.
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Forum, 4th Floor
Frida (Julie Taymor, 2002, 123 min., R)
Sunday, August 19, 2007
2 p.m.
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor
I Shot Andy Warhol (Mary Harron, 1996, 103 min., R)
3 p.m.
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Forum, 4th Floor
Fur (Steven Shainberg, 2006, 120 min., R)
Sunday, August 26, 2007
2 p.m.
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor
Surviving Picasso (James Ivory, 1996, 125 min., R)
3 p.m.
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Forum, 4th Floor
Artemisia (Agnès Merlet, 1997, 98min., R)
