S.F. planners have high hopes for new center of downtown / Skyline boasting tallest building in the West envisioned on site of dingy transit terminal
Thirty-five years after the Transamerica Pyramid became the peak that defines San Francisco's skyline, city officials said Thursday that they want to push even higher — making room for what could be the tallest tower west of Chicago. The idea would be…
John King

How de Young is handling New Guinea art question
It's hard to resist a story about looted art, whether it involves Italian tomb robbers, Greek marbles in the British Museum or Nazis who love Leonardo. Former Getty Museum antiquities curator Marion True is on trial in Rome for allegedly conspiring to buy…
Jesse Hamlin

Rinder's essays remind us of his Berkeley Art Museum triumphs
Many, perhaps most, art exhibition catalog texts do not merit reprinting in anthologies. But people who have tracked the career of Lawrence Rinder admiringly since his late '80s days as Matrix program curator at the Berkeley Art Museum will be delighted to…
Kenneth Baker

GPs prescribe art classes to help patients beat illness (The Scotsman)
PATIENTS at a Scottish medical practice are being given a prescription for art classes, in a pioneering initiative to improve their health and wellbeing.

Indian Auction House Plans Art Fund as Paintings Surge in Value (Bloomberg.com)
May 30 (Bloomberg) — Neville Tuli is looking for $33.5 million to invest in what may be India's hottest market: Art. Soaring prices for contemporary Indian works prompted the chairman of Mumbai-based Osian's Connoisseurs of Art Ltd. to start the nation's second art investment fund.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) (Calendarlive.com)
5905 Wilshire Blvd., L.A. 323-857-6000 The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is the largest all-encompassing art museum west of Chicago and the leading publicly supported art institution in Southern California.

Theater/Dance: At the New JetBlue Terminal, Passengers May Pirouette to Gate 3
The architect David Rockwell and the choreographer Jerry Mitchell collaborate to streamline the airport experience.
JESSE GREEN

Comics: Straight (and Not) Out of the Comics
At DC and Marvel Comics, new heroes are gay, black, Asian and Hispanic. Get used to it.
GEORGE GENE GUSTINES

Check the Numbers: Rumors of Classical Music's Demise Are Dead Wrong
For all the hand-wringing, there is immensely more classical music on offer now than there was in what nostalgists think of as the golden era of classics in America.
ALLAN KOZINN

The Review: Opera for junk-food fans
The Review: Opera for junk-food fans Tom Lappin Amici Forever, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Tues One of the great tricks of consumerism is how you don't realise you need a product until it's on the shelves. So, just as we muddled by before we had

Popularising a traditional art
MYSORE: It is an art that was patronised and promoted by the rulers of Vijayanagar Empire. The Kinnal work or the Chowki work is an intricate art that demands patience and time from its practitioners. The careful selection of colours in the Chowki work

Artist Vicki Penfold still going strong
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Museum Unveils New Fossil Finds
MORRISION, Colo. May 26, 2006 (AP)- A small town has again yielded big scientific finds as historians this week announced a new collection of dinosaur fossils and footprints. Matt Mossbrucker, dinosaur researcher and director of the Morrison Natural

Brooklyn Jazz Renaissance: High-Quality Music in Casual Cafés
Brooklyn's rich and booming jazz scene offers experimentation and eclecticism worthy of the trip across the East River.
NATE CHINEN

Art Review: Eames Lounge Chair Exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design
The show successfully examines its subject in terms of design evolution, physical structure, production, assembly and advertising.
ROBERTA SMITH

Crowd Pleasers: Pitching Films on the Page
Some writers drop hints that their books are ideal for films, but they're mistaken.
JANET MASLIN

Art Review: Jackson Pollock at the Guggenheim: Works of Swirls and Pixie Dust
Pollock's untranscendentally gorgeous works, devised from his unique method of dripping and flinging paint, continues to astound even today.
HOLLAND COTTER

Salvador Dali
"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad."

Immanuel Kant
"To be is to do."

John W. Gardner
"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser."

AP Interview: Heaven can wait for Art Buchwald, looking to summer (Boston Globe)
A funny thing happened to humorist Art Buchwald on the way to his grave. Nearly four months after refusing potentially life-extending treatment for his failing kidneys, Buchwald is alive against all expectations. He's planning to spend the summer at his house on Martha's Vineyard, Mass., writing his twice-weekly newspaper column, finishing a book about his experience and waiting for Carly …

Heaven will have to wait for Art Buchwald (WKYT 27 NEWSFIRST & WYMT Mountain News)
WASHINGTON Like a line from a Monty Python movie, humorist Art Buchwald isn't dead yet.

Rancho Buena Vista prepares for Art Splash (North County Times)
VISTA —- Art is in the air at Rancho Buena Vista High School —- and on the sidewalk. About 200 art students worked on 50 large chalk drawings Tuesday as part of the school's annual art show.

Spence's spooky things of rags and patches
The spaces between things figure more as voids than as active ingredients in most gallery shows. But in Kathryn Spence's exhibition of "objects" and drawings at Wirtz, the ample intervals among things on view feel strangely charged. A single small…
Kenneth Baker

REVIEW / Experiencing postwar Okinawa moved photographer to identify himself with a broader worldview
Shomei Tomatsu appears to regard his photographs as fragments in a mosaic that can never be seen or shown whole. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art opened his retrospective, "Shomei Tomatsu: Skin of the Nation," over the weekend. Moving through it,…
Kenneth Baker

By a stroke of luck, Caitlin Mitchell-Dayton came to be the real artist behind the big screen's 'Art School Confidential'
HBO's lapsed series "Six Feet Under" did a job on art school in one of its most acerbic sub-plots. Director Terry Zwigoff positively finishes it off with his latest comic feature "Art School Confidential," loosely derived by screenwriter Daniel Clowes from…
Kenneth Baker

Dragonlike Dinosaur Skull Donated to Museum
The 66-million-year-old skull of a dinosaur whose name was inspired by the Harry Potter series has found a permanent home in the Children's Museum of Indianapolis. Dracorex hogwartsia will be housed permanently at the museum, officials and paleontologist

Da Vinci film set for release on Friday with one disclaimer
RSS Feeds| SMS NEWS to 8888 for latest updates NEW DELHI: The controversial film The Da Vinci Code, has been given the nod by the Censor Board after a week-long drama. The film is likely to be released on May 26 with just one disclaimer at the end.

Designer seeks Holy Grail with Da Vinci Code garden
23 May 2006 Designer seeks Holy Grail with Da Vinci Code garden By Paul Majendie, London FIRST the book, then the movie, now the garden. Designer David Domoney is vying for one of the prizes at Chelsea Flower Show with a garden inspired by Dan Brown's

'El Mikado' opera at International Festival
El Ejido: Actors from the Dagoll Dagom company perform during a performance of the 'El Mikado' opera by Gilbert&Sullivan at El Ejido's Theatre International Festival. Reuters

Ansel Adams
"A good photograph is knowing where to stand."

Michelangelo
"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."

Isaac Bashevis Singer
"Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression."