Mariah Carey’s New Holiday Album, ‘Merry Christmas II You’
HSN Partners with One of the Greatest Singers of our Time – Mariah Carey – for Exclusive On-Air Launch of her New Holiday Album ‘Merry Christmas II You’
–TUNE IN ON OCTOBER 20th — New album to be bundled with 30-minute DVD featuring exclusive behind-the-scenes footage of Carey recording second Christmas album, candid interviews and never-before-seen personal photos and festive Christmas videos —
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Sept 27, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX News Network/ — HSN, a leading multichannel retailer, has partnered with one of the greatest singers of our time – Mariah Carey – for the exclusive launch on October 20 of her highly anticipated holiday album, Merry Christmas II You, ahead of its worldwide release on November 2 on the Island Def Jam Music Group.
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Chaos and Classicism Exhibition: Art in France, Italy & Germany
Full rotunda show includes painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, film, fashion, and decorative arts, featuring many works never shown before in the United States
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, New York, Location: Full rotunda and all ramps; Annex Levels 5 & 7
Dates: October 1, 2010-January 9, 2011, Preview: Thursday, September 30, 10am-1pm
(NEW YORK, NY – August 5, 2010)––Rising from the ruins and horror of World War I, European art and culture returned to the classical past, seeking tranquility, order, and enduring values. Artists turned away from prewar experimentalism and embraced the heroic human figure and rational organization. Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918–1936 is the first exhibition in the United States to focus on the vast transformation in European culture between the world wars. With approximately 150 works by more than 80 artists, comprising painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, film, fashion, and the decorative arts, this thematically organized exhibition examines the return to order in its key manifestations: the poetic dream of antiquity in the Parisian avant-garde; the politicized revival of the Roman Empire under Benito Mussolini; the functionalist utopianism of International Style architecture that originated at the Bauhaus; and, ultimately, the chilling aesthetic of nascent Nazi society.
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Miya Ando’s Shinobu [perserverance] | October 7th- 29th, 2010 | Brooklyn, NY
Art Show and Benefit
October 7th, 2010 – October 29th, 2010
@ de Castellane Gallery
525 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn, New York
Opening October 7th, 2010, 6-9pm
New York, NY-(September 2, 2010)Core Formula and Element are proud to present Miya Ando’s Shinobu [perserverance] – Art Show and Benefit at de Castellane Gallery. Shinobu [perserverance] will be presented from October 7th – 29th, 2010. Opening October 7th, 2010, 6-9pm. Free to public. The de Castellane Gallery is located at 525 Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, New York.
Core Formula has curated Miya Ando’s first large-scale works entitled Shinobu [perserverance] to open October 7 at de Castellane Gallery. Her show will be comprised of large scale steel wall works and her series of special edition hot-rolled steel skateboards created for Element. The steel skateboards are an exact size/thickness replica of a traditional wood skateboard, hand finished with fire, acid, patina and automotive lacquer. Ando will also be showing a hot-rolled steel 36″ x 48″ x 72″ skateboard ramp/sculpture collaborative piece (created by Shelter Serra) which will be etched by muriatic acid-coated skateboard wheels ridden on the ramp. Finally, she will be creating and showing monotypes created as an interactive performance piece on the skate ramp. She invites skateboarders to participate in this interactive piece by riding on a paper-covered skateboard ramp with their skateboard wheels coated in graphite. The skateboarders will help her to create individual, unique monotype prints on paper which will be signed by the artist and available for purchase. Shinobu [meditation 1], the first of her hot-rolled steel skateboard series will be sold during the opening with 100% of the proceeds to benefit Elemental Awareness, a nonprofit program which educates and inspires young people to develop self-esteem, social and environmental awareness and the tools to lead successful lives.
They Call Me Mellow Yellow
“To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.”
I was around seven or eight years old when my mother’s best friend at the time came over to the house for a visit from North Carolina. She embraced my mom lifting her up in the air and gave me a big warm hug and a kiss on each cheek. It was at that time when Rene (my mother’s friend) told me that I was lighter than the color of healthy urine. At the time, I wasn’t sure what she meant but that wasn’t the first or last reference to my complexion from her that weekend. It was, however, the most disturbing of her insulting commentary on my skin tone.
That evening shortly after dinner, Rene said I was so very light skinned that I resembled a bottle of pledge or a three foot banana when it is nice and ripe for peeling. That was another perplexing comment to me at that age. Am I the color of piss, pledge or bananas? Why was she making reference to my skin tone so often? I asked myself. I laughed at the time because I thought it was a funny thing to say because to refer to me as a big banana sounded innocent.
Lauryn Hill Performs at Rock The Bells on 8/28/10
Lauryn Hill sings/raps, (The Fugees) Ooh La La La, live at NYC’s Governor’s Island.
Female MC’s have, ostensibly, been Missing In Action – but not for long. On the heels of Lauryn Hill’s recent performance, I think we should celebrate the female MC’s!
Don’t forget to check out BET’s My Mic Sounds Nice: The Truth About Women & Hip Hop.