Raising Alexandria
More than 2,000 years after Alexander the Great founded the city, archaeologists are discovering its fabled remains, from the likely site of Cleopatra’s palace to pieces of an astonishing lighthouse that was one of the Seven Wonders of the World. What may be the world’s oldest surviving university complex has come to light, along with one of the Seven Wonders of the World, the Pharos, the 440-foot-high lighthouse that guided ships safely into the Great Harbour for nearly two millennia. And researchers in wet suits probing the harbor floor are mapping the old quays and the fabled royal quarter, including, just possibly, the palace of that most beguiling of all Alexandrians, Cleopatra. The discoveries are transforming vague legends about Alexandria into proof of its profound influence on the ancient world.
Category: Art
Painted Fingers
Click on a picture to enlarge or on the FingerPaint underlined link for more of Italian artist Guido Daniele. Thanks to Renea Lesley
Life Re-Enacting Art
A Danish Painting Inspires a Party Here – March 20, 2007 – The New York Sun
“I am a simple person when it comes to art,” Mr. Oden, who grew up in Texas and comes from a long line of cowboys, said. “I don’t like impressionistic and modern. What I really love is paintings of people. I connect more when there’s something I can see — activity — interesting people, doing interesting things.”
Mr. Oden loved the image of the painting so much that he recently invited a group of friends to his house to re-enact the party that the painting depicts: a centennial celebration hosted by the Danish industrialist Jacob Moresco in honor of his textile business, held at his estate, Adelaide, located in Ordrup, Denmark. Here in present-day New York, Mr. Oden asked his guests to dress in white-tie, as the figures in the painting are dressed. Forwarded by Richard Collier. Photo RJ Mickelson.
Illusion in art – pictures by Rob Gonsalves
Beatles Anthology of White House Hits
Thanks to Bob Bopp for sharing the Love.
Conan brings Horny Manatees to the internet
Conan brings Horny Manatees to the internet – TV Squad
On Monday night, Conan ran a comedy bit on NCAA mascots. Among the mascots was “FSU’s webcam manatee.” The gag of a gyrating manatee in front of a computer ended with one of the band members checking out the hot manatee on his laptop. Conan cracked that he must be frequenting “hornymanatee.com.”
The next night, Conan appeared explaining that, unbeknownst to him, NBC policy requires that any non-existent web address that is mentioned on the air be bought by NBC for ten years. We’ll never really know if this fact was actually “unbeknownst” to the Cone Zone, but it does mean that NBC now has among its stable of web property – HornyManatee.com – which has now become a Conan-related site for fan pics of hot and lusty sea cows in action. There’s a solo manatee, manatee on manatee, man on manatee and fetish pages. One of those should satisfy your interspecies cravings.
Stones lips slurp up £250,000
Stones lips slurp up £250,000 | | Guardian Unlimited Arts
The original artwork for the Rolling Stones’ iconic tongue and lips logo sold yesterday for £250,000 at auction in London.
The work was one of 160 lots to go under the hammer at the It’s More Than Rock ‘n’ Roll auction yesterday.
A spokeswoman for promoter Magnum Communications said the band’s guitarist Ronnie Wood and former bass player Bill Wyman both watched the sale at the Sound venue in London’s Leicester Square.
A Fender Stratocaster guitar owned by Jimi Hendrix also went for £60,000 and a black bustier worn by Madonna on her Who’s That Girl tour sold for £5,000
AARON
AARON: A Product of Kurzweil CyberArt Technologies
AARON is not your ordinary screensaver. Developed by Harold Cohen over a period of nearly thirty years, and productized by Kurzweil CyberArt Technologies, Inc., AARON is the first fine art screensaver to utilize artificial intelligence to continuously create original paintings on your PC.
Sandwich Art
Michael Kalish Artwork
Michael Kalish Artwork, Sherwood Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Kalish owes his art career to a South Dakota license plate and a fascination with the fundamental principles of America. After spending most of his life on the baseball field, Kalish was uncertain about what life after college had in store. “I was driving around one day and saw this car with a South Dakota tag. It was unlike anything I’d ever seen and I found myself obsessed with the thought of collecting license plates from all over the country and turning them into art.” Allowing his creativity to take over, Kalish began collecting tags and experimenting with ways to fuse them together to form a sculptural flag of the United States, his first piece.