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Starting tonight CMJ is back in New York. Check out the CMJ site for schedule and information on panel discussions and concerts. Also take a look at this NYT article from today.
NYT: Where ‘Every Band in the World’ Tries to Make It

NYT: Whitney Museum May Move Expansion to Downtown Site
As the DIA moves out the Whitney might come in?
NYS: Babel of the Upper East Side
Another negative review from the NYS but this time he makes a point...
IHT: Palau crowns Valencia's new riverside
Another work of art from Santiago Calatrava. Click Here for images of the building.
Click Here for more information ont he Arts and Sciences project.

NYS: Architecture of the Future
Forward thinking architects exhibited in New York Gallery.
Link to the Gallery: Frederieke Taylor gallery
IHT: What's in a credit roll? New graphics
Hollywood looks to graphic designers to re engage their audience.
Architecture Week
News from Architecture Week on British Architecture

Shannon Greer for The New York Times
NYT: Where the Beat Goes On
And the band played on...
NYS: A Parisian Streetscape in Greenwich Village
An architectual haven in the middle of manhattan.
IHT: 20 years on, the branding of Warhol

NYT: A Builder Dusts Off His Starry Rolodex
Developer creates controversy on the upper east side...as usual...
NYS: Lincoln Center Grows a Green Roof
NYS: When the Sky Fell
NYS: Just-So Stories

NYT: Dia Art Foundation Calls Off Museum Project
DIA gives up the extended railroad space in meatpacking...but who will replace them?
NYT: Requiem for a Store’s Dying Classical Department
Saying Goodbye to an American Institution...
NYS: A Mild-Mannered Doctor With a Passionate Sideline
Doctor by day...artist by night...

Liu Ye
Snow White, 2006
acrylic and oil on canvas
Private Collection
Lie Ye - Temptations - a must see through Saturday at the Sperone Westwater Gallery in New York. For more information click Sperone Westwater

Annie Leibovitz, by far one of today’s greatest photographers, has definitely been in the spotlight lately. Not only has she published a new book, A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005 (Random House) but last week a retrospective on her work opened at Brooklyn Museum to rave reviews. Encompassing not only her portrait photography from such various subjects as President Bush and Clinton to Jim Carey, Colin Powell and Chuck Close that she took for Vanity Fair and Vogue amongst others, the book and exhibit also show her personal side via pictures of her family and especially images of Susan Sontag her life partner who passed away in 2004. The beauty of Annie’s images is something that she holds in common with great photographers such as Robert Frank, which is her honesty. Even all made up her subjects feel candid, fresh and real, as if they are just being themselves. One of the signs of a great photographer is their relationship to their subject and how comfortable they make them feel when taking their picture. Not many photographers do it better then Annie. The book is available now at Amazon and other book stores. Her exhibit at Brooklyn Museum runs through January 21, 2007.

New York Times Photo Library
Recent Reviews: NYT: Photographer to the Stars, With an Earthbound Side
NYT: Life, and Death, Examined
LAT: Essentially Annie - Leibovitz's photo book is a provocative splash of celebrity shots with a personal touch

Architecture Week: Music with a View
Boarding school in CT get classy new music hall
IHT: Tommy Hilfiger: The F.A.M.E. Game
Tommy Hilfiger takes American Pop Culture and Rock and Roll to the streets of Paris
NYS: Exploring Composers and Their God

Have a look at this ad for the Dove Self-Esteem Fund. Bold step taken against the industry it accuses of distorting the way women see themselves. Bravo Dove!

Have a look at this blurb from Apa Chu - great images that I had to share.
http://apachu.blogspot.com/2006/10/melting-plot.html

IHT: The pranksters of the Russian art scene
NYT: Standing in the Dark, Catching the Light
IHT: Style, function and the imperfect cellphone - have a look at he japanese cell phones... IHT Slideshow

NYT: Photographer to the Stars, With an Earthbound Side
NYT: Art in Review
NYT: Museum and Gallery Listings
NYS: A Postmodern Hospital Rises Uptown

NYT: Please Sit on the Art: New Cachet for Design
NYT: Philadelphia Museum Job Sends Gehry Underground
NYT: The Still-Life Mentor to a Filmmaking Generation
NYT: City Opera’s Great Innovator Returns, Baton at the Ready
NYS: A Calculated Serendipity
NYS: An ‘Old Master,' Defiantly at Work
NYS: Paris as It Never Was
IHT: The wild man of the art world

NYT: Brooklyn Art House Is Ruled Hazardous
NYT: How to Get to New York to Play Mozart? Try Pulling Strings
NYS: Buying Happiness
NYS: For Antiques, An International Gold Standard

NYT: An Op, Pop, Trippy Democracy of Prints by the Artists, for the People
NYT: Artworks on the Wall, Reich in the Air
NYT: The Games Beethoven Played With His Cello Infatuation
NYS: Carter's Latest Gets Friendly Reception
NYS: What Ladysmith Wrought
IHT: Luciano Benetton: The emperor of utopia
IHT: Taking the pulse of the people: Newest awards by popular vote
IHT: A Dutch duo that rejects function, with flair

NYT: The Louvre Views Its Art in a New Way (When Showing It in Atlanta)
NYT: Keeping It Modern in a Hallowed House of Jazz
NYS: Chamber Aspirants Meet the Masters

NYT: End of a Punk-Rock Institution Whose Attitude Won't Die

NYT: Far From Cuba, but Not From His Roots
NYS: Two Mozart Favorites, In Top Form
NYS: Heath Gets His Cake, Even if He Can't Eat It
IHT: Contemporary Art: Frieze week is a catalyst for London art
IHT: A new era: Jewelry as contemporary art
IHT: Getty Museum spotlights its photo collection
IHT: Consultants help open doors for U.S. collectors

NYT: Arts in Brief

Great picture of the Denver Art Museum by Steve Crecelius of the Denver Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau

NYT: A Razor-Sharp Profile Cuts Into a Mile-High Cityscape
NYT: Works by Johns and de Kooning Sell for $143.5 Million
NYT: An Elegant New Hall, and an Orchestra That Must Catch Up
NYS: The Medium Is the Mass-Produced Message
NYS: Polite Company
NYS: Arts in Brief: ALEXANDER CALDER: GOUACHES 1942–1976
NYS: An American Eye, Always Open to the World
NYS: Concert Of Canons
IHT: Turkey's Orhan Pamuk wins Nobel literature prize

NYT: Levine’s Economy of Gesture
NYS: Two Giants Onstage At Carnegie Hall
NYS: A Demon in the View
NYS: NBC Turns the Comedy on Itself
IHT: Portraits of Budapest's Jewish history
IHT: An Argentine star's path back to music

http://www.apachu.blogspot.com/

NYT: Injecting a Bold Shot of the New on the Upper East Side
NYT: King Papers, Back in Atlanta, Will Be Placed on Display
NYS: Two Old Hands Veer Toward the Modern
NYS: A Modernized Opera Misses the Mark
NYS: From Guts To Grandeur

NYT: I. M. Pei in China, Revisiting Roots
NYT: Beethoven Symphonies That Flow and Crackle
NYT: Magical Puppets Brought to Life by Opera
NYT: For Opera Companies, Architecture Is Destiny
NYS: An Illuminating Evening
NYS: Two Groups Change Course To Channel the Soul of Jazz
NYS: Long-Awaited Makeover for Queens Museum

http://men.style.com/news/travel/100606

Steidl Publishing, the German publisher based in Göttingen (http://www.steidlville.com/) and Robert Frank, the legendary photographer known for his honest and artistic images, have announced a long term publishing deal to reprint all of his extensive collection and release for the first time his Complete Film Works in DVD. This will consist of 9 volumes of DVDs and 15 books not including the 4 already published titles: Storylines, New York to Nova Scotia, Essays Uber Robert Frank and Come Again. The first group of titles will be released in Spring 2007. Visit this site for a review of the evening with Robert Frank that took place at the New York Public Library last week.

NYT: From Annie Leibovitz: Life, and Death, Examined
NYT: Art to the People, and Vice Versa, in the Bronx
NYT: A Jet-Setting Maestro Sets a Brisker Pace for Beethoven
NYT: Pay for the Music, the Lights Are Included - Massive Attack Review
NYT: Walking a Beat With an Officer of the Jazz Police
NYS: Mixed Bag Kicks Off Carnegie's Season
IHT: A passion for rare books inspires a journey into past

What exactly is the purpose of design if not to create something "new" and not just replicate something "old"? Read on....
IHT:Inspired design? Or just a crate?
IHT: Slide show: The Crate controversy

IHT: At auction, the Paris of Brassaï
IHT: Sale of Brassaï works brings €4.2 million

NYT: With a New Look, a Museum Hopes to Catch Your Eye
NYT: Discord at Brooklyn Museum Over Curatorial Changes
NYT: Reich Turns 70; Celebrations Break Out
NYS: A Bronx Bombshell
NYS: A Momentous Reunion at the Frick
NYS: A 1-Ton Resident of Lincoln Center Heads to London
NYS: From Pictorialist to Modernist
IHT:Leonardo: A master of lateral thinking

Check out www.luxuryculture.com - a listing of the best in luxurious culture.

Have a look at this latest news from Achitonic about some great design pieces from Turkey.
http://www.architonic.com/newsletter/1006

NYT: Artist Celebrates Scars’ Fierce Beauty

NYT: British Author Espies a Funerary Violin Vacuum and So Fills It

NYT: A Ready-Made Idol? Nope, Just a Folkie Happy to Play His Music

NYT: Arts Briefly: Berlin ‘Idomeneo’ May Go On

NYS: Book Review: In the Eye of the Beholder

IHT: An offbeat homage to an unlikely pair

Read on!!! http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/03/arts/design/03arna.html

Sorry for the silence! Here we go for today:
NYT: Horns Up. Bows Ready. Cellphones On.
NYT: A Union Made in Musical Heaven: Two Legends, Neither Living
NYT: Arts, Briefly - New Dept at the Moma, Opera for the masses at $20 and more...
NYS: MoMA Adds a Department for ‘Media'
NYT: Book Review - The Art of Chatting With Brownstones
NYS: The Neo-Modernist Default
NYS: The Disillusioned Opera Director
IHT: Everyone, it seems, is part of the jazz scene