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Ann: Explore Classical Music with John Reager

Saturday, July 18th, 2-3:30pm, Berkeley Public Library, 2090 Kittredge St., Berkeley, CA 94704, 34d Floor Community Meeting Room.  More information:  510-981-6241.

Article: Black Oak bookstore in closes in North Berkeley

Black Oak Books Moves Out

By Riya Bhattacharjee

After more than two decades in North Berkeley, Black Oak Books, one of the city’s best-loved bookstores, is moving out. 

New book Review Posted: The David Hockney and Robert Irwin books by Lawrence Weschler

 

In True to Life: Twenty-Five Years of Conversations with David Hockney , Lawrence Weschler notes that a Hockney comment, "You see with memory," runs diametrically counter to Robert Irwin's entire aesthetic. Irwin's creative starting point is concisely summed up in the title of Weschler's biography on Irwin, Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees.   For Irwin, to truly see something, one needs to forget everything about it, right down to its very name.   Yet, as Weschler points out, the seemingly divergent approaches of these two artists do have a fascinating meeting point:   Their most successful projects draw us into the artist's world.   

As we come to know their pieces, we are, in effect, in the work with the artist through this engagement. Their creative projects do not hold us as removed spectators, but ask us to step in and join their vision.   This relational aspect is most explicitly contextualized in the final essay of the Hockney book, which speaks of artist's return to painting in 2007. After Hockney mentioned that he had taken to thinking of these late landscape canvases as figure paintings, Weschler pointed out that there are no bodies in these works. Hockney replied that the viewer is the figure in the work.

Article: Getty Fees and Budget Are Reassessed

NY Times article: The value of the J. Paul Getty Trust’s endowment has fallen so sharply and quickly that the Getty has taken the unusual step of abandoning its traditional budgeting formula. Full article

Ann: The Math Behind the Cath: The Inside Story of Stents, Pacemakers and Other Medical Miracles

Monday, May 4 at 7PM | Berkeley Rep's Roda Theatre | The first public event in a new MSRI series, Mathematics + Medicine

Ann: Concert at Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), April 29

MSRI is pleased to present, as part of our Music+Mathematics series, a concert and discussion on April 29 at 5:30PM. The renowned St. Lawrence String Quartet will perform Beethoven's Grosse Fuge, Op. 133, a masterpiece from the composer's late period. Following the concert will be a discussion led by NPR's Rob Kapilow. The event is free and open to the public, and you are warmly invited. For more information, please visit: http://www.msri.org/calendar/specialevents/SpecialEventInfo/384/show_specialevent

Ann: Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet

April 1, 2009 - September 27, 2009   |   Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive

Human/Nature uses art to investigate relationships between fragile natural environments and the human communities that depend upon them. The exhibition presents new work by Mark Dion, Ann Hamilton, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Marcos Ramírez ERRE, Rigo 23, Dario Robleto, Diana Thater, and Xu Bing. More information: bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/

Ann: RoboGames 2009 Registration is open!

RoboGames 2009 Registration is open!    |    June 12-14th in San Francisco.

Fellowship: History of Medicine and Allied Fields at UCLA

2009-2010 Charles Donald O'Malley Short-Term Research Fellowships For Research in the History of Medicine and Allied Fields at UCLA

Ann: HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAM UCLA SCI|ART NANOLAB 2009

TWO-WEEK PROGRAM: JULY 6-17, 2009 | APPLICATION DEADLINE: April 15 Midnight (PST) | http://artsci.ucla.edu/summer/