Amy Ione Online

Upcoming Lecture: Fluid Lines and Shifting Boundaries:

Cenart:  July 14, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Arte y Nuevas Ciencias 2009

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. 

Ann: June Leonardo Reviews posted

Leonardo Reviews is pleased to announce the new postings at:  http://leonardo.info/ldr.html
(ISSN:  1559-0429)

Article: Another bookstore closes

Morningside Bookshop, an independent store that operated for 50 years near its landlord, Columbia University, fell too far behind in its rent to remain open. Full article

Article Library Protesters to Ohio State U.: Digital's OK, but Save Our Books!

May 13, 2009

About two dozen faculty members and students, clutching signs that read “Don’t Gut the Library” and “Keep our books on campus,” picketed the administration building at Ohio State University yesterday,

Ann: Why Does Art Matter Now? (NYC/Whitney)

Why Does Art Matter Now?     |    Thursday, June 18, 7 pm

In our current economic climate, the arts appear to be expendable, yet, paradoxically, creative thinking is more necessary than ever; this interdisciplinary program seeks to address how and why art matters now.  Artist Vik Muniz, physicist Lisa Randall, pollster Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com, and choreographer Elizabeth Streb discuss the ways in which they use creativity in their fields, how they push themselves to innovate, and the value of thinking outside the box at this moment.  Moderated by historian and filmmaker Peter Galison.

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: U.N.'s World Digital Library Goes Online

A globe-spanning U.N. digital library seeking to display and explain the relics of all human cultures has gone into operation on the Internet for the first time, serving up mankind's accumulated knowledge in seven languages for students around the world. Full article

Article: Art Galleries in 3D

Art museums have been experimenting with new ways to present their work digitally for years. Multimedia CD-ROMs were popular in the 1990s, and the Web presents even more opportunities for museums to get their exhibits in front of the public and create new relationships with patrons. An article in today's SF Chronicle presents a San Francisco company, Virtual Gallerie, and discusses how their product makes it possible for the viewer to continue to wander the museum's galleries online, where exhibits are preserved virtually, in three dimensions, with audio and video attached to each work of art.

Article: British Library mislays 9,000 books

As someone who is always looking for misplaced books, I wasn't sure what to think when I saw this article about 9,000 books that are missing from the British Library. I generally lose small stuff. Seems they have misplaced Renaissance treatises on theology and alchemy, a medieval text on astronomy, first editions of 19th- and 20th-century novels, and a luxury edition of Mein Kampf produced in 1939 to celebrate Hitler's 50th birthday.