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Ann: Online Book Sale through Jan 31, 2009 | 25% off all orders

Diatrope Books is having a 25% off New Year's Sale through Janauary 31, 2009. To receive the discount, enter code 25Jan09 in the coupon box when checking out.

Link: Ancient Rome in Google Earth

Google has added an Ancient Rome layer to their Google Earth program. This allows interactive flythroughs of 320 CE Rome, with weblinks to information about the buildings. More info is here:<http://earth.google.com/rome/index.html

Blog Entry: Power & Glory: Court Arts of China’s Ming Dynasty

I was living outside of Bay Area from 2003-2007, so it has been a while since I last visited the Asian Art Museum. What a pleasure to return! San Francisco is certainly lucky to have so much wonderful art on display and, for someone like me who loves to be a tourist; it is fun to take advantage of all the opportunities. Today I spent a few hours, looking at the Asian Art Museum’s special exhibition, Power & Glory: Court Arts of China’s Ming Dynasty. I will need to return because I hardly had time to take in all the exquisite objects on display. The curatorial purpose of this show was to explore the grandeur and opulence of one of the most important dynasties in Chinese history and it succeeds in doing this.

Article: Buddha’s Caves

The article on Buddha’s Caves in today's New York Times by Holland Cotter brought to mind another article on Creeping black mold that is presently attacking Stone Age art, here

Announcement: Tibet: Collections of the American Geographical Society Library now Online

Visit the new digital collection, TIBET - From the Collections of the American Geographical Society Library at: http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/digilib/tibet/index.html

Berlin, the Big Canvas

I've not visited Berlin, but sure would like to have a chance to brush up my German. One of the nice things about our connected age is that we get to dream a bit more visually. Today's New York Times article made me wish I could just pick up and go. It notes that "you could go to art galleries in Berlin for a solid week and find yourself not halfway through a master list. You could spend two weeks wandering Museum Island and still miss a few Romantics..."

SYDNEY – 2008 BIENNALE OF SYDNEY (18 June - 7 September)

The Biennale of Sydney celebrates its 35th birthday with a sensational line up of artists and projects that will keep growing until opening day and beyond.

Quintessential Baroque spectacle

Great article in the New York Times. It relates a meticulously choreographed light show that begins in the left transept of the Chapel of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Full article