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Green Day may be on hiatus, but here’s its video, related to the upcoming Twilight movie (and the thankfully final Twilight movie).
Disney buying ‘Star Wars’ maker Lucasfilm
The Death Star
It’s a small Death Star, after all.
The AP is reporting that George Lucas is calling it quits and cashing in, for more than $4 billion.
The news brings with it some ominous news: Star Wars Episode 7, slated for release in 2015, with plans to follow it with Episodes 8 and 9 and then one new movie every two or three years.
Location changed for tonight’s Binnekill Chamber Orchestra concert
The Schenectady County Community College Binnekill Chamber Orchestra concert scheduled at 7:30 p.m. tonight, Tuesday, Oct. 30, has been moved to St. Luke’s, 1241 State St., Schenectady, NY 12304.
Ian Berry named director of Tang Museum
Ian Berry photo by Rusty Russell
Ian Berry, associate director at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, has been named the museum’s third director.
On Dec. 1, Berry will succeed John Weber, who is leaving after eight years to be the founding director of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Berry joined Skidmore as the Tang’s founding curator in 2000 after serving as assistant curator at the Williams College Museum of Art. He is a 1995 UAlbany graduate in art history; and a 1998 graduate with a master’s in curatorial studies from Bard College.
Berry pioneered the current practice at the Tang of working alongside faculty on large-scale interdisciplinary projects and is a regular speaker on interdisciplinary and inventive curatorial practice and teaching in museums. His curatorial projects in collaboration with faculty and students include large-scale interdisciplinary exhibitions that combine such items as scientific equipment, Hudson River School landscapes, Rube Goldberg cartoons, and Shaker furniture with new art from around the world. He is currently at work on career-spanning survey exhibitions on artists Corita Kent and Nicholas Krushenick.
“I am honored to serve as Dayton Director of the Tang Museum,” Berry said. “It is a pleasure to be part of a great team that lives the museum’s mission in every part of our daily work. The Tang is a model for college and university museums, and I look forward to many great things in our future.”
Berry has chaired the Visual Arts Panel of the New York State Council on the Arts and has served on the artistic advisory committee for the PBS series Art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century, among many other advisory groups. He has served as juror, panelist, committee member, and advisor to many regional arts organizations. Berry also served as consulting director of the Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College during 2006-12, and was the Roy Acuff Chair of Excellence in the Creative Arts at Austin Peay University in 2009-10. He has held leadership and committee positions in several professional organizations including the College Art Association and Association of Art Museum Curators and has served on several museum director search committees.
Festival of Nations returns on Sunday, Oct. 28 (video of Tinikling)
Music, dancing, and foods from around the world are in the spotlight at the 41st annual Festival of Nations.
The event, celebrating culture, art and diversity, will feature food, fun and festivities from 30 countries and Puerto Rico. The Festival kicks off with the Parade of Nations, followed by the crowning of Miss Festival of Nations.
There will be plenty of dancing at the festival, including Ukrainian folk dancing, Greek and Scottish dancing, and arts and crafts from many different countries.
At a glance
Festival of Nations
When: 11:45 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday
Where: Empire State Plaza Convention Center, Albany
Tickets: $5 adults, $2 children ages 3-12
info: 371-3737; http://www.festivalofnations.net
Free parking at the Palace
The Palace Theatre and the Albany Parking Authority have announced free parking in the Quackenbush Square Garage, one block from the Palace at Broadway and Orange Streets.
The garage opens two hours prior to each event and closes two hours after. Present your Palace ticket for free entry.
Tonight: Painter David Reed lecture at EMPAC
Vampire Painting #449, 1998-1999 (David Reed)
American painter David Reed will present a lecture called “Vampire Painting: Painting in Our Time of Media” at 6 tonight (Mon 10/22/12) at EMPAC, 110 Eighth St., Troy. The lecture is free.
Reed, whose painted abstractions, installations, and video works have been on the New York and international scenes for more than 30 years, recently opened a large-scale survey in Bonn, Germany, “Heart of Glass.”
His work has long been invested in relationships between painting and cinema.
Obama diagnoses a case of Romnesia
Lucy Liu doesn’t want to look like a Filipino
Recently, on Late Night with David Letterman, the beautiful and talented actress Lucy Liu made a comment that some people are saying is racist: that she doesn’t like to get to tan or dark because then she would look like a Filipino.
You can watch her make the comment in the first minute or so in the clip above. Letterman rightfully responded to her question, “You know what I mean?” by saying, “No, I don’t” and “There’s nothing there that I can comment on.”
As many readers know, I have a Filipino heritage, so I am especially attuned to such statements, especially since what Liu says seems to be trying to specify a single look for all the tens of millions of Filipinos who come from all sorts of different backgrounds, including Spain, Portugal, Malaysia and China.
Of course, Liu was just talking about not running outside because she would get really dark, and then it wouldn’t look right for the character she plays, Dr. Watson, on the TV show “Elementary,” which she could’ve said without mentioning Filipinos.
By mentioning Filipinos, however, she was recasting a kind of traditional attitude throughout Asia — that the whiter the skin the more beautiful the woman — and that attitude has everything to do with issues of race and class, and who gets to define beauty.
Liu’s statement seems disappointing and unfortunate, but it reflects a truth about the the broad — and ever growing — category of person in America, the Asian American; namely, that Asian America isn’t monolithic, but is filled with divisions and prejudicial attitudes.
Below are some photos of Filipinos and of Lucy Liu. What is she talking about?
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