The Roosevelt Union Free School District has been making changes by bringing the fun back into learning for its students. Led by Robert-Wayne Harris, the district superintendent, the district has been promoting a return of interest in school.
Mr. Harris does this by making a point: “When you do the right thing, you get rewarded, and [...]
When it comes to cinema, some of the finest examples of enduring classics can be found in the silent film genre – an era that dates before 1929. Sadly, many examples of this art form have already disappeared. “Only about 20 percent of the films produced in America during the silent era – that is, [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, News on June 17th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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Like most performing art institutions, the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco had a lousy 2009. ACT had its budget cut by almost $1.5 million and eliminated three high-level positions, including its associate artistic director.
While it’s fair to say that things are not exactly rosy for the company, it looks like the New Year has [...]
Change came to the art world in 2009. Sculpture moved away from room-filling installations and found objects in individual works. Painting became more pliable, viable, and visual. Video explored the world as a living specimen, probing into culture, ethnography, anthropology, and sociology. Performance went beyond mere navel gazing to look at the bellybuttons of [...]
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.