Le M.U.R. #98 'L'Alphabet', school project with l'ATLAS - May 26/2011
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Caught in the [French] News :
... if you're not familiar with French, ask oncle Google for some help.
- Urban Art: "Le Mur", from Illegality to an Institution
- Thom Thom's Claws on the Walls
[France-Culture]
Four documentary films, directed by Laurent Brégeat, on four of the founding artists
of Indian contemporary art: M.F. Hussain, Ram Kumar, Akbar Padamsee, S.H. Raza.
A Lalit Kala Akademi production of Arts (National Akademi of Arts, New Delhi).
Tomorrow, May 21/2011 at Auditorium INHA, Galerie Colbert
6, rue des Petits Champs / 2, rue Vivienne - 75002 Paris
Four "self-portraits" captured on the spot, where each artist puts his eyes back on his life,
filtering what ultimately remains essential in his art.
Laurent Brégeat reveals the history of the artists' beginnings, their challenges,
their landmarks and highlights their lives, referring friends and events, thoughts
and anecdotes, lessons and influences.
Underpinned by inteviews with art critics, collectors and artists, supported by
unpublished documents, these films - drawing together the historical and sociological context
of these great Indian artists of the post-independence era and showing the journey of a hinge
generation - are essential for the history of Indian and international art.
These films are part of the international symposium of the Research Center on the Far East
of Paris-Sorbonne (CREOP) Heritage of India: research perspectives.
This first series will be followed in 2011 by another set, covering a broad cultural project:
the Archive of Contemporary Indian Art.
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Contacts:
Miss Gunjan Gupta, LKA Library - Phone: +91 11 23009225
Laurent Brégeat : bregeat@gmail.com - Cell: 06 07 50 14 87
The New York Police Department arrested Mr. Strauss-Kahn
at 2:15 a.m. Sunday “on charges of criminal sexual act,
attempted rape, and an unlawful imprisonment in connection
with a sexual assault on a 32-year-old chambermaid in the
luxury suite of a Midtown Manhattan hotel yesterday” about
1 p.m.
In short: a transatlantic bomb!
* The Timeline of D. Strauss-Khan's Week End, The Daily Beast
* The sequence of events according to Paul J. Browne, the chief police spokesman.
[The New York Times, May 22/2011].
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DSK - twitter search...
ParisPointGriset reached last night, the 50,000 visits.
Feb. 2007- May 2011
Thanks to you all.
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Yours faithful,
G@tto
Elana Gutmann is a painter and printmaker whose work
has evolved to include photography, video and installation
works.
A first-generation American artist with roots in Eastern and
Europe, Gutmann began exhibiting her work in Europe and
America in 1989.
"My paintings and drawings are both inquiry and discovery, each voyage
- part memory, part fantasy. The process is dialectic, the investigation of
a truth through discussion, a conversation between the work and me (then
the work and the viewer). Choices are made, revisited, some removed. Their traces remain. Colour jumps
to form, form instigates colour, relationships occur over a period of hours, days and months.
They manifest in a "story" - a visual tale."
Clairière, the Talking Trees, - Elana Gutmann's last project*
is "an installation work that employs language, symbol and
sound to evoke migration and the rich results of the movement
of culture individual from place to place." [MORE]
< video
Although Clairière is to be first viewed in the exhibition LandArt, Basel, it is designed to
travel to multiple sites thereafter.
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* [This project will only be funded if at least $ 12,000 is pledged by Thursday Aug 4, 3:18pm EDT].
Le M.U.R. - # 97 - Gilbert Baker & Colors - May 7/2011
His original Rainbow flag - first raised for the San Francisco Pride
in June/1978 - had 8 colors, each with a symbolicc meaning:
Hot Pink: sexuality, Red: life, Orange: healing, Yellow: sunlight,
Green: nature, Turquoise: magic/art, Blue (indigo): serenity/harmony,
Violet: spirit.
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... on May 4th, for Bidaia's concert - as announced by PPG a few days ago.
I was there early enough, at 6pm, - Caroline & Mixel were fiddling with the instruments and
sound - this gave me time, before we have dinner, to ride around the 'Halle aux Oliviers' and
outside in order to show you this pleasant place.
For 'Soul Cook' concerts, on Wednesdays, the 'Chef' cooks up a menu in agreement with
the musical universe of the performing artists. Tonight it's the Basque Country that has
guided his hand, with happiness.
8:30 pm, Caroline and Mixel are on stage...
... and they were good and the audience appreciated - click HERE for the videos.
Meanwhile, at the bar...
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Almost a decade...
since September 11/2001
[Fgamers]
Bin Laden was traced to a compound in Abbottabad, a relatively affluent suburb
of Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad. He is said to have resisted and was shot in the
head during an exchange of fire in the compound.
The body is said to have been taken to Afghanistan and then buried at sea.
[EuroNews]
Steve Coll - New Yorker: Notes on the death of Osama bin Laden.
[Born2WinMai]
R I P
... virgin female urchins, of course!
[John Cole, ©2011/CagleCartoons].
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BIDAIA to promote their new album
AGUR SHIVA
with two concerts in Paris :
* la bellevilloise
19/21, rue Boyer - Paris XX
May 4 - 8 pm
* Toro Bar tapas
74, rue J.Jacques Rousseau - Paris I
May 7 - 8:30 pm
Bidaia's tour will continue with :
- Pamplona, Spain, at 'Patio de los Gigantes' on May 19 - 9 pm
Bidaia and its entire band (+ bass & percussion).
- Gateshead, UK, Caroline Phillips will speak at the 'Thinking Digital'
conference, on May 25 - 6 pm and Bidaia will perform the next day, May 26.
- Saint-Pierre d’Aurillac/Gironde, France, 'Festival des Sous-Fifres'
on June 26 - 3 pm. 
[Photo: Caroline Phillips]
With 'Agur Shiva', BIDAIA [which means 'travel' in Basque language] continues his journey
by visiting other musical cultures. 'Agur Shiva' reflects this idea of travel by tapping into
the roots of the Basque rhythms and melodies of the main compositions, while linking
them to other traditions, notably India and Carnatic music.
[See "La Bellevilloise" by G@tto].
http://www.bidaia.com
contact@bidaia.com 
This year, I gardened outside my window
I sowed some seeds of egg plants
I regularly watered and monitored the tender shoots
Flowering was successful and promising
The promises have become eggs...
Happy Easter !
Le M.U.R. #95 - Zozen Kenor Göla & H101 - April 16/2011
4 stars from the Barcelona street art
together in France for the 1st time - Galerie Celal > from April 16 to Mai 15.
[JekylletHyde]
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