Published Sunday, January 25, 2009
Round About Art
By LINDSEY HOWALD of the Tribune’s staff
You might have heard the vast scraping of frames, creaking of light fixtures and hammering of nails echoing in Columbia’s art galleries this month. Nearly all of them have wiped their hands, said, “Out with the old, in with the new!” and hung fresh shows in anticipation of spring.
Cyclist has high hopes for Obama
Hudson to sing at Super Bowl
Carell goes into store business
MUSIC
NOTES AND TONES
Future of jazz debated as real sounds heat up clubs
By JON W. POSES
NEW YORK - Perhaps it is a coincidence that this year’s Association of Performing Arts Presenters’ annual conference, which takes place each January in New York, arrived just a couple of weeks before President Barack Obama took office.
LIVE MUSIC
Performing arts
LIFTING THE CURTAIN:
Picnic
ON STAGE
Books
In book, 100 women send advice to Michelle Obama
By BONNIE MILLER RUBIN
Chicago Tribune
Two upstate New York women think Michelle Obama could use some advice.
That’s why they’ve compiled a book of letters from about 100 women offering love, encouragement and wisdom to the woman who moved into the White House this week.
Latest Carter book less likely to rankle
By WALTER PUTNAM
of The Associated Press
Jimmy Carter poked into a hornet’s nest with his last book on the Middle East, "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid." It provoked comparisons of Palestinian treatment under Israeli occupation to racial oppression in 20th-century South Africa.
Literary links
Visual arts
NICHE: A WEEKLY PEEK AT AN AREA ARTIST
Mark Grundy
By LINDSEY HOWALD
of the Tribune’s staff
When Mark Grundy cut his graduate school career short and flew down to Santiago, Chile, in 1999, the only book he brought with him was one containing a guide to watercolor painting by Jeanne
Dobie.
Kate Gray show explores light, space, words
By LYNN ISRAEL
of the Tribune’s staff
Most artists learn to use light - even love light - but watercolorist Kate Gray seems to have peeled back some of light’s mysteries by enveloping it and embracing it with nuances of color, form and even words bringing to her work an appreciation of the magic of time, place and circumstance.
Art for life
By KATY POWNALL
of The Associated Press
LAGOS, Nigeria - The doomed man’s eyes stare blankly ahead as he shuffles down a dark corridor, spreading a hush through the death-row cells. The hangman pushes a black hood over the convict’s head and tightens a noose around his neck. The trapdoor opens beneath his feet with a clang that reverberates around the stone walls. A gurgle, one last rattle of chains, then silence.
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