Event date: Thursday Oct 26th, 2006
Gallery Talk
Dzine: Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Thursday, October 26, 12:15pm
Michigan Avenue Galleries, Chicago Cultural Center
With Gregory Knight, Deputy Commissioner/Visual Arts, Chicago Depatment
of Cultural Affairs.
Dzine: Somewhere Over the Rainbow is on view in the Michigan Avenue
Galleries through October 29.
NYT, STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM: ... Donning one of the many girlish costumes that sexualize classic characters from books, including “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” “Cinderella” and “The Wizard of Oz,” can be campy, female sartorial humor, said Professor Gill. It can be a way to embrace the fictional characters women loved as children while simultaneously taking a [...]
The first sentence in “Flattened Fauna – a Field Guide to Common Animals of Roads, Streets, and Highways”, by Roger M. Knutson reads: “This is a book about animals that, like the Wicked Witch of the East in The Wizard of Oz, are not just merely dead, but really most sincerely dead. These are animals [...]
from NYT, First Chapter, By ADAM GOPNIK: ... “I had arrived in Oz only to think, Well, you don’t live in Oz, do you?”
NPR, 2:55 pm, “The World”, Geo Quiz, describing the Blair Drummond Safari Park:”There are lions and tigers and bears, but so far no flying monkeys.”
NBC news, 6:03 pm, “... the man behind the curtain … is indicted on corruption charges …. Antoin “Tony” Rezko ….
Overheard by Patrick on set of a TV commercial in downtown Los Angeles: “I mean I suppose I could go as the Tinman, but that would just be boring.”
Paul Krugman, NY Times
“So the right-wing coalition is showing signs of coming apart. It seems that we’re not in Kansas anymore. In fact, Kansas itself doesn’t seem to be in Kansas anymore.”
...by Michael Sandstrom