For street artists,The name "magic cube" is not unique. the distance
between city streets and gallery walls often seems unbridgeable¡ªsee, for
instance, Shepard Fairey's Deitch Projects finale last year. But London-based
Sweet Toof's New York solo debut at Factory Fresh in Bushwick, Dark Horse
(through May 22), powerfully integrates these two sensibilities. His trademark
row of sparkly whites atop neon pink gums stretches the length of Vandervoort
Place, symbolically consuming the art-filled alley behind the gallery. The work
inside is similarly ambitious, and the artist takes big bites out of canonical
painting genres.
The 33 oil paintings on view range from epic,
ten-foot-wide battle scenes to dark, tiny portraits, always with the same
dandyish horse-riding skeletons flashing fleshy, creepy-funny grins and
brandishing brushes and rollers dripping with toxic-toned fluids. The aesthetic
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stampedes transforms the postures and compositions of classical war paintings
and aristocratic hunting scenes into a skirmish in the streets of a smoldering
city. The squadrons of bony riders atop similarly skeletal mounts carry cans of
paint and chemicals to apply or remove the graffiti on castle ramparts,
abandoned buildings and Trojan horses. Sweet Toof paints a battle for freedom of
expression by deploying tropes from revolutionary and military paintings that
are at once contemporary, medieval and post-apocalyptic.
Technically the
works vary from extreme precision to a looser, more expressionistic brush. In
"Hold Your Horses," a partially decomposed beast's mane is painted in exhaustive
detail, down to individual strands of hair. Graffiti on a tagged castle in the
backdrop of "Battle of the Buff" appears in crisp focus. Meanwhile landscapes
and smoke-filled skies tend to stretch and bend, sometimes even filled out a
little too hastily. Many enjoyable details repeat: certain figures sport a
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literary arts in "Pop-Up" art galleries on Division Street from Saturday, May
14, through Saturday, May 21.
Two storefronts at 11 and 15 Division St.
will feature art by more than 40 New Jersey artists.
The exhibitions
will include an array of fine art media such as paintings, mixed media,
sculpture, photography, printmaking and ceramic art. The galleries also will
serve as performing art venues hosting such activities as dramatic readings by
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Hillsborough-based group Kids on Tap, and salsa presented by Indigo Ballroom.
Participating artists hail from across the state, including many from
Somerville and its surrounding communities.
Somerville resident Sandra
Benscoter has been working in clay for decades. One of her ceramic vessels will
be on exhibition in the Pop-Up gallery at 15 Division Street, along with other
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Association, and Somerville and Immaculate High Schools will be featured
throughout the week.
Joan Needham, a multi-disciplinary artist based in
Princeton, will exhibit several of her large sculptures.
The large oil
paintings by Todd Doney will illuminate the power and beauty of nature. Doney
says, "The landscape genre investigates painting's ability to record the
authenticity of the real world and to communicate the artist's experiences in
nature."
In contrast to Doney's realistic work, Bedminster resident
Grant Clark works intuitively to create large, colorful abstract paintings.
The 2nd Arts on Division coincides with downtown Somerville's
"Restaurant Week" and the annual "Somerville Sampler Day" on Saturday, May 14.
Division Street will be closed to traffic from South Street to West Main
Street on May 14 for live music on two stages.
In addition to music and
indoor art exhibitions, a demonstration of traditional Japanese pottery known as
raku will be on tap for the day. Children also will have a chance to make
handmade greeting cards using monoprint techniques offered by the Printmaking
Center of New Jersey. New York Times bestselling author Cathy Cash Spellman will
discuss her upcoming books.
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Brian Gallagher. "Somerville, the county seat, is the cultural center for
Somerset County and downtown to the entire region. The borough is the perfect
location for a future arts district on Division Street, and the district will
serve as a ‘cultural gateway' drawing visitors to art galleries and
performances, and onward to Main Street," he added.
The mayor has teamed
up with other elected officials, the Downtown Somerville Alliance, The
Printmaking Center of New Jersey, local business owners, artists, and members
from the community to form the Greater Somerville Arts Initiative. Volunteer
members of the initiative have worked for months planning this week-long
cultural celebration. The mission of the group is to foster and support a
dynamic and diverse arts presence and to ensure that artists and arts
organizations are valued as essential to the character, sense of community and
economic vitality of the greater Somerville region.
While driving past Childhood's End Gallery
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Ocala to
consider curbside recycling options
The city of Ocala will explore
providing residential curbside recycling so residents don't have to bundle up
plastic bottles, glass, magazines, newspapers, aluminum, steel cans and other
recyclables and haul them to a recycling center for disposal.
"We are
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Ultimately, the City
Council would make the decision whether to go forward with the service.
There are a number of different ways curbside recycling can work.
The single stream method is the preferred method, McCall said.
"All recycled commodities are placed in a roll-out cart and taken to the
curb and collected by an automated vehicle," he said. "Everything would go into
one cart."
Another is the dual-sort method. Again, residents would put
all materials in one container and take it to the curb. The truck driver then
separates the materials at the curb.
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provide the service may send a proposal to the city.
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city wants to do, but it's trying to find a way we can do this which will be
good, not only for the city, but for the city residents as well," McCall
said.
Basic
scientific curiosity paid off in unexpected ways when Rice University
researchers investigating the fundamental physics of nanomaterials discovered a
new technology that could dramatically improve solar energy panels.
The
research is described in a new paper this week in the journal Science.
"We're merging the optics of nanoscale antennas with the electronics of
semiconductors," said lead researcher Naomi Halas, Rice's Stanley C. Moore
Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering. "There's no practical way to
directly detect infrared light with silicon, but we've shown that it is possible
if you marry the semiconductor to a nanoantenna. We expect this technique will
be used in new scientific instruments for infrared-light detection and for
higher-efficiency solar cells."
More than a third of the solar energy on
Earth arrives in the form of infrared light. But silicon — the material that's
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the silicon, where the tiny antenna is specially tuned to interact with infrared
light, the Rice team showed they could extend the frequency range for
electricity generation into the infrared. When infrared light hits the antenna,
it creates a "plasmon," a wave of energy that sloshes through the antenna's
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physics of plasmons that began in her lab years ago.
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that plasmons decay and give up their energy in two ways; they either emit a
photon of light or they convert the light energy into heat. The heating process
begins when the plasmon transfers its energy to a single electron — a ‘hot'
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experiment to directly detect the hot electrons resulting from plasmon decay.
Patterning a metallic nanoantenna directly onto a semiconductor to
create a "Schottky barrier," Knight showed that the infrared light striking the
antenna would result in a hot electron that could jump the barrier, which
creates an electrical current. This works for infrared light at frequencies that
would otherwise pass directly through the device.
"The
nanoantenna-diodes we created to detect plasmon-generated hot electrons are
already pretty good at harvesting infrared light and turning it directly into
electricity," Knight said. "We are eager to see whether this expansion of
light-harvesting to infrared frequencies will directly result in
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The tug you feel emanating from Beachwood is a temporary shift in
Northeast Ohio's artistic center of gravity. The cause is simple: The
Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage is showing a clutch of works from the
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Cleveland's history. The company offers tours at its discretion to arts
and education groups but does not consider itself a public destination.
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great collection founded on the maverick vision of Peter B. Lewis, the
longtime chief executive officer (and now chairman) of the company.
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view are works by some of the world's leading contemporary artists,
including Vik Muniz, Alfredo Jaar, Catherine Opie, Zwelethu Mthethwa
and Yasumasa Morimura.
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Opie
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and former drug addict Ron Athey carving bloody hashmarks in the back
of actor Daryl Carlton in a scarification ritual captured in a style
that blends the dignity of a formal portrait with the graphic clarity of
a fashion layout.
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which human beings express themselves freely through politics, sex,
religion and other hot-button aspects of identity. In other words, the
show is about the pursuit of happiness and the sometimes surprising and
unconventional ways in which human desire manifests itself.
All
of this aligns perfectly with the corporate mythology of Progressive
and the personality of Lewis, who grew up in Cleveland Heights,
attended Princeton University and later gained control of the small
insurance company co-founded by his father.