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- Eli BroadIn Tributes·April 14, 2022Eli Broad, one of Los Angeles’ most prominent philanthropists, died on April 30, 2021. He was 87. Broad, who said his name rhymed with ‘road,’ was an American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and writer. I first learned of Broad when I visited the Broad Museum in early January 2018. I read how he founded two Fortune 500 companies (Kaufman & Broad and SunAmerica) in different industries — the only person to have done so. Beyond his business acumen, what impressed me more was what he (with his wife, Edythe) did with their money. He was known for his philanthropic commitment to public K–12 education, scientific and medical research and the visual and performing arts. His own collection of extraordinary contemporary art was the foundation of the wonderful Broad Museum. Broad amassed a fortune of more than $6 billion, building houses and selling insurance and then, perceiving a need for civic transformation not only in LA, but all of Southern California, he and Edythe began to collect art as the makers themselves created it. In 2010, Eli and Edythe Broad created The Broad Foundations, which include The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation and The Broad Art Foundation. They signed The Giving Pledge, a commitment for wealthy individuals to give at least half their wealth to charity; the Broads personally committed to 75 percent. He wrote a wonderful book, The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional Thinking, published by Wiley & Sons in 2012. Broad was the founding chairman of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in 1979 and chaired the board until 1984. He recruited the museum’s founding director, Joanne Heyler, and negotiated the acquisition of the Panza Collection for the museum. In 2008, The Broad Foundation donated $30 million to MOCA. That bestowal was contingent on the museum’s remaining independent, not merging with Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), of which Broad was a life trustee. In 2003, The Broad Foundation gave $60 million to that museum as part of its renovation campaign, creating the Broad Contemporary Art Museum as well as an art acquisition fund. The Broads donated $6 million to the Los Angeles Opera to stage Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen for the 2009–’10 season. In June 2013, the Broads gave $7 million to continue funding the Eli and Edythe Broad general director position at L.A. Opera, occupied by Plácido Domingo until his resignation in 2019. The Broads committed $10 million in 2008 for a programming endowment for a music and performing arts center at Santa Monica College, The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage, and an adjacent black box performance space, The Edye. In total, the Broads have pledged roughly $1 billion to art institutions throughout the Los Angeles area. Broad called Los Angeles a “cultural capital of the world.” In August 2010, Eli Broad announced he would build a contemporary art museum in Los Angeles. The firm, Diller Scofidio + Renfro was chosen through an architectural competition to design the approximately 120,000-square-foot museum, which encompasses an exhibition space, offices, and a parking garage. In February 2015, a public preview of a special installation attracted 3,500 visitors, even though the museum was under construction. The Broad was opened by the Broads on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015. To date, it has received more than 2.5 million visitors. In 2000, Broad founded the Grand Avenue Committee, which coordinated and oversaw further development of LA’s Grand Avenue, a major thoroughfare. He was involved in the fundraising campaign to build Walt Disney Concert Hall, which opened in October 2003. Broad was instrumental in securing a $50 million deposit from project developer Related Companies, opening Grand Park in summer 2012. Eli Broad was drawn into the art world by his wife Edye’s interest in collecting. Their first major purchase was made in 1973, when he and Edye acquired a Van Gogh drawing, “Cabanes a Saintes-Maries, 1888.” Art collector and MCA executive Taft Schreiber became their mentor. In time, the pair began to concentrate on post–World War II art. Eli and Edythe Broad established The Broad Art Foundation in 1984 with the goal of making their extensive contemporary collection more accessible to the public. The Broads have two collections focusing on postwar and contemporary art — an assemblage with nearly 600 works and The Broad Art Foundation’s collection, which has around 1,500 works. Michigan State University (Eli Broad’s alma mater) has also been the recipient of nearly $100 million in donations from Eli and Edye Broad to build an art museum and expand the Eli Broad College of Business. The philanthropic duo gave $100 million, the founding gift for the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, with the goal to improve health using genomics. The Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine & Stem Cell Research at the University of Southern California is part of a public-private partnership between the voter-created California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, the Keck School of Medicine of USC, and The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, which donated $30 million in 2006. Most of this information about Broad is from Wikipedia, abridged, edited and rewritten by Marlene Dryden. Personal information by George Farkas. https://www.hmoob.in/wiki/Eli_Broad.4136
- A Catchy TuneIn Poetry·October 26, 2022I was looking out my window at the full moon white when a thought came to my mind about you and me connecting mentally making music of a magical kind I’m digging down deep deciding what to keep The words with the very best rhyme write a catchy tune and I’m finding soon that I can’t keep it out of my mind No, can’t keep it out of my mind: You’re a part of me I’m a part of you We sing in perfect harmony In a symphony…a symphony of love We can’t go wrong singing this song walking in the magic of the light Just hold me tight take me out of sight making moves in the soft moonlight I never thought I’d love again but now I know instead This love is real I know what I feel and I can’t get you out of my head No, can’t get you out of my head. Lorene Rogers © October 26, 20223336
- Meet the Artist - Peter StevensonIn Featured Artists·April 1, 2022Peter Stevenson is a fine artist and illustrator. He has lived and worked in various markets, including Washington D.C., center city Philadelphia, northern New Jersey and New York City, where he is a member of the prestigious Society of Illustrators. His illustrations have been featured in many magazines and publications, including The Washington Post, The Washington Book Review, and The Wall Street Journal, and his work has been commissioned by clients that include AT&T Communications, Crayola, Earle Palmer Brown, Citibank, and J. Walter Thompson. Stevenson simultaneously spent decades in advertising as first an Art Director and then Creative Director for leading agencies and corporations, such as AT&T, Aramark Corp, Marra Advertising and Stiegler, Wells & Brunswick. Eventually founding The Stevenson Group, he served as principal and executive creative director, establishing a robust roster of regional, national and global clients, and winning Gold ADDY Awards, Gold Art Directors Club of Philadelphia awards, and the Business Marketing Awards, both nationally and internationally. Now residing in Lancaster, Pa, not far from his childhood roots in Chester County, his latest gallery exhibition Biospheres II focuses on the place where land and sky meet, and rural life happens. The simultaneous contrast of two juxtaposed colors, depicting earth and sky, offers a simple abstract scene that is set for a meeting point. It’s at this intersection—the horizon line, where the buzzing, humming flurry of life and human emotion can be felt, sensed and imagined. http://www.PeterStevensonArt.com https://www.peterstevensonart.com/blog3340
- Explore - From Space to SoundIn General Discussion·July 12, 2022Ever wondered what the music of the spheres would sound like? Hubble brings us cosmic sights, but these astronomical marvels can be experienced with other senses as well. Through data sonification, the same digital data that gets translated into images is transformed into sound. Elements of the image, like brightness and position, are assigned pitches and volumes. Each translation below begins on the left side of the image and moves to the right. No sound can travel in space, but sonifications provide a new way of experiencing and conceptualizing data. Sonifications allow the audience, including blind and visually impaired communities, to “listen” to astronomical images and explore their data. Below are sonifications recently published by NASA: Here is the sonification of Hoag's Object: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Xo3HajfkrKQ Sonification of the Bubble Nebula: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buCP1UtT9I0 The majestic spiral galaxy NGC 1300’s arms hold blue clusters of young stars, pink clouds of star formation, and dark lanes of dust sonification: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyf1UDm-GyU Data Sonification: Black Hole at the Center of Galaxy M87: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVleUUmU44E Sounds from Around the Milky Way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N9RnmwIWbA Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) Sonification: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfFoUWm3NDA Sit back and enjoy!2521
- A little love poemIn Poetry·August 19, 20233212
- “Heji Shin: The Big Nudes”In Events·August 25, 2023Photography Surrealism is alive and well and getting better all the time in “Heji Shin: The Big Nudes,” a wonderful show at 52 Walker, through Oct. 7, that’s not just about its subjects—brain scans, a pig (a detail of “Reclining Nude,” from 2023, pictured here)—but about photography itself. Working from a palette that includes Irving Penn grays and calling to mind body-scan photography by artists like Kurt Hoerbst, Shin shows and tells what makes a sensibility. The forty-seven-year-old German balances the often self-serious “art” photography of the past fifty years or so (the exhibition’s title refers to the late Helmut Newton’s large-format series of big nude women) with an outstanding sense of humor that takes the piss out of the concept of the nude. Are pigs naked? Are they showing us their emotions? And are emotions a landscape that a brain scan can convey? These are among the many questions raised by the very distinctive artist.—Hilton Als(https://link.newyorker.com/click/32476487.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)3214
- A Kiss Is Its Own PurposeIn Poetry·October 1, 2022A kiss is its own purpose. Joining of lips is merely, The external, physical manifestation. When two lovers place their lips together, Join mouths most intimately, Bodies not merely touching, Caressing, inch to inch, Soul to soul, All mixed and mingling, The kiss is all there is. - Donovan Baldwin3214
- George FarkasIn Who am I?·November 20, 2022I am founder, president and CEO of ArtsKeeper Inc, the social media platform for anyone who loves the Arts, for all artists, writers, musicians, photographers and performers, as well as enthusiasts and patrons. ArtsKeeper is the only social media site that focuses on the needs of all artists and artisans; whatever their art or craft, whatever their stage in life. Why did i found ArtsKeeper? - To make it easier for people to make a living as a creative, as an artist. Previously, I was founder, president and CEO of XBI Software Inc. In that role, I was a past chair of XBRL Canada and member of the SBR (standard business reporting) Forum. I was an editor of the first Canadian GAAP PFS taxonomy, and of the International XBRL Global Ledger Taxonomy. I am an SBR and XBRL evangelist and consultant, and I have served on many XBRL working groups. Before that, I was founder, president and CEO of Dr Tax Software Inc, a premier supplier of tax software to Canadian accountants and tax professionals, and of Dr Tax -UFile.ca Inc, the first company to create a Web-based tax preparation program in Canada. Under my vision and leadership, the Dr Tax team developed Dr Tax Software from an idea to the second-largest company in its market segment. We actualized the dream of easy, quick web-based tax preparation and led the UFile team to build the first and best Web-based tax application in Canada. The Dr Tax group has been sold to Thomson Reuters. Perhaps most important, i am a poet and aspiring novelist and would love to hear from everyone at ArtsKeeper3248
- Sun kissed. Oil on canvas board. 8x10. Palette knife with limited palette. #melodyemitchellstudiIn General Discussion·April 16, 2022328
- Night FlowerIn Poetry·August 26, 2024Night Flower In darkness moonbeams of silver cast opalescent light on her sculpted soul She is a moonflower whose bud unfurls in a magical twirl drawn open by the light The air is heavy with the perfume of passion’s sweet nectar… Love is a night flower © Lorene G. Rogers Aug. 18, ‘22102
- PLEASURE TO EYES THAT FOLLOWIn Poetry·October 31, 2023As gray mist rolls down From high hills, To the rippling waters Of a silvery sea, A figure slips seductively Through the haze, Threads of earthbound cloud Caressing, Swirling about her body, The passage of apparition Through the dew of dawn, Brings pleasure, To eyes that follow. • Donovan Baldwin112
- The WrenIn Poetry·September 6, 2022Yesterday I felt unloved and low No direction, place to go Shake it off – that’s what they say Doesn’t take my blues away Listen, shhh – what’s that I hear? A bird is singing very near Two notes he chirps, three in a row This song is just for me – I know See him up there on the vine – Mandevilla blossoms all entwined Throat a-throbbing – such a sight The wren sings out with all his might A feathered chest, quivering With each note he’s delivering I wonder . . . did an angel bring This bird to me, his love to sing © L G Rogers 8-24-22 Note: featured video of The Wren https://youtube.com/shorts/DedDRnIgwJ0?feature=share2435
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