ALIAS MAN RAY : THE ART OF REINVENTION Nov 17, 2009
That group now reads like a modernist pantheon - Andr Breton, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Duchamp, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Marcel Proust and Gertrude Stein, among others. These innovative portraits, all on view in the exhibition, provide a chronicle of the social milieu in which Man Ray thrived. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Self-made Man Ray Nov 13, 2009
Later, he took up photography and shot the boldface names of his time -- Gertrude Stein (alongside the portrait Picasso painted of her), Jean Cocteau, even a young Ernest Hemingway ... Later, he took up photography and shot the boldface names of his time -- Gertrude Stein (alongside the portrait Picasso painted of her), Jean Cocteau, even a young Ernest Hemingway. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Odd facts about Nobel Prize winners Oct 7, 2009
Big names who never won: Dmitri Mendeleev, Leo Tolstoy, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Mark Twain, Gertrude Stein, Henrik Ibsen, Joan Robinson, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Jules-Henri Poincar;, Raymond Damadian and Mahatma Gandhi. 8. (CNN)
Tombstone tours Oct 7, 2009
ParisPhantoms of famed souls, some doomed to early death, fill Pere Lachaise cemetery, in a quiet, shady neighborhood on the eastern edge of Paris: Frederic Chopin, Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein and Edith Piaf and of course Jim Morrison. Mystery still shrouds the death of the lead singer of The Doors, who was just 27 when he died in Paris in 1971. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Tombstone tours: Check out these famous boneyards Oct 6, 2009
PARIS: Phantoms of famed souls, some doomed to early death, fill Pere Lachaise cemetery, in a quiet, shady neighborhood on the eastern edge of Paris: Frederic Chopin, Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein and Edith Piaf and of course Jim Morrison. Mystery still shrouds the death of the lead singer of The Doors, who was just 27 when he died in Paris in 1971. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Win Out in Africa film tickets! Sep 3, 2009
The film uses historical references to Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thompson and is richly layered, intelligent and unique. Greyson, who is considered the Prince of Gay Filmmaking, is a guest of the festival and will be in attendance. (iAfrica.com)
James Lord, 86; authored biographies, memoirs Aug 30, 2009
In three volumes of memoirs, he left sharp portraits of Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, Balthus, Peggy Guggenheim, and other figures encountered in studios, cafes, and salons ... (Gertrude Stein, he wrote, made me think of a burlap bag filled with cement and left to harden. (Boston Globe)
Folks our features staff would have loved to follow on Twitter: Aug 23, 2009
Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein. Gertrude Stein, the ultimate Twitter user with her cryptic style. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
In 'Picasso and the Allure of Language,' Nasher 'breaks ground' Aug 20, 2009
DURHAM -- Of her friend artist Pablo Picasso, American expatriate writer Gertrude Stein said he did not seek the company of painters. Stein, in a 1938 book about Picasso, wrote, "His friends in Paris were writers rather than painters, why have painters for friends when he could paint as he could paint.". (Herald Sun)
Holiday magazine: A majestic trip to 1961 S.F. Aug 2, 2009
Reporting on the city's nascent counterculture is theater critic and producer Kenneth Tynan, creator of the seminal, sexy "Oh! Calcutta!" Tynan's canny take in "San Francisco: The Rebels" harks back to cultural malcontents Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Sinclair Lewis, William Saroyan, Isadora Duncan and Gertrude Stein and contemporaries including Alan Watts, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Kenneth Rexroth. Taken together, according to Tynan, they illustrate that "In this bright, free-wheeling,... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
Random House Publisher Profile Aug 1, 2009
Random House is home to world famous, contemporary authors such as John Grisham, Danielle Steel, Michael Crichton, Anne Rice, Dean Koontz and Dr. Seuss and literary legends like James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, William Faulkner and Sinclair Lewis. About Random House. (Suite101.com)
Lodi Unified School District administrators to act as department chairs Jul 31, 2009
"However, much more aggravating than the "top administrators" inability to render any real sevice of any value is their arrogance, dismissive attitudes and imperious manner. When I have the "opportunity" to speak to one of "them" their replies are either high blown edu-speak (usually poorly wrapped in an attitude that is sociopathic, brazen and gleefully confrontational). Or, a load of contrived minutia that also means next to nothing. And, in all that time you speak to one of these morons you... (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
* COMMUNITY COMPASS: Professor finds Taiwan in poems Jul 28, 2009
She then focused her research on representations of modernity in the works of US expatriates Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein and of Hsia Yu and Yu Kuang-chung (E). Although Parry chose a picture of Taiwans Hsiluo Bridge (j) for the cover of her book, she said one work wasnt enough to bridge the gap between two cultures. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Pablo Picasso paintings coming to Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University Jul 18, 2009
Some of the works that will go on display between Aug. 20 and Jan. 3, 2010, were created for Gertrude Stein, the expatriate American writer who served as his patron in Paris until 1914. The exhibition was created by the Art Gallery, and the art work comes from collections at the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the Raymond and Patsy Nasher Collection in Dallas, Texas. (Triangle Business Journal)
Click to read:48 Hours Mystery: Stolen Dreams Jul 12, 2009
As Gertrude Stein said, " there was no there, there". she was surely no Mensa member. (CBS News)
Don’t mess with this Hemingway Jul 10, 2009
In his memoir, Hemingway offered sketches of Gertrude Stein ( She reminded me of a northern Italian peasant woman ), Ezra Pound ( the most generous writer I have ever known ), F. Scott Fitzgerald ( who looked like a boy with a face between handsome and pretty ), Fitzgerald s wife, Zelda ( hawk s eyes with a thin month and deep-South manners ), and Hemingway s first wife, Hadley ( her smile lighted up at decisions as though they were rich presents. . (Boston Globe)
Hemingway's 'A Moveable Feast' goes back into oven Jun 28, 2009
NEW YORK - Besides its tart portraits of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway s posthumously published memoir of his early days in Paris, A Moveable Feast, provides a heart-wrenching depiction of marital betrayal. The final chapter, There Is Never Any End to Paris, is a wistful paean to Hadley Richardson, Hemingway s first wife, whom the writer left for her best friend. (Boston Globe)
Virgil Thomson's Symphony on a Hymn... Jun 27, 2009
Known chiefly for his Pulitzer Prize-winning music for the documentary Louisiana Story, for his film scores The Plow that Broke the Plains and The River, as well as working with Gertrude Stein for his opera Four Saints in Three Acts, Thomson broke through in the orchestral world while composing in Paris in the 1920s. In some respects, he was writing Aaron Copland music before Copland started writing Copland music. (Suite101.com)
Book Arts Pacific University hosts a conference dedicated to the art of making books Jun 20, 2009
To paraphrase Gertrude Stein, "A book is a book is a book.". Or is it. (OregonLive, OR -- Living)
Guest opinion: Uptown needs imagination, hard work Jun 19, 2009
I fear that, not too many years from now, demolition in the name of Butte beautification will have resulted in, to quote Gertrude Stein, "no there there." The new medical clinic's owner will likely ask the Butte-Silver Bow Council of Commissioners to overturn the Historic Preservation Commission's denial of a demolition permit for 313 S. Idaho. That appeal purportedly will be about removal of two eyesores in the area. (Montana Standard, MT)
Down-Home-Cooking Nation Jun 3, 2009
Everyone from Thomas Jefferson to Gertrude Stein seems to have tried a hand at food writing by the time America Eats was conceived. (Stein: "They do have pie, they all do have pie, they do not all eat pie, there are a very great many who never eat pie, but anywhere and everywhere if you want pie you can have pie.") That wasn't exactly what the editors of this project had in mind. (Slate)
Theatre Rhino/Word for Word" 'Three on a Party' May 19, 2009
Three on a Party: "Miss Furr and Miss Skeene" by Gertrude Stein, directed by Delia MacDougall; "Two on a Party" by Tennessee Williams and "Suddenly Home" by Armistead Maupin, directed by John Fisher ... Tennessee Williams writes openly about "queen" cruising in the closeted '50s, Armistead Maupin addresses marital issues during the AIDS pandemic and Gertrude Stein gives "gay" its modern connotation at the dawn of the 20th century in "Three on a Party," which opened Saturday at Theatre Rhinoceros... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
A little feeling of entitlement May 16, 2009
I speak for myself here, but I am reminded of the immortal words of Gertrude Stein when she said "It is remarkable how I am not interested". And all I can say, as I sit here going through my own expenses - replacement of ball point pen, 50p -- is that when I find out that the richest man in the cabinet, the one who's already got seven properties, has done better than all his colleagues out of juggling his first and second residence is, if that's a revelation, with what revelation will you be... (BBC News -- UK)
It's not about Bono, it's about the consumerism May 15, 2009
A strange hybrid of reportage and postmodern musical, Fig Trees follows the lives of two prominent AIDS activists while illuminating their political positions via reworked pop songs, a mini-opera based on an opera written by Gertrude Stein, superimposed visual art displays, and a singing boy dressed as a white squirrel ... The thing that was fun about Fig Trees was that Dave [Wall, the composer] has always loved opera, from the age of 3 on, and we bonded over the Gertrude Stein opera, which we... (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Stein, Williams and Maupin combine for 'Party' May 14, 2009
The guests of honor are Gertrude Stein, Tennessee Williams and Armistead Maupin. Each member of this unlikely trio will have short stories performed on the Rhino stage in an evening dubbed "Three on a Party.". (San Francisco Chronicle)
Microtonal marks 20 years with several premieres May 13, 2009
Ascher and cellist Ted Mook were commanding in Ezra Sims's "If I Told Him"; starting by transcribing a Gertrude Stein recording into the 72-note scale Sims invented, the result has lengthy fun with the stilted quality of a too-exact translation - "exactly a resemblance," in Stein's words. BMS artistic director Julia Werntz's "but also nowhere" fashions its own melodic speech-simulacrum, one perhaps too beholden to e.e. cummings's typographic quirks; soprano Jennifer Ashe and countertenor Martin... (Boston Globe)
Hot heads dont solve anything May 13, 2009
GERTRUDE Stein the writer once said: Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. Stein lived from 1874-1946, so this was way before what we now call the Information Age. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Students lost in digital wasteland Apr 28, 2009
To paraphrase Gertrude Stein, today s students are a lost generation ; unfortunately, lost in the hard glare of technology, blinded by the promise of cyber salvation on a distracted globe. What I used to take for granted an engaged core of students who could think, read and write has morphed into an assembly line of packaged minds fresh off the factory farm of iPod, American Idol and Facebook, a vast herd of electronic sheep stuffed with fast facts and establishment filler. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
FULL HIGHLIGHTS Apr 17, 2009
Speakers will include David Pavelich, bibliographer for modern poetry at the University Library, who will speak about the world of Ralph J. Mills Jr.; Andrew Joron, poet and author of Neo-Surrealism, who will speak about The Chicago Surrealist Group ; Liesl Olson, Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Humanities Collegiate Division, whose talk is titled An invincible force ; meets an immovable object : Gertrude Stein comes to Chicago. There will also be respondents to each discussion. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
Richard Wright Immortalized on Postage Apr 9, 2009
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The Final Word Apr 8, 2009
By Craig Wilson, USA TODAY. The charms of poetry have long been lost on me. (USA Today -- Life)
'Syntax' emphasizes photography, technology, and new ways of seeing Apr 3, 2009
As Gertrude Stein once said, "Remarks are not literature.". Leigh Brodie's pictures reassemble digital information visually. (Boston Globe)
Javier Tllez's 'Letter on the Blind' leads a video parade at the ICA Mar 27, 2009
I thought of the dance marathons held during the Great Depression, when impoverished young couples competed for prize money by dancing for sometimes as long as six weeks without sleeping, "more clinging than moving," as Gertrude Stein put it. One of the more curious films, "Wild Seeds," is by Yael Bartana, and it shows a group of Israeli teenagers acting out the conflicting roles of settlers and police on a picturesque hilltop in the occupied territories. (Boston Globe)
Baltimore museum puts art under the big top Mar 25, 2009
"The Acrobat Family" (1905) was the first Picasso painting purchased by an American collector Leo Stein, the brother of Gertrude Stein. He hung it in their Paris apartment, where the Cone sisters saw it and were smitten, Shell said. (Yahoo News)
All she wrote Mar 15, 2009
Elizabeth Stoddard's elliptical, protomodernist novel "The Morgesons" (1862) has been praised by recent critics, but Showalter declares Stoddard's formal innovations "more self-indulgent than illuminating" and blasts her "indifference to the great public issues of her time." Showalter has even less patience with Gertrude Stein, pegging her as "a wealthy salonni?re" who "did not need to earn a living" from her writing. Stein and her partner, Alice B. Toklas, were "the pet Jews of a Nazi... (Boston Globe)
Fauvism: Early Twentieth-Century Ar... Feb 27, 2009
Only the interest of Gertrude Stein, an American writer and proponent of the avant-garde, gave the movement any sense of momentum. Strong, short brush strokes dominated the Fauvist canvas, to the detriment of its intended theme. (Suite101.com)
Yale exhibit shows Picasso's work as a dialogue with his friends, peers Feb 22, 2009
It goes like this: One day, Gertrude Stein and her lover, Alice B. Toklas, were paying a visit to Pablo Picasso. The Spaniard was out, so they left a calling card, turning down its corner to signify that they had been there in person. (Boston Globe)
Art Review: Why university museums matter Feb 20, 2009
A 1914 collage with the pasted-in visiting cards of Alice Toklas and Gertrude Stein hangs near text-seeded Cubist paintings. These are surrounded by prints illustrating the works of Ovid and Aristophanes and others that accompanied, without exactly illustrating, poems by Guillaume Apollinaire, Tristan Tzara and Picasso himself. (International Herald Tribune)
Today in History - Feb. 19 Feb 19, 2009
Thought for Today: "In America everybody is, but some are more than others." Gertrude Stein, American author (1874-1946). Comments. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Crime)
Canadians come out strong at Berlinale Feb 14, 2009
Despite huge industry pressure, it has maintained a huge commitment to the marginal and innovative, of which Fig Trees which takes its cue from an opera by Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson and is narrated by an albino squirrel is perfect evidence. Another long-time Canadian friend of the festival, Michael Snow, was back in town as an honorary guest of the Forum Expanded program, which presents film-related installations, exhibitions and discussions in various venues across Berlin. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
The International Feb 13, 2009
Such as: "Character is easier kept than recovered." And: "Sometimes a man can meet his destiny on the road he took to avoid it." Fine remarks these, but, as ol' Gertrude Stein once insisted, "Remarks are not literature." Not to mention cinema. Final stop in Istanbul, where the climax that unfolds on the tiled rooftops of the Grand Bazaar is, well, grandly bizarre. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
What We May Be Missing by Trusting ... Feb 11, 2009
Gertrude Stein (deceased 1946) said that Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. This is no longer the information dark ages and people don t have to believe the experts quoted on the news. (Suite101.com)
The omnivores remember Feb 8, 2009
Famous literary figures make contributions to these pages, among them Nathaniel Hawthorne, Langston Hughes, and Gertrude Stein, pitter-pattering away in her faux-naif manner ("Well there are really quite a number of things to make different kinds of things to eat and everybody likes it all very much"). Finally, O'Neill's engaging, knowledgeable little prefaces for each writer are excellent contributions just on their own. (Boston Globe)
