Edward Glaeser, author of “Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier” (2011).
A review.
Related:
Adam Davidson, David Harvey, Edward Glaeser and Seth W. Pinsky
a participant in formulating a plot
page 201, Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones – Werner Sollors, New York : Columbia University Press, 1978.
NPR remembers Baraka.
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, via Thames & Hudson; also offers images of the woodcuts. T&H, in 1999, published an english translation of the text; they attribute Francesco Colonna as the author.
Here is the book jacket text :
It is hard to believe that the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, printed by Aldus Manutius in 1499, one of the most famous books in the world, read by every Renaissance intellectual and endlessly referred to in studies of art and culture ever since, has never appeared in English. One reason, no doubt, is the length and difficulty of the text. It is a strange, pagan, pedantic, erotic, allegorical, mythological romance relating in highly stylized Italian the quest of Poliphilo for his beloved Polia. The author (presumed to be Francesco Colonna, a friar of dubious reputation) was obsessed by architecture, landscape and costume – it is not going too far to say sexually obsessed – and its 174 woodcuts are a primary source for Renaissance ideas on both buildings and gardens. In 1592 a beginning was made to produce an English version but the translator gave up after only a third of the text. Now, at last, the task has been triumphantly accomplished by Joscelyn Godwin, who succeeds in reproducing all its wayward charm and arcane learning in language accessible to the modern reader.
Liane Lefaivre, in 1997, attributes the book to Leon Battista Alberti.
Codex99 considered it.
Memorial University has a biographical page.
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A couple of works from The Global Caribbean V
Untitled (la cour or place for the lever)
Solvent-transfer, acrylic, watercolor, graphite and color pencil on paper.
22.5 x 30 inches. 2013
Untitled (sourced from the blck indices; formed and regulated)
Solvent-transfer, acrylic, watercolor, graphite and color pencil on paper.
22.5 x 30 inches. 2013
The exhibition runs through January 26, 2014.
Little Haiti Cultural Center
260 NE 59th Terrace, Miami, Florida.
http://www.theglobalcaribbean.org
http://www.miamigov.com/LHCulturalcenter/pages
https://www.facebook.com/LittleHaitiCulturalCenter
Report on Impact of Arts and Culture on U.S. Economy
via Marketplace
According to these new estimates, 3.2 percent — or $504 billion — of current-dollar GDP in 2011 was attributable to arts and culture. In comparison, BEA’s estimated value of the U.S. travel and tourism industry was 2.8 percent of GDP.
NEA.
The Global Caribbean V
December 6 / 10 AM to Noon / Global Caribbean V / Miami Caribbean Artists focus on the contemporary
expression, Global Caribbean V is a highly relevant exhibition experience that will bring together the visual
discourses that are occurring currently in Miami concerning the Caribbean. / Brunch served at 11am / Little Haiti
Cultural Center, 260 NE 59th Terrace, Miami. The exhibition runs through January 26, 2014.
Participating artists: Glexis Novoa (Cuba) / Fabián Pena (Cuba) / Misael Soto (Puerto Rico -USA) / Gustavo Acosta
(Cuba) / Noelle Théard (Haiti) / Rodney Jackson (Jamaica) / Eugenio Espinoza (Venezuela) / Brian Wong (Trinidad)
/ Rubén Ubiera. (Dominican Republic) / Selina Román (Puerto-Rico) / Kira Tippenhauer (Haiti) / Andrés Michelena
(Venezuela) / Carl Juste (Haiti) / Dinorah de Jesús Rodríguez (Cuba) / Adler Guerrier (Haiti) / Ernesto Oroza &
Gean Moreno (Cuba) /Carola Bravo (Venezuela) / Marielle Plaisir (Martinique) / Sergio García (Cuba).
Special performance on opening date of The Peter London Global Dance Company and special exhibition
participation of the FIU Digital Library Island Luminous online exhibit and The Mapping Arts Project – Miami under
the Sponsorship of the Green Family Foundation.
Artistic Director: Edouard Duval Carrie /Haitian Cultural Arts Alliance.
Curator of Global Caribbean V: Miguel Rojas Sotelo / Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies at Duke
University.
Exhibition Project Coordinator: Jorge Luis Gutierrez / Triennial Miami of Contemporary Art.