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...prints in general - by print posters available online, or the canvas prints that design shops stock by the dozen. Tawdry works like these have brought Matisse or Warhol to countless college dorms and dental clinics, but their low cost and ubiquity means that printmaking is often seen as the art-world equivalent of a takeaway cheeseburger: cheap and insubstantial...
...Asian printmakers - with leading artists among them - are in the vanguard of rehabilitating the craft. Their base is a renovated former godown in Singapore: the seven-year-old Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI). It runs a course for artists in fine-art printmaking, and then sells their work to increasingly enthusiastic collectors, who during cash-strapped times are looking for quality alternatives to overpriced canvases. "We're an amphibian," says Emi Eu, the STPI's director. "We're a gallery and a learning institution at the same time." (Read "Painter Laureate...
Homecoming will take place on October 24, the weekend of the game against Princeton. Apart from a barbecue and a tailgate party, the $20 registration fee will cover campus tours, admission to art museums and libraries, a movie screening, a glee club concert, and a public service lecture...
...There may eventually be another benefit, says Lisa Pagan, who runs San Francisco's business improvement districts program. "The hope is that this may help people look at individual storefronts in a more positive way," she says. Translation: get enough art lovers to traipse up and down a certain block and maybe some of them will start thinking about what a great place it would be to rent a storefront for their business...
...questionnaire items: I find it easy to make friends. I would rather go to a party than the library. I particularly enjoy reading fiction.) Based on their answers in the first phase, investigators further assessed 618 individuals, using a battery of psychiatric measures, including a state-of-the art autism diagnostic tool. (About 200 of these participants had been selected for scoring high on the autism screen; the rest had been selected to sample for other disorders.) In the second phase, researchers identified 19 adults with ASD. But had they been able to evaluate all 7,461 in the survey...