Continuing to explore Salvador Dalí’s work in new ways, the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg presents Women: Dalí’s View, an exhibition which examines Dali’s artistic obsession with the female form. On view until September 21, 2008, the paintings, drawings, watercolors, prints and objects assembled from the museum’s permanent collection – the largest outside of Dalí’s native Spain – represent a diverse range in the artist’s approach to the female form, and reveal how images of women dominate Dali’s work, much as they do the history of art.
Women: Dalí’s View features 94 works from the museum’s permanent collection, beginning in 1916 with childhood sketches and concluding in 1976 with one of Dali’s last portraits of his wife. Dali Museum Curator Joan Kropf has presented the works according to themes of Folklore, Landscape, Venus, Gala and Madonnas/Saints & Angels and the exhibit includes images drawn from Dalí’s more personal iconography, such as The Angelus, Beatrice and Gradiva.
http://www.salvadordalimuseum.org/home.html
Extra/Ordinary Cities: The Cultural Dynamics of Urban Intervention is a dynamic forum examining the relationship between art, politics and the built environment in Asia and Australia. Travelling from Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs to the city’s southwest, this all-day event, centred at the Bach Dang Vietnamese Restaurant in Canley Vale/Cabramatta, brings together leading international artists, architects and writers for a series of presentations and discussion panels, culminating in a reception at the Concrete Culture exhibition at the Ivan Dougherty Gallery/Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics, UNSW. Featuring Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri, Michael Rakowitz, Manray Hsu (Taipei Biennale) and other Biennale of Sydney artists.
Monday, 23 June / 10:30am – 5:45pm
Forum commences Bach Dang Restaurant, 46 Canley Vale Road, Canley Vale NSW and also includes Casula Powerhouse and the Ivan Dougherty Gallery/Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics, UNSW
Cost: $25, includes lunch
The forum is a Biennale of Sydney event.
www.bos2008.com/app/biennale/event/8
Many dog owners worry about whether dog shampoo is safe for their animals. Now there is an alternative from IDEC, which has modified an industrial wastewater machine into a dog washing device. The unit creates a wave of ion-saturated microbubbles which are gentle to the skin but remove dirt and grease clinging to the animal hair. At JPY600,000-JPY700,000, the new washers are expensive and are targeted at pet stores, but we think it won’t be long before home versions become available.
(Source: TT commentary from nikkei.co.jp, Jun 12, 2008)
http://www.nni.nikkei.co.jp/AC/TNKS/Nni20080611D11JSN07.htm
In mid-March, 2008, a company called Nihon Uni introduced a new t-shirt which is made of toughened polyethylene fibers to make it knife resistant. The t-shirt is targeted at the moms of young kids, following a rash of fatal stabbings over the last two years, by crazed attackers who seem to pick their victims at random.
A typical case was that of a March attack by a man at a train station in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, to the north-east of Tokyo. The 24-year old psycho told police that he really wanted to kill his sister, but since he was unable to find her, he decided to attack the first person he came across on his way to the station. Subsequently he killed an old age pensioner outside the man’s home and once blooded then went on to attack and seriously wounded another seven people around the station
itself. One newspaper reported he said to police, “It didn’t matter who they were.”
In light of the media sensationalization of such cases, and the fact that they have been typically perpetrated by young, strong, and obviously insane men, the resulting mayhem can be significant. And so Nihon Uni is tapping into a growing feeling of unease about personal safety in Japan. Accordingly, the company has set the pricing of its Salvar t-shirts at JPY 20,200 (approx. US$200) or more for a child’s half sleeve version, and JPY31,500 for the adult version.
The company had the t-shirts tested by the Japan Synthetic Textile Inspection Institute, which pronounced that the specially processed fibers were three times stronger in resisting knife penetration than regular cotton. We believe the product will do well, especially if actively marketed in locations where an attack has just occurred — which at the current frequency could well be monthly…
http://www.japaninc.com/
The World of Women (WOW) Film Festival is calling for entries of short films up to 55 minutes, any genre with key creative input by women. Woman director or women in any two of these roles: producer, writer, editor, cinematographer.
Application deadline by 30 July
Event 1-2 October
www.wift.org/wow/
ALL STATES – W.O.W. FILM FESTIVAL
The World of Women (WOW) Film Festival is touring Australia, highlighting the talents of women directors, producers, writers, editors and cinematographers in the Australian film industry. It is a unique festival that offers emerging and established filmmakers the opportunity to screen short works along the theme “seeing the world through the eyes of women”. Programs from the WOW Film Festival are visiting 18 national, regional and remote locations in 2008 such as Cairns, Hobart, Bowral and Borroloola.
For more information go to
www.nsw.wift.org/wow or call Sil-Nyin Cameron on 0402 246 601.
