Google Offers Soapbox for Authors
Attenion C-SPAN's BookTV addicts, (we know you're out there)! Brooklyn lit blogger Maud Newton alerts us to Authors@Google. Well-known writers and novelists speak at Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. and their talks are posted on YouTube and Google Video. Michael Bloomberg appeared on it in June.
Guests have included Junot Diaz (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao), The New Yorker's Lawrence Wright (The Looming Tower) and Alex Ross (The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century), George Saunders (The Braindead Megaphone), Christopher Hitchens (God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything), and Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love).
There's also Candidates@Google (Ron Paul, John McCain, John Edwards) and Women@Google (Hillary Clinton, Arianna Huffington)!
Nelson & Trafalgar
Derek George Montague Gardner (1914–2007) was one of the finest British marine painters of the 20th century, and his work continues to fascinate collectors on both sides of the Atlantic. He fought as an officer in the Royal Navy in World War II and, in 1942, was mentioned in dispatches for his distinguished service.
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Gerhard Richter's Claudius is one of the largest and most overwhelming of his colourful Abstract Paintings. Dating from 1986, this picture towers over the viewer at a height of over ten feet, absorbing us, swallowing us into a vast and turbulent universe of colour.
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By the end of the 1970s, Andy Warhol was everywhere.He was endemic, up there with Elvis, Jesus and Coca-Cola. His silkscreen aesthetic was instantly recognisable - the Warhol look had been used on album covers, in ads and on the cover of Time magazine. Read More »
