avant garde

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• Brief Training In Meditation May Help Manage Pain, Study Shows

  
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  An experimental study examining the perception of pain and the effects of various mental training techniques has found that a relatively short and simple meditation method can have a significant positive effect on pain management.
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• Growing

  
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  Anyone listen to these guys? Theyve been through lineup changes, one album my friend played for us featured solely a bassist and guitarist. I have All the Way and its awesome, turn the ****ed up to 11. If you like Boredoms, layered electric fuzz, and hum, listen.
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• Hunger: New Paintings from Art Schools in Germany

  
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  LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University 310 Dodge Hall, 116th Street & Broadway, 212-854-4065 Harlem November 12 - December 8, 2009 Opening: Sunday, November 22, 6 - 8 PM Web Site There you could always go into the Luxembourg museum and all the paintings were sharpened and clearer and more beautiful ...
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• Stephen Pentak, Vertical Landscapes

  
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  Kathryn Markel Fine Arts 529 West 20th Street, 212-366-5368 Chelsea November 19 - December 23, 2009 Opening: Thursday, November 19, 6 - 8 PM Web Site Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is pleased to announce the fifth solo exhibition of painter Stephen Pentak titled, Vertical Landscapes. A colleague of Mr. Pentak’s ...
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• Panel 2: Nothing Better Than a Touch of Ecology and Catastrophe to Unite the Social Classes

  
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  Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery at Columbia University 1172 Amsterdam Avenue Upper West Side September 14 - December 11, 2009 Web Site The exhibition features works by New York-based artist Martin Beck and is titled “Panel 2: Nothing Better Than a Touch of Ecology and Catastrophe to Unite the Social ...
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• Reconsidering Identity

  
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  Gallery 456 456 Broadway, 3rd Floor, 212-431-9740 Soho November 13 - December 18, 2009 Opening: Friday, November 13, 6 - 9 PM Web Site As President Obama confronts the legacies left by the previous administrations as well as deeply-rooted problems of race, class and ethnicity in American society, how will ...
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• In Stitches

  
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  Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller (LTMH) Gallery 39 East 78th Street , at Madison Avenue, 212-249-7695 Upper East Side November 12 - December 19, 2009 Web Site A survey exhibition exploring the use of stitching and thread in contemporary art will be on view at LeilaTaghinia-Milani Heller ( LTMH ) Gallery from ...
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• German Tagle: New Empire

  
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  Elga Wimmer 526 West 26th Street, 3rd Floor, 212-206-0006 Chelsea November 17 - December 19, 2009 Opening: Thursday, November 19, 5 - 7 PM Web Site New Empire presents a recent series of paintings by German Tagle selected by Esperanza Leon, director and curator of SOLAR in East Hampton, New York. Tagle ...
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• Do chimps understand what Jon Stewart (or another chimp) believes? [Cognitive Daily]

  
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  Take a look at this video from last nights episode of Jon Stewarts "The Daily Show." If youd like, you can skip past all the political snark to the 4:47 mark to watch Jon bring cognitive psychology into prime time (or at least latenight cable)! Thats right; you saw it: Jon Stewart mentioned the psychological ...
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• TEDTalks : Rachel Pike: The science behind a climate headline – Rachel Pike (2009)

  
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  In 4 minutes, atmospheric chemist Rachel Pike provides a glimpse of the massive scientific effort behind the bold headlines on climate change, with her team -- one of thousands who contributed -- taking a risky flight over the rainforest in pursuit of data on a key molecule.
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• New and Exciting in PLoS this week [A Blog Around The Clock]

  
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  Lets take a look at recent papers in PLoS ONE and other PLoS journals. As always, you should rate the articles , post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and ...
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• I’m not vulnerable, just especially plastic. Risk genes, environment, and evolution, in the Atlantic [Neuron Culture]

  
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  The video interview above, with NIH primatologist Stephen Suomi, is embedded within a feature of min e that that appeared today at The Atlantic website -- and is in the December 2009 issue now shipping -- about a new hypothesis in behavioral genetics. This emerging hypothesis, which draws on substantial data, much of ...
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• Mark Manders at Tanya Bonakdar

  
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  Artist: Mark Manders Venue: Tanya Bonakdar, New York Date: October 30 – December 19, 2009 Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump. Images: Images courtesy of Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York Press Release: ...
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• Neural correlates of musical consonance and dissonance

  
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  Bidelman and Krishnan make interesting observations suggesting that very fundamental low level sensory processing at the level of the brain stem may determine what sound intervals we find consonant or dissonant: Consonant and dissonant pitch relationships in music provide the foundation of melody and harmony, the ...
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• Denialism

  
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  Janet Maslin offers a review of an interesting new book by Michael Specter: DENIALISM -How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet and Threatens Our Lives . He explores the ways in which scientific information is misunderstood by a sizeable portion of the populace, struggling with ...
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• Amber Marie Chavez

  
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  Photo by Amber Marie Chavez Sometimes I see photos from my Flickr contacts and I can’t believe I haven’t featured them yet. Like this lovely work from Amber Marie Chavez (a.k.a. Marie Edwards Photos). Photo by Amber Marie Chavez Photo by Amber Marie Chavez Photo by Amber Marie Chavez ...
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• Irish Museum of Modern Art : Philippe Parreno

  
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  Philippe Parreno The Boy from Mars, 2003 35 MM transferred to High Definition video, Dolby Digital 5.0 stereo with musical score by Devendra Banhart, Edition 3 of 4, 11min 40sec Collection Irish Museum of Modern Art, Purchase, 2007 Irish Museum of Modern Art4 November 2009 - 24 January 2010 Parreno’s work develops ...
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• MUSAC: Agustin Perez Rubio as its new director

  
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  Photo by Imagen M.A.S MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León Agustín Pérez Rubio has been appointed Director of MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León by the Cultural Council of the Government of the autonomous region of Castilla y León, Spain, following an open international ...
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• Haus Konstruktiv: Dimensions of Constructive Art in Brazil: The Adolpho Leirner Collection

  
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  Hélio Oiticica Vermelho cortando o branco, 1958 Oil on canvas, 52 x 60 cm. © The Adolpho Leirner Collection of Brazilian Constructive Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Projeto Hélio Oiticica Haus Konstruktiv19 November 2009 - 21 February 2010 Haus Konstruktiv completes its exhibition programme for ...
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• Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany : Markus Lupertz

  
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  Markus Lüpertz Abkehr II (Adam), 2008 © photo: Markus Lüpertz Courtesy Galerie Michael Werner Berlin, Köln & New York Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of GermanyUntil 17 January 2010 Born in 1941, Markus Lüpertz is one of the most prominent and influential contemporary artists in Germany. ...
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