The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts begins its “preview opening” today! Stop by if you get a chance— it’s incredible!
Logan Center
The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts is almost ready. It’s scheduled to open for classes on March 26th, and will serve as a collaborative, innovative space for the Arts on campus, as well as providing resources for Chicago’s visual arts, theater and performance, music, and cinema and media studies programs. These UT/TAPS (University Theater/ Theater and Performance Studies) students were given the grand tour a little bit early. Find more info here.
Posted at the University of Chicago Divinity School Coffee Shop, the Grounds of Being.
-Sharon Angelus
Night Skyline Reflection by Kenny Chmielewski on Flickr.
Photo by Kenny Chmielewski
Teens migrating to Twitter _ sometimes for privacy
Teens don’t tweet, will never tweet - too public, too many older users. Not cool.
That’s been the prediction for a while now, born of numbers showing that fewer than one in 10 teens were using Twitter early on.
But then their parents, grandparents, neighbors, parents’ friends and anyone in-between started friending them on Facebook, the social networking site of choice for many - and a curious thing began to happen.
Suddenly, their space wasn’t just theirs anymore. So more young people have started shifting to Twitter, almost hiding in plain sight.
“I love twitter, it’s the only thing I have to myself … cause my parents don’t have one,” Britteny Praznik, a 17-year-old who lives outside Milwaukee, gleefully tweeted recently.
(Source: brooklynmutt)
WEEKLY SPECIAL // JIA JIA
Jia Jia eats a taco at Pinches Tacos, Sunset Boulevard, CA, USA.
Jia Jia is the very delightful Digital Marketing Manager at the Guggenheim Museum with an equally delightful tumblr-in-a-unitard presence. This one landed her in the LATFH book.
Though originally hailing from Shanghai, she is now a dedicated Brooklynite.
When not preening the digital face of the Guggenheim, Jia Jia has gotten busy tweaking the graphics for a host of other museums, and captures the life around her in beyond joyful ways.
An art history grad, she honed her knowledge at The Art Institute of Florence and Bryn Mawr College, where she was also Editor-in-Chief of their first literary arts magazine ‘Virgin Mawrtyr’. It was with this publication that she proceeded to host some intriguing basement driven art shows.
I first met Jia Jia in Shanghai over hot pot where she shared amazing stories of fantastic people and art. I was very much sold on her and quickly decided to partner up in nights on the set of Blade Runner II.
I miss Jia Jia, so it’s a good thing @VAJIAJIA is so active.
Oh, and please meet her love, Coco.
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(via museumnerd)
To Kickstart Michigan’s Economy, Rick DeVos Invests In Art & StartupsLaunched in 2009, ArtPrize is billed as the “world’s largest” social art experiment. ArtPrize doles out $474,000 among 10 artists picked by public vote, who install their work in approved venues throughout the city. To date, the nearly three-week-long event has drawn the works of over 2,000 artists and introduced nearly half a million visitors and residents of Grand Rapids to the world of contemporary art. More than 460,000 people voted for the winners last year (via fastcompany).
”How We’ll Survive the Economic Crisis” by Andrew Kuo
