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The New York Times' Michael Kimmelman writes about the losses to art and culture in the earthquake in Abruzzo and makes this interesting point:

Italy is not like America. Art isn’t reduced here to a litany of obscene auction prices or lamentations over the bursting bubble of shameless excess. It’s a matter of daily life, linking home and history. Italians don’t visit museums much, truth be told, because they already live in them and can’t live without them. The art world might retrieve a useful lesson from the rubble.

Nick Cave's show at Yerba Buena of "Soundsuits" is covered as well, and eminently worth a look.


Art Daily has picked up the story about the Second Life version of the Georgia Museum of Art. Please, if you're at all techie, consider visiting us there, where you can wander around the galleries, looking at art, and watch a brief movie in the auditorium.