Dalí Centennial

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Dali in Smithsonian

Dali in Smithsonian 04/04/2005 01:18 PM
David Pescovitz: The new issue of my favorite magazine Smithsonian has a thorough biographical feature on Salvador Dalí. The article is pegged on a huge internationally-touring exh ibit now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art celebrating Dalí's 100th birthday last year. From the article:

"The true painter," artist Salvador Dalí once said, "must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas." Born in 1904 in the province of Catalonia in northeastern Spain, Dalí spent much of his life promoting himself and shocking the world. He relished courting the masses, and he was probably better known, especially in the United States, than any other 20th-century painter, including fellow Spaniard Pablo Picasso. His love of sensation and flair for publicity quickly made him, in one scholar's words, "Surrealism's most exotic and prominent figure." Diffidence was not in his vocabulary. "Compared to Velázquez, I am nothing," he said in 1960, "but compared to contemporary painters, I am the most big genius of modern time"...

"The only difference between a madman and myself," he once wrote, "is that I am not mad!"

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Well, Good-Bye, Dali... (Reuters)

Well, Good-Bye, Dali... (Reuters) 06/29/2004 10:48 AM
Reuters - Police raided a Salvador Dali centenary exhibition in Helsinki, confiscated a number of suspected forgeries and ended the show two days early, Finnish officials said Tuesday.

Dali on intellectual property

Dali on intellectual property 05/05/2004 07:05 AM

Salvador Dalí

Ideas are made to be copied. I have enough ideas to sell them on. I prefer that they are stolen so that i don't have to actually use them myself.

I wish Dalí has said, "works" or "art" instead of "ideas", but this still rocks.

via danah

Centenario del nacimiento de Salvador
Dalí

Centenario del nacimiento de Salvador
Dalí 05/11/2004 07:40 AM

Disney/Dali Oscar nomination has execs
in a tizzy

Disney/Dali Oscar nomination has execs
in a tizzy 02/12/2004 07:31 PM
Sam sez, "Disney/Salvadore Dali film Destino nominated for Oscar. Disney PR isn't happy with the thought of Roy Disney speaking to 200 million viewers."

"This is really a lose/lose situation for the Walt Disney Company," said one studio insider. "If the studio doesn't mount a really aggressive promotional campaign in order to claim a Best Animated Short Oscar for 'Destino,' Roy and Stanley get the right to complain that the Disney Company deliberately torpedoed this film's chance. Out of fear over what Walt's nephew might say once he gets up on stage at the Kodak Theatre."

"On the other hand, if Disney does put together a great Academy Award promotional campaign for 'Destino' and the short does actually win, all the suits still have to sit there and sweat. Wondering if Roy is going to use his opportunity -- standing there in front of over 200 million television viewers worldwide -- to talk about his campaign to remove Eisner."

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NYC Subway Centennial

NYC Subway Centennial 12/09/2003 06:10 PM
New York's Subway turns 100 years old in 2004. All of us NYers have at least one subway story... what's yours? A few historical links here, here and here.

The subway centennial

The subway centennial 05/04/2004 03:11 PM

You have until the end of the year to check out the New York Public Library's exhibit, The Subway at 100: General William Barclay Parsons and the Birth of the NYC Subway, but why wait?

Celebrating the centennial of the opening of the New York City subway system in 1904, this exhibition both salutes William Barclay Parsons, the first chief engineer of the subway, and recognizes the importance of the subway system to the life and growth of the city.

Sounds great, and since the subway is one of my favorite things about New York City, I'm keen to learn more about its construction and history. I'm adding this exhibit to my to-do list.

Oppenheimer Centennial

Oppenheimer Centennial 04/23/2004 11:01 AM
J. Robert Oppenheimer Centennial: It is telling that the first atomic test would be named in reference to a poem by John Donne ("Trinity") and the next series of tests would be labeled simply alphabetically according to military protocol ("Able," "Baker," "X-ray," "Yoke," and "Zebra"). It is indicative of the changing of hands of the bomb, moving from the responsibility of intellectual eclectics like Oppenheimer into the protocols of military rank and policy. See also the Oppenheimer Affair. Via Science NetWatch.

NASA Unveils Centennial Challenges

NASA Unveils Centennial Challenges 03/24/2005 10:09 AM

NASA's Centennial Challenge Aims To
Boost Innovation

NASA's Centennial Challenge Aims To
Boost Innovation 03/27/2005 08:43 PM
Sci-Tech Today Mar 27 2005 11:27PM GMT

China's Leaders Cash in on Deng's
Centennial (Reuters)

China's Leaders Cash in on Deng's
Centennial (Reuters) 08/22/2004 01:48 AM
Reuters - Late Chinese paramount leader Deng Xiaoping loathed the cult of personality, but on the 100th anniversary of his birth on Sunday Communist Party leaders almost deified the diminutive reformer to underscore their legitimacy.

Centennial launches policy enforcement
on unauthorized device access

Centennial launches policy enforcement
on unauthorized device access 04/07/2005 10:11 AM
Computer Business Review Apr 7 2005 2:20PM GMT

Centennial Communications to Present at
JPMorgan 2005 High Yield Conference

Centennial Communications to Present at
JPMorgan 2005 High Yield Conference 02/01/2005 09:05 PM
Market Wire Jan 27 2005 3:27AM GMT

Centennial Communications Schedules
Conference Call and Webcast Concerning
Second-Quarter Results

Centennial Communications Schedules
Conference Call and Webcast Concerning
Second-Quarter Results 12/17/2004 06:28 PM
Market Wire Dec 17 2004 9:11PM GMT

Centennial Communications to Present at
Lehman Brothers 2005 Worldwide Wireless
and Wireline Conference

Centennial Communications to Present at
Lehman Brothers 2005 Worldwide Wireless
and Wireline Conference 06/05/2005 11:54 PM
Market Wire May 26 2005 1:11AM GMT
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