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Bix Beiderbecke’s golden cornet made by Vincent Bach in New York, 1927…
(Source - the ever excellent If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, via the also excellent Bix’s Diary whimsy at The Beiderbecke Affair)
Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World)Awesome-looking show at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Pennsylvania
Oh this does look good! Wish I had some reason to get down there.
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Rocky Galloway and Reggie Stanley hold their daughters at the end of their wedding on the first day same-sex couples are legal to wed under a new law March 9, 2010 in Washington, DC. (apsies:via)
Yay! Mazal tov!
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-7) -
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JFK, RFK, and Dr. King at Arlington, October 1968
“This was a couple of months after Dr. King was killed and Bobby died, too, so I showed three great Americans at Arlington. It was the symbol for such a brutal ten-year decade. I had a graphic fantasy, paying homage to Jack and Bobby and Dr. King. To this day, I look at that cover and I still almost tear up. I had it hanging in my office, but I had to take it down, I couldn’t keep looking at it.”
Courtesy of: Esquire
The most important link EVER. Hat tip to my man JD
“
When President Bush two years ago failed to name members to a federal board to monitor the protection of civil liberties, Democrats and activist groups were duly outraged, seeing it as one more example of his administration’s indifference to the subject.
But more than a year into a new presidency, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board—created by Congress in 2007—remains as much a cipher under Barack Obama as it was under George W. Bush. The White House has yet to nominate a single person to sit on the five-person board. It has no members, no staff and no office.
” — Isikoff, “Civil Liberties Board Goes Vacant under Obama” (via newsweek) (via misterjt)