If I were to pick the three best contemporary sculptors working on public art today, they'd be Richard Serra, Mark di Suvero and Martin Puryear. Serra unashamedly trumpets the strength inherent in large steel pieces, but Puryear does something different and especially liberating. A current show of his prints at Cincinnati Art Museum, on display now through June 13, offers insight into his ...

In the new Cincinnati Art Museum exhibit 'Starburst: Color Photography in America 1970-1980,' a key point is that this work was tough stuff in its time. The art world couldn't understand why the new, upcoming photographers were eschewing artful black-and-white compositions and colorful nature landscapes to concentrate on banal, even grotesque shots of unglamorous everyday life.

In the new Cincinnati Art Museum exhibit Starburst: Color Photography in America 1970-1980 , a key point is that this work was tough stuff in its time.

Mauldin will have seven wrestlers in this weekend's Upper State tournament at Northwestern High School, up from last year's four and a sign of a step forward for the Mavericks' program.

On the first day of his Florida vacation last July, John Zeiger got a call from work telling him he'd been laid off from his systems-analyst job. "Guess I'll be a male model now," the fit, 42-year-old Telford, Pa., man announced, capitulating to his wife's longtime exhortations to make money with his smile. And just like that, a victim of the recession began to reinvent himself. Zeiger, who has ...

As contemporary visual artists increasingly turn to video, film and projected images of all type, it becomes interesting to see how museums display their work. Are they like movies, deserving of a theater-like space where viewers can sit down and passively watch? Or are they more like performance art, encouraging viewers to walk amongst the moving images? Both the Cincinnati Art Museum and CAC ...

Feb. 15 • Southgate House The Southgate House hosts a powerful lineup Monday, featuring Post Punk/Neo Garage Rock retro-modernist Kurt Vile (yes, it's his real name) and the mysterious, constantly evolving seven-year-old outfit from Canada, Fucked Up, that often lives up to its own name.

When Kevin Rudd changes what he's saying, the mechanics of where and how he's saying it are just as interesting as what he has to say.

Kevin Rudd finally offered a mea culpa on insulation last night. Will it be enough for a press gallery that has been sweating on the chance to get him? An open letter to the media.

Is Ahmad Chalabi an agent for Tehran?

Even though I am finding myself increasingly at odds with the Iranian American scholars and pundits regarding the analysis or the interpretation of the current sociopolitical developments in Iran, I am no less appreciative of the honesty and sincerity with which they have been voicing their opinions. In one sense we are all in agreement; we all want to see a democratic, prosperous Iran, governed ...

In Don DeLillo's latest novel, two men sit outside a desert hideaway, deep in discussion about the Iraq war.

"They are Nazis!" - Paul Wolfowitz, deputy secretary of defense, referring to Iraq's Sunni tribes. truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success."

Representatives for the Jewish Community in Malmö have slammed the city's mayor, Ilmar Reepalu, for his use of the term "Israeli lobby" in a Danish television interview.

Pro-Israeli lobbyists threw their weight behind a US congressional resolution which held Turkey responsible for "genocide" of the Armenians during the World War I, a report says.

Alyn Smith MEP has today ( Wednesday ) hailed a vote in the European Parliament endorsing the findings and recommendations of the Goldstone Report into human rights violations committed by Israeli forces during Israel's attack on the Gaza Strip last year.

For historians who like dates and bookends for their events, the “global war on terror” started with the destruction of the Twin Towers and the attack on the Pentagon (9/11).

Obama pleaded not to tell the truth about the savage rape and murder of 1.5 million Armenian civilians by the Turks in 1915, Robert Fisk wrote in the British Independent.

Once more we have to forget the Armenian Holocaust – the first of the 20th century – in order to appease the Turks. Bill Clinton did it.

The Obama administration's reappointment of the Bush administration's secretary of defence, Robert Gates, reflects the growing involvement of the US military establishment in decision-making processes on matters of war and peace, and hence in US foreign policy in general.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced plans yesterday to stop the issue of arrest warrants for foreign officials such as Tzipi Livni, Ehud Barak and other Israeli war criminals who were forced to cancel planned trips to London after arrest warrants were issued against them.

For historians who like dates and bookends for their events, the “global war on terror” started with the destruction of the Twin Towers and the attack on the Pentagon (9/11). The idea of perpetual war provided large benefits to a few and pain and terror to much of the world, and to the rest of the world an increasing disbelief in the intents, means, and rationales for the war.

The legend of the Jewish lobby's influence over US policies continues to grow -- even as the Arab lobby, led by the Saudis, keeps racking up successes. With petrodollars and tender loving care spent lavishly on universities, ex-diplomats, PR firms and gullible journalists, the Arab Lobby constantly pushes two...

AIPAC comes to town next week for its massive pro-Israel rally and it is already letting Congress know what it main demand will be. This...

WASHINGTON, March 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Declassified files detailing an FBI investigation targeting the American Israel Public Affairs Committee are now available on the Internet. AIPAC was investigated after it acquired and circulated classified government information provided in strict confidence by US industry and worker groups opposed to AIPAC sponsored economic legislation.

Tel Aviv: possibility of using 'force' against Iran currently being discussed by US, Israel.

NEW YORK (JTA) -- The pro-Israel lobby is calling on the U.S. Congress to take several immediate steps in response to a New York Times report revealing that the federal government has awarded more than $107 billion in grants, contracts and other benefits to foreign and multinational U.S. companies conducting business in Iran.

Two years ago, , a newly registered pro-Israel lobby, hit the American streets with optimism, vitality and promise. Its thrust: To replace or diminish the punch of the American Israel Political Action Committee (AIPAC).

Powerful pro-Israel US lobby group AIPAC, in a rare letter to every member of the US Congress, called Tuesday for "crippling new sanctions on Iran" over Tehran's suspect nuclear program.

Israel's government was over-the-top outrageous in welcoming Vice President Joe Biden with the news that it would construct 1600 new illegal housing units on land the Palestinians consider their future capital in East Jerusalem

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Biden makes comments as Middle East peace talks get back on track.

WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Rain pouring in Jerusalem, tears streaming down the faces of fans of Team USA, tremors shaking Chile -- and always, always lunch at Eli's.