Minox Historical Society

The history of the Minox camera, with a newsletter, Minox Memo, in Portable Document Format (.PDF).

. Item Nº30 posted: Friday, April 5, 2002 9:59:51 AM. 20.

Au royaume des aveugles les borgnes sont rois

In the realm of the blind, the one-eyed are kings

. Item Nº29 posted: Friday, April 5, 2002 3:10:36 AM. 22.

Stephen Sondheim, John Weidman

A Green Light for Sondheim. "Gold," the long-awaited Stephen Sondheim-John Weidman musical, is scheduled for a full production at the Goodman Theater in Chicago in June 2003.

By Jesse Mckinley. [New York Times: Arts]

. Item Nº28 posted: Friday, April 5, 2002 2:45:26 AM. 46.

The Underpants by Carl Sternheim

Knickers in a Twist, or Panties With a Mind of Their Own. Steve Martin has adaptated a German farce from 1910, and it's valiantly, if not always brilliantly, eccentric. By Bruce Weber.

[New York Times: Arts]

. Item Nº27 posted: Friday, April 5, 2002 2:04:48 AM. 48.

James Karales, Photographer of Social Upheaval, Dies at 71. James H. Karales, the photojournalist whose 1965 picture of determined marchers outlined against a lowering sky became a pictorial anthem of the civil rights movement, died on Monday. By Margarett Loke. [New York Times: Arts]

. Item Nº26 posted: Friday, April 5, 2002 1:57:59 AM. 53.

Rosie the Riveter

And Rosie's Still Riveting. Norman Rockwell's "Rosie the Riveter" will be used for auction advertisements and marketing brochures, and will be on the cover of a catalog.

Source: By Carol Vogel. [New York Times: Arts]

. Item Nº25 posted: Friday, April 5, 2002 1:50:51 AM. 55.

"Film Art", "Video Art"

Cinema à la Warhol, With Cowboys, Stillness and Glamour. Film and video art is plentiful in New York galleries these days, confirming that film-based work is in robust health.

Source: By Holland Cotter. [New York Times: Arts]

. Item Nº24 posted: Friday, April 5, 2002 1:23:42 AM. 48.

R. V. Cassill

«R.V. Cassill, the man of letters who was a novelist, short-story writer, editor, book reviewer and teacher of creative writing, died last Monday at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence. He was 82 and lived in Providence and Truro, Mass.»

[New York Times] [WannaWrite?]

I attended Verland Cassill's creative writing class at Brown. He had the considerable and rare virtue of being an artist who also had the compassion to be a superb instructor.

. Item Nº23 posted: Friday, April 5, 2002 12:58:47 AM. 89.