After Kaminey, we're inclined to be more respectful of Bollywood director Vishal Bharadwaj.
So, when the recommendations for Blue Umbrella expanded into a chorus we were more receptive to it.
Fortunately, Netflix has Blue Umbrella in its Instant Play collection, which means you can play it on your TV at any time if you have a Roku, TiVo or Xbox 360 device without having to wait for the DVD.
Directed by Vishal Bharadwaj, Blue Umbrella features Pankaj Kapur (Shahid Kapoor's father) and Shreya.
We'll update this post after watching the 90-minute movie.
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4 time National Awared winner Mamootty (real name: Mohammed Kutty) was detained for further questioning and frisking by the US immigration officers a few months ago, Mamotty calmly identified himself as a superstar of South Indian cinema. Like a gentleman he told the immigration officers, "I understand that you are performing your duty, and I respect your time and mine. Here is my website URL. You could also google up my name. I have won the highest number of national awards in India for my contribution to Indian cinema. Once you google me up, all your questions about me will be answered. You can save your time, and I can be on my way to this program I have to attend".
The officers checked up his website and googled him up. They came back within 10 minutes with a big smile on their face and were extremely thankful to Mamootty for sharing that information with him and appreciated his achievements. They regretted any inconvenience that may have been caused him due to the official process of US immigration. Mammootty complimented the officers for their professionalism and politeness. He also invited the officers to visit Kerala and be his guests.
When he came out of the airport, he told his fans not to blow this incident up, because the officers were extremely professional and courteous. He was treated with a lot of respect and courtesy by the US immigration officers. Mammootty informed the press that he appreciates now that such profesionalism has kept the US safe after 9/11.
By the way, even I recommended the film. good that many people have watched it.
1. Thanks for the pointer about Mamooty's response to U.S. immigration queries.
What a world of difference in the response of Mamooty and Shahrukh Khan.
SRK seems to think that we should forget past attacks on our soil and pay obeisance on the altar of his monumental ego.
Inshallah, the idiot will leave our country soon.
2. You write above: By the way, even I recommended the film. good that many people have watched it.
True, and we were aware of it.
Mammooty is a lawyer in real life. What is SRK other than a "star" and a non-"actor"?
More than being a lawyer, Mammooty is also a sensible fella.
Of course. Many of his films also hold a strong story behind unlike other "super stars".
Another incident – from wiki.
Only thing is some good films from regional languages die within the boundaries of the region not making overseas.
Given our exposure to both Tamil and Hindi movies from childhood, we believe overall Tamil films are way behind Hindi movies in quality. Sure, there are some exceptions but they remain just exceptions.
Most Tamil films are utter garbage.
Tis' true that many Hindi films are also bad but on the garbage spectrum, they are not as bad as the Tamil trash.
By the way, most of Tamil movies are just imports of hit Malayalam movies.
There, the story, theme, and acting are natural and it becomes hit. Here, the corrupt minds insert five songs including one 'kuthu' song, three fights, and lot of heroism. It becomes horrible.
These days, Tamil films are far behind Hindi movies (with few exceptions). We can't also deny till some time back, there were responsible film makers and creative people in Tamil cinema, so it was competitive. Now, it is junk and only junk.
Let's see how the four mucho anticipated films turn out – Kanthasamy (Vikram, Shreya), Endhiran (Rajnikanth, Aishwarya Rai), Asal (Ajith) and Vettaikaran (Vijay, Anushka Shetty).
Just checked in NetFlix. It is available.
Right now, we're going over to Blockbuster to get Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction.
My intuition says, Most of them will be awful, again.
Have you watched and reviewed 'The Last Lear' [Amitabh starrer]?
The last Amitabh movie we saw was Agneepath (on DVD).
So, what's the verdict on Dev D.. err.. Blue Umbrella..
Right now, bz, beri bz watching Pulp Fiction.
John Travolta is in the bathroom, thinking out loud his next moves. Uma Thurman is waiting outside in the living room. Wonder what happens next? 9:09PM ET.
The reason we're watching Pulp Fiction is because some folks here believe Kaminey owes (a lot, maybe?) to this 1994 Quentin Tarantino classic.
oh.. let's know.. Pulp Fiction is one of my most favorite movies.
The movie sizzles with kinetic energy.
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.
Solid screenplay. Fine acting. Crisp, short dialogs. Unpredictable.
You should watch 'Maqbool'…its simply amazing…starcast of movie has – Pankaj kapoor, Irrfan khan, Tabu, Naseer sahab n om puri alongwith piyush mishra… U can't ask for more.N blue umbrella is indeed a treat to watch. Pankaj Kapoor is jus sublime. Next is indian version of othello .. u must have heard about Omkara (All the above movies directed by Vishal bhardwaj).
N stating the obvious Vishal alongwith anurag kashyap, neeraj pandey n dibakar banerjee are some people in industry with grey matter in their heads.
1. Will watch Maqbool one of these days…the movie features all of our favorite actors (note we said actors).
2. Pankaj Kapoor is brilliant in Blue Umbrella. The SRKs, Salmans, Abhisheks, Devgans et al are bachchas (kids) in the acting department compared to Pankaj Kapoor.
even kids do better… Pankaj kapoor is the one of the best i ve seen… n all of these are my fav 'actors' too…:)… Naseer sahab is my personal favorite of all times… Maqbool is the finest cocktail ever.
Pankaj Kapoor on a bench as he tries to inveigle the young girl with all sorts of blandishments to part with the umbrella is a delight to behold.
Seen Being Cyrus in the pre-SI blog days and reviewed it here too.
and completely agree with your opinion on SRK. He was just routinely questioned because his name may be in no fly list as correctly pointed out by you..but he let the issue blow out of proportion and he ably epitomizes the typical mentality here of vip being above the law.
In a movie filled with many nice moments, your above YouTube link is one of the nicest moments.
We'll update the Blue Umbrella post later today or tomorrow.
Beg to differ on the quality of tamil movies vs hindi.
lot more money to be thrown around in hindi movies. so it looks rich thats all. Tamil always been low budget except the Dhanu produced or Dir.Shankar movies. please watch tamil movies like pasanga or anjathey (cool camera and direction here) and you can see the difference. but i do agree 90% of movies are crap in both hindi and tamil.
Unfortunately, the low budget Tamil films seldom make it to the U.S.
That said, we still maintain that Hindi films are far ahead of Tamil movies in quality though, as we agree here, 90% of both are crap.
By the way, when is Inglorious Basterds releasing there?
1. We didn't realize Jimmie was Tarantino until the credits started rolling at the end of the movie.
2. You write above: when is Inglorious Basterds releasing there?
Inglourious Basterds is releasing this Friday, August 21.
We'll watch it for sure and review it here.
BTW, Inglourious Basterds is clashing with Kanthaswamy but the audience may not be the same.
Yes of course, I have only watched that movie about 4 times though. I am one of the many who feels that Pulp Fiction was cheated by Forrest Gump in the best picture category in 1995.. which one would you have voted for? Interestingly Shawshank Redemption is from the same year. Both PF and SR are rated much higher than FG by the imdb users.
So is Kaminey a thiruttu movie or not? I am guessing a big comparison chart is coming up?
1. You write above: I am one of the many who feels that Pulp Fiction was cheated by Forrest Gump in the best picture category in 1995.. which one would you have voted for?
Pulp Fiction and Shawshank Redemption were both fine movies. No question. But Forrest Gump is an exceptional movie with extraordinary drama.
A lot of us are guilty of using that word 'classic' loosely these day but if that expression belongs to any movie it's Forrest Gump.
Without hesitation, we'd have picked Forrest Gump for the Oscars.
What makes Forrest Gump a stunningly beautiful movie is that it's an extraordinarily well rendered microcosm of American life itself – love, war, peace, drugs, a handicapped child, race, tragedy, comedy, death, college football, politics, social commentary, moments of happiness and sadness are finely woven together into a 142-minute moving tapestry that provides sheer joy for viewers.
If we close our eyes, we can see Forrest Gump (played by Tom Hanks) sitting on that bench at the bus stop narrating his life story to a changing set of people. And what a lovely way to tell a story.
Tom Hanks in and as Forrest Gump is the stuff of legend.
Just as we still rave over old classics like Casablanca, On the Waterfront and Citizen Kane, movie fans in the decades to come will speak in glowing terms of Forrest Gump.
2. You write: So is Kaminey a thiruttu movie or not? I am guessing a big comparison chart is coming up?
We'll do a post on that subject later today. We have a desi friend coming in for lunch from NJ. Hence the delay.
I watched Pasanga yesterday.. 1000 times better than the big budget Tamil movies.. It isn't as crisp or professional as I wanted it to be..
but still a decent watch for a Tamil movie. Liked it better than Subramaniyapuram.. Felt both movies were over-hyped.. but Pasanga deserves the hype more than S'Puram.
We think we saw the Pasanga DVD at some desi grocery store the other day but it's just way too far to go back and return it. So we skipped it. Will wait for Netflix.
We'll do a separate post on this issue later today.
Right now, we're enjoying Mathura Peda a.k.a Dharwad Peda with our desi friend from NJ.
1. We didn't realize Jimmie was Tarantino until the credits started rolling at the end of the movie.
LOL he appears in short roles in movies of his and of Robert Rodriguez. But to add, he's a poor actor nonetheless. Compared to these chimps we have here, he'll qualify for an Oscar though.
2. SI: BTW, Inglourious Basterds is clashing with Kanthaswamy but the audience may not be the same.
Will try to watch both Kanthaswamy and Inglourious Basterds.
@mallukuttan , don't dare to talk abt kanthaswamy before the release, if u talk abt bheema then its ok , because that was a trash movie.
Pasanga was kinda OK, but not better than S'puram by any means, atleast for me.
We'll try to see them.


i know i agree, who made the spot?
No idea but I think he/she has not been on in a while.
haahaha! SO mean! Be nice! We just lost to Wigan! Do tu live in Manchester?
No I live in Portsmouth and of course I should be a Pompey supporter and all my boys are but I've always loved United. The only time I go to Fratton Park is when they're playing United there Scolesy was about 20 feet in front of me when he scored last season I was in complete awe but when you're sitting with 2000 dedicated Pompey fans (and they really are devoted fans ) tu have to sit there in complete silence!
SO HAS OLE he went long before Ronaldo, why hasn't someone pointed that out?
Yes and Saha,I noticed Ole cos I miss him soooo much thank god for Giggs,Scoles and Neville hay? They'll play for United till they're on their knees.
OLE retired beacuse he's injuries. And this is diferent.


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There are so many fantastic Dordogne markets to choose from. Indeed, most towns and villages in the Dordogne have a market of some description at least once a week. A good number of these markets have been held at the same place and on the same day of the week for hundreds of years.
In the larger towns you will often find that the market takes place both indoors and out. There may be a covered, permanent structure (marché couvert) and also various stalls outside. At many of the Dordogne's larger markets you can buy incredible food, crafts and antiques.
While markets in the Dordogne tend to take place in the morning, don't despair if you enjoy a good lie-in. During the summer months there are plenty of evening markets going on and these can make for a great (and reasonably priced) night out. Forget making a reservation. At an evening market in the Dordogne you just turn up and sit at one of the tables (just follow the fantastic smells and sounds or simply head towards the town's market square…). The traders should be able to supply everything you need; wine, a 3 course meal and cutlery. There is nearly always some form of entertainment to enjoy as well. This could be a local band or a DJ. These events are popular with locals and tourists alike.
It is worth remembering that some of the markets can get very busy during July and August. However, the organic night market in the beautiful medieval town of Sarlat runs from the middle of June to mid September. It takes place on a Thursday from 6pm – 10pm. There are plenty of others to choose from. During the summer, our local evening market at Castelnaud-la-Chapelle usually takes place on a Monday. It seems as though you could spend each summer night of the week at a different market!
For us, (and many of our guests) the main reason to visit one of the Dordogne's markets is to buy the incredible local food. Here again, timing can be crucial. Produce on the stalls obviously various depending on the season. Love the taste of truffles, foie gras or walnuts? Then you need to visit one of the département's markets in December, January or February. (Sarlat even has a festival dedicated to the truffle.) May is usually good for strawberries while poultry is typically at its finest from November to March.
An attractive town just a few kilometres downstream from Les Eyzies. There are good views of the River Doux.
One of the most intact medieval cities in Europe located in possibly the most beautiful area of the Dordogne.
This beautiful bastide provides jaw-dropping views.
Around a kilometre away are the Grottes de Maxange. These caves (which were only fairly recently discovered) are home to incredible stalactites called excentriques.
Around 10 kilometres from Les Eyzies, (and 20kms from Sarlat) St Cyprien is home to one of the area's best markets. You will find medieval houses in the lanes of the old centre.
Wherever you stay in the Dordogne you are bound to have a market fairly nearby. Make a visit and you will probably be keeping alive a tradition stretching back to the Middle Ages.


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Sail to the port of Isafjordur on the edge of the Arctic Circle and the magnificent green pastures, waterfalls and whale-filled bays of Akureyri. Call at the charming harbour of Husavik which is surrounded by snow-covered mountains and full of colourful houses, then relax in the geothermal Myvatn Nature Baths. On this trip you will also visit Scottish castles, the Viking settlements of the Faroe Islands and the remote Shetland Islands.
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Reduce insulin doses carefully when starting GLP-1 agonists, MHRA advises
by Chloe Harman on the 24 June 2019
A careful stepwise approach is needed when reducing insulin doses in patients taking GLP-1 agonists, to minimise the risk of diabetic ketoacidosis.
Patients should be warned of the signs and symptoms of diabetic ketoacidosis and the need for urgent medical attention if these occur. | DR P. MARAZZI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
Serious and life-threatening cases of diabetic ketoacidosis have been reported in association with exenatide, liraglutide, and dulaglutide, particularly after discontinuation or reduction of concomitant insulin.
View GLP-1 agonist drug records MHRA Drug Safety Update MIMS Diabetes Clinic
An EU review of these reports concluded that the cases could be attributed to abrupt discontinuation or dose reduction of insulin while initiating GLP-1 agonist therapy, resulting in poor glycaemic control.
The MHRA has issued an update reminding prescribers that blood glucose self-monitoring is necessary when adjusting the dose of insulin, particularly when GLP-1 agonist therapy is initiated and insulin is reduced. GLP-1 agonists are not substitutes for insulin. If the insulin dose is to be reduced, a stepwise approach is recommended taking into account the patient's glucose levels and individual insulin requirements.
Prescribers should advise patients of the risk factors for and signs and symptoms of diabetic ketoacidosis (nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, excessive thirst, increased frequency of urination, difficulty breathing, confusion, unusual fatigue, or sleepiness) and the need to seek immediate medical advice if these occur.
EU review
The EU review did not identify euglycaemic diabetic ketoacidosis as a safety concern specific to treatment with GLP-1 agonists. A few cases included in the review involved reactions suggestive of euglycaemic diabetic ketoacidosis; however, these were attributed to concomitant use of SGLT2 inhibitors, which are known to be associated with euglycaemic diabetic ketoacidosis.
The GLP-1 agonists lixisenatide and semaglutide were not subject to the EU review and have not been associated with any reported cases of diabetic ketoacidosis. However, the theoretical risk of diabetic ketoacidosis when changes are made to insulin doses in patients taking these agents cannot be excluded.
Up until the end of May 2019, the MHRA received 26 Yellow Card reports of diabetic ketoacidosis, and 10 reports of reactions relating to ketone body formation in patients taking exenatide, liraglutide, and dulaglutide. This corresponds to a UK estimated exposure to the three medicines of about 2 million patient-years of treatment.
In around a third of the cases, insulin was either discontinued or the dose was rapidly reduced at initiation of the GLP-1 agonist. In the remaining cases, it was difficult to establish the role of these agents as a result of other possible causative factors for diabetic ketoacidosis. Although nausea and vomiting can occur as adverse reactions of GLP-1 agonists, these are also well-known symptoms of diabetic ketoacidosis and should be taken seriously when initiating GLP-1 agonists and adjusting insulin doses.
Many of the cases of diabetic ketoacidosis and related reactions occurred within 2 weeks of initiation of GLP-1 agonists.
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Albuquerque police sued by family of mentally ill homeless man shot dead
Family of James Boyd, a schizophrenic man killed by police, seeks damages and and injunction to reform police's tactics
Critics of the Albuquerque police say are pushing for drastic changes within the department following a harsh US Justice Department report over the agency s use of force. Photograph: AP Photograph: AP
Associated Press in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Sat 28 Jun 2014 12.21 EDT
Last modified on Wed 20 Sep 2017 12.20 EDT
The family of a homeless camper has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Albuquerque police, for a fatal shooting that sparked protests and calls for reform throughout the city.
The lawsuit, which was filed on Friday in state district court, says the more than 40 officers who were dispatched to handle James Boyd had "no meaningful control" of the standoff, and their lack of training led to his death.
"Boyd, suffering from mental illness, was helpless to understand why officers were pointing guns at him, let alone able to comply with their orders," the lawsuit said.
"APD's standards for hiring, training, policies, oversight, or lack thereof, contributed to the unjustified killing of [Boyd]," the complaint continued, "as did Albuquerque's failure to take any action in the face of what was plainly an out of control police department."
Janet Blair, a spokeswoman for the Albuquerque Police Department, referred all questions on the lawsuit to the city attorney.
A helmet-camera video of the March shooting showed 38-year-old Boyd, who authorities say suffered from schizophrenia, gathering his belongings before officers opened fire.
The shooting sparked widespread calls for Albuquerque police reform, and the US Justice Department later released a scathing review of the agency's use of force.
The lawsuit seeks damages and an injunction requiring the city to take a series of actions.


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We advocate a cherry picking approach and advise an accumulation stance on PPL, APL, PSO, OGDC, POL, Hubco, NML, DGKC, FCCL and NCPL (our top picks in the energy chain). In the banking space, MCB is our preferred play while EFoods also warrants a closer look.
Fertilizer sector were hard hit over the reports of potential increase in development cess on feedstock gas by 52% to PRs300/mmbtu, as producers' ability to pass‐through the impact of PRs131/bag (with GST) hike remains uncertain. We estimate this could hit earnings by 6%/7.5% for FFBL and FFC 2012E in a worst-case scenario.
However, positivity was seen in cement sector scrips, which followed another increase of Rs10/bag during the week and expected Rs873bn allocation for PSDP in budget which will further boost cement demand going forward.
Average volume plummeted by 45% and stood at 144 million shares per day compared to 261 million shares per day in the previous week. On the macro front, the country's current account stood with a deficit of $3.39 billion for 10 months of the current fiscal year compared to a surplus of $446 million in the same period last year. The turnover dropped 25.84 percent and traded 175.70 million shares as compared with previous week's 236.94 million shares.
Philip Morris Pak Ltd, Tandlianwala Sugar, E.F.U. General Insurance, BYCO Petroleum and Pak Suzuki Motors were the major gainers while Media Times Limited, Lotte Pakistan PTA, Agritech Limited, D.G. Khan Cement and Pak. Int. Cont. Ter. Ltd. were major losers in the benchmark KSE-100 this week.
In the prevailing scenario, we advocate a cherry picking approach and advise an accumulation stance on PPL, APL, PSO, OGDC, POL, Hubco and NCPL (our top picks in the energy chain). We also see upside potential in FFC and PTC which boast strong fundamentals. In the banking space, MCB is our preferred play and we also add EFoods to our recommended list.
The cement sector came under pressure, after prices of cement bags were reduced by Rs25 in the northern region of the country. The sector, which has been the outstanding performer of the year, saw shares take a plunge as Lucky Cement and DG Khan Cement dropped 4% and 9% respectively.
Habib Bank Limited was on the receiving end as it was removed from the MSCI frontier index. The removal reduced Pakistan's representation in the index from 4.7% to 4.4% and resulted in the HBL's share dropping by 2% during the week.
The energy sector got some relief with the issuance of Rs82 billion worth of TFCs with the aim of resolving inter-corporate debt. Activity was also witnessed in the oil and gas sector where Pakistan Petroleum announced plans for acquisitions and to invest internationally, in Iraq. PPL is to bid for corporate acquisition of MND Exploration and Production Limited, the company has assets in Pakistan and Yemen. Moreover, Petroleum Ministry has sought GoP's approval to authorize PPL to pursue Iraq's exploration opportunity on standalone basis with US$100mn limit, or pursue a larger exploration programme in joint venture with another company. However, PPL underperformed the market by 0.2%WoW.
The Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) market has witnessed a bearish trend during the week. KSE – 100 index has reached 14,230 points by losing 387 points or 2.66 percent. According to experts, Correction on the go, yet traded value goes through roof. The turnover dropped 29.30 percent to 236.94 million shares as compared to previous week's close of 335.16 million shares.
Interestingly, while average share volume growth on WoW basis remained flat at around 261mn shares, average traded value went through the roof to USD120mn, up 35.5% WoW, as average intraday volumes remained concentrated towards heavyweights.
In order to tackle the circular debt issue, the government decided to raise Rs 70 billion from the reserves of Oil and Gas Development Company (OGDC) by issuing TFCs. During the week, the two key stakeholders of this issue, OGDC and Pakistan State Oil (PSO) witnessed mixed sentiment. OGDC underperformed the market by 1.9 percent, while PSO outperformed the by 5.7 percent.
Ibrahim Fibers, Colgate Palmolive, Unilever Pak Foods, Rafhan Maiz, Media Times Limited, Adamjee Insurance, PTCL, EFOODs, Lotte Pakistan PTA, ENGRO, PSO, ICI, HUBCO, Attock Refinery, DGKC, and Nishat (Chunian) Limited were the major gainers while K.E.S.C, TRG Pakistan, Pak Suzuki, United Bank Ltd, and Abbot Laboratories were major losers at KSE last week.
A close scrutiny revealed that market heavyweights including ENGRO (31%), PSO (25%), DGKC (15%), FFC (10%), NML (9%) and PTC (8%) recorded cumulative 98% contribution to overall market traded value this week while OGDC, PPL and EFOODS saw declines affecting a portion of market value.
The top-5 scrips at the futures counter holding 60% of the total open interest were ENGRO, DGKC, PSO, NBP and LUCK.
According to experts and analysts, the top picks for next week are PTC, FFBL, DGKC, FATIMA, PPL, PSO, OGDC, POL, NCPL and HUBCO. Our liking also extends to FFC, Lucky, DGKC and PTC where robust business models and strong fundamentals make these names a worthwhile play, while MCB continues to remain our preferred play in the banking space.
The Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) market has witnessed a bullish movement during the week. KSE – 100 index has reached 14,612.28 points by gaining 570 points or 4.1 percent. Please note that it is the highest level achieved since May 5, 2008. Volumes also showed marginal improvement with Friday alone volumes reached to Rs 10 billion, which is a 15-month high. From a broader perspective, our end-Dec'12 Index target has been upped to 16,000 points.
The weekly turnover appreciated by 70.86 percent and traded 335.16 million shares as against the previous week's 196.15 million shares.
According to Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), consumer price index (CPI) clocked in at 11.3 percent for April 2012 as against 10.84 percent last month. The cumulative CPI figure for July-April stood at 10.84 percent. Hence full year inflation is expected to remain below the budgetary target of 12 percent. Moreover, the country's foreign exchange reserves rose to $16.43 billion in the week ending on April 27, from $16.42 billion of the previous week. Furthermore, the rupee continued to slide against the US dollar and dropped to an all-time low of Rs91.07 per dollar.
Engro Foods, Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd (PTCL) and Dera Ghazi Khan Cement (DGKC) were among the outperformers this week. The fertiliser sector also performed well, with Fatima Fertilizer and Engro Corporation climbing by 12.4% and 7.5% respectively.
Media Times Limited, PTCL, Ibrahim Fibers, Al‐Ghazi Tractors and IGI Insurance were the major gainers while Javedan Corporation, Grays of Cambridge, Tandlianwala Sugar, Nishat Chun Power and Pak Cables were major losers last week.
The top-5 scrips at the futures counter holding 61% of the total open interest were ENGRO, DGKC, NBP, LUCK and ATRL.
Experts and analysts are recommending an accumulation stance on PPL, APL, PSO, OGDC, POL, Hubco and NCPL (our top picks in the energy chain). Our liking also extends to FFC, FFBL, PSMC, ICI, Lucky, DGKC and PTC where robust business models and strong fundamentals make these names a worthwhile play, while MCB continues to remain our preferred play in the banking space.


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Q: How to locally verify signed commits by other people? For analytics purposes, I'd like to run the following command and see which commits have been signed within a rather big repository:
git log --pretty="%h %G?"
As per Git docs, the %G? placeholder can return:

*

*G for a good (valid) signature

*B for a bad signature

*U for a good signature with unknown validity

*X for a good signature that has expired

*Y for a good signature made by an expired key

*R for a good signature made by a revoked key

*E if the signature cannot be checked (e.g. missing key)

*N for no signature

The expected result is to get a G status for every commit that is shown as Verified in GitHub. However, I am getting mostly E statuses.
git verify-commit commit-sha on a commit with E status outputs:
gpg: Signature made Wed  17 June 13:19:22 2020 EEST
gpg:                using RSA key C90455E28OCA2B4DAD319037E77216ECEABAF951
gpg: Can't check signature: No public key

I've done the following gpg setup:
git config --global gpg.program $(which gpg)
curl https://github.com/web-flow.gpg | gpg --import
gpg --edit-key noreply@github.com (where I put `trust` and gave 6 - ultimate)
gpg --lsign-key noreply@github.com

It seems that the only commits I get with git log having status G are the ones done via the UI of GitHub, as its key is successfully inserted in gpg.
Should I crawl and get all public keys for all contributors in the repo (by using e.g. their emails) and then insert them in gpg? Actually, what is the easiest way to see the signatures of ALL commits as they are shown in GitHub, locally?

A:
Should I crawl and get all public keys for all contributors in the repo (by using e.g. their emails) and then insert them in gpg?

Yes. gpg --recv-keys email1 email2… You can the list of emails from the repository:
git log --all --format="%ae" | sort -u
git log --all --format="%ce" | sort -u

(Author and committer emails). Let's combine this in a few commands:
all_emails=$({ git log --all --format="%ae"; git log --all --format="%ce"; } | sort -u)
gpg --recv-keys $all_emails


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Local Badgers Give Back
UW-Madison graduates make a difference every day, whether through groundbreaking research or lending a hand to a neighbor in need. The holidays are a perfect time to thank all the Badgers who strive to make the world a better place, including members of these alumni chapters.
UW-Madison graduates make a difference every day, whether through groundbreaking research or lending a hand to a neighbor in need. This holiday season, we thank all the Badgers who strive to make the world a better place, including members of these alumni chapters.
Once a month, a small group of UW alumni in the Boston area roll up their sleeves to volunteer at Community Servings (CS), a nonprofit that provides home-delivered meals to individuals living with HIV/AIDS. The partnership between Community Servings and the WAA: Boston chapter dates back to 2001.
Chapter leader Jeremy Kasanov says, "Volunteering as a group builds a great sense of camaraderie and community among the Boston Badgers, especially among those who have been attending regularly for many years."
Mike Massagli PhD'84, another regular volunteer, agrees: "The sense of community by itself is a great thing, but I've also found that participation with the CS group keeps me linked to other chapter activities, and supports the Wisconsin Idea, and keeps the New England pipeline to Madison open."
Bay Beach Fall Cleanup
The Wisconsin football team may have had a bye the weekend of November 3, but UW alumni in the Green Bay area didn't take a break. Instead, several volunteers spent the day cleaning up the Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary: raking leaves and rubbish, winterizing cages and installing heated perches for eagles and hawks.
"Of course it's fun to watch football or take a trip to Madison together," says Kelly Fitzgerald MS'06, president of the WAA: Brown County chapter. "But we wanted to find new ways to feed Badger spirit into the community."
About four years ago, the chapter began organizing regular community-service activities, such as helping out at the wildlife sanctuary and building a Habitat for Humanity house.
And, like other alumni chapters, its members also work to raise scholarship money for future Badgers. "That's our chance to maintain the Wisconsin Idea," Fitzgerald says. "UW alumni represent the university by doing good things for our local communities."
Saturday, December 8, the chapter spread holiday cheer to local shoppers by ringing bells for the Salvation Army. Last year, the Brown County chapter won a challenge against alumni from St. Norbert College and UW-Green Bay by collecting the most donations in an afternoon.
Everything but the Turkey
About a dozen Badgers who live in the Washington, D.C. area came together in November to help prepare Thanksgiving side dishes at DC Central Kitchen for more than 90 local homeless shelters, transitional housing facilities and community kitchens in the city.
Volunteer Jessica Adler '97 says the WAA: Washington, D.C. chapter tries to organize community-service opportunities at least four times a year, which in the past have included preparing food for those in need, painting at schools and a homeless shelter, and a walk to raise money for kidney cancer research.
"Volunteering is very rewarding and should be an important part of every community," Adler says, "and in the process, Badgers can bond with each other and have fun. In Judaism, we teach tikkun olam, which means repairing the world, and [it] suggests that we all have responsibility to help heal the world. In community volunteering, Badgers can give back and do their part to heal the world."
United Run for the Hungry
Before sitting down to Thanksgiving feasts, Badgers Katie Fitzpatrick '07, Nick Isabella '03, Amy Flink '07 and Cheryl Ramancionis laced up their running shoes and hit the streets of San Diego to raise money for local food pantries.
"Giving back to, and supporting the local community, is a strong Badger tradition going back to the Wisconsin idea that education should influence and improve people's lives beyond the classroom," says Christa Eilers '92, president of the WAA: San Diego chapter. "I think that as alumni, we realize the extraordinary advantages we've enjoyed as a result of our education and we are grateful for it."
Football Fans Help the Hungry
UW alumni and friends in Orange County combined school spirit with the spirit of giving all football season long. The WAA: OC Badgers chapter organized their annual food drive to coincide with weekly football viewing parties this season to benefit Share Our Shelves, and Badgers responded with generosity, donating 228 cans and boxes of food, 50 lbs. of personal grooming items, and toys and backpacks.
Why should I get involved with my WAA chapter?
Here are five reasons why you should get involved with the WAA chapter in your town.
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Artists Research Group
MFA Studio Art
MA Art History
MA in Visual Arts Education
Curatorial Certificate
MFA Program
BFA Program
Studio Art Faculty
Gallery Staff
Fault Lines: Photography, Memory, and Fragility
Crossway Foundation
Goldberg Curatorial Workshops
Judith Zabar Visiting Artist Program
MFASO
Assemblage Journal
Beyond the Department
Arts Management and Leadership Certificate
Office of the Arts
Mellon Arts Fellowships
January 26, 2023 January 26, 2023 huntercollegeart News and Events
Linda Goode Bryant in conversation with Thomas (T.) Lax
Linda Bryant at the Project EATS farm on Randall's Island for Hauser & Wirth.
Linda Goode Bryant, founder of Just Above Midtown and Project EATS in conversation with Thomas (T.) Lax, co-organizing curator of Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces at the Museum of Modern Art Foundation To-Life Arthur and Carol Kaufman Goldberg Curatorial Lecture
Wednesday, February 8 at 7pm
47-49 East 65th Street, New York, NY
Linda Goode Bryant's decades of art-based activism began with her founding of Just Above Midtown gallery (JAM), a self-described laboratory that foregrounded the work of African American artists. After closing JAM, Goode Bryant dedicated herself to filmmaking. Over her nearly 50-year career, Goode Bryant continues to advocate for a connection to "our innate ability to use what we have to create what we need." Most recently, Goode Bryant has founded Project EATS, a "living installation" of neighborhood-based, small-plot, high-yield farms that use art, urban agriculture, partnerships, and social enterprise to sustainably grow and equitably distribute fresh, local, organically grown food in communities across New York City.
Thomas (T.) Jean Lax is a curator, writer, and scholar specializing in Black art and performance. At the Museum of Modern Art, they co-organized the exhibition Just Above Midtown: 1974 to the Present (2022) with Lilia Rocio Taboada in collaboration with JAM's founder Linda Goode Bryant. In 2019, they worked with colleagues across MoMA on a major rehang of its collection and co-organized the exhibition Judson Dance Theater: The Work is Never Done (2018) with Ana Janevski and Martha Joseph. Their other collaboratively-organized exhibitions include the Projects Series for emerging artists; Unfinished Conversations, inspired by the cultural theorist Stuart Hall; the contemporary art quintennial, Greater New York; and commissions with artists including Neïl Beloufa, Maria Hassabi, and Steffani Jemison. Previously, they worked at The Studio Museum in Harlem for seven years, where they organized When the Stars Begin to Fall: Imagination and the American South and participated in the landmark "f show" contemporary art series.
Goode Bryant photo: Oresti Tsonopoulos
Thomas (T.) Jean Lax © 2021 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo: Peter Ross
The Foundation To-Life, Inc. Arthur and Carol Kaufman Goldberg Curatorial Lectures bring curators of international stature to the Hunter campus to engage with students in the MA program in Art History and the MFA program in Studio Art, and with the broader Hunter community. Previous Goldberg Curators have included Ann Goldstein, Hamza Walker, Fabrice Stroun, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Omar Kholeif, Pablo Helguera, Lynne Cooke, and Koyo Kouoh.
William (Bill) Agee / September 26, 1936-December 24, 2022
The Department of Art and Art History mourns the loss of our friend and colleague, Bill Agee. Bill taught at Hunter for nearly a quarter-century, from 1990, when he was hired as a full professor in Modern American Art, until his retirement in 2014. He was named the Evelyn Kranes Kossak Chair in Art History in 2004.
By the time Bill came to Hunter he had already had at least two full careers. Just out of the program in Art History at Yale, he worked for the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art, directing research on the New Deal and the arts. He joined the Whitney Museum of American Art as Associate Curator in 1966, where he organized one-person exhibitions of Donald Judd and Conrad Marca-Relli, and curated the lauded and controversial exhibition The 1930s: Painting and Sculpture in America. He served briefly as Associate Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art before being appointed as Director of Exhibitions and Collections at the Pasadena Art Museum in1971. Just 34 at the time he elevated to the full directorship at Pasadena, he was one of the youngest museum leaders in the United States. After Pasadena, Bill would go on to serve as Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, from 1974 to 1982.
After stepping down from the MFA Houston, Bill worked as an independent curator, organizing monographic exhibitions and publishing on key figures of American Modernism, including Ralston Crawford, Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, Sam Francis, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Kenneth Noland, and Morgan Russell. He also turned his lens on less familiar artists. While at Hunter, Bill helped to organize two important traveling exhibitions of American art for the Addison Gallery at Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, where he had gone to high school and where he discovered his calling: Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s (2006) and American Vanguards: Graham, Davis, Gorky, de Kooning, and Their Circle, 1927-1942 (2011). After he retirement, he published the survey Modern Art in America 1908-68 (2016), which the Wall Street Journal called "that rarity of rarities, an opinionated but not eccentric scholarly history by a veteran museum curator whose every page crackles with original thinking and bears the stamp of a preternaturally sharp eye." ―The Wall Street Journal
Bill Agee brought that sharp eye and his original thinking to Hunter, and helped to shape the vision and careers of a generation of Hunter Art History students. His long curatorial experience and the insights he gained by working with closely with works of art fed his teaching, and his approach helped to center the idea of exhibition-making as a crucial aspect of art historical research. It is part of Bill's legacy that curatorial practice remains integral to the teaching of Art History at Hunter. Among the exhibitions Bill realized here at Hunter with his students were Ray Parker: A Retrospective Exhibition (1990); Fairfield Porter: Paintings (1992); Paths of Abstraction: Painting in New York 1944-1981 (1994); and Tony Smith's Tau (2004).
He will be missed.
November 9, 2022 November 9, 2022 huntercollegeart News and Events
MFA THESIS EXHIBITIONS FALL 2022
The Hunter College MFA Program in Studio Art will be presenting two Thesis Exhibitions this fall at the 205 Hudson Gallery, featuring eleven MFA candidates.
Join us this Thursday evening to celebrate the opening of Part I:
Part I: November 10 – 23
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 10, 6 – 9pm
Shauna Steinbach
Nick Fusaro
Jin Jeong
Xinan Helen Ran
Claire Bendiner
October 25, 2022 October 25, 2022 huntercollegeart News and Events
HMIA Presents PEGGY AHWESH / November 2
HMIA Presents PEGGY AHWESH
Join the Hunter Moving Image Alliance for a conversation with the artist and filmmaker Peggy Ahwesh WEDNESDAY November 2nd, 7:00PM.
Join the Conversation in the zoom link below: https://huntercollege.zoom.us/j/89209315878?pwd=N1pIM3pCSDQ1a1FuUFBHb0l3MXIzdz09
Join us for the in-person screening of films by Peggy Ahwesh on TUESDAY OCT 25th, 5PM
205 Hudson 2nd Floor Flex Space.
Links of works are available through email. Check your email box from HMIA.
September 27, 2022 September 27, 2022 huntercollegeart News and Events
Fault Lines: Photography, Memory, and Fragility / October 22
Saturday October 22nd, 1-5pm, followed by a reception
Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College
47-49 East 65th Street
Please RSVP to the event here.
Dawoud Bey, Fifth Avenue and East 125th Street, 2015, from Harlem Redux. Courtesy, Sean Kelly Gallery
The recuperation of marginalized and fractured histories through photography prompts us to re-interrogate the image and understand its narrative power. This conversation invites artists, curators, and scholars whose recent projects have demonstrated how photography can contribute to the excavation of forgotten histories and shed light on current issues of global migration and displacement. Our discussion pursues many venues, ranging from the scholarly reappraisal of an important history of Black photography through the Kamoinge Workshop, to contemporary curatorial practices that are investigating artists' involvement with environmental fragility, to the spatial exploration of histories of migration and mourning in the African diaspora, to artworks that provoke us to make connections between memory and sociopolitical histories. The conversation is prompted by a recent Hunter College publication on Harlem's 125th Street, which has studied photography as a form of belonging to place. We are aiming to foster a debate over the powerful significance of photography to memorialize histories that are brittle and sustain ongoing narratives that explain our relationship to place.
Organized by Antonella Pelizzari, Professor, Department of Art and Art History, Hunter College
September 27, 2022 October 3, 2022 huntercollegeart News and Events
Hunter MFA & BFA Open Studios / October 15
October 15, 3 – 9pm
More than 120 studios will be open, showcasing the work of MFA & BFA students.
Be sure to see the exhibition in the ground floor gallery featuring current students.
All works for sale, and proceeds will benefit our student organizations.
In accordance with CUNY policy, all guests must show valid proof of vaccination upon entry.
Minimum requirement is two does of Moderna or Pfizer; or one dose of J&J. Masking is encouraged.
No pets allowed unless they are ADA service animals.
Doors will close at 8:30pm. All visitors must vacate the building by 9pm.
Hunter College MFA & BFA Studios / 205 Hudson Street (Entrance on Canal Street) / New York City
www.huntermfastudio.org
https://www.huntermfastudio.org/mfa-bfa-open-studios-fall-2022
Guadalupe Maravilla / Zabar Visiting Artist October 19
Guadalupe Maravilla is a transdisciplinary visual artist, choreographer, and healer. At the age of eight, Maravilla was part of the first wave of unaccompanied, undocumented children to arrive at the United States border in the 1980s as a result of the Salvadoran Civil War. In 2016, Maravilla became a U.S. citizen and in 2016 he adopted the name Guadalupe Maravilla in solidarity with his undocumented father, who uses Maravilla as his last name. As an acknowledgment to his past, Maravilla grounds his practice in the historical and contemporary contexts belonging to the undocumented and cancer communities.
Maravilla currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. Additionally, Maravilla has performed and presented his work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Queens Museum, Bronx Museum of the Arts and many more.
Awards and fellowships include; The 2021 Joan Mitchell Fellowship, LatinX Fellowship 2021, Lise Wilhelmsen Art award 2021, Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship 2019, Soros Fellowship: Art Migration and Public Space 2019, Map fund 2019, Creative Capital Grant 2016, Franklin Furnace 2018, Joan Mitchell Emerging Artist Grant 2016, Art Matters Fellowship 2017, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship 2018. Residencies include; LMCC Workspace, SOMA, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and Drawing Center Open Sessions.
Guadalupe Maravilla es artista visual transdisciplinario, coreógrafo, y sanador. A los ocho años, Maravilla fue parte de la primera ola de niños indocumentados que llegaron a la frontera de los Estados Unidos en los 1980 's, en consecuencia de la Guerra Civil de El Salvador. En 2016, Maravilla se hizo ciudadano Estadounidense y en 2016 adoptó el nombre Guadalupe Maravilla en solidaridad con su padre indocumentado, que usa el nombre Maravilla como apellido. Como reconocimiento a su pasado, Maravilla basa su práctica en los contextos históricos y contemporáneos de la comunidad indocumentada y la comunidad de cáncer.
Maravilla en la actualidad vive en Brooklyn, Nueva York. Sus obras están en las colecciones permanentes del Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim Museum, el Whitney Museum of American Art, el Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; y el Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. Adicionalmente, Maravilla ha hecho performances y ha presentado obras en el Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Queens Museum, Bronx Museum of the Arts, y muchos más.
Premios y becas incluyen; El 2021 Joan Mitchell Fellowship, LatinX Fellowship 2021, Lise Wilhelmsen Art award 2021, Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship 2019, Soros Fellowship: Art Migration and Public Space 2019, Map fund 2019, Creative Capital Grant 2016, y Franklin Furnace 2018. Residencias incluyen LMCC Workspace, SOMA, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture y Drawing Center Open Sessions.
Photographic Portrait by: Emmanuel Sanchez Monsalve
September 8, 2022 September 8, 2022 huntercollegeart News and Events
Isaac Diggs & Edward Hillel: Time in Harlem opens September 14
September 14, 2022 – February 2023
Hunter East Harlem Gallery
2180 3rd Ave at 119th St.
"Two men with a camera, thoughtfully observing the visual cacophony of one major thoroughfare and the complicated interplay of its history, its present, and the certainty of change, have laid the groundwork for a dialogue and a vision that reaches farther than human eyes can see." ~- Vicki Goldberg, 125th: Time in Harlem by Isaac Diggs & Edward Hillel (IDEH, 2014).
From 2008-2011, Isaac Diggs & Edward Hillel made photographs of one of the most iconic streets in New York City: 125th Street. Working collaboratively on film with a 4×5 field camera, the two artists meticulously captured the street during a tumultuous time in NYC after the financial crisis. The images document Harlem when the neighborhood was being sanctioned for rezoning by Mayor Mike Bloomberg and swallowed up by the ever-expanding Columbia University campus, forever changing this "main street" in profound and long lasting ways. The exhibition at Hunter East Harlem Gallery features a selection of the duo's large-format photographs from their comprehensive 2014 publication, 125th: Time in Harlem. The exhibition re-contextualizes the book into the three-dimensional space of a gallery, showcasing a wall mural comprised of the entirety of their book in sequence as well as archives from the project itself. Through intentional and considered image-making, the duo confronts the audience with the challenges of urban flux, gentrification, the loss of cultural memory, the production of space and the preservation of community.
The exhibition coincides with the release of Hunter East Harlem Gallery's publication, 125th Street: Photography in Harlem (Hirmer Verlag, 2022), which features many of Diggs & Hillel's images as well as dozens of other artists who have documented the historic thoroughfare.
This exhibition is curated by Arden Sherman. Generous support has been provided by the Hunter College Department of Art and Art History, the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation, and the Hunter College Advanced Certificate in Curatorial Studies Program.
September 8, 2022 huntercollegeart News and Events
Book Launch Party: September 14, 6-9PM
125th Street: Photography in Harlem
Edited by Antonella Pelizzari and Arden Sherman
Published by Hirmer Verlag
September 14, 2022, 6-9PM
Featuring: Berenice Abbott, Khalik Allah, Alice Attie, Dawoud Bey, Kwame Brathwaite, Isaac Diggs & Edward Hillel, Lola Flash, Hiram Maristany, Ozier Muhammad, Katsu Naito, Marilyn Nance, Ruben Natal-San Miguel, Lorraine O'Grady, Gordon Parks, Pope.L, Jamel Shabazz, Coreen Simpson, Beuford Smith, Ming Smith, Morgan and Marvin Smith, Shawn Walker, Hai Zhang and more!
Harlem's 125th Street is a marker of twentieth-century urban experience, a thoroughfare that encapsulates powerful stories of business and consumption, real estate and gentrification, glamour and entertainment, and political uprising. This book explores the constant mutation of this street life through the works of a large roster of photographers and performance artists.
125th Street: Photography in Harlem includes investigations on twenty-four featured artists, four historic landmarks, and two comprehensive timelines.
Contributions by Hunter College MFA and MA, Art History students and recent graduates, and foreword by LeRonn P. Brooks.
This publication was made possible through support by the Crossway Foundation and the Hunter College Advanced Certificate in Curatorial Studies Program.
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2021-22 Department Awards and Prizes
Leeman-Boksenbaum MFA Thesis Prize-Spring 2022
Christina Barrera / Amy Bravo / Elmer Guevara / Pol Morton
In support of a graduating printmaker the EFA ROBERT BLACKBURN PRINTMAKING WORKSHOP awards a full year membership to Christina Barrera
Jason Birmingham, Departmental Honors, BFA Studio Art
Viv Bourgeois, Somerville Art Prize, BA Studio Art
D'Arcy Blake, Shuster Award for Outstanding Master's Thesis-2022, for "The Portrait and the Pedagogical Object: Art, Advertising, and Commerce in the works of Marcel Broodthaers, 1968-1971." Research for this thesis was funded in part by the Renate, Hans, and Maria Hofmann Trust
Kristen Clevenson, The Feminist Institute Research Award-Fall 2021, in support of her thesis "An Early and Feminist History of the Paula Cooper Gallery"
Maria José Garcia Estevez is the winner of the 2021-22 Eva Hesse Prize for Excellence at Hunter College
Joselyn Garcia, Nancy Ashton Memorial Prize, BA Art History
Joselyn Garcia, Departmental Honors, Art History
Elizabeth Janoff, The Feminist Institute Research Award-Spring 2022, in support of her thesis "Time, Text, and Image in Bernadette Mayer's Memory"
Amber Sibley, Departmental Honors, Studio Art
Tatianna Spotorno, Somerville Art Prize, double major BA Studio Art and Art History
Areum Yang, Leeman-Boksenbaum Endowment Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture summer fellowship
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Arrivals 2022-2023
The Department of Art and Art History is pleased to announce the appointments of Dr. Uchenna Itam as Assistant Professor of Art History and Dave McKenzie as Distinguished Lecturer of Studio Art. Dr. Itam is a specialist in modern and contemporary art of the African Diaspora. Dave McKenzie is an internationally recognized artist who works in video, sculpture, performance, and installation.
Dr. Itam comes to Hunter from a position as Predoctoral Fellow for Excellence through Diversity with the University of Pennsylvania's Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty. Her research project, titled Feeling Visible, examines how politics of identity and issues of representation are negotiated through multisensorial aesthetics in the installation art practices of Janine Antoni, Félix González-Torres, Nadine Robinson, and Wangechi Mutu at the turn of the twenty-first century. Dr. Itam completed the Ph.D. in Art History at The University of Texas at Austin (2021); she holds an M.A. in the Humanities from the University of Chicago (2004) and a B.A. in the History of Art from the University of Pennsylvania (2003).
Dr. Itam has also worked as a curator for over two decades, most recently as Curator of the Henry Luce Foundation African American Collecting Initiative at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. She is also a founding member of the collective INGZ, which has presented exhibitions with artists LaToya Ruby Frazier, TJ Dedeaux-Norris, and Mimi Cherono Ng'ok among others.
Dave McKenzie uses video, sculpture, performance, and installation to explore how public space and the private self are simultaneously alienated, connected, and restricted. At the heart of this practice lies a desire for interactions that lay bare the complications of social rules and obligations with which we navigate personal relationships.
Born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1977, McKenzie received a B.F.A. in printmaking from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2000. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Departures 2021-22
Two longtime members of the Studio Art faculty retired in 2021-22, Tom Weaver, after 32 years, and Brian Wood, after 20. They have each helped to shape the department and the program in Studio Art, and they will be missed.
Thomas Weaver received his BA from the University of California Santa Cruz in 1972, and moved to London to pursue graduate studies in sculpture at the St. Martin's School of Art. After two years in England, he returned to New York, where he received his MFA from Hunter College in 1982. Tom began teaching at Hunter as an adjunct while still a student, and taught sculpture at Hunter as a Visiting Professor and painting at Parsons until 1990, when he joined Hunter's fulltime faculty. He worked in large scale sculpture and site installations into the early 2000s, and his shaped and constructed paintings in that period reflect a similar interest in built space, perspective, and architectural light. In the new millennium he concentrated on painting, and his work became increasingly referential and figurative; the critic Fredric Koeppel described them as "dream-like and fragmentary narratives of American domestic life." Over his long career, Tom has had one-person exhibitions at the Walsh Art Gallery at Fairfield University (CT), the Marsh Art Gallery at the University of Richmond (VA), and Condeso/Lawler Gallery and the Church of Saint Paul the Apostle in New York, among other venues.
Tom served as chair of the Department of Art and Art History from 2006 to 2012, and subsequently helped to build and run the BFA program, and to guide its students. He was an important voice in the MFA program for both students and colleagues, and a strong advocate for our curriculum on all levels. We will miss his wisdom, his judiciousness, and his deep institutional memory.
Brian Wood was born and raised on a farm on the prairies of northern Saskatchewan, Canada, where his imagination was formed by the unforgiving environment and the cyclical rhythms of agriculture. He received his BA from the University of Saskatchewan in 1969, where he studied literature, physics, and mathematics. He moved to New York City shortly thereafter, and, in 1975, completed his MA at Hunter College in painting and film, working with filmmaker Hollis Frampton. He was part of the film crew of Michael Snow's Rameau's Nephew while at Hunter and screened his own early films at Film Forum in 1975. He began making large-scale photo constructions in the late 1970s and in 1979 the Museum of Modern Art curators John Szarkowski and Susan Kismaric began collecting his photo constructions and his later ink/photo paintings for MoMA's permanent collection. They immediately placed Brian's work in MoMA's public galleries, where his works were on view for most of the next two decades, and also showed other of his works in many of the museum's exhibitions and publications. Brian went on to exhibit internationally in many galleries and museums.
Brian was a Senior Critic in Photography at Yale from 1992-2002 and returned to Hunter as Professor of Photography in 2002. Over his twenty years at Hunter, Brian served multiple terms on the departmental P&B and as area head for Photography, guiding the area's curriculum and developing its labs and workspaces. He was a committed teacher and mentor, and an important advocate for Photography at Hunter, not only within the department, but also to the administration.
While the program in Photography at Hunter is centered on the wet darkroom and the techniques of analogue photography, Brian's own work has always ranged far from the photograph. For some decades he has worked primarily in painting and drawing, works that have been exhibited in New York at Jeannie Freilich Gallery, Zurcher Gallery, Novella Gallery, Arts + Leisure Gallery, the Church of Saint Paul the Apostle, the American Academy of Arts & Letters, and numerous other venues. Brian's art is represented in the permanent collections of museums worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the L. A. County Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Canada, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal, and the National Gallery in DC. His many awards include the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the NEA Fellowship, the NYFA Artist Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts & Letters Award, and in 2019 Brian was a Rome Prize finalist in painting. Brian's last semester teaching was Fall 2021, and he has worked these past months to prepare for upcoming exhibitions.
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Spring 2022 BFA Degree Exhibition: Open Tabs May 12–June 4, 2022
Spring 2022 BFA Degree Exhibition: Open Tab
May 12–June 4, 2022
Opening Reception: Thursday May 12, 5–7 PM
Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
132 E 68th St, NY NY 10065
Tues–Sat, 11AM–5 PM
The Hunter College BFA Program and the Hunter College Art Galleries are pleased to present the Spring 2022 BFA Degree Exhibition, Open Tabs at the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery, May 12, 2022 through June 4, 2022. The exhibition will feature works by Arife Ateş, Jason Birmingham, Gloria Cárcamo, Katelin Montgomery, Piero Penizzotto, Alex Rader, Genesis Salinas, and Josie Tolliver Shaw. The gallery is free and open to the public Tuesday through Saturday, 11 am–5 pm.
MFA Thesis Exhibition May 3-13
MFA Thesis Exhibition Part 3
Maria Jose Garcia, Elmer Guevara, Kiwha Lee Blocman,
Michael Tracy, Joseph Parra
205 Hudson Gallery
May 3 – 13
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Ademola Olugebefola in conversation with Howard Singerman May 4
Ademola Olugebefola in conversation with Howard Singerman
2180 3rd Avenue
May 4, 6:30 – 8pm
May 4, 6:30-8pm
Join artist Ademola Olugebefola and art historian Howard Singerman on Wednesday, May 4, 2022 in conversation around the current exhibition, Ademola Olugebefola: Afrofuturist. Ademola Olugebefola is an educator, activist, and multi-talented artist. The versatility of his practice encompasses graphic design, illustration, theater set design, printmaking, oil painting, drawing, sculpture, and murals, among other artistic forms. Howard Singerman is the Phyllis and Joseph Caroff Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at Hunter College. He was co-curator of the exhibition Acts of Art and Rebuttal in 1971 at Hunter's Leubsdorf Gallery in 2018, and continues to research and write on Acts of Art Gallery, founded in Greenwich Village in 1969 to show the work of Black artists.
https://www.huntereastharlemgallery.org/program-content/ade-howard-talk
North Building 11054
Closed 1-2PM
Website contact:
art@hunter.cuny.edu


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Obama at the UN: The Burden of the Anti-Bush
President Obama's first appearance before the UN General Assembly is an opportunity to reassert U.S. leadership at the world body on issues from nonproliferation to peacekeeping, writes CFR's Stewart Patrick.
Expert Brief by Stewart M. Patrick, Author
September 18, 2009 11:41 am (EST)
CFR scholars provide expert analysis and commentary on international issues.
President Barack Obama's trip to the United Nations this week is the most significant by a U.S. president since September 2002. That year, President George W. Bush challenged the world body to prove its continued "relevance," by enforcing its resolutions against Iraq. Many foreign diplomats, meanwhile, advocated a posture of "dual containment"-that is, of Iraq and the United States. The subsequent breakdown of Security Council consensus brought U.S.-UN relations to their lowest point since 1945.
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Obama's task today is at once easier and more daunting than Bush's. The new president sails into New York on a wave of global goodwill. Proclaiming an "era of engagement," he has returned the United States to a multilateral path, through steps both symbolic and concrete. He has vowed to rededicate the United States to the international rule of law, engineered U.S. entry into the UN Human Rights Council, reenergized U.S. leadership on climate change, proposed reforms to strengthen the nuclear nonproliferation regime, and declared his intent to submit for Senate ratification long-languishing treaties like the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.
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[Obama's] job is to persuade his rapt global audience that recent improvement in U.S.-UN relations cannot be taken for granted -- and that multilateralism must deliver results that advance U.S. and global security.
Obama does not need to woo his UN audience. As the anti-Bush, he will have them at hello. Bush, after all, was an instinctive unilateralist who approached his annual New York trip with the enthusiasm of a root canal patient. Obama actually believes in multilateralism-and thus may have more to lose if it fails. He arrives in New York with massive global worries, including a sharp economic downturn, a fraying nuclear nonproliferation regime, and a shaky state-building mission in Afghanistan. His job is to persuade his rapt global audience that recent improvement in U.S.-UN relations cannot be taken for granted-and that multilateralism must deliver results that advance U.S. and global security.
A Multilateral Presidency
A premise of Obama's foreign policy is that the United States can advance its national interests best by working within global institutions. Rather than "criticizing from the sidelines," said U.S. ambassador to the UN Susan Rice in a recent speech, the Obama administration will roll up its sleeves and try diplomacy at the United Nations. It aims to build international political will to tackle tough global challenges, she said, "by setting a tone of decency and mutual respect rather than condescension and contempt ... by abiding by the rules we expect others to follow ... and [by showing itself] willing to listen, respect differences, and consider new ideas."
The president's UN agenda is jammed. Beyond the traditional General Assembly speech, he will chair a special session of the Security Council on nuclear nonproliferation, participate in a summit on climate change, and join a side session on peacekeeping. His unifying theme will likely be the common responsibility of member states-including the United States-to address the world's most pressing problems.
The big question is whether his faith in the UN, and broader multilateral cooperation, is warranted. The balance sheet to date is mixed. At the Security Council, the Obama administration got the Chinese and Russians to agree to a fairly tough resolution on North Korea. On the Human Rights Council, the United States won a continuation of the special rapporteur on Sudan-by one vote. But progress on containing the Iranian nuclear program, on bringing peace and justice to Darfur, and on reaching a major climate change agreement remains elusive.
While this new tack of embracing multilateralism might not work, it is certainly worth a try. The Bush years showed the limits of unilateralism and inflexibility, which did little to arrest Iran's nuclear progress or stop Israel-bashing in the Human Rights Council. "If you think engagement is imperfect," declares U.S. ambassador to the UN Susan Rice, "try isolation."
Improved atmospherics are therefore necessary and welcome. But engagement must show results-and soon, because Obama's domestic audience needs to see that his investment in the United Nations actually pays tangible dividends.
Setting a Realistic Agenda at the UN
Obama should use his UN week to begin placing U.S.-UN relations on a realistic footing. For too long, the United States has careened between "overselling or underestimating the United Nations." Liberals have proven Pollyannaish, exaggerating the UN's practical capacity to accomplish tasks in contexts where member states themselves fear to tread. The inevitable result, as President Bill Clinton discovered in Somalia, is UN overextension and U.S. disillusionment. Conservatives, for their part, have painted with their own broad brush, tarring the world body as a font of fecklessness, a den of corruption, and a threat to American ideals and sovereignty. And yet as even President Bush came to realize, from the deployment of peacekeepers in Lebanon to the response to avian influenza, the United Nations retains an unmatched combination of international legitimacy and standing capacity, on which the United States will continue to depend. Fundamentally, Obama is correct: the UN is both imperfect and indispensable.
[F]rom the deployment of peacekeepers in Lebanon to the response to avian influenza, the United Nations retains an unmatched combination of international legitimacy and standing capacity.
The president will be tempted to catalogue the UN's value added across a wide variety of fields, from humanitarian aid to peacekeeping, childhood immunization to environmental protection. But if he is to show a real return on his investment of time and attention, President Obama would be wise to focus on a short list of pressing issue areas, including:
Nonproliferation: On September 24, 2009, Obama will personally chair a special Security Council session on nuclear proliferation. His goal is to bolster the faltering nuclear nonproliferation regime before the Washington Nuclear Summit next March and the Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference soon after. Obama's task is three-fold: first, he must signal an unshakeable determination to block the nuclear weapons aspirations of Iran and North Korea; second, he must reaffirm the right of all states to secure sources of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes; third, he must show the United States is willing to reduce reliance on its own nuclear arsenal, building on his Prague speech of April and the treaty signed with Russia in July in Moscow. The administration's recent draft resolution, which would make access to peaceful nuclear energy contingent on meeting NPT standards and foreswear the use of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states, is a good start.
Peacekeeping: Obama can use his side meeting on peacekeeping to highlight one of the UN's great unsung contributions to global security. Today, more than 115,000 "blue helmets" are restoring peace, saving lives, and promoting regional stability in some of the most wretched corners of the world, with U.S. contributions amounting to only a quarter of every dollar spent. The president should insist on more realistic UN peacekeeping mandates-a priority highlighted by the struggling UN Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) and call on all member states to provide greater logistical and financial support to sustain these critical missions.
Human Rights Council: Few things risk discrediting the United Nations in U.S. eyes more than its perceived indifference to violations of fundamental liberties. The administration has chosen to work within the Human Rights Council, but the president should put that body on notice. The United States expects all members of the Council to fulfill their responsibilities, by shining the spotlight on abusers (rather than focusing monomaniacally on Israel), abandoning archaic pattern of bloc voting, and developing serious criteria for Council membership.
UN Security Council Reform: Other UN member states are looking to Washington to see whether the United States is serious about its stated desire to update the composition of the Security Council. No doubt the Obama administration would prefer to sidestep this briar patch, given the intense emotions of aspirant states and their regional rivals. But the issue cannot be put off indefinitely-without undermining the perceived legitimacy of the world body. Without offering a specific formula, the president should declare his general openness to enlargement to include those states that have the will and capacity to help defend international peace and security.
The United Nations is a central pillar of the larger multilateral system, and by following these steps, the president can begin to put U.S.-UN relations on a sounder footing. After blasting Bush for unilateralism, it is now time for other countries to step up to the plate and help this multilaterally inclined president make the United Nations as effective as it can be. The United States' new "era of engagement" will endure only if other nations meet Washington halfway on pressing threats to global peace and security, and if their collective efforts produce tangible results.
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Robert Pattinson's new 'Bel Ami' poster
The recently-released second poster of the movie 'Bel Ami' shows Robert Pattinson in an intense smoldering gaze as three of his lovely lady co-stars look on from behind him.
Uma Thurman, Kristen Scott Thomas and Christina Ricci star as the women Pattinson's character Georges Deroy seduces on his way to the top.
The film, which is based on the classic French novel of the same name by author Guy de Maupassant, is set to premiere at the Berlin Film Festival on February 17.
The film will make its U.S. debut on March 2nd.
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This summer is packed with events in the world of DIY. Instead of going on holiday you could choose to make a trip to Europe to attend the three Mini Maker Fairs planned (London, Bilbao and Dublin) or the workshops scattered across Italy and the Netherlands. And don't miss the opening of the new FabLab in Trento.
Open Design / Shared Creativity – two full days of talks and presentations on the theme of creativity and innovative design by a score of exceptional speakers. Hurry though, you must register.
Workshop Waag Society – FabLab Amsterdam is not closing for the holidays. Rather for the entire month of July it is organising three workshops dedicated to shopbots, laser cutters and 3D printers.
Workshop Arduino – an opportunity to get your hands on an Arduino board (maybe for the first time) and to build something amazing. The first day is dedicated to a presentation on open source hardware.
Layershift Hack Day – a 12 hour hackathon dedicated to beginners and experts. Obviously it's free – you just have to register.
Elephant & Castle Mini Maker Faire – a makers fair in the heart of London, not to be missed. There you will find makers, fabbers, digital creators and a great series of workshops suitable for everyone.
Bilbao Mini Maker Faire – a two day makers fair dedicated exclusively to DIY and participation by all. What are you waiting for?
Dublin Mini Maker Faire – the Science Gallery of Trinity College will be packed by makers and the curious alike for a day that will be unique. Don't let the rain put you off.
Inauguration of MUSE – the new Trento Science Museum opens to visitors: it also includes a FabLab. It's the perfect opportunity to snoop around.


This is a blog about the positive aspects of an academic life, aimed particularly at those students and post-docs who are keen to continue in academia. In my view, the positives of a career in academia are not always stressed enough, potentially putting off talented young students and post-docs from our profession. This blog aims to provide an optimistic view. It also disseminates my academic work – on the use of science in policy and the impacts of agri-tech on rural communities – as publishing a paper or achieving impact is reason for optimism!
All readers should note that I write from my experience only and do not seek to advise other academics on how they should be feeling in their academic life. Academia is associated with hard work (although millions of people in the world have it harder!), pressurised environments, stress, and mental health problems – and I do not seek to undermine those academics who are struggling for whatever reason; indeed they deserve better support within academia. Yet, it is also worth sharing an optimistic view if that is your experience. Undoubtedly I benefit from not suffering the problems faced by many – as a white middle-class man, the statistics are in my favour in terms of making it in academia (and something that academia should face up to better). However, I can't change who I am and the fact that I love working in academia.
For me, leading an academic life as an Environmental Geographer is a wonderful gift – offering the chance to inspire and learn from talented young minds, as well as pursuing things that I am interested in, often with someone else's money! I remember one piece of advice that I received early in life – 'if you go to bed at night and just think of one positive thing from the day, even if you've had a very hard day, then you'll look back thinking that you've lived a positive life'. That's what I try to do, but I am helped each day by the students that I encounter, and the sense that I am making a difference to the world.
If you want to share your own happy experience of academia, do get in touch for a guest blog!


The long delayed Team Ico project The Last Guardian is still in development, the title's creator has said.
Despite having left the studio last year, Fumito Ueda said on his blog the title still remained under his creative supervision on a freelance basis, and teased fans by stating to "keep an eye out" for an official announcement.
Progress on the project has been mute for a number of months after reported development troubles and a number of leading staff leaving the studio, including Ueda, Shadow of the Colossus producer Kenji Kaido and Last Guardian executive producer Yoshifusa Hayama.
"As some of you may have heard, I left Sony Computer Entertainment Japan Studio some time ago to pursue my creative passions. Nevertheless, I continue working on The Last Guardian as a freelance contributor," said Ueda.
"While it's been a long time coming, The Last Guardian remains under my creative supervision and is still in development by an incredibly talented team.
One of the most recent updates on the project came three months ago in November, when Sony worldwide studios president Shuhei Yoshida refused to give The Last Guardian a 2013 release date, which could suggest it will be a PS4 title – despite previous assertions it will launch on PS3.
"I can tell you that the team is working hard on the project and in particular the engine," said Yoshida.
The Last Guardian was first revealed in March 2009, but has not been seen in playable form since.