Orchid buying time at Fairchild Tropical Garden, Miami. New colors for our collection

WE ALREADY OWN

BOUGHT TODAY

Crystal Bridges, The Momentary and 21C Museum Hotel

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I received the following email from my friend Gary Arlen because we often talk about the museums we like and why. He sent me a link to some of the “coolest” museums not to miss.

What a coincidence. Eliot and I were just invited to visit the Crystal Bridges museum in Bentonville, Arkansas with the Fountainhead Residency. We are going the end of April. It’s supposed to be an architectural wonder. Fountainhead is an art residency in Miami and I am an active board member.

Crystal Bridges was founded in 2005 by philanthropist and arts patron Alice Walton (Walmart) as a nonprofit charitable organization. The building was designed by world-renowned architect Moshe Safdie and opened to the public on 11-11-11.
https://crystalbridges.org/about-crystal-bridges-art/

Here is the list of museums not to be missed.

“Like all lists, these are arbitrary and subject to debate. Glad to see some quirky favorites (such as Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Neon Museum in Las Vegas, Dalí in St. Pete, Meow Wolf in Santa Fe), plus mainstays such as the Met in NYC, Science & Industry in Chicago and RockHall in Cleveland – all of which I’ve already visited at least once.
These lists give me lots of ideas for travel plans to see the coolest museum in every state.”
https://www.thediscoverer.com/blog/the-coolest-museum-in-each-state

“Another version focuses on the 10 COOLEST MUSEUMS… glad to say I’ve been to more than half of them. I must get back to New Orleans to catch up.”
https://www.thediscoverer.com/blog/10-coolest-museums-in-the-u-s

“Another version: Global roster of coolest museums. https://www.thediscoverer.com/blog/8-of-the-coolest-modern-art-museums-around-the-world/

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The Fountainhead Residency, Miami, Fl, Announces the Selected Artists of Our First Residency for BIPOC Mothers. I’m a board member.

Artists Leticia Bajuyo, Alisa Sikelianos-Carter, and Anna Tsouhlarakis are our First-Ever Time for You Residents
We are thrilled to announce the launch of Time for You, a residency dedicated to artists who are mothers and who are Black, Indigenous and People of Color. Taking place from June 2-30, 2021, artists Leticia Bajuyo, Alisa Sikelianos-Carter, and Anna Tsouhlarakis were selected from a pool of over 70 applicants.

In addition to round-trip airfare and living and working accommodations, the artists will receive a $1,500 stipend to offset the cost of childcare while they’re in residence in Miami, and a range of professional resources including one-on-one studio visits with curators, collectors, gallerists, and free legal and financial advice. Dedicated time for self-care, relaxation and reflection will also be a key component during their time in-residence.

The Time for You residency is generously sponsored by the Sustainable Arts Foundation and Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz. Special thanks to our jurors Renee Cox, Sandra Ramos and Marie Vickles.

Leticia R. Bajuyo is an interdisciplinary artist, object maker, and sculptor, who lives, works, and teaches in Corpus Christi, Texas. In her studio practice, Bajuyo reflects on how cultural labels and demographic bubbles can foster a sense of fragmented displacement that is continually searching for equilibrium.

Alisa Sikelianos-Carter is a mixed media painter from upstate New York. Her work asserts that Black features are a manifestation of a sacred and divine technology that has served as a means of survival, both physically and metaphysically. It envisions a cosmically bountiful world that celebrates and pays homage to ancestral majesty, power, and aesthetics.

Anna Tsouhlarakis works in sculpture, installation, video, and performance. Using Indigenous epistemologies and pedagogies as starting points, Tsouhlarakis’s work reframes the discourse around the construction of Native American identity

Fountainhead
www.fountainheadresidency.com

Please consider becoming a member or making a tax deductible donation to The Fountainhead Residency https://www.fountainheadresidency.com/support/

To stay informed please join our newsletter https://www.fountainheadresidency.com/contact-us or follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/fountainheadresidency/?hl=en

This is a video from a small country restaurant in France, which keeps its customers entertained while they are waiting for the meal, in this case, dessert.

The French restaurant “Le Petit Chef” came up with an original way to entertain guests while waiting for their order by using an overhead projector on the ceiling. The animation is on the table and your plate. There is a small chef who appears on your plate. Watch what he does. Bon Appétit.

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Adam Levine Plunks Down $22.7 Million on Montecito’s Historic El Miraval Estate

https://www.dirt.com/gallery/entertainers/musicians/adam-levine-house-montecito-1203368749/

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Nikon is Cooking up One of its Best Cameras Yet

Thank you

Dealerscope Magazine

On Tuesday, Nikon announced that they’ve been working on the first flagship Z series mirrorless camera, the Nikon Z9, that will be dropping later this year. Details are sparse at the moment but there is reason to be excited nonetheless.

What we do know at this point is that the Z9 will support 8K video recording and some key features include a new image-processing engine and a newly developed FX-format stacked CMOS sensor. The press release also vaguely mentioned that there will be “various other video specifications that fulfill diverse needs and workflows.” As The Verge pointed out, the Z9 looks like a combination of the mirrorless Z7 and the D6 full-frame DSLR but with a grip-style body. And that’s about it.

As usual, Nikon Rumors posted some of their predictions for the Z9 if you’re hungry for more details, whether they’re true or not. Whatever is to come from the Z9, Nikon is making a bold claim that it will deliver “the best still and video performance in Nikon’s history.

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Beeple NFT Sells for $69.3 Million at Christie’s – ARTnews.com

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/beeple-makes-69-million-1234586424/

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Lord & Taylor to make a comeback — online | Chain Store Age

https://chainstoreage.com/lord-taylor-make-comeback-online

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Thank you Barbara O’Connell for the following:

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Even our churches have a good sense of humor !!  Hopefully you will enjoy some divine smiles!! 

Light Pollution From Coast To Coast


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Passenger Railway Network 2020


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An Image Of GPS Tracking Of Multiple Wolves In Six Different Packs Around Voyageurs National Park Shows How Much The Wolf Packs Avoid Each Other’s Range


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How Much Snow Does It Usually Take To Cancel Schools?




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You Can Fit the Entirety of Poland Into Texas And Still Be Able To Drive Around It


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Out Of Service Railways


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Every State Ranked by Healthiness


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World’s Smallest Country vs. Largest Building








List of Countries Mentioned Or Referred In The Bible







Most Common Country Of Birth For Foreign-born Residents In The US, Excluding Mexico








Japan, How Big It Is in Reality?

Size Comparison Between Australia And the United States

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Tracking Of An Eagle Over A 20 Year Period

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Blue States Have A Smaller Population Than Los Angeles County

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50 Percent Of Canadians Live South Of The Red Line

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The Biggest Non-Government Employer in Each State

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Each Section Has 10% Of the World’s Population

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The Red and Orange Sections Have Equal Populations

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These Two Areas of Africa Have Roughly Equal Populations

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Alaska

More than half of the coastline of the entire United States is in Alaska.

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Amazon

The Amazon rain forest produces more than 20% of the world’s oxygen supply
The Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that, more than one hundred miles at sea off the mouth of the river, one can dip fresh water out of the ocean. The volume of water in the Amazon river is greater than the next eight largest rivers in the world combined and three times the flow of all rivers in the United States.

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Antarctica

Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country. Ninety percent of the world’s ice covers Antarctica. This ice also represents seventy percent of all the fresh water in the world. As strange as it sounds, however, Antarctica is essentially a desert; the average yearly total precipitation is about two inches. Although covered with ice (all but 0.4% of it, ice.), Antarctica is the driest place on the planet, with an absolute humidity lower than the Gobi desert.

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Brazil

Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way around.

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Canada

Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined. Canada is an Indian word meaning ‘ Big Village’.

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Chicago

Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world.

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Detroit

Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, carries the designation M-1, so named because it was the first paved road anywhere.

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Damascus, Syria

Damascus, Syria, was flourishing a couple of thousand years before Rome was founded in 753 BC making it the oldest continuously inhabited city in existence.

Istanbul, Turkey

Istanbul, Turkey, is the only city in the world located on two continents.

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Los Angeles

The full name of Los Angeles is: l Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula. It can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: L.A.

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New York City

The term ‘The Big Apple’ was coined by touring jazz musicians of the 1930s who used the slang expression ‘apple’ for any town or city. Therefore, to play New York City is to play the big time – The Big Apple.

There are more Irish in New York City than in Dublin, Ireland; more Italians in New York City than in Rome, Italy; and more Jews in New York City than in Tel Aviv, Israel .

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Ohio

There are no natural lakes in the state of Ohio, everyone is man-made.

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Pitcairn Island

The smallest island with country status is Pitcairn in Polynesia, at just 1.75 sq. miles/4,53 sq Km.

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Rome

The first city to reach a population of 1 million people
was Rome, Italy (in 133 B.C.) There is a city called Rome on every continent.

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Siberia

Siberia contains more than 25% of the world’s forests.

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S.M.O.M.

The actual smallest sovereign entity in the world
is the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (S.M.O.M).
It is located in the city of Rome, Italy, and has an area of two tennis courts. And, as of 2001, has a population of 80, 20 less people than the Vatican. It is a sovereign entity under international law, just as the Vatican is.

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Sahara Desert

In the Sahara Desert, there is a town named Tidikelt, Algeria, that did not receive a drop of rain for ten years. Technically, though, the driest place on Earth is in the valleys of the Antarctic near Ross Island. There has been no rainfall there for two million years
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Spain

Spain literally means ‘the land of rabbits’.

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St. Paul, Minnesota

St. Paul, Minnesota, was originally called Pig’s Eye, after a man named Pierre ‘Pig’s Eye’ Parrant, who set up the first business there.

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Russia

The deepest hole ever drilled by man is the Kola Superdeep Borehole, in Russia. It reached a depth of 12,261 meters (about 40,226 feet or 7.62 miles.) It was drilled for scientific research and gave up some unexpected discoveries, one of which was a huge deposit of hydrogen – so massive that the mud coming from the hole was boiling with it.

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United States

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

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Waterfalls

The water of Angel Falls (the world’s highest) in Venezuela drops 3,212 feet (979 meters.) It is 15 times higher than Niagara Falls

There is no egg in eggplant,

nor ham in hamburger;

neither apple nor pine in

pineapple. English muffins

weren’t invented in England

or French fries in France.

Sweetmeats are candies while

sweetbreads, which aren’t

sweet, are meat. We take

English for granted. But if we

explore its paradoxes, we find

that quicksand can work

slowly, boxing rings are

square and a guinea pig is

neither from Guinea nor is it

a pig. And why is it that

writers write but fingers

don’t fing, grocers don’t groce

and hammers don’t ham? If

the plural of tooth is teeth,

why isn’t the plural of booth,

beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So

one moose, 2 meese? One

index, 2 indices? Doesn’t it

seem crazy that you can make

amends but not one amend?

If you have a bunch of odds

and ends and get rid of all but

one of them, what do you call

it? If teachers taught, why

didn’t preachers praught? If a

vegetarian eats vegetables,

what does a humanitarian

eat? Sometimes I think all the

English speakers should be

committed to an asylum for

the verbally insane. In what

language do people recite at a

play and play at a recital?

Ship by truck and send cargo

by ship? Have noses that run

and feet that smell? How can

a slim chance and a fat

chance be the same, while a

wise man and a wise guy are

opposites? You have to

marvel at the unique lunacy

of a language in which your

house can burn up as it burns

down, in which you fill in a

form by filling it out and in

which, an alarm goes off by

going on. English was

invented by people, not

computers, and it reflects the

creativity of the human race,

which, of course, is not a race

at all. That is why, when the

stars are out, they are visible,

but when the lights are out,

they are invisible.

PS. – Why doesn’t ‘Buick’

rhyme with ‘quick’?