Thursday, June 04, 2009
Orange Prize 2009
Marilynne Robinson has won the 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction for her third novel, Home. Check out the link www.orangeprize.co.uk
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Color-Change Garnet
Kenya’s New Double-Barrel Color-Change Garnet
http://www.colored-stone.com/stories/may09/blue-garnet-discovered.cfm
The Taita-Taveta mining area is known for the vast majority of tsavorite production in East Africa and also produces other gems including ruby, golden and chrome tourmaline, red garnet, apatite, etc.
Due to the fantastic color-change in the best material, many brokers mistakenly thought the material to be Alexandrite and sold it for very high prices to over-eager buyers. While fine alexandrite fetches thousands of dollars per carat, color change garnet can usually be purchased for a fraction of that.
Useful link:
www.colorfirst.com
Thanks Raja for sharing the info + the colors were great.
http://www.colored-stone.com/stories/may09/blue-garnet-discovered.cfm
The Taita-Taveta mining area is known for the vast majority of tsavorite production in East Africa and also produces other gems including ruby, golden and chrome tourmaline, red garnet, apatite, etc.
Due to the fantastic color-change in the best material, many brokers mistakenly thought the material to be Alexandrite and sold it for very high prices to over-eager buyers. While fine alexandrite fetches thousands of dollars per carat, color change garnet can usually be purchased for a fraction of that.
Useful link:
www.colorfirst.com
Thanks Raja for sharing the info + the colors were great.
Rose Story Farm
The more roses in this world, the better. There's no flower in the world that does what a rose does for us. The fragrances, the colors, the nine or 10 months of bloom. They're incredible. We are so lucky to have this flower.
- Danielle Hahn, Rose Story Farm
www.rosestoryfarm.com
Rose Story Farm is a must visit.
- Danielle Hahn, Rose Story Farm
www.rosestoryfarm.com
Rose Story Farm is a must visit.
Burmese Ruby Ban Update
JCK Las Vegas show update: The American Gem Trade Association (AGTA), the World Jewellery Confederation (CIBJO) and several other jewelry organizations worldwide have united to urge Congress to consider lifting the U.S. ban on rubies imported from Burma.
Useful links:
www.agta.org
www.cibjo.org
www.canadianjewellers.com
www.jewelry.org.hk
www.idcany.org
www.gemstone.org
www.nygagroup.com
www.thaigemjewelry.or.th
What a surprise! A 360° U-turn. Sanctions are unlikely to work because Burma's neighbours see no reason to join in. Burma often appears to be a multiple choice test with no correct answers. Sad, really.
Useful links:
www.agta.org
www.cibjo.org
www.canadianjewellers.com
www.jewelry.org.hk
www.idcany.org
www.gemstone.org
www.nygagroup.com
www.thaigemjewelry.or.th
What a surprise! A 360° U-turn. Sanctions are unlikely to work because Burma's neighbours see no reason to join in. Burma often appears to be a multiple choice test with no correct answers. Sad, really.
Obama-inspired Art
Readers’ Portraits of President Obama
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/readers-portraits-of-president-obama/?hp
Brilliant collection, really. I loved it.
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/readers-portraits-of-president-obama/?hp
Brilliant collection, really. I loved it.
Art Museum Update
Reshaping the Art Museum
http://www.artnewsonline.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=2692
Art museums have not been very good at communicating. Science and natural-history museums have done a much better job of remaking themselves to adapt to the 21st century by creating interactive, educational, and family-friendly spectacles. Art museums can succeed by doing the reverse. Not apologizing for the fact that the picture doesn’t move—you do the moving. What’s lacking is the ability for visitors to understand it because they’re not given information or training.
- Peter Marzio
Director, Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts
Useful link:
www.aamd.org
I completely agree. Great post. Thank you, Robin.
http://www.artnewsonline.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=2692
Art museums have not been very good at communicating. Science and natural-history museums have done a much better job of remaking themselves to adapt to the 21st century by creating interactive, educational, and family-friendly spectacles. Art museums can succeed by doing the reverse. Not apologizing for the fact that the picture doesn’t move—you do the moving. What’s lacking is the ability for visitors to understand it because they’re not given information or training.
- Peter Marzio
Director, Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts
Useful link:
www.aamd.org
I completely agree. Great post. Thank you, Robin.
René Magritte
New René Magritte Museum
www.musee-magritte-museum.be
www.magritte.be
The world's biggest collection of works by the Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte opens this week in his home city Brussels. More than 40 years after his death, René Magritte remains one of the most influential artists of the 20th Century. Don't miss!
www.musee-magritte-museum.be
www.magritte.be
The world's biggest collection of works by the Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte opens this week in his home city Brussels. More than 40 years after his death, René Magritte remains one of the most influential artists of the 20th Century. Don't miss!
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