Friday, December 29, 2006

TAX AND FINANCIAL PLANNING FOR ARTISTS


EFA Studio Center
323 West 39th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10018

Thursday Jan 4, 6:30 pm
TAX AND FINANCIAL PLANNING FOR ARTISTS

Speaker Susan Lee is a tax consultant and a financial planner who specializes in freelancers and artists. She is the host and producer of "You and Your Money" on WBAI-FM.

Admission $5 general public, free to EFASC Members

[image from UCLA Payroll Web site.]

Hammer Museum - Wolfgang Tillmans


through January 7, 2007

" This is the first retrospective exhibition in the United States of the German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans. One of the most important and distinctive artists to emerge in the 1990s, Tillmans is internationally recognized for creating work that captures evocative, intimate reflections of often overlooked objects and moments in everyday life."

Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024
310.443.7000

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[image from Hammer Museum Web site:
Wolfgang Tillmans
Deer Hirsch
1995]

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

On the One: James Brown


On the One: James Brown
May 3, 1933-December 25, 2006


[Growing up in Europe in the late sixties, hanging out with high school age musicians, I shared a commonly-held reverence for James Brown and the Fabulous Flames that bordered on worship. In the intervening decades I barely followed his career beyond the occasional hits, and tabloid headlines resulting from his tumultuous personal life.]


Boxing Day's WHYY's "Fresh Air" featured a fascinating hour-long tribute to the "Godfather of Soul" who passed away on Christmas Day.

Conversations with the brilliant and complex James Brown are complemented with excerpts from interviews with band leader Maceo Parker and funk bass player sans pareil Bootsy Collins, both of whom worked with James Brown.

Host Terry Gross puts it correctly: James Brown was "one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century."

Click here to listen to the show.

[photo by Bob Gruen]

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Marcia Tucker Memorial


New Museum

Marcia Tucker [1940-2006]

Friends of the New Museum are invited to honor and remember Marcia Tucker, Founding Director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, in a Memorial Tribute to be held on January 12, 2007 from 3-5PM. Organized by the New Museum in association with The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, the memorial will take place at The New School's Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street, NYC.

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[photo from the New Museum Web site]