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Dublin now joins Iowa, Melbourne and Edinburgh as designated UNESCO Cities of Literature. This is a permanent title.

It is with great pleasure that I heard this news during the week.

Everyone in and from Dublin is delighted that UNESCO has honoured the city by designating it as a UNESCO City of Literature.

It is good news and gets us away from the greed and stupidity that have been the highlights of the news for too long.

Vive Dublin! Proud Dubliner abroad.

The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural organization (UNESCO) created the award as part of it’s Creative Cities Network. The network was designed to promote the social, economic and cultural development of cities in both the developed and the developing world.

Speaking about the award. Mary Hanafin T.D., Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport said “Dublin has been awarded this accolade because of the rich historical literary past of the city, the vibrant contemporary literature, the variety of festivals and attractions available and because it is the birthplace and home of literary greats”.

She added, “Names such as Swift, O’Casey, Wilde, Shaw, Behan, Beckett and Joyce are synonymous with Dublin and there are reminders of their great literary works throughout the city – which captures both scholars and tourist imaginations when they visit the city.”

Ms Hanafin added: “Being one of only four cities in the world to achieve the status of Unesco City of Literature will enable Dublin to increase its market share of tourists and attract more people to both the city and the island of Ireland.”

What does this designation signify? Primarily it acts as a branding tool. It demonstrates that writing is cherished in Ireland. There will be a cultural impact and there may also be an economic one if properly harnessed.

The designation focuses attention on the role of the artist in the community. Society needs both moneymakers and artists, of course, because wealth-creators allow people to earn the money to buy an artist’s work.

The application to UNESCO was made by a steering and management group led by Dublin City Council’s library service. People who believe in the worth of books beyond any monetary value beavered away on this for three years in the belief it could benefit Ireland.

UNESCO City Of Literature, Dublin, Ireland

Irish Customs and Culture 1 aug 2010.

If ever you go to Dublin town
Recently it was announced Dublin has been designated a Unesco City of Literature, joining the cities of Edinburgh in Scotland and Melbourne in Australia. So what do locals and tourists make of the designation…? For more details, please click Irish Times.
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Sep 06th:

New exhibition at galeria Lucia, Fuengirola.

Sep 05th:

BIENNALE  INTERNAZIONALE  DELL’ ARTE  CONTEMPORANEA
Firenze –  Fortezza da Basso –  3/11 december  2011

Dear Mr Cummiskey,
We would like to invite you to exhibit your artwork in the next edition of the Florence Biennale.  After reviewing your artwork present in internet, the Internal Committee has expressed favourable opinion for your participation. The seventh edition of the Biennale will be held from 3 to 11 December 2011.
Marian Abramovic and Shu Yong in 2009, Gilbert & George in 2007, Christo and Jeanne-Claude and Richard Anuskiewicz in 2007 and David Hockney in 2003 were awarded with the maximum recognition, the Lorenzo il Magnifico award for their career. The Biennale attracted an impressive number of enthusiasts, artists and visitors. Each day of the seventh edition was studded with collateral events and conferences, such as that of Gregorio Luke, Former Director of the MOLAA at Long Beach, among others that can be seen in our website www.florencebiennale.org

August 4th

The following images were completed today and will be available mid August.

James Joyce at the Ha´penny bridge

James Joyce at the Ha´penny bridge

29 July 2010.

New painting completed today.

Watching – SOLD!

18 x 24 cm. watercolour on paper.   €75.00.

Watching

23/07/2010: Mirlo Blanco - Mijas Pueblo - six images on display. Click here.

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Alone

Alone – a poem by James Joyce interpreted and painted in watercolor on Indian hand made paper. c. 28 x 23 cms. One only, original. Ref: p132

Poems of James Joyce

Shakespeare and Co., Paris, published Pomes Penyeach, by James Joyce, in 1927.

An American, Sylvia Beach, who was a patron of Joyce, owned this publishing business and bookshop. She was the first publisher of Ulysses in 1922.

Joyce also published 36 short poems entitled Chamber Music.

I have painted a series of James Joyce’s Poems in watercolours using waterproof ink on hand made Indian paper where I have given the paper an aged appearance.

Each painting is given its attributable date of the poems composition.

20/07/2010: Featured image on Barebrush.com

Taking the Rays

My watercolour painting was chosen for the July calendar on Barebrush.com.

Vote here for July 20.

Terms of Engagement, Part I — Mikaela Sardo LaMarche, curator for ACA Galleries, NYC, had a clear objective for the July N*des-of-the-Month calendar. In the Call for Entries she was seeking “excellent technical skill coupled with a strong aesthetic sense….works that allow the viewer to enter the picture and…engage the composition and subject.”

Selected from over 800 submissions, the 31 excellent artworks in this calendar seem to express serenity and peace, something much needed in a world increasingly chaotic. Enjoy!

There are 31 artists represented in July, 2010.

You can also vote for “My Favorite N*de,” the poll which includes all of the art in the calendar. Please vote for July 20 here. Winners announced August 1st.

Click here for more about ACA Galleries

Thank you all for your interest in barebrush.com, dedicated to the art of the nude.

July 18 2010 - NEW – July 2010.

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July 8 2010 – General discussion on 340 TV, Mijas on News and Views.

Radio interview Mijas Radio January 2010 with Maria Jose Romero.

Radio interview with Karen McMahon 2010 Mijas Radio December 2009.

A Stroll thro Ulysses - Documentary Film. 23 mins

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• Address: Lindenvale, Blackrock, South Co. Dublin
• Distance to City Centre: 8.2 km (5.1 miles), 75 minute walk
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Bloomsday ArtPin – Mr Bloom – by Roger Cummiskey

OFFER OF THE MONTH:

After a drawing by James Joyce of Mr Bloom.

Mr Bloom Art Pin $8.00 or €5.00. 2.25 inches (5.7 cm). Free Postage.

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Signed and numbered verso. Edition 30. Collectors item.

Available Now Mr Bloom Button.

Art Pin – metal, from Original watercolor painting on paper.

“Small is the New Big”.

And now for Bloomsday 2010! – 16th June.

Mr Bloom is the main character in James Joyce’s Ulysses. This image is taken from a drawing on a napkin done by James Joyce in Myron Nutting´s studio in Paris during the 1920´s.

Bloomsday – June 16th – is an annual celebration among Joyce fans throughout the world, from Fort Lauderdale to Melbourne. It is celebrated in at least sixty countries worldwide, but nowhere so imaginatively, of course, as in Dublin. The novel, Ulysses, by James Joyce recounts the hour-by-hour events of one day in Dublin – June 16, 1904 – as an ordinary Dubliner, Leopold Bloom, wends his way through the urban landscape, the odyssey of a modern-day Ulysses. ReJoyce Dublin!

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Influential French-born American Artist Louise Bourgeois Dies in New York City at 98.

From the Tate UK site.

I have had the great pleasure of seeing her work in Dublin´s IMMA and in Málaga CAC over the years.

What a ripe old age.

What a career.

Her work will live on.

RIP Louise.

Working in a wide variety of materials, she tackled themes relating to male and female bodies and emotions of anger, betrayal, even murder. Her work reflected influences of surrealism, primitivism and the early modernist sculptors such as Alberto Giacometti and Constantin Brancusi.

Bourgeois’ work was almost unknown to the wider art world until she was 70, when New York’s Museum of Modern Art presented a solo show of her career in 1982.

“This is not a show that is easy to digest,” New York Times critic Grace Glueck wrote. “The reward is an intense encounter with an artist who explores her psyche at considerable risk.”

In his book “American Visions,” Time art critic Robert Hughes called her “the mother of American feminist identity art. … Bourgeois’s influence on young artists has been enormous.”

He noted the key difference in her use of sexual imagery: She explores “femaleness from within, as distinct from the familiar male conventions of looking at it from the outside, from the eyeline of another gender. … Surrealist fascination with the female body becomes, so to speak, turned inside out.”

Among the honors coming to her was a National Medal of Arts, awarded by President Clinton in 1997. In October, she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, N.Y.

In 2001, thousands of tourists saw her work “Spiders” when it was exhibited on the plaza at Rockefeller Center for 2 1/2 months as part of a Public Art Fund program to promote outdoor exhibits in New York.

It featured a 30-foot-high spider, “Maman,” carrying a basket of eggs, flanked by two smaller spiders. (“Maman” means “Mama” in French.)

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