June 18, 2006
The Hats Make the Man by Max Ernst
Werner Spies, in the introduction to “Max Ernst: A Retrospective” wrote about Max Ernst, “Being a Dadaist by profession, he said, was a contradiction in terms. There was no such thing as an unchanging state of revolution. This is indicated by the revolutionary, self-destructive elements that occur in so many of Ernst’s texts. Not only do they pillory and abuse established society, their hate is equally directed inwards, expressing itself in self-abasement and a radical renunciation of humanistic values and of belief in utopias. ”
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The Beautiful Season by Max Ernst
MoMA opens DADA exhibition today. It’s the first major museum exhibition in the US to focus exclusively on Dada, one of the most significant movements of the historical avant-garde.
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That is, Yahoo! News vs Google News on Father’s Day. The following is on Yahoo! News today:
In the News 12:49pm, Sun Jun 18
• Witness: U.S. troops in Iraq taken captive
• 10 workers kidnapped from Baghdad bakery
• Abbas urges Arabs to block Israel’s plan
• Book: Al-Qaida planned gas attack on NYC
• Sheehan supports U.S. deserters in Canada
• Kazakhstan launches first satellite into orbit
• Father’s Day idea conceived 97 years ago
• World Cup · U.S. Open · MLB · NBA · NHL
On the other hand, Father’s Day got no mention at Google News. Which is not surprising as the latter uses a computer algorithm to sort and cull news. Which approach wins out? You decide.
“A father carries pictures where his money used to be.”
According to US Census Bureau, the idea of Father’s Day originated with Sonora Dodd of Spokane, Wash., while listening to a Mother’s Day sermon in 1909. Dodd wanted to honor her father, William Smart, a widowed Civil War veteran who raised his six children by himself on a rural farm.
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