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La Prensa Review of the book and the ballet commissioned for the Biennial in Cuba http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3833251&I temid=1 From Cuba Presentation on the book by Madeleine Plonsker & Nelson Ramirez AND http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/21/cuban-artists_n_7343460.html From Huffington Post a great link! New Yorker Review of Mann Exhibition of THE LIGHT IN CUBAN EYES http://archives.newyorker.com/?iid=119142&startpage=page0000028#folio=22 http://www.wsj.com/articles/aipad-photo-fair-features-cuban-artists-plus-one-training-for-outer-space-1429120096 PBS ArtBeat interview http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/opening-cultural-doors-through-cuban-photography/ LISTEN TO INTERVIEW ON THE LOPATE SHOW ON NY'S WNYC RADIO http://www.wnyc.org/story/shining-light-cuban-photography/ http://www.robertmann.com/upcoming/ Gorgeous Provocative Photography Exhibition...

http://maglomaniac.com/breaking-hard-health-care-industry-might-consider-divorcing-insurance-industry/ POLITICS AND NEWS 0 Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: Why Our Health Care Industry Might Consider Divorcing The Insurance Industry BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO: Why our health care industry might consider divorcing the insurance industry–a marriage of great inconvenience. A contrarian look, as the deadline nears for the new year of the health insurance marketplace. It was always an uneasy marriage, brokered by the Nixon Administration, when its patrons in the life insurance […] Written by:  Susan Weinstein 2014/12/15 5:20 AM BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO: Why our health care industry might consider divorcing the insurance industry–a marriage of great inconvenience. A contrarian look, as the deadline nears for the new year of the health insurance marketplace.It was always an uneasy marriage, brokered by the Nixon Administration, when its patrons in the life in...

DOROTHY AND OTIS: Designing the American Dream by Norman Hathaway and Dan Nadel (Harper Design, November) includes over 330 four-color prints of seminal design art by people I never heard mentioned in art school. As amazing as the discovery of this work, is the text that accompanies the book. Instead of dry art book prose. Hathaway and Nadel, who had access to the couple's archive, were able to conjure both the idiosyncratic personalities of Dorthy and Otis and their excitement at creating a visual language for their America--1920-1940. The book begins with Otis "Shep" Shepard, a poor Midwest boy, who teaches himself to draw. He leaves home at 14 to work odd jobs, including itinerant actor and set designer, and free-lance sign painter. Young Shep even meets Jack London in San Francisco and learns about carousing. Still in his teens, he gets into the real fight of  World War One and draws vivid scenes from an air balloon and down in the trenches. Shep's portraits of...