Hello! I’m Adriana and I try to update myself and the readers of Metrolic with technological gadgets. Beside getting informed, I like reading, hiking and listening to music. I also enjoy dancing and foreign languages.
Posted in: Arts, Featured by Adriana Stanciu | September 24th 2010 | no comments
Ray Charles, a musician and an artist. A pioneer in the genre of soul music in the 1950s, by fusing rhythm and blues gospel and blues and integrating country and pop music into his style during the 1960s, Ray Charles was one of the appreciated American artists of the 20th century, whose [...]
Posted in: Arts by Adriana Stanciu | September 24th 2010 | no comments
As the Hispanic Heritage month is not over yet and is full of surprises, so is the 11th annual Flamenco Arts Festival in Santa Barbara. This weekend, meaning September 25 and 26, 2010, the flamenco festival has prepared a surprise for the audience: the guitar rhythms [...]
Posted in: Arts by Adriana Stanciu | September 24th 2010 | no comments
Immensity of nature and smallness of man; an impression of wideness and joy, at the same time. This is what I felt when I saw the photographs of Lynn Davis from her exhibition Persistence and Form. The exhibition is housed by Knoedler & Company, in New York and shows [...]
Posted in: Arts by Adriana Stanciu | September 24th 2010 | no comments
Rolling Stone guitarist Ronnie Wood continued his artistic work while performing and for the first time his visual art will be exhibited in a Gallery in America. His first major exhibition at a museum will be hosted by the Butler Institute for American Art in Youngstown, Ohio, [...]
Posted in: Arts by Adriana Stanciu | September 23rd 2010 | no comments
Identifying works of artists from earlier centuries and attributing them to the right artists has been a challenge and a success for different museums. After Dallas Museum of Art has discovered a unique painting in their collections as belonging to a great [...]
Posted in: Technology by Adriana Stanciu | September 23rd 2010 | no comments
Impossible is made possible every day. The great social network Facebook is down. If you try to log in to your Facebook page the following error will appear: Service Unavailable - DNS Failure. Or it may be that you will get the Gateway Timeout message. No matter what [...]
Posted in: Arts by Adriana Stanciu | September 23rd 2010 | no comments
BRIC Arts Media Bklyn is a non-profit organization that is trying to bring contemporary art as closer to the public as possible, offering either free or low cost programs. BRIC was founded in 1979 and since then has tried to provide a diversity of art exhibitions and [...]
Posted in: Arts by Adriana Stanciu | September 23rd 2010 | 2 comments
With the end of summer I thought art and music festivals should be over, or at least held indoors. Nevertheless, I was mistaken, as there are so many festivals that take place at the beginning of October. Of some I have already written, of this one I am going to write right now. It is an [...]
Posted in: Arts by Adriana Stanciu | September 22nd 2010 | no comments
New York City is the place where every artist can find their place and thus becomes able to transmit their vision to the viewer. Therefore, curator at Jill Newhouse, Karen Wilkin, has started an exhibition yesterday, September 21, that will run through October 23, 2010 and [...]
Posted in: Arts by Adriana Stanciu | September 22nd 2010 | no comments
What I like most about art is that art is a form of communication that can be understood by people all over the world, no matter the nationality of the artist and of the viewers. Certainly that some works of art need to be viewed through artist's nationality and era in [...]
Posted in: Arts by Adriana Stanciu | September 22nd 2010 | one comment
There are two main types of contests in the world of art: the big contests, that are awaited by every artist, every year, and the smaller contests, that have as a main purpose to promote new works or to give everybody a chance to develop and showcase their art. There is a new [...]
Posted in: Arts by Adriana Stanciu | September 22nd 2010 | no comments
In the industry of art, especially in the industry of performing arts, there is this nice trend of honoring predecessors and bring them tribute once in a while. The ones who are usually honored through different types of performances are well known people in the field who contributed their [...]
Posted in: Science by Adriana Stanciu | September 22nd 2010 | no comments
The summer ends and the autumn comes with quick steps, and at the same time with an event that hasn't been seen for two decades. The phenomenon is called Super Harvest Moon and it is a phenomenon that happens very seldom.
It happens at sunset and it can be visible with no additional [...]
Posted in: Arts by Adriana Stanciu | September 21st 2010 | no comments
People all over the world who have learned a little bit of history will definitely think about the same event when thinking about Boston: the Tea Party in 1773. On December 16, 1773 officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain and a [...]
Posted in: Arts by Adriana Stanciu | September 21st 2010 | no comments
A boxer and a man of literature had a friendship relation that people thought was very unusual. And this friendship has now become the subject of a book that talks exactly about this unusual bonding between a well known boxer and a wide known writer. Son of Gene Tunney, [...]
Posted in: Arts by Adriana Stanciu | September 21st 2010 | no comments
Art had various purposes along time. However, there were two main streams, in my opinion, that stood at the basis of creation: art depicting life and the surroundings as it is and art trying to bring something new, a new view, on reality. At times, the two main [...]
Posted in: Arts by Adriana Stanciu | September 21st 2010 | no comments
At the beginning of October the Arizona Art Alliance Gallery will open its doors at their new Scottsdale Art Gallery "Art Alliance Gallery-Fine Art". The new location is set at the Scottsdale Pavilions Shopping Center, while the grand opening will last for [...]
Posted in: U.S. News by Adriana Stanciu | September 21st 2010 | no comments
Kenny McKinley wide receiver of Denver Broncos was found dead on Monday, 3:35 p.m. in his home by a friend female who was returning from some errands. She immediately called the police who cannot give further information at the moment, but who is [...]
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