Short Takes: News From All Over: November 20, 2003

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Matt Groening on Outsider Music and Party Planning
By John Payne, L.A. Weekly
An interview with The Simpsons creator, Matt Groening reveals a down-to-earth guy with an oddball taste in music. As Payne writes, 'Groening's a supereclectic whose real cup of tea you might call music from the fringes.' Groening also talks about his role in the creation of a music festival called 'All Tomorrow's Parties' and how his taste in music is reflected in the performers, including Sonic Youth and the Magic Band.
-- Joel Stonington
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/03/51/features-payne.php

The Most Wanted Works of Art
By Kelly Devine Thomas, Art News Online
Kelly Thomas, reporting for Art News Online, reveals the privately owned works of art most desired by art collectors and galleries. From that $100 million Cezanne, to Duchamp's L.H.O.O.Q., to Brancusi's Bird in Space -- recently sold to a Seattle couple for $30 million -- every art collector has their wish list. Something Thomas finds is not a public document. As one New York art collector put it, 'That?s really personal stuff.'
-- Joel Stonington
http://www.artnewsonline.com/currentarticle.cfm?type=feature&art_id=1417

The Progressive Government Project
By Staff, The Progressive Government Project
Around the world, opposition parties regularly create so-called 'shadow governments' -- lists of people they would put into key offices if they took power. The Boston-based Progressive Government Project aims to do the same for the U.S., placing prominent progressive, politicians, thinkers, and activists in the roles of federal Cabinet members and political appointees, and providing them with a platform to advocate for progressive public policies.
-- Leif Utne
http://www.progressivegovernment.org/

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