The Rubin Museum of Art,” cultural and educational institution dedicated to the art of the Himalayas,” will open its doors to the public on October 2. On October 12, at the museum and in conjunction with an ongoing exhibit of Raghubir Singh's photographs, Suketu Mehta will read from his new book Maximum City.

The museum “will host the inaugural South Asian International Film Festival, dedicated to showcasing the work of both new and established filmmakers while highlighting the recent explosion of talent and themes in South Asian cinema.” Among a slew of other movies, catch Gurinder Chada‘s Bride & Prejudice starring Aishwarya Rai and Naveen Andrews. The festival will run from December 1 through December 5.

Via Anil Dash

The Pacific Asia Museum has a wonderful Flash-based presentation called Visions of Enlightenment: Understanding The Art of Buddhism. Check it out!

Via John Laxmi

The Wall Street Journal reports that Subhankar Banerjee's exhibit at the Gerald Peters Gallery through October 15 “quickly dispels the stereotype that Alaska is one endless expanse of white, icy land with his breathtaking photographs of the colorful and diverse terrain of the Arctic Refuge. On display are 30 large-format images testifying to its beauty throughout the four seasons.”

Visit Banerjee's web site to see more of his spectacular images and read his mission statement. If you can, please support his worthy project.

Via Adithya Sambamurthy

Via Steve Rubel

I try my best to credit the source of my information, be it a link or an email address but there is a growing trend where things are read and quickly blogged with no attribution what so ever. That's scary. Not that bloggers are journalists (bloggers can be journalists and journalists can be bloggers, but not all bloggers are journalists – that's for sure), but we need establish some amount of credibility here or we will all end up being CBS. Now, that's really scary.

So, take this pledge of allegiance, nah just sign this petition that states you will credit your source. It's painless, egalitarian and definitely non-partisan.

Editorial cartoonist Steve Brodner's book Freedom Fries is now out. An excerpt of the book appears on Mediabistro.com. Fantagraphics publishes the book.

“…while Brodner is a committed hunter of Bush meat he can roast Democrats with the best of them (and we do mean Clinton).”

Unlike some cartoonists who clearly favor one party over another, Brodner takes on just about anything that's happening out in the political spectrum.

Life magazine is back. Reason #237 to subscribe to the local rag starting October 1.

I wish the magazine all success and I hope the management at Time Inc. will see to it that the contracts they offer photographers and writers are equitable. Wishful thinking?

A couple of days back I posted here that the photojournalism world had lost Eddie Adams, a well-respected photojournalist, to Lou Gehrig's Disease.

I said, “… the photograph you see below by Eddie Adams is considered an epochal moment in the history of geopolitical events. It's a photograph of Brig. Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan of South Vietnam executing a suspected Vietcong prisoner.” That is what is conventionally believed in the media, among academics and even photojournalists. But David D. Perlmutter, in an article for Editor & Publisher debunks the myth about that image changing world history.

While I would like to say that I stand corrected, our perceptions are what they are. Which images today will stand the test of time and shake our perceptions in the future?

Via Adithya Sambamurthy

Via Melissa Lyttle

The photograph above by National Geographic photographer Gilles Nicolet is a fake.