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From our bookshelves, iPods and laptops to your Thursday morning breakfast table, here are our recommendations for the best of recent culture.

Obama Art Report
(www.obamaartreport.com)
This blog bills itself as a "daily reporting on the world of Barack Obama artwork, prints and auctions." The young site started posting political art - mostly of Obama but also incorporating politicians like John McCain and George W. Bush - in June. Entries run the gamut from street art and posters to stickers and photomosaics, with many works available for purchase through eBay or private sites.
- Grace Duggan

Karsch 100: A Biography in Images
MFA, Boston
Celebrating the 100th birthday of prolific photographer Yousuf Karsh, this exhibit not only spans the celebrity portraits of Hepburn, Kennedy and Hemmingway, but also illuminates his lesser known, but no less powerful, commisions from international magazines.
­- Melissa Marshall

Martha Argerich
My favorite pianist, Martha Argerich, is just great - and she's still alive! If you haven't heard her play before, listen to her recording of Liszt's B Minor sonata, Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto or Bartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion. Maybe I live a sheltered existence, but I have never heard quite such a combination of technique and interpretation. Martha - light of my life ...
- Andrew Throdahl