Poetic pragmatism, neo-transcendentalism, bikes, burritos, basketball.
Last night we checked out the Oakland Art Murmur. Actually, we didn’t even know that such a thing existed, and drove over the Bridge intending to see Jason Munn’s opening at Bloom Screen Printing. So it was a pleasant surprise to see that little stretch of Telegraph goin off when we got there. Jason’s stuff [...]
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A couple of weeks ago, Mara and Jonathan and I went to the Frick, where we saw this painting by Duccio. It’s called “The Temptation of Christ on the Mountain,” but I vastly prefer Jonthan’s title (hint: it’s the subject of this post). Incidentally, how great is the Frick? Ghostly Whistlers, multiple Vermeers, “St. Francis [...]
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The Royal Art Lodge snuck up on me. I wandered into a show of theirs at the Power Plant, a gallery in Toronto in 2003. In a fairly small space, they’d crammed a wall full of collaborative paintings, Polaroids, homemade musical instruments, and many paintings by Marcel Dzama and Neil Farber. It was all very [...]
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I’d never heard of Robert Adams before I saw his show at SFMOMA. Called “Turning Back,” the photos document the destruction of the old-growth forests that Lewis & Clark passed through on their journey westward. The title refers to the implications and complications of westward advancement. When Lewis and Clark reached the West Coast, they [...]
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Soon, the garage outside the LA County Museum of Art is getting torn down to make way for some big new building. Unfortunately, it’s got some really excellent murals by Barry McGee and Margaret Kilgallen that I checked out when I was there a couple of summers ago. The LA Weekly says: Now’s the time [...]
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One of my favorite neighborhood art spots is called Creativity Explored, “a nonprofit visual arts center where artists with developmental disabilities create, exhibit, and sell art.” Or so it says on its website. At first, I felt conflicted about Creativity Explored. Much of the art is geniunely impressive, and a few of the artists are [...]
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Mike Mills is a graphic designer, director of many excellent music videos (among them: “Kelly Watch the Stars,” by Air, the one with the 70’s-looking slow-motion ping-pong players), and all-around aesthetic bad-ass. Terry Gross interviewed him on Fresh Air a couple of weeks ago, and you can check out the archived version on the NPR [...]
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My name is Doug LeMoine. I work both on, and for, the Internet. You can find more about me in the About Me page that I wrote about me.
