I’m not very good at New Year’s resolutions, but this year I do have a few. One of them is to make more lists. I enjoy making lists, but my laziness sets in because once I make a list I feel I have to execute it, so I’d rather not make them. That being said, [...]
Category Archives: Art
Dirty Baby Trialogue
November 1, 2010 – 11:53 am
When you mate sounds, poems and pretty pictures, the result is Dirty Baby, a new release by Delmonico Books/Prestel . The publication is more of a multi-media sensory explosion than a book. The collaboration brings together sixty-six paintings from artist Ed Ruscha’s rarely seen bodies of work incorporating censor strips, sounds from composer and Wilco [...]
Exit/Entrance
September 17, 2010 – 6:08 am
“There are lives going on all around us,” remarks Younger Helen, the unknowing sage of Aidan Mathews’s Exit/Entrance. Like little spheres, lives go orbiting about their separate, solo courses. Although they do bump into each other on occasion, they are hasty to forget one simple truth: we are not alone. Take, for example, an apartment [...]
Absolution
September 13, 2010 – 10:02 am
Jesus was a man of words. “He said he would save the world,” laments the main character of the play Absoultion. He promised. Believers say he sacrificed his life for the sins of his people—but was he a man of action? Where was Jesus when Father McClennan raped 7-year-old Nathan O’Lone? Nathan didn’t see him. [...]
Writers’ Houses
August 4, 2010 – 12:11 pm
The ever lovely M + E who design pretty things for people like the Magnetic Fields, Passion Pit and Phoenix have made four two-color posters for the launch of the new website Writers’ Houses: Where Stories Live. The website is a guide to writers’ homes all over the world, for both historical and inspirational reasons. [...]
John Waters Role Models
June 30, 2010 – 2:15 pm
John Waters’ new book, Role Models is a collection of intimate profiles of some of his favorite people. With Waters, you obviously expect the chosen role models to be colorful and he doesn’t disappoint. Among some of the characters are Tennessee Williams, the singer Johhny Mathis, a gay reality-porn auteur, a lesbian stripper called Lady [...]
ART/WORK Everything You Need To Know (And Do) As You Pursue Your Art Career
April 17, 2010 – 8:27 am
I’ve often had discussions with people about the difficulty of having a creative career, be it in art, writing or design. There is the belief that no matter what you do, you will be waiting tables and struggling. There is the theory that the cream rises to the top and only if you truly have [...]
