This Jeff Koons basketball piece, at the LACMA, reminds me to look up my old teammate Kent Lockhart, who is now an art teacher at the Murdoch middle school near Melbourne, Australia. When Kent’s UTEP team was featured in Sports Illustrated, in 1984, they posed him next to one of his canvasses, which he says are influenced by that Dutch guy that Djerassi collects, Paul Klee I mean. He says more recently that he is making paper mache lizards. I’d love to see one. Kent is not an internet guy but I did find this link to the SI archive. You can flip through the back issue feature to find Kent and his canvass.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1121669/index.htm
Basketball art by Jeff Koons at LACMA
Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss 
Paul Klee (1879- 1940) is considered Swiss and German.
boston globe arts writer seb smee on vinyl as art medium show at ica boston area:
http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2011/04/19/ica_show_the_record_captures_artists_love_of_vinyl/
Last week I was cross referencing the current schedule for rep house The Stanford Theatre with Halliwell’s and I happened to run across mention of “That Championship Season” the movie which featured an all-star cast Paul Sorvino, Martin Sheen and more. What is noteworthy for me is that it deals with a group of men meeting to discuss their athletic exlploits from 25 years prior, something that myself and nine other Gunn grads, classes 1980, 1981 an 1982, did in 2006. Then just the other day I heard Kiefer Sutherland on public radio talking about his role in a revival of the Broadway basketball story. (In my memo to my former Gunn Titan teammates I obliquely referenced “Hoosiers” and “Remember the Titans;” I subject-lined one memo “remember the hoo-tans.” I don’t know if any of us were familiar with the Broadway show and movie. It’s a little past its time to ask around again on this topic, although I am curious about the lessons of Mr. Miller’s play and how it compares to our own experience (of a reunion).
LA Times kinda pans it although I clipped yesterday’s New York Times article:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/03/kiefer-sutherland-in-that-championship-season-what-did-the-critics-think.html
A more insightful discussion of revival “That Championship Season” here:
http://theater.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/theater/reviews/07champ.html
There is a video at SFMOMA until April 17 from an Australian crew that sent a drone airplane above restricted corporate space, including parts of Palo Alto; I mentioned this and Lockhart to a PAPAC member who suggested a cultural exchange with that continent down under.
http://www.sfmoma.org/press/releases/exhibitions/830
From NPR tv’s “Ebert at the Movies” today I gleaned “Marwencol” which seems to cross “In The Realms of the Unreal” (by my Gunn classmate Jessica Yu, about Chicagoan Henry Darger) with “Team America World Police” (Stone and Parker). To wit:
I could not stop myself from ordering the catalog from this Richard Serra drawings show at MOMA NY. Terry and I may be visiting in June and therefore might be able to check it out in person — we saw the Serra at the Pulizitzer in St. Loo.