Category Archives: art

paint, sculpt, draw, install, conceptualize, in public , in private et cetera

Piziali mural VS Piziali poster

I am sort of an expert on the triptych on the Bishop Building in Palo Alto, although I do sometimes namecheck it in terms of the chain coffee house it faces. The third part is by former Paly footballer Joey … Continue reading

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Beth Custer, Jerry Barrish, Hunter’s Point

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Fabric artist Windy Chien not afraid of limelight

Windy Chien creates art out of knotted fabric, dare I say rope.I spotted her work or guess correctly at its source, at the new Verve Coffee 100 block of University Avenue. Her website reveals that she has graces the interior … Continue reading

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Spain, Spoon, spin

  Soccer match, 9 a.m. i.e soonly US vs World A favorite indie rock band releases a single and gets reviewed in The Times Dave Bartholomew big beat sound responsible for “The Fat Man” and 60 other charting singles by … Continue reading

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Poltz and Jewel Reunite in Telluride

My Denver rocky mountain and sometimes high correspondent BEM reports on loving the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, attending for the first time, with his kids. I tipped him to Steve Poltz, who played in my short-lived and doomed series at an … Continue reading

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Yes this is mindless but I’m doing a post about three skulls: Warhol, Fritsch and Ross K Jones

This is a detail of a Ross K Jones work in a private collection, but I do personally recall meeting him once, at Smith Andersen: This is on display only for about a year, displacing the Oldenburg Q Also this … Continue reading

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Vijay Iyer Trio ‘Optimism’ 7:23 VS Anish Kapoor ‘Mother As A Mountain’ 1985, for Donald, Janice and Mark

Terry TMW bought a Bose cd player but it turns on by itself if you plug in a MacPro to charge and lay it near or on the black sleek otherwise fairly intelligent box. Like today. And it chose to … Continue reading

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Minneapolis Institute show of female artists and catching up with my old neighbor and classmate

Alisa Patnuade says she’s fixing to retire and start a new life as an artist of some sort after many years of service for we the people and our fair state. She sent regrets about having to miss my Jane … Continue reading

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Ragady Anne, ‘Valley Girl’ VS Sun Kil Moon ‘Duk Koo Kim’

I don’t know where this came from other than YouTube and its smarty pants algo-rhythm thought that I or you would like this or thought it could convince me to post this here, talk about Auto Co Wrecked. One is … Continue reading

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Orozco of the Mets 1983 by Iacono VS Orozco at Dartmouth and ‘Happy’ video spoof

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