The Wooster Collective has started regular podcasts, available for listening to on their site. I am looking forward to listening to WOOSTER PODCAST #4: “Street Scene: Documenting Street Art”; I have been thinking about attempting to document the street art I see around town (not owning a digital camera makes it a bit more challenging), [...]
This is getting really dangerous, everyone I talk to, every book I read, I can loop into my expanding world of the ways reproductive media shape how we view art. My museum studies professor, Paul Bolin, and I had a great conversation this morning about it, but in an attempt to pin down my [...]
I was embarrassed to give him significantly less than I had planned to. But, on the positive side, I have a bit better understanding of Walter Benjamin’s argument in “the Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”; I worked hard for my understanding, primarily due to a lack of knowledge of Marxist thought. [...]
I guess this is the gist of my thesis in broad terms. I’ve been trying to narrow it down with the whole “reproduction of art” focus, but so much of what I read explodes my thinking out into cultural, visual, and material studies (of which I know nothing).
While I have been thinking [...]
My dear friend Kay will have a show up at the Northwest Print Council Gallery in the Pearl District (Portland). Here’s the announcement and a couple images, the first of which I proudly own:
Kay Logan Solo Exhibition
Recent Etchings & Woodblock Prints
Tuesday August 3rd to Saturday August 28th
PAN Gallery
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Kay Logan’s Recent Etchings & Woodblock Prints [...]
My friend Lisa is better at keeping up with her blog, of which I am sometimes a part.
As she mentioned, we went to the Ray Johnson documentary “How to Draw a Bunny” at the Alamo downtown. Favorite moments left out of her list are the difficulties in purchasing a work from Johnson. RJ encouraged [...]
I went downtown to the Austin Museum of Art to check out the Lance Letscher exhibition. I have always appreciated collage work, I love the depth achieved by layering different elements. Letscher’s work is really striking: delicately beautiful and also brightly rhythmic.
As others have commented, Letscher’s use of old printed materials provide a kind [...]
So, before I left the Getty, I went to the giftshop and purchased and 11×14 print of “Christ’s Entry into Brussels in 1889″ to hang on my wall at home. The print’s colors are duller and darker than the paintings, the dimensions outrageously (and neccessarily) different. You can actually see the color difference [...]
January of this year I visited Los Angeles for the first time. I had been in LAX a few times, but never exited the airport. I grew up in Willamette Valley of Oregon, where one naturally learns to disdain Southern California. I carried my prejudice with me all the way along Interstate [...]
