Tag: art

Dried Blood and Dandelion Wine

Michael Fallon — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:01:25 -0500

(Header image credit: "Conversation with Death" by Gabriel Combs)

The Paintings Have Been Drinking (Not Me)

Andy Sturdevant — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:34:32 -0500

Travel back with me, if you will for just a moment, to those happy, halcyon days of the year 2001. Oh, what a time to be a young American artist it was!

Oh Man, Look at Those Cavemen Go!

Michael Fallon — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:05:11 -0500

On my first pass through the 2008 Carnegie International, the massive, just-mounted edition of the 112-year-old international art survey that runs through next January at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, I eighty-percent hated the show. It started with the forced theme, "Life on Mars"--the first time ever that the show has had a separate title and theme--which seemed just a tad mundane for this event.

If you don't like this blog then you are a BOOBIE

Melinda Jacobs — Sun, 04 May 2008 11:13:30 -0500

^{photo by Jessica Hegland,

Hair by Jon Richards. Make up by Leilani Baker, Make up Artist Goddess.
Wardrobe from Melly's Closet of Phases: Dress-BADGLEY MISCHKA-purchased at the DAYTON'S 2day warehouse sale during my lunch break at KSTP TV. Price for me to know and you not! Shoes: don't have a clue because someone stole them from me when I took them off to dance at some random club downtown.}

Nurses, diesels and douchiness

Chris Birt — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:36:51 -0500

(Pictured. Douching device (not to size). May also be used for urea replacement in your diesel. Read below).

Do me a favor. Take the snarky tone of my blog (is it? oh, is it? please!) and put it aside for a minute. I mean create an Obama and the Preacher (aka bigot) wall between my blog and what I am about to say.

I might have been wrong about diesels.

Someone acutally convinced me last night that the new 60mpg Jetta will never be for weasels. I now think I agree.

Tripping the Road Fantastic

Chris Birt — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 19:40:57 -0600

Soon you may be heading off on a thanksgiving vacation. The trip may be short or it may be long. Unless your relations live next door, however, you will have to make that journey in an automobile. These days that will likely mean a minivan or small European "touring wagon" (which Chrysler attempted to call its Pacifica with no luck).

Stranger in a Strange Land

tom — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:48:31 -0500

UrbanEye, a New York Times email newsletter, is meant to be a daily aid in deciding “what to see, eat, do and wear in New York City.” It is useful for the infrequent visitor to New York to know what he is missing when he isn’t there. Since discovering the newsletter, I’ve devoured the theater and art suggestions in particular, and made notes in my Moleskine of what to see when I make my semi-annual sojourns.

The Unexpected Pleasures of Art Shopping at the Farmers' Market

cristina — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:38:58 -0500

Short Timer

admin — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0500

Walker Art Center director Kathy Halbreich might be the most admired museum director in America,” wrote Tyler Green last year on his influential Modern Art Notes blog.

The Genie and His Decorative Light-Diffusing Novelty Lamp

admin — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0500

For a guy who spends all year thinking about Halloween, Will Niskanen could hardly be described as scary. Slight and soft-spoken, dressed in khakis and brown loafers, and exhibiting the good manners of a Boy Scout, Niskanen greets me at one of his favorite haunts, Mill City Cafe, pulling out a chair and offering to order a beverage. His studio is just upstairs, so the café is a great place to take a break from sketching skulls and spiders and tombstones.