Here’s the draft syllabus for a seminar I’m teaching next semester. Feedback very welcome. Age of Warhol This course is a revision of one I’ve taught to undergrads and grads the last few summers — The Downtown Scene, 1960-80 — stripping out almost everything but Warhol and expanding the amount of time I was able […]
Archive for the ‘Art’ category
Drug art pop quiz
Washington, D.C. artist Bryan Lewis Saunders took lots of different kinds of drugs. After ingesting each one, he drew a self-portrait. The resulting collection, titled Drugs, is a fascinating window into how different substances affect the mind. Click here for the full collection, but before doing so, try this pop quiz. The portraits below were […]
Happy Birthday, John Cage!
Instead of posting 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence whilst I seat myself at my keyboard, I decided to share the LA Times’ tributes: a storyboard of Cage’s life in LA, a selection of performances of his music, and a slate of events all over the world to commemorate him. And by the by, […]
Ich bin kein fan (I am not a fan)
…unless, of course, one were to change “four” to “five” and add ” fragment” at the end.
Six-year-old judges books by covers
As a follow-up to this, we now have this: A six-year-old who looks at book covers and then declares what she thinks the books are about. Samples: “That looks VERY CREEPY!!!” (My daughter insisted that there be three, exactly three exclamation points). “It looks like it would be scary and very very strange and […]
Art of the people, by the people, and for the people
On a recent trip to Baltimore, J-Man and I visited the American Visionary Art Museum, on the recommendation of fellow Whatsitters Godfree and Swells. I can’t praise it highly enough and won’t go into great detail about the collections we saw there. I leave it to you to experience for yourself; the great potential for […]
I still love you, 33 1/3
Remember the time I totally fell in love with an album that completely rearranged my DNA and then tried to write about it analytically and it was a massive success? Me neither. The 33 1/3 book series, with which many of you are familiar at least since it published Great Whatsit alum Bryan Waterman’s awesome […]
Snobbing on…
I missed my post two weeks ago. I apologize. It’s been hard for me to keep track of what’s going on. I’m ending a single year in a new place I’ve never been before, and heading off to another single year in another place I’ve never been before. My friends here have almost exclusively been […]
HookerTee from LV
For those of you who haven’t been to Las Vegas, there are people all along the strip wearing these tees who hand out advertisements for hookers — I just had to have one (a shirt, not a hooker).
Three Aztec Gods
This is on the side of a taqueria in Highland Park. It took me a minute to sort out who it is. I’m left wondering, however, what Psalms 37 and John 2 have to do with Larry, Curly, and Moe. (Click for a larger view.)
