Thought for the day.

“God is really only another artist, he made the elephant, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas.”
Pablo Picasso

The Old Fart’s Wednesday Recommendations.

Paul Begala on the GOP strategy of Denial, Delay and Do Nothing.
“What Rocky Start” by Ruth Marcus in the Washington Post.
Even Senators have tax problems.  But who’s surprised?
Former Whitney and SF MOMA Museum Director, David Ross, has some contemporary art recommendations for the Obama’s private White House quarters.  Interesting ones that I must say would [...]

The Old Fart’s Sunday Recommendations.

Randall Balmer on The Daily Show, about God in the White House. (Click on the Randall Balmer segment in the “Coming Up Next” box.
Paul Krugman on the impact of the centrist cuts in the stimulus plan. 600,000 fewer employed Americans. DAMN! I could be one of them.
I know this is not the point of this [...]

More change to believe in.

It’s date night at the White House and the President and First Lady plan to attend a performance of the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater at the Kennedy Center. Bush would have been in bed early on a Friday night.
Maybe we will see more of this and hopefully it will spread to the rest of the [...]

The Old Fart’s Monday Recommendations.

Cathleen Falsani’s interview with Former President Jimmy Carter.
“If Obama were Pope.” Ruth Gledhill had the full English translation of Hans Kung’s article but had to take it down as the English rights were sold to a different source than the Times of London but you can read a bit and go back for the full [...]

Erotic, but do the still infuriate? And, is it art?

Like the author of this NY Times article, I remember when my female friends were infuriated by Mel Ramos art. Personally, I never was a big fan of his work.  He’s still painting similar works, raising issues of the role of sex in art.
Mr. Ramos is still painting naked, pneumatic women emerging “Birth of Venus”-like [...]

A Retrospective of Many Artists, All of Them One Woman.

I missed this NY Times review of my friend Cathy’s show at the Guggenheim in NY. Now I just have to find a reason to get to NY before January.
Exclusion versus inclusion is one of Ms. Opie’s recurrent themes. After shooting freeways in 1995, she drove cross-country to photograph women living in domestic partnerships. [...]

Stuff Happens.

An artist whose work I have in my home (from her series “Hello Kitty Gets A Mouth”), Jaime Scholnick, has a new series of drawings on mylar that I just had to share. Here are three of my favorites.