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practicing the arts of cogitation since the late 1900s.

is it just me…

…or should Chester have sold a different idea to Tavis Smiley for the cover of The Covenant than the one he’d already sold to MoAD? Isn’t that supposed to be a signature image for the museum? I ain’t mad at ya, Chester, you gotta get in where you fit in, so to speak, but as [...]

wash new underwear before wearing!

I wasn’t going to write this post, but I’m bored and haven’t posted for 10 days, so why not?
Last week I went to the SPE National conference in Chicago. I’ve never been to Chicago and could probably still say that. Conferences have a way of sucking up your every spare moment so much so that [...]

for those of us who teach

Deirdre was going through some old stuff from grad school and came across a student’s quiz where they’d been asked to define “art canon”:

‘Art canon’ means one who creates art excessively. It is he who makes artwork that is both stunning and explosive (hence, the word, ‘canon’). It is the artist that makes work that [...]

it’s come to this

Or has it? Will it?
http://mollysavestheday.blogspot.com/2006/02/for-women-of-south-dakota-abortion.html

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    • Interesting powerHouse news March 11, 2010
      Dear powerHouse follower— You are, with any luck, a retailer, a reviewer, a promoter, or just someone vigorously involved in the visual arts, and have been following us through our varied publications over the years and the copious press we made with them, and perhaps recall the risks, the successes, maybe even the élan to which [...] […]
    • Haiku in my Neighborhood (M. Hanks Gallery, 2009) March 11, 2010
      Haiku in my Neighborhood. Poems by Dee Dee McNeil, photographs by Roland Charles,  M. Hanks Gallery, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9821810-1-0, $25.00. (Pages from the book are viewable at Google Books online.) Haiku in my Neighborhood – a coffee table book of 50 haiku poems written by jazz singer/songwriter Dee Dee McNeil with photographs by noted photographer-ar […]
    • The Erotic Diary of a Lumberjack by Barthélémy Toguo (Michael Woolworth Editions, Paris, 2010) March 11, 2010
      The Erotic Diary of a Lumberjack” (”Le Journal Érotique d’un Bûcheron”). artist’s book by Barthélémy Toguo with 12 linocuts and texts, 38 x 26.5 cm, Michael Woolworth Editions, Paris, 1000€. […]