Category: Arts
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A day with Art
Contributing to the kids section Art came into town and we spent the day going to museums and enjoying the fine 60 degree weather avoiding the stadiums and Bengals’ loss to Cleveland. The Contemporary Arts Center is all different now with new exhibits. None of the cool things from the opening are there any longer…
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The Habana Series
Art So I haven’t written this up proper, and since I am in Columbus and the camera is out in some freezing parking lot blocks away, I’ll back up a moment to my weekend in Kansas City a little over a month ago. It was the Saturday after I accompanied Art to the Charlotte Steet…
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Europe: Day 2 – Kröller-Müller Museum
Self-poortait We got on a tram before i was awake, although strangely lucid and alert for a sleeping person. Then we got on a train. We took the train to a bus. And there we were, at the Kröller-Müller Museum. I had been here before, but my memory, without aide of digital devices is sorely…
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Back in one piece
Pondering the Serra Between the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis stands this spiral steel sculpture by Richard Serra. I was hesitant to like it, but once I wound through the metal walls and lost my sense of balance and felt the heat brush against me like a ghost,…
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Man, can I take a picture of your hair?
He said, “Sure.” I went to the Artspace in Kansas City to see Art’s opening with the Charlotte Street Fund on Friday. His collection of photographs were in their own room while the rest of the gallery was devoted to the other 6 painters, sculptors, and graffiti artists awarded grants. I don’t often go to…
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Arts and crafts day
I’m sticky. A while back, I took everything off the wall around my desk in order to try my hand at decoupage. de·cou·page Variant(s): or dé·cou·page /”dA-(“)kü-‘päzh/ Function: noun Etymology: French découpage, literally, act of cutting out, from Middle French, from decouper to cut out, from de– + couper to cut Date: 1946 1 :…
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Wabi Sabi
Apple Picked up some fruit and veggies at the market yesterday. Soup’s brewin on the stove again, filling up the house with nice aroma. I got some apples. They were a little bruised and pocked, and as I was about to put some back, I remembered the tenets of wabi sabi.* I placed three in…
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Teabaggin
Earl Gray Grey + Sharpie + The business section of the paper I left my camera charging at work on Friday. As painful as it is to walk around the wonderful fall weekend, I just didn’t have the gumption to go back into the office. I got up this morning and lamented the teapot I…
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The factory out in the woods
Perhaps one of my favorite paintings A roadtrip some 40 miles into Kentucky began the day. A carload of us went south to tour the digs of a mutual professional friend. A Loft/Studio/Warehouse/Farm nested on 300 acres I do believe. A plain looking aluminum structure from the outside, it opens to reveal a two story…
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Our first t-shirt
The onesie. With screens successfully “burned,” we set aside Friday as the time to try the press out. After many cautious prints on test felt, adjustments of screws, poor alignment issues and some bleed issues – we decided to just put down some of the slave labor white tees and give it a whirl. Tom…