Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Congratulations GriftDrift
Congratulations to GriftDrift for nabbing Critics' Pick Best Blogger award in Creative Loafing's 2007 Best of issue.
I can't say it was a surprise. I wrote the blurb.
I can't say it was a surprise. I wrote the blurb.
Saturday, September 22, 2007
SHOCK: America has run out of art!
America has run out of art. There's clearly none left.
There's no other possible explanation for the following exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.:
Coming in November: The Camera Phone Photos of Deputy Secretary of Transportation Thomas J. Barrett
There's no other possible explanation for the following exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.:
Portraits of Sandra Day O’Connor
March 30 through Oct. 8, 2007View slideshow
“Portraits of Sandra Day O’Connor” celebrates the art of portraiture by considering how a group of artists – The Painting Group – interprets the same subject – Sandra Day O’Connor – at the same time. The Painting Group, a New York-based group of 25 artists led by watercolorist and caricaturist David Levine and portrait painter Aaron Shikler, has been meeting regularly for 40 years. In October 2006, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor sat for the Painting Group for a full-day session with the artists. The exhibition includes the 25 portraits of O’Connor completed by the artists following that sitting.
Coming in November: The Camera Phone Photos of Deputy Secretary of Transportation Thomas J. Barrett
Sunday, September 09, 2007
I, cock-blocker
From Creative Loafing Tampa:
I wanted to engage the three University of Tampa cheerleaders seated at the far end of the bar. They drank their pints of beer through straws. Spoke in loud, cute voices about Sex in the City. But we never talked. I never even got to make eye contact with any of them. Nope, spent my post-work hour at The Retreat apologizing for the writing style of CL columnist Andisheh Nouraee.The nature of my offense? It appears at least one Tampa bar-goer finds my writing style overly ornate:
The Stranger -- a middle-age fellow -- wasn't your average bar fly. In fact, in my decade of frequenting drinking establishments, I had never before heard anyone at a pub drop a word like "filigree," which The Stranger used in critiquing Nouraee's column.
