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Category Archives: Art
Harvey Pekar dies. Doesn’t that just figure.
Harvey Pekar, best known for his autobiographical “American Splendor” graphic-novel series and the 2003 movie “The Quitter,” that dramatized his dejected world view, saw every glass as half empty. A half-empty glass leaving a ring on the table. He is dead at age 70, which just proves, as he always knew, that shit happens and [...]
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LoveGivesMeHope and FmyLife….the soap operas of our time.
LoveGivesMeHope…..the name of this blog would normally make me gag…but once I started looking through it, I admit it, I got sorta hooked. It came about because its creators were burned out on a blog that was just the opposite–Fmylife–all about life’s downers. Sadly, I probably prefer the latter. More comic material. It doesn’t register [...]
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A century of high kicks.
The last of the Ziegfeld Girls has passed away, and the world is a lesser place. According to The New York Times, Doris Eaton Travis died at age 106, the last of the famed and comely (36-26-38) performers hired in the early 1900s for the famous Broadway troupe. She was part of a famous stage [...]
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Lena Horne, artist and activist, (1917-2010)
Lena Horne was more than a singer; she transported her listeners in a way few artists do. She was more than someone who broke the popular-entertainment color barrier; she was an intelligent, beautiful and tireless treasure. Her New York Times obituary doesn’t quite capture her spirit and sound, but this vintage video clip comes close. [...]
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Hero with a camera.
Photographer Charles Moore did as much to move civil rights ahead in this country as almost any other individual. He died last week, at age 79. (See the obituary by Douglas Martin of The New York Times here.) Moore’s famous photos of lawman Theophilus Eugene “Bull” Connor are iconic proof of a shameful side of [...]
A gift.
Patricia Travers was a violin prodigy who disappeared in her twenties, leaving behind a distinguished recording and performance history. I’d never heard of Travers until I read her obituary in The New York Times. (Given that a month went by between Travers’ death and the Times obit, I’m apparently not the only one ignorant of [...]
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Eight minutes of art
Find the time to watch this until the end. It’s about eight and a half minutes long. You won’t feel the same about sand after you see it.
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Palindrome on YouTube
A very clever, short video on the Lost Generation. Check it out here. (And listen to the whole thing.)
He skips the frames too
I usually do not get very far into stories about artists who work far outside traditional media. The sheep preserved in urine, the cloth-covered bridge, they just don’t work for me. Not a surprise given my magnetic pull to the Wyeths and John Singer Sargent. But The New York Times Magazine piece on Tino Sehgal [...]
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A photo for the weekend
I’m guessing that most people hurried past this dumpster in Portland’s Old Town without seeing its message. Fortunately, photographer Friderike Heuer was not one of them.
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Sometimes it just takes time…
If you’re called to make art, you don’t wait for the ideal circumstances. You certainly do not worry about the prospect of fame. You make art. Perhaps you do it in obscurity forever. Maybe you get “hot” at age 94.
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A whole new meaning to flats and sharps
Check this out: Who wouldn’t opt for these stairs over an escalator? And, as long as we’re talking music…see this website. It is one of the few I’ve seen that offers a “SKIP INTRO” option that no one wants to use. (Have the sound on for both of these links.)
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Try taking these with that puny little iPhone
This surely violates copyright law, but I’m going to risk it to draw attention to what has to be the most wonderful collection of photos to grace a website. These Smithsonian magazine shots give our solar system its due: shockingly beautiful in its alternating moods of violence and calm. The pictures originated during various space-exploration [...]
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O Death, Where is Thy Sting?
I think of myself as a pacifist. Yeah, sure. So, how to explain my reaction to “Inglorious Basterds,” director Quentin Tarantino’s intentionally misspelled film? I didn’t break into applause at the end as many in the audience did, but I was silently cheering this ultimate revenge-fantasy film even as I winced at the extremely violent [...]
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Seasoned to perfection
We saw “Julie & Julia” this past weekend, and it is a wonderful movie, well-acted, funny, transporting. (This being film-crazy Portland, people applauded at the end and waited politely until the credits finished rolling before leaving.) Along with the rave reviews, the movie has spawned some good features on Child, including this one in Vanity [...]
Photo memories
I’m at that point in my life when almost any news story makes me think about my parents. (Especially any stories about people throwing stuff at each other.) When I read my buddy Andrew Schneider’s thoughts on the end of the Kodachrome era, even that triggered a memory. My parents were not particularly talented photographers, [...]
Surprising film
We just saw Tyson, a film about one of the best boxers in history. The film is a Greek tragedy–with Tyson playing the hero, villain, and chorus. I’m a boxing fan, so expected to like the clips, but did not anticipate being so intrigued by the man himself. He is complex: terrified, fearless, needy, violent, [...]
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Art for the weekend.