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8826. judithathome - 1/26/2010 6:54:05 PM I saw a short film on the history of Fair Park and it was amazing...very impressive complex.
Do y'all know if many people were displaced when they built it? (Like so many were when that egomaniac recently built that shrine to his professional football in Arlington, TX...but retains the right to call them DALLAS Cowboys?)
One thing I already knew about the place was that a muralist named Eugene Savage did the walls in the Hall Of State...I was familiar with his work because I look at four examples of it every day...Arky and MsNo have seen them above my desk: the Hwaiian history pictures.
Eugene Savage 8827. wabbit - 1/26/2010 11:34:11 PM Got back from San Fran a few days ago and squeezed in time to see the SFMOMA 75th Anniversary show. Sadly, I didn't have a notebook, so didn't notes. Some very interesting art, some what you'd see in the movie WoW has recommended (and looks like a *must see* imho) in the Movie thread. There was one video piece that I found true, well-conceived and funny. It was a three-panel b/w video essentially about commercialism and how sex sells. As background music, they had Ray Charles' recording of "What I'd Say". When the video was over, the room went completely black for about a minute. You could not see your hand in front of your face. I waited expectantly, and sure enough, a voice came from the darkness, softly saying, "I can't see anything." I replied, "That's the point." LOL!
Pearl Paint in SF is closing and selling their large 5-drawer flat files for $200! I was wishing I had a truck to drive home... 8828. wabbit - 1/26/2010 11:39:07 PM From the NYTimes: ...On Friday afternoon a woman taking an adult education class at the museum accidentally fell into “The Actor,” causing the tear. Officials at the museum said that since the damage did not occur “in the focal point of the composition,” they expected that the repair would be “unobtrusive,” according to a statement released on Sunday... I'm a wee bit surprised this kind of thing doesn't happen more often, especially when small children are left to tear through sculpture galleries.8829. judithathome - 1/27/2010 5:15:09 PM No kidding...
Yesterday I knocked down a complete row of Land'o'Lakes butter...reaching for a carton I wanted, it nudged the one next to it and bam...six cartons hit the floor.
Needless to say, I was more careful when I got my eggs.
This is not the same thing as ART unless you call up visions of butter sculpture and tempra-egg paint. ;-)
But seriously, it's a wonder more pieces don't suffer the same fate as the butter...imagine little kids tipping over one of those pedestals that hold a glass-encased drinking cup of Nefertiti? 8830. arkymalarky - 1/28/2010 3:27:00 AM What was the museum where that guy fell down the stairs and broke all the ancient vases lining the stairway? 8831. judithathome - 1/28/2010 8:52:26 PM JD Salinger, RIP
"Salinger had remarked that he was in this world but not of it. His body is gone but the family hopes that he is still with those he loves, whether they are religious or historical figures, personal friends or fictional characters," the statement said.
8832. vonKreedon - 1/30/2010 12:30:57 AM Holden Caulfield writes Salinger's obituary:
Bunch Of Phonies Mourn J.D. Salinger
CORNISH, NH—In this big dramatic production that didn't do anyone any good (and was pretty embarrassing, really, if you think about it), thousands upon thousands of phonies across the country mourned the death of author J.D. Salinger, who was 91 years old for crying out loud. "He had a real impact on the literary world and on millions of readers," said hot-shot English professor David Clarke, who is just like the rest of them, and even works at one of those crumby schools that rich people send their kids to so they don't have to look at them for four years. "There will never be another voice like his." Which is exactly the lousy kind of goddamn thing that people say, because really it could mean lots of things, or nothing at all even, and it's just a perfect example of why you should never tell anybody anything. 8833. HCaulfield - 4/12/2010 4:42:50 PM vonKreedon -- obviously penned by a big fat faker. 8834. wabbit - 7/24/2011 12:30:45 AM RIP Amy Winehouse
Is anyone really surprised? When are creative types going to learn not to surround themselves with poisonous sycophants? Was there nobody in her life willing to take the hard stand? She didn't appreciate it when her family tried, and she was rewarded with a Grammy for her "tribute" song to their efforts, but didn't she have any *real* friends? 8835. wabbit - 7/24/2011 5:18:23 PM RIP Lucian Freud
I saw the 1993 retrospective at the Met. It was impressive, a show I am happy not to have missed. 8836. judithathome - 7/25/2011 8:29:24 AM Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Curt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse all died in their 27th year....see a common thread here? 8837. alistairConnor - 7/26/2011 11:40:34 AM Curt Cobain is a faker. He yearned to join the 27 club, and shot himself to achieve it.
Amy is the real thing. 8838. wabbit - 2/4/2012 5:16:22 PM RIP Wislawa Szymborska
Wislawa Szymborska, a gentle and reclusive Polish poet who won the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature, died on Wednesday in Krakow, Poland. She was 88.
Her best known poem is "Cat in an Empty Apartment"
Die—you can’t do that to a cat.
Since what can a cat do
in an empty apartment?
Climb the walls?
Rub up against the furniture?
Nothing seems different here
but nothing is the same.
Nothing’s been moved
but there’s more space.
And at nighttime no lamps are lit.
Footsteps on the staircase,
but they’re new ones.
The hand that puts fish on the saucer
has changed, too.
Something doesn’t start
at its usual time.
Something doesn’t happen
as it should.
Someone was always, always here,
then suddenly disappeared
and stubbornly stays disappeared.
Every closet’s been examined.
Every shelf has been explored.
Excavations under the carpet turned up nothing.
A commandment was even broken:
papers scattered everywhere.
What remains to be done.
Just sleep and wait.
Just wait till he turns up,
just let him show his face.
Will he ever get a lesson
on what not to do to a cat.
Sidle toward him
as if unwilling
and ever so slow
on visibly offended paws,
and no leaps or squeals at least to start.
One more - "A 'Thank You' Note"
There is much I owe
to those I do not love.
The relief in accepting
they are closer to another.
Joy that I am not
the wolf to their sheep.
My peace be with them
for with them I am free,
and this, love can neither give,
nor know how to take.
I don't wait for them
from window to door.
Almost as patient
as a sun dial,
I understand
what love does not understand.
I forgive
what love would never have forgiven.
Between rendezvous and letter
no eternity passes,
only a few days or weeks.
My trips with them always turn out well.
Concerts are heard.
Cathedrals are toured.
Landscapes are distinct.
And when seven rivers and mountains
come between us,
they are rivers and mountains
well known from any map.
It is thanks to them
that I live in three dimensions,
in a non-lyrical and non-rhetorical space,
with a shifting, thus real, horizon.
They don't even know
how much they carry in their empty hands.
"I don't owe them anything",
love would have said
on this open topic. 8839. wabbit - 2/4/2012 6:03:55 PM RIP Dorothea Tanning
Dorothea Tanning, a leading Surrealist painter of the 1930s whose path had led her from the small town of Galesburg, Ill., to a whirlwind life in the international art world, died on Tuesday at her home in Manhattan. She was 101.
RIP Mike Kelley
Mike Kelley, an influential Los Angeles artist whose physically messy and psychologically complex projects laid the groundwork for present-day installation art, has died. He was 57.
He was found dead Tuesday evening at his home in South Pasadena in what several friends described as a suicide following a serious depression. "We can't confirm a suicide pending an autopsy or coroner's report," said one of the estate's trustees, art historian John Welchman... 8840. wabbit - 2/4/2012 6:18:55 PM RIP Don Cornelius
I remember being uninterested in American Bandstand as a kid, but Soul Train was different. Cool music, cool dancing...the groundbreaking aspects never occurred to me at all. I don't think I even realized everyone on the show was black. Oh to be that young again.
I've never been so happy to have YouTube available.
8841. arkymalarky - 2/4/2012 9:18:21 PM I loved Soul Train. I'm impressed with his tenacity, but never cared for Dick Clark. 8842. vonKreedon - 2/9/2012 10:40:24 PM Niner has a movie blog: Filmvetter 8843. judithathome - 2/9/2012 10:52:30 PM Hmmmm...no foreign films? 8844. vonKreedon - 2/9/2012 11:30:54 PM He's got a few foreign films there, he just doesn't like them very much and doesn't have a foreign file catagory. 8845. arkymalarky - 2/11/2012 5:40:12 PM Our president's singing makes me swoon. Michelle Obama is one lucky lady.
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