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Nearly 50 years ago Ronald Eugene Pennington-Satterfield was assigned to write an essay. He turned in a 200-page novel instead. His junior high school English … Continue reading
I didn’t notice the man in the box at first. In my defense, a lot was happening around me Friday night at the Hult Center … Continue reading
We’re in what’s called the digital or information age, though I sometimes think of it as the “you can do that on the computer” age. … Continue reading
Art students focus on becoming good at their craft and finding what they’re interested in representing to the world. Then comes graduation, and the aspiring … Continue reading
You know how you can see a movie or read a book and not like it, and then revisit it years later and love it, … Continue reading
Like a lot of other people, I often scout the shore while walking on the beach looking for just the right shell to take home, … Continue reading
The most entertaining dictum I’ve heard about the question of art’s function — and the easiest to prove — is that the purpose of art … Continue reading
A video circulating on YouTube shows a curator, Aram Moshayedi, at LA’s Hammer Museum introducing actors Will Ferrell and Joel McHale to a contemporary art exhibit, … Continue reading
Chance meetings and random events in art were made popular a century ago by the Dadaists and Surrealists in Europe, and then by the Abstract … Continue reading
After I viewed Keith Achepohl’s new exhibit Vision of Nature/Vessel of Beauty at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, I began to look at the … Continue reading