The Veterans Administration and art spending

“Yet, in the midst of these horrific failings the VA managed to spend $20 million on high-end art over the last ten years—with $16 million spent during the Obama years,” Andrzejewski said.

Sigh... bully the artsy kid when the VA sucks from top to bottom... Read the piece here. 

Pittsburgh visuals

We're in Pittsbugh, which surprisingly enough, at least to me, seems to be quite a cool city, in fact a small city with an enviable big town feel, and bridges everywhere.

We're here because the Professor is presenting some paper on the Arts in Special Education at a conference here... but since our hotel is next to the Convention Center, and since we saw some cool costumed geeks walking around the area, Little Junes and I sniffed it out and discovered that the ReplayFX Convention is going on at the Center.

Also going on at the joint was a Hillary Clinton rally, and by noon all the Clintonites, and all the protesters were already lining up. It occurred to me that there might develop some interesting photographic visuals once all the Bernistas, Clintonistas, and assorted protest-everything left wingnuts mixed it up with light saber wielding Star Warriors, Trekkies, and Mario characters... cough, cough.

Review in the WaPo

The WaPo's Mark Jenkins reviews the current shows at The Katzen Museum at American University, including The Looking Glass: Artist Immigrants of Washington, in which I am honored to participate.

Read the review here.