What the flag?
Today the WaPo's Chief Art Critic reviews... ah... the flag.
And the blogsphere reacts; Bailey writes: "And so today the Washington Post’s chief art critic locks himself inside his 60s-era party pad, turns on his lava lamp, raises the volume on his scratchy Hendrix album, fires up his liberal hippie bong and connects the stars and bars for us to American art." Read the whole post here.
And Snarky Bastards writes: "Now Gopnik is not an ignorant man. In other parts of the piece, he mentions, by name, the Union Jack. But in this graph, he treats our red, white, and blue color scheme as something outlandish, created ex nihilo by madmen." Read the whole post here.
Ashe Tori simply says: "Don't wear the flag. It'll make you look fat." Read her post here.
Update: Others chime in:
More links here.
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Art Teacher to be Fired Over Nude Photos
Of herself.
Austin ISD wants to fire an Austin High School teacher over nude photos posted on the Internet.Full article here.
The AISD school board Monday unanimously decided to begin the termination process for Tamara Hoover, who teaches art. The board said Hoover violated the terms of her employment contract.
Hoover has been on paid administrative leave since May 19 after school officials found out about the images.
She defended her actions in a blog by saying that the pictures are not pornography but "artistic photography."
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
AAF
Lack of extreme posting mostly due to the fact that I've been super busy preparing for the Affordable Art Fair in New York this coming Thursday through Sunday.
Tons of framing, plus cataloguing over 500 Lida Moser vintage and lifetime photos leave very little time.
On the other hand, I will take the laptop to NYC and will be doing some live blogging from AAF (if they have wireless in the Metropolitan Pavillion that is).
Monday, June 12, 2006
Roberge to leave
The Washington City Paper's Arts Editor, Leonard Roberge, will soon be leaving his job as Arts Editor for the CP to pursue a variety of private artistic issues.
Roberge will be missed sorely, as he was a key part of the CP's increased arts coverage while he was in charge of the cultural side of the free weekly.
Fair winds and following seas and we hope that your replacement will continue what you started!
Sneaked through
The person at the WaPo whose job it is to ensure that as little as possible visual art reviews take place must have been sick today, as there's an art column in the newspaper today! A Monday!
John Kelly's Washington discusses and delivers a really nice piece on Jeff Wilson at the Ellipse Art Center -- curated by Cynthia Connelly. Read it here.
