Debris
«chaque notaire porte en soi les débris d’un poète.»Archive for art
Intact Brain
Muddy Waters Coffee Shop, State Highway 61, Charleston, SC
We saw the band setting up, but unfortunately didn’t have time to hear them play. Young Alfie loved the paintings. And the coffee and snacks were very good.
Natural selection: Yes, we can!
Mike Rosulek, computer science graduate student at the University of Illinois, has designed a set of images, based on the ubiquitous Shepard Fairey Obama image, to commemorate the bicentennial of Darwin’s birth. This is my personal favorite, in part because of the (presumably unintended, though Rosulek sounds like a Czech name, so perhaps it was deliberate) play on Jaroslav Hašek’s Party of Moderate and Peaceful Progress Within the Limits of the Law:
Rosulek is selling t-shirts with the images to raise money for the National Center for Science Education, a very worthy cause.
(Thanks to Concurring Opinions for the tip.)
Performing Arts Garage
No, it isn’t where they store the arts when they’re not performing. It’s where you park when you go to the San Francisco Opera or Symphony. But I like to imagine that, late at night, the cars perform an automotive ballet.
Understatement of the week
Finding a $1 million painting in the garbage is very unusual.
F.B.I. Agent James Wynne, referring to a work by Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo stolen 20 years ago from a Houston warehouse and discovered between trash cans on a Manhattan sidewalk.
Hokes Medical Arts
A good friend of mine, who is in turn a friend of the artist, has alerted me to an upcoming exhibit of “Hokes Medical Arts”, which appears well worth the trip to Spartenburg, SC. It calls to mind one of my favorite Philadelphia attractions, the Mütter Museum, which boasts what must be the world’s most extensive collection of authentic medical oddities. The exhibit is part of the renowned Hokes Archives at the University of Tennessee.
