cranky is more than a mood — its an attitude
I never really LIKE getting a hair cut. I mean, I like when the cut is done (if it’s done well)… but sitting in the chair making small talk, well… it is not my thing. Not to mention, I feel inordinately large in those chairs, with the giant nylon tents covering my enormous torso. There [...]
I just learned that I’ll be finishing out the semester for a professor who’s taking an unexpected research leave. Its a class that I taught a few years ago “Art and War” and it will be great fun to revisit some of that material again with new students.
The faculty who’s leaving is beloved by students, [...]
Every time I wrap my New Yorker onto itself while riding the light rail, I think of the jolting, crowded, smelly 7 train. Collapsing my reading is second nature, even if I have yards of empty space around me on my commute home. The reading hasn’t changed, either. First choice for my purse is The [...]
I’ll be writing about this piece for my paper at CAA in February. This is the first time I’ve seen the video of the fox Alys tracked through the National Portrait Gallery. AWESOME.
He’s no longer calling from inside the house…
The phone is no longer ripped out of the wall…
and the lines are no longer clipped outside the kitchen window.
No, now there is no signal, the battery is dead or the cellie gets wet!
This is a great little video that I saw on Boing Boing this morning. Very [...]
Helga Steppan has an interesting recent project… “See Through All My Things.” The Swedish artist chromatically organized her belongings then photographed them. The large (30×36) C-prints invite me to think of the orders I aspire to hold in my life, the colors that predominate in my belongings and the moods inspired by the palette of ownership. [...]
thanks to alex villar for posting this great video to fb. he’s always giving me great leads for reading, watching, thinking. i like to listen to these vids while doing housework.
i love luxirare! i mean … i am in love with luxirare! does everyone already know luxirare?! it just seems wrong that i haven’t known about this work sooner!!
the blog says “killer clothes + fine cuisine” but i’d add: food stylist, photographer, designer, artist. this is a pic of some potato chips she made, baked and [...]
This is an odd story from the NYT of a 90-year old man who was buried, sitting upright, in his Pontiac. The car was put in the ground next to his wife’s grave. On the passenger seat: his gun collection.
When I left the city, I was so relieved to look out a window and not see a brick wall! So, I’m a bit confused by why this has so much appeal for me… I have a huge wall in my living room where this would fit perfectly!
A student recently asked me when was the last time I saw a piece of art that made me swoon… I couldn’t remember, really. It isn’t the object, the painting, the sculpture, or the installation of work that floats my boat; its the conversation the work inspires, the memories it compels and the performances it [...]
ever since i saw district 9, i’ve had a draft in my blog posts by the same title. but i couldn’t seem to get my head around all of the nuances, problems, promises and general malarkey of the film. thank god for bully bloggers guest writer, jayna brown who breaks it down and lays it [...]
I was in the lunch room, arriving late because I just don’t want to sit and watch “Family Feud” during the one uncommitted hour I have all day… Lynn was at the table and talking about her mother-in-law who’s in for her 6-month visit from Texas. Somehow, the subject of her brother came up. He [...]
It is such a cliche to talk about the weather when you live in Arizona… but, cliches happen for a reason. The air is cooler in the morning, it is such a HUGE relief. Even more relieving is the silence. I have a VERY LOUD handler on the air conditioner… it sounds as though a [...]
i am planning to redesign my web site.
maybe with a top nav… and integrating the blog as a link, condensing the menu choices, jazzing up the splash page. lots to think about … simply more jazzy. huh.
Made this soup last night
- super fresh and delish Substituted some shallots for the onion and garlic, went with a white potato instead of russet and use mixed baby squash instead of zucchini. (So maybe I didn’t make this soup afterall!)
Zucchini and Rosemary Soup
Bon Appétit | June 1995
The Inn at Perry Cabin, St. Michaels MD
From [...]
I love Drip. More: I love meeting Karolina at Drip for a long conversation, great coffee and some excellent food. This morning we convened around 10a and didn’t get out of that place until nearly 1p. Gina made me a most excellent soy latte with a tall hat of foam, just the way I like [...]
Allan Kaprow (center, with beard) and participants in his “Yard” (1967), at the Martha Jackson Gallery in New York.
This month and next, two of my favorite artists (both featured in the dissertation) will be re-inventing Allan Kaprow’s Yard in NYC: William PopeL and Sharon Hayes. The NYT says a bit about their efforts.
Was reading this month’s Frieze. An article about the current state of theory in the arts offers comments from various professors of art, art history and criticism from around the world. Following are a few thoughtful claims from the article that struck a chord with me.
George Baker (UCLA, Art History) describes a recent “undeniable anti-theoretical [...]
he saw the burning bush and went into the light.
This morning I saw a young man, probably about 22, who had an impressive Mohawk. He and a friend got on the train at Camelback and Central. Why they choose to sit so far apart is a mystery to me, especially since they held a conversation in a tone of voice that entertained everyone in [...]
Gotta love these pears! I think Praying Hands Apples would be a huge hit here, in Arizona.
Read more (in Portuguese?) at Brogui.
UPDATE: saw this posted to Boing Boing AFTER I had posted it to Cranky Femme! Does this mean I’m ahead of the curve now? LOL
Saw a review in the NYT about the new film We Live In Public. I remember meeting Josh when Martha Wilson of the Franklin Furnance brought him to a party I was hosting. He was carrying around a stinky, un-but-previously-lit cigar and wearing a felt hat. I remember him being sort of noise, in a [...]
A few days ago, I asked
Who is the 1970’s artist who posed for several self-portraits with small gum vulvae affixed to her body?
And, I’m sure you all knew the answer was Hannah Wilke. In her 1974 SOS: Starification Object Series she issued a critique of the sexualized female artist as seen by the male dominated [...]
I can’t stop thinking about Museum of Animal Perspective videos that I saw posted to Boing Boing earlier this week. I really like the wolf videos… especially the one where the beast is digging furiously, and walking through a birch stand. Of course these points of view don’t really capture what and how the animals [...]