Aqua Art Miami (click here)

These are paintings of houses made from garage doors near Tijuana. You can see them in Miami (with the Bucheon gallery) next week!

Some amusing phrases gleaned from a day painting with CSPAN:

"Petro-Authoritarianism"
"Social Odium"
"Verbal Maladicta"
"Latte-Sipping Sushi-Eating Godless Atheists" (That's me for sure!)

And this one from Christopher Hitchens on god:
"A Celestial Dictatorship that couples compulsory love with compulsory fear."

And this quote attributed to George Washington:
"Its wonderful how much we can do if we are always doing something."

Screen Test:

(This is somewhat archival footage, but I might revisit this theme at some point.)

SIMPARCH'S "The Taking of Leisure Mountain"

I could certainly use some leisure after this rather challenging semester ends...

My kid's party on Sunday:

For my postmodernists, who just took their final exam:

"It reminds us that while art and money may have been inextricably entwined throughout most of history, art’s real value is not measured in strings of zeros, high-priced materials or bravura skill, but in communication, experience, economy of means (the true beauty) and the inspired disturbance of all status quos."
--Roberta Smith on the Lawrence Weiner retrospective currently at the Whitney Museum.

Edward Burtynsky at Robert Koch, San Francisco:













(I couldn't get the colors right with my camera and Photoshop, unfortunately. This guy is one of my long-standing heroes.)

Two students with the collaborative installation "Murmurs" at the Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco:

My students with Lincoln Schatz' "Cube" at the Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco:

My students and I with a Josiah McElheny and a Cornelia Parker, de Young Museum, San Francisco:

Jessica Stockholder in LA last month:




(I'll show these to the students tomorrow night.)