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viernes 20 de marzo de 2009

It's a beautiful day, we drive on the dirt road that surrounds the Lagunas de oxidación, the light is turning from yellow to pink as the fog falls on us, we breath the gases of the sewage plant, she tells me:

--I love doing this, this is what I live for, life doesn't get any better than this.
--So, this is it. Beautiful day, sunny afternoon, a lake of shit.
--Yeah! this is as good as it gets, Lorena!
--really?
--yeah
--shit.

(i wish i had an "off" button behind my ear, estoy tan cansada que ni siquiera puedo dormir)

Posteado por Lorena a las 12:16 AM

@ the Centro Cultural Tijuana

Simon Evans

Really interesting work by my outsider student Jeff Graham.

A few favorite quotes from Dave Hickey's most recent screed in Art in America:

Art criticism that seeks to endow difficult works of art with an element of transparency is regarded with suspicion. Members of the art world, like the adepts of a mystery cult, tread softly, lest some casual explanation shatter the altars at which they worship.

There are three kinds of graduate schools:

There are the "normal" schools that recruit graduate students as teaching assistants to do the faculty's work for them. Students at these schools, one hopes, learn enough about academia to avoid it thereafter.

There are the "feeder" schools in the New York and Los Angeles areas that dwell in the tyrannical shadows of the marketplace. Students from these schools occasionally succeed by fortuitous shortsightedness.

Then there are the "seminaries" where students are indoctrinated into last year's intellectual fashion. These schools take students from every walk of life and rob them of their birthright.

Venus' helpless passion for Adonis--one of my favorite pictures at the Met. This is my kinda porn!!!!!

This month, I'll be showing at the Piante Gallery, a lovely local space. One of the secretaries at my college remarked that she liked my work a lot because it was clean and precise with objects that she could easily identify. She also remarked that there are no unsightly nudes in my work--another appealing feature.

Foreclosureville

"As early as 2000, a handful of public officials led by the county treasurer, Jim Rokakis, went to the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and pleaded with it to take some action. In 2002, the city passed an ordinance meant to discourage predatory lending by, among other things, requiring prospective borrowers to get premortgage counseling. In response, the banking industry threatened to stop making loans in the city and then lobbied state legislators to prohibit cities in Ohio from imposing local antipredatory lending laws."

Some of my students' lovely value scales: