Mike Stilkey Paints on Books
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MIKE STILKEY OF ALTA DENA, CALIFORNIA PAINTS ON BOOKS. He says, in a recent
interv...
How a Poetry Scores Art Invitational works
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I've been fielding questions about how a Poetry Scores Art Invitational
works, which is fair enough, it's evolved into it's own thing.
It's a silent aucti...
Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future.
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It’s been three years since the traveling exhibit Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future kicked off in Helsinki, and the tour has finally made it to New York. Thi...
The Bleeding Deacon Pub Grub
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I know, I said I refused to go to the Bleeding Deacon until they went non smoking. But how would they know they were losing my business if I never went? I we...
Thursday Night at the Atomic Cowboy
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Did you know they have swing dancing every Thursday? I didn't. I mean, I
still would have agreed to meet for drinks - I just didn't know.
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ArtSounds: Blues and Bling November 19
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As part of its mission, the Sheldon Art Galleries strives to connect the
visual and performing arts through music-based exhibitions and programs. In
the s...
Four Questions with Alicia Ross
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This young artist’s Motherboard series features appropriated Internet
porn—nubile women sprawl across large cotton panels, cross-stitched in
silver and gol...
THIS WEEK IN THE SCENE
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A Halloween Hangover
Rob Zombie Returns With Another Hellbilly
There's a reason Rob Zombie has been so successful as a horror-movie
director: He knows how ...
Atrium Gallery: Friday, 20 November 2009
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Opening Two Exhibitions: Steven Sorman and Jim Harris
November 20, 2009 - January 9, 2010
Opening reception for both artists, Friday, November 20, 2009, 6-8 ...
On “loyal readers and junk traffic”
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I find myself liking this thesis from Ryan Chittum of *The Audit* at the *Columbia
Journalism Review*:
There’s been a little mini-trend of sanity amongs...
Ron Currie, Jr is Really Coming This Time
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**RESCHEDULED** Tuesday November 17 Reading/Signing with Ron Currie, Jr for
Everything Matters!, 7pm , Pudd’nHead Books, Free Nikki at Pudd’nhead
Books d...
... and the NYT wasn't done
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The NYT's Deborah Sontag comes right back with a blog post that reveals the tangled web of (mostly commercial) art world relationships that surround the New ...
Opening This Week
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I have some artworks in a couple of shows opening this week. Outside In is
"a contemporary celebration of outdoor art" in which artists worked en plein
air...
Responsibility of the Artist
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I checked out Tony Renner's website Wednesday morning and found he was still creating images inspired by the Bloggers' Night concert. So as Ward Stare and th...
Mediatribe: A Fest for the Eyes
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The Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival gets underway on Thursday, and even though the annual event continues to grow exponentially in prestige, i...
Uhng
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I had planned for this morning to post some drawings from the most recent
Dr. Sketchy's in Boston. Instead I spent the early hours wresting $75 in
fees ...
Repairs underway at Citygarden
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Cities are very good about finding money for capital projects. Money for
operations and ongoing maintenance, however, is often scarce. But when a
leak was ...
Black Diamond Detective Agency, Part 3
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It was 10:30 by the time I felt sufficiently revived to venture out of the
office into the streets. The first place I went was to the bank where I
cashed a...
Lingering Images Of Autumn
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The tree canopy is turning brown now. This picture was taken in Forest Park
a couple of weeks ago but Virginia said I should post it. Yes, ma'am. Colors
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"Prisoner" sketch, 1995
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I was fascinated by my little “Prisoner” sketch tucked in a sketchbook from
1995- it’s exceedingly substandard in it’s execution, but the idea was
great! ...
Road Trip
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First off, as promised, check out my take on an underground supper club here
in St Louis in this week’s Novice Foodie. I can’t say enough good things
about...
Microreview: They Tyranny of Email
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The Tyranny of Email: The Four-Thousand Year Journey To Your Inbox John
Freeman Scribner, 2009 John Freeman’s slim, heartfelt screed The Tyranny of
Email o...
Watteau's world
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I'm reading Jed Perl's "Antoine's Alphabet," a book about the French painter
Antoine Watteau. Perl makes an alphabetical attempt at putting Watteau at
the ...
Until Proven Safe: An Interview with Krista Maglen
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[Image: Airfield at Guantanamo Bay converted for the quarantine of 10,000
Haitian migrants; via Wikimedia].
Krista Maglen is Assistant Professor of History...
The List
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I will now attempt to get all Martha Stewart on your ass and convince you of
a “good thing.” You will not be required to spend 10 hours folding
hand-crafte...
Chris Kahler at Bruno David Gallery
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[image: Chris Kahler at Bruno David Gallery]
Bruno David Gallery is pleased to present *Chris Kahler*’s third solo
exhibition, *Hybrid Dynamic*, a body o...
Prep for National Portfolio Day
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In preparation for National Portfolio Day at Washington University, the New
Art in the Neighborhood (NAN) students were treated to a visit by artist,
Profe...
Several Interruptions
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The Arts Council has a new website. Good thing really as I remember the last
one being very difficult to get around. Now, they’ve gone for something
feelin...
Touring Nine North
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On November 5th, 2009, City Affair took a tour of Nine North, the modern
new condos on Euclid Avenue in the Central West End. Rather than gush on
about ho...
Influid Series 20
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$25.00
Depicting waves of flowing energy, evoking harmonious, sparkling seas, the
Influid Series are experimental studies which I perform by brush to paper...
Part the Second: High School
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*If you haven't read it already, start with Part 1.*
A little St. Louis Trivia: If you spend any length of time in this city, it
is guaranteed that sooner ...
Just another Manic Monday
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So my life has been an emotional whirl wind lately. I let my depression take
control of my life and I am on the road now to getting my life back. I had a
p...
Sole Mates
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Courtney holds up lost Reebok sneaker. A single shoe. I picture either a
perfectly content one legged man or a rather upset runner contemplating
trashing h...
A Cheap Holiday In Other People's Misery
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In October of 1977, The Sex Pistols released their fourth and final single
on their third label, Virgin Records, after being dropped from EMI and A&M
for...
фестиваль PANDUS
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МЕЖДУНАРОДНЫЙ ФЕСТИВАЛЬ СОВРЕМЕННОГО ИСКУССТВА, ПОСВЯЩЕННЫЙ ИСЧЕЗАЮЩИМ
ПАМЯТНИКАМ КУЛЬТУРЫ и ИСКУССТВА
PANDUS
ГОД ВТОРОЙ, 2009, РУССКАЯ ВЕРСИЯ ФЕСТИВА...
Oil Monoprints
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Exploring the top shelves in the studio I found this oil monoprint that was
made a number of years back. It's a refreshing technique and I look forward
t...
Atomic Ranches for Sale
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Lately, there have been some great opportunities to buy an Atomic Ranch home
in our area. Several have been for sale in retro Ridgewood Subdivision by Ralph...
F L A K P H O T O
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One of the photos from my new series Just Visiting was featured on
flakphoto.com this week. Here's the direct link:
http://www.flakphoto.com/archives/633...
Paul McCarthy's White Snow
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Last Wednesday I saw Paul McCarthy's show, White Snow, at Hauser & Wirth (until December 24, 2009). It's horrible. It's bad. No, it's worse than bad: Thi...
Destroy This Painting - Part 2
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At this point I've gotten another layer on top of the painting. Will be
adding more texture and metallic colors with each layer. Only have a short
time to...
The dark cloud hanging over auction season...
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The auction itself was pretty dull all in all (read more about that here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/arts/design/04auction.html?ref=arts), but
the d...
On the air with Michael Byron and Fr. Dempsey
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Yesterday afternoon I sat in on an interview with MOCRA’s Director, Fr.
Terrence Dempsey, S.J., and Michael Byron. We were at the Mildred Lane
Kemper Art M...
City Museum, St. Louis, Bob Cassilly, 1997
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I like all of the playgrounds I post on the blog, but this is the first time
I thought I might need to relocate to be near one...thanks to reader Jef...
Third Stream
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For SAVE KFUO! scroll down to the next entry. Three really interesting new
music/arts events are coming up this month: For those of you who like your
new m...
The Nightingale's Song at Powell in a rainy season
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Possibly it has always been true, but most of us these days are not taught
the things we really need to know and are left to ourselves to learn them
for o...
Spanish noise
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I'm pleased and amazed that El ruido eterno, as The Rest Is Noise is known in Spain, is currently listed as the No. 1 non-fiction bestseller (castellano) by ...
Map Of My Heart TONIGHT at Cranky Yellow
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Self-published author/graphic novelist John Porcellino will be showing a
slide show of comics from his new book, Map of My Heart, answering audience
questi...
Big sale -- THREE days only!
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Hi all! Long time no post.
I just got back a stack of photos from a place where I had them on
consignment. The business folded, so now I've got some dupl...
Playlist: October 22, 2009
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Tony Hollis * * * Cross Cut Saw Blues * * * Roots N' Blues Retrospective * *
* Legacy
Old Tanner and the Skillet Lickers * * * Soldier's Joy * * * Roots N'...
Freud’s cobwebbed poem
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About 3 years ago I was invited to participate in a group show organized by 52nd
City at Hartford Coffee. Thanks to the great Thomas Crone, I was introduc...
Save the Girls
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Flax Gallery is expanding its walls for the October's Breast Cancer
Awareness Month.
The call to art is open to all humans, male and female. The work sho...
Sarane Alexandrian has died.
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The group of Surrealist Movement members directly associated with Breton,
Picabia and other Pre-WWII members becomes one fewer this week. Sarane was
an ac...
Five for Friday 1: August 7
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A wise man recently told me to "increase (my) online audience." I take these
words seriously. So, a new, li'l attempt at a mini-feature, Five for Friday.
1...
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