The Purloined Painting

It just occurred to me that if I didn’t know better, I’d think “The Purloined Letter” was the title of a Sesame Street segment.
Hopefully one with Alice Cooper.
Well… there I go starting off off subject again.
The subject is supposed to be that, yesterday, I learned that two of my art works were in a DHL [...]

The Presidential Candidates’ Arts Policy Platforms

Have I told you how big a fan of democracy I am?
I’m a really big fan of democracy.
I’m such a big fan of it that I’ll even refer to a constitutional republic as a democracy, just to help it sound cool.
I like the democratic process because it is intended to distribute power over our collective [...]

Not Even the Bats Feel Like Staying in This Belfry

Oh wow, unemployment is turning out to be much more difficult than it seems like it should be.
I mean, how many times during the last few years have I wished for more free time?
s’pose that’s why they say to be careful what you wish for… huh?
If it keeps up like this much longer I’m going [...]

A Plumber Named Joe has Come to Teach Us How the Internet has Changed Power in Society

I tell you, this election is the best thing that could ever happen to a culture watcher in America.
I see signs of all kinds of changes that have already quietly happened.  And, I’m not talking about change “we can believe in” or that “is coming” or whatever.
This post is not about politics so much as [...]

Slow Dancing: The Art Work

This is just cool:
www.slowdancingfilms.com
It doesn’t really need to be articulated verbally; nor to have me overlay it with attempts to impress you with my smartness.  In fact, to permit myself one statement, the videos on the site are so compelling and rare because of the simplicity with which they affirm the beauty and importance of [...]

Aesthetics and Wanting to be (Vice) President Now that Everyone Can Photoshop

I suppose that relative to the political news junkie set, I’m a little late catching onto this one.  With my pre-election October stupidity filters running on high, when I first heard of an “outrage” over a Newsweek cover image of Sarah Palin, I promptly ignored it.  There’s a lot of “outrage” at this time during [...]

The Transferance of Skills from One Field to Another

One piece of background information that you should probably know before trying to understand that which follows:  over the weekend Mrs. Meteechart and I went apple picking at an orchard just past the uber-rich part of DC Metro Maryland.
So, here’s a thing about me and making art:  I’ve long admired the manner in which woodworking [...]

What will Happen to Art After Everyone in America is Homeless?

More Earth Art?
Is this what Michal Heizer’s been planning for all this time?
How can I digress before I even start?
As I surfed the internet this morning, it seemed that everywhere I turned I was confronted with deep uncertainties about how the arts will fare when: 1. they are crushed under a falling sky; or, 2. [...]

Oh, Art…, Right…

Well, that’s the end of my string of posts on cultural constructs arising through politics.  It’s enough.  I’m done.
In any case, I titled this blog “Teaching Artist“, not “Teaching Cultural Anthropologist”.  A person can only opine off-subject for so long before everyone realizes there are smarter people to listen to on that subject.
The inverse side [...]

On Having Equal Rights no Matter the Similarity Between Your Genitalia and those of the Person you Love

And my answer to that question is, “Uh, which people do I need to vote for me?”
Or, how ’bout this:

Ha ha!
It’s because I’m an elitist…
Well, in the least it would mean that I’d be able to get better seafood in the places where I spent the first 30+ years of my life.
It’s just to say [...]