Alms for the Arts, Alms for the Arts…

Michael Kaiser makes an eloquent case in Monday’s Washington Post encouraging us to help arts organizations make it through our surprisingly vertiginous economic death spiral.  Here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/28/AR2008122801274.html
Allow me to quote his quote:
As John F. Kennedy said, “I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered [...]

Existential Video Day

Today is existential video day.
It’s a follow up to my previous post pining for catharsis.
…kinda…
The best I could do for the first one is a 13 second clip on Google video.  Just keep replaying it and pretend it’s long.  Maybe that action can represent modern frustration or something.  It’ll be like in White Noise, or [...]

Catharsis

That’s what I want.
Pure, simple — the other side.
I’m just not going to get it.
It was like this when it all started, this not-working thing.  I taught a summer class, 2 days a week for six weeks.  Even when that finished, during the early days of listlessness my summer pay was stretched over the course [...]

Hey Look → → a Profile!

There’s something I never liked about psuedonymity.  A certain je ne sais qui, if you will…
So, my name is…  ah …
Uh…
can he do that here?
It feels so dirty, like a name tag sticker at a conference instead of a dangly laminated thing that has your affiliation printed just just small enough that you can tell [...]

Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen

Not even Jesus.
As by Leadbelly

(Click it, you know you want to)
The thing about working in private sector art galleries, et al., as I’ve done once or twice, is that in them, a person,  perhaps the owner, can just decide whether or not he/she wanted to hire you.  On the other hand, they know that because [...]

Hire Who? What, Me?

I am, right now, in the midst of negotiating an offer for real, live, gameful employment.
I am, therefore, unable to focus on anything, at all, and can not write an intelligible post about any other subject, if even this one.
I have known for over a week that THE CALL would be coming, thanks to an [...]

Please Add the National Museum of Women in the Arts to Your List of Things to do in DC

It might seem like a tough call for a tourist to make.  (I mean, if you live near DC, just go.) There’s the Hirshhorn and all the myriad Smithsonian art museums, and the National Gallery does have nice example of everything.  And they’re all free…
For those reasons, it took me a year and a half [...]

Things That Make Me Not Want to be an Artist

Well, for one there is the version of the art world as most symbolically represented by Damien Hirst.  It’s the I’m Rich application for the iPhone, only on more of a “screw private islands, I’ve got a private archipelago” scale.
(yay populism!)
There’s also the particular breed of New Ager that feeels everything and believes that if [...]