Helen Frankenthaler at Gallery Brown. A gallery of Frankenthaler’s prints (etchings, woodcuts, and lithographs). Marvelous work. Left: Madame de Pompadour 1985-1990 Lithograph 42.5×29.5 inches

Beatrice Wood, called the Mama of Dada, was a renowned ceramicist, lover of Marcel Duchamp, and a prime suspect in the Dada art movement of the early 1910′s. She died in 1998 at 105 years of age. Her ceramics were eccentric (like herself), with strange shapes, and iridescent glazes. She was quite a ticket, and [...]

Exercise May Boost ‘Good’ Cholesterol We all know the aerobic exercise is good for the heart, and losing weight, and reducing cholesterol levels, but a new study (see the link above for more details) has concluded that it’s how long yiou exercise, and not the intensity, that boosts the HDL (good) cholesterol. Exercising for 2 [...]

Music CD, I’m just not that into you In the four years from 2001 to 2005, overall time spent on these pursuits rose to 3,482 hours per person from 3,356 hours, about a 4% increase. But that didn’t benefit all forms of entertainment equally. Here’s a table I’ve created from the MPAA report showing the [...]

Looking for an online rhyming dictionary for poetry, lyrics, limericks, or what have you? I tested out two today Rhymezone and rhymer.com Rhymer.com won hands down, finding suggestions for every word I threw at it. I think it works better because it uses end rhymes, instead of trying to rhyme whole words. (It found rhymes [...]

Two marks. Like Chinese eyes. Graphite, Drawing the line, Where, The saw, Ends it all. Keith Perkins–2004

So today on Wired I found out that there’s a biopic being made of Iggy Pop, and the early days of The Stooges. How cool is that! Elijah Wood is playing Iggy, and, Kirsten Dunst plays Debbie Harry. It has Iggy’s blessing, but he’s not participating in it. Short Wikipedia article here Here’s hoping it [...]

My favorite quote from here: Soft rock music isn’t rock, and it ain’t music. It’s just soft. Viva La Carlin!

New York Time article on Louise Nevelson’s show at the Jewish Museum. Nevelson earned her place in art history, somewhere between the totemic structures of David Smith and the emotionalism of Eva Hesse, with mysterious abstract assemblages made from street-salvaged remnants of wood: baseball bats, milk crates, driftwood, picture frames, toolboxes, toilet seats, newel posts [...]

So there was an ad for Paul Matthews’ newest show, at Atea Ring Gallery (no website, sorry), in this months Art in America magazine (the May 2007 issue–the front page of the site changes every month). He’s a very fine figurative painter, who does mostly nudes, showing (among other things) pregnant women, child birth, old [...]