Scenes From The Newark Art Scene
October 25th, 2010 | 3 Comments | Art |
We left full of warm feelings: we’d seen the future of Newark, and we didn’t get third-degree burns.
Tricia Zimic Ceramics
January 25th, 2010 | 0 Comments | Art |
We knew we were on the right track when the first thing we saw walking in the door of Tricia’s ceramics show was this one, the pileated woodpecker, exactly what we saw in the Great Swamp a couple of days before.
The Week In Reviews
January 9th, 2010 | 0 Comments | Art, Entertainment, Movies, Music |
I spent most of my time over the break with LF out there in real life, and I offer a thousand apologies for not posting anything. Well, trying to get back on track, here are a few capsule reviews of some of the various entertainments we availed ourselves of.
Montclair Art Museum
June 22nd, 2009 | 2 Comments | Art |
We spent Fathers’ Day visiting the Montclair Art Museum in beautiful Montclair, NJ. Yet another cool place nearby I’ve never visited before, it’s a sweet little collection of really good American paintings and sculptures. And it’s a very manageable trip — we covered it in detail in about two hours. The Big Show right now [...]
From The Nice People Who Brought You The Word “Zaftig.”
May 15th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Art, Science |
“I showed it to a male colleague, and his response was, ‘Nothing’s changed in 40,000 years.’” –University of Tübingen archaeologist Nicholas Conard
The Inauguration
March 27th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Art, Travelogues |
The New York Times’ Maira Kalman’s illustrated trip down to the inauguration is a thing of beauty.
Slightly Off Track
March 1st, 2009 | 0 Comments | Art, Travelogues |
Hiking up in the Rez yesterday, we found someone had been having some fun with the blazes on the Orange Trail.
The “Orton Effect”
October 25th, 2008 | 4 Comments | Art, Tech Stuff |
Some-time commenter Andy did some of this on the Literary Cafe blog, and I thought it looked way cool. Before-and-after after the jump.
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