Arts Bombast: Marc H. Miller
In this amazing series of photographs, artist and “punk curator” Marc H. Miller captures his friend and co-curator Bettie Ringma hanging out with legendary bands from the CBGB scene. Talking … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: Christy Rupp
Christy Rupp is a (where else?) New York-based sculptor, street artist and activist. She was using rat imagery LONG before most street artists (certainly before Banksy, but also preceding France’s … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: Rene Ricard
Tonight (!) is the opening for Warholian art hero Rene Ricard’s “New Paintings and Not So New” at Highlight Gallery here in SF. I’m not sure why he has never … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: Women Who Rock
Other than the fact that the title is shamelessly trite, I’m not sure what to make of the National Museum of Women in the Arts’ current exhibition, Women Who Rock: … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: Franklin Furnace
Franklin Furnace has been “making the world safe for avant-garde art” since 1976. That was the year that outsider/performance artist Martha Wilson founded the institution with the intention of promoting … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: Sigmar Polke
If you’re anything like me, you dig Germans and you dig pop art. Sigmar Polke was an experimental painter and photographer from East Germany who, along with Gerhard Richter, started … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: Mark Wiener
I heard from HuffPo that Mark Wiener died. Then I looked him up on Wikipedia, and it said he was still alive. Can we talk about how creepy that experience … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: 24th St. McDonald’s “Pop Up” Gallery
Confession: As a self-proclaimed “caffiend” who lives in a city with endless opportunities to drink DAMN FINE coffee (shout out to Coffee Bar on Bryant), sometimes, I decide to save … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: The Thing Quarterly
Subscribers of San Francisco’s “object-based publication” The Thing Quarterly receive a new issue of the “periodical” at their doorstep 4 times a year. The periodical, as it happens, is actually … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: Duffy
If you live in Zaragoza, Spain (and I know so many of you do) you ought to be stoked right now. Now through November 11th, Centro de Historias and Contemporanea … Continue reading
Ribbon Around A Bomb 