Arts Bombast: Raw Magazine
Fun fact: Before Art Spiegelman was busy winning the Pulitzer Prize, and before Francoise Mouly was busy being the art editor of the New Yorker, the quirky couple co-edited a … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: Jean Arp
Guys. It’s Jean Arp‘s birthday week. Were he alive, he’d be 126 years old. Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag, Hans!
Arts Bombast: Wayne White
Go ahead and EXALT, San Francisco: All weekend, Roxie Theater will be showing BEAUTY IS EMBARRASSING, a documentary about weirdo/artist Wayne White. I lovelovelove his repurposed thrift-store paintings, and even … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: David Markey
David Markey is basically a punk-rock Renaissance Man. He is a member of one of my all-time-favorite bands Sin 34, director of the ridiculously excellent Desperate Teenage Lovedolls, and documentary … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: Madge Gill
I discovered visionary outsider artist Madge Gill the other day when I read that she was the inspiration behind this Ikue Mori album. The term “outsider art” has always been … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: Judy Linn
Photographer Judy Linn met Patti Smith in 1969, long before she was known as the “Godmother of Punk.” Linn, like lots of young people learning photography, took pictures of her … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: Cindy Sherman
“Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren’t meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I can push myself to extremes, make each shot … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: Oakland Art Murmur
Oakland Art Murmur is a giant, free street party slash gallery walk that takes place around Koreatown, Oak every first Friday of the month. Why did it take me so … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: Science and Fiction
It’s a well-known fact that science and fiction go together like vodka and soda water (brilliantly, that is.) Add art into the mix, and well, I’m there. Done deal. On … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: Lee Miller
So, remember how I was super keen on the Man Ray exhibit at Legion of Honor? I went into it like, “Yay, Man Ray. Oh, they’ll have lots of stuff … Continue reading
Ribbon Around A Bomb 