Arts Bombast: Bargain Bin Blasphemy
It’s a well-known fact that I dig me some low-brow art, especially if it’s a little tongue-in-check, and ESPECIALLY if it’s dark and/or inappropriate. Enter: Bargain Bin Blasphemy. How wonderful … 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Mark Mothersbaugh
Fun-but-not-surprising fact: Devo frontman Mark Mothersbaugh is not only a weird and good musical artist, he is also a weird and good visual artist. Part of an ongoing series called … Continue reading
In the Mood For… A Giant Painted Jesus Mountain
My southern California adventures continued yesterday with a trip to National Folk Art Site Salvation Mountain. Built by Leonard Knight on the outskirts of Niland, California, the message is simple: … Continue reading
Ribbon Around A Bomb 