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: 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: 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: Ed Ruscha
Ed Ruscha‘s work is that kind of art where you’re like, “Oh, yeah, that design-y typography-driven, one-word bullshit…” and then you’re like, “Oh wait, except this is fucking cool.” Possibly … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: Michelle Blade
Plans for the end of the world, yet? Oakland-based artist Michelle Blade (Oh God, I seriously just typed “Michelle Branch” on accident, then immediately deleted it like, “WTF was that?”) … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in the United States and Mexico
When most people consider Surrealism, they imagine an exclusive group of men, whose highbrow and absurdist antics embody that ironic, bohemian European man that (too) many of us know today. … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: David Lynch
“Lynchian” is def one of my favorite words. And although I’m not a fan of transcendental meditation (personally, I can’t just sit still and RE-fucking-FLECT like that), I can always … Continue reading
Ribbon Around A Bomb 