Past the mustache, under the cowboy hat and below the gravelly voice, Bob Dylan is still Robert Zimmerman from Hibbings, Minnesota. A new exhibit at Minneapolis's Weisman Art Museum drives home the point with a panoply of Dylan related relics. Here's the tambourine said to inspire that most-insiped...
Wish I'd caught this earlier: the Minneapolis Institute of Arts has an exhibit entitled " Villa America ," highlighting a lot of American Moderns who don't get as much attention these days. There are plenty of heavy hitters though, such as Georgia O'Keeffe and (pictured above) Paul...
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art starts a new exhibit this Saturday, November 19: " Chuck Close: Self-Portraits 1967-2005 ." Close is a pretty amazingly prolific artist, and his strangely pixilated portraits (of himself and others) are usually the product of taking a photograph and gradually...
There's a lot of bitter, snarky, nasty anti-celebrity sentiment out there, and I just wish we could all agree that famous, rich, beautiful people are just like you and I, expecting that they are those things and we are not. I see no reason to kick people on the way down; much better to wait until...