by David | Sep 29, 2008 | culture, design, media
Clearly I’m a bit behind on the art writeups here. I was at the opening for the DeCordova’s drawing show, “Drawn to Detail” with erstwhile museum buddy L some weeks ago. As usual, the opening was way too crowded to really see the work, but I...
by David | Sep 25, 2008 | culture, design, economics, media, photo
You know you have a problem when you go shopping for something when you have recently purchased examples of that same thing sitting around your house, unopened. Well, maybe not in the case of food. But in the case of art, I think I might have this problem. Last...
by David | Sep 13, 2008 | culture, design, media, photo
Last month I visited San Francisco and engaged in some art-peeping and food-eating with Professor N and La Doctorante. One of the highlights of the trip was a visit to SFMoMA, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where I saw the headline show of Frida Kahlo...
by David | Sep 1, 2008 | culture, design, photo, urbanism
A few weeks ago, I got a call from C, asking me some odd questions about framing and insurance. It turns out he’s setting up a (temporary?) gallery in some vacant space in a building his family owns in Chinatown. I’ve blogged once or twice about the...
by David | Aug 9, 2008 | design, eating, travel, urbanism
On Thursday I was lucky enough to meet up with La Doctorante, buddy of LKB, art-historical dissertatrix and author of an excellent secret blog, for lunch and some museum-going. I could tell you more about the blog, but you know what would have to happen next. What I...
by David | Aug 3, 2008 | culture, design, urbanism
I finally addressed a shameful gap in my Boston art-peeping by visiting the ICA’s (not so) new South Boston space with intrepid museum buddy L. We had heard from some that the architecture was better than any of the art contained inside, but we found things to...