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 17, 2008 | culture, media, photo, transportation, urbanism
It’s rare that I know something about social media that C.C. Chapman doesn’t, but earlier this evening I left the third WBUR social media get-together and saw this tweet. So, for C.C. and others, let me set the context. WBUR’s social media guy, Ken...
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 12, 2008 | culture, eating, media, urbanism
I found out, at the last minute as per usual, that the final performance of Harborwalk Sounds at the ICA was last night. I quickly diverted prior plans with J (sorry, Toro, we’ll be back) and took the other side of the silver line to the ICA. Harborwalk Sounds...
by David | Sep 9, 2008 | economics, media
You may have noticed that I’ve been critical of print advertising, especially in general interest publications. But oddly enough, not that long ago, I encountered a print ad so compelling that I took action. Repeatedly. And yet the merchant did not win the...
