The San Francisco Bay Area is notorious for being full of people who have interesting ideas and, what’s more, are prone to act on them. Creativity is the lifeblood of the Bay Area not just in the sense that it … Continue reading
Category Archives: Art
From the website of the American Bookseller’s Foundation for Free Expression comes this interesting item: On March 25, the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) condemned a new Indiana law that requires mainstream bookstores to register with the government … Continue reading
Burning a library, especially an ancient one, is usually seen as the act of ignorant, barbaric, people with the intellect of a crow bar. The Library of Alexandria is the canonical example; burned once by the Romans, and later again … Continue reading
Waterfire brazier. Photo by the author. Despite my passing through middle age, I am still naïve enough or wise enough to argue that it is the duty of any creative intellectual to improve the place where he or she lives … Continue reading
It was never my intention that this blog become an obit page, but in spite of recently noting the death last month of Paul MacCready, I can’t let Saturday’s passing of Marcel Marceau go unremarked. Marceau brought the art of … Continue reading
When I was in grade school, I had the good fortune to benefit from the fact that the Russians, via Sputnik, had scared the bejesus out of America, prompting our leaders to the very sensible conclusion that we needed more … Continue reading
Confession time: despite all my words of praise for art and artists and their supporters, it has literally been about a decade since I last set foot in an art gallery (at least that I can remember). But the Bay … Continue reading