My buddy Gareth Saxe just made his Broadway debut in Shaw’s Heartbreak House. So far, “the reviews seem quite positive of both the play and the performances”:http://nymag.com/arts/theater/reviews/22802/index.html
All the same, this lineup represents a major advance over the usual celebrity-heavy Roundabout affair. As the superb Byron Jennings, the exquisite Laila Robins, exciting newcomer Gareth Saxe, and [...]

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Kick ass!

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Apparently this shorty has painted a self-portrait:

The artists neo-expressionist style and liberal use of figurative imagery makes one think: is this an example of art imitating life, or somebody thinking that he’s really, really cool? Discuss.
“The only thing we have in common with art is that it’s the last three letters in fart” — [...]

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My buddy Mike made a sign:

It’s totally a Mike-style sign and I like it a lot. Mike’s always done really nice doodles and cartoons, including an amazing 30th birthday card for me.

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Sigur Ros cast its spell on Atlanta last night

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How cool is Google? This cool:

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Artwork that says a lot while tap dancing on the legality line.

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Crowsenberg’s Half and Half is featured in the Portland Mercury for their recent art exhibition: Dolly Parton Album Covers.
For those of you who don’t know, the Crowsenberg’s Half and Half is a cafe/convenience store owned one of my friends Robin and her buddy Keith. It is located near Powell’s City of Books in beautiful [...]

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My sister in L.A. passed this on to me.This guy is a riot! Apparently he doesn’t speak any English, travels with a companion/translator named “Urara”, which translated from the Japanese is “Ooh-La-La”, and he runs in the same circles as Shag. I’m sensing a pattern there with the dark-skinned girls with Faucett-Majors hair. These [...]

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My friend Louisa has been living in London for what seems like 3 years now doing graduate art study. Here, you will find a couple links to information about her work on the web:
Gallerie Larouche has some of her paintings for sale online.
The e-gallery has a little thing going on that features some of [...]

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28 Days of Gray

Artclub of Portland has put together an installation that celebrates what my friend Robin would call the “Portland Ennui” of winter. Very cool.
My first reaction was to laugh my ass off. My second reaction was to remember how beautiful colors look under that flattened yet deep sky.
Here’s a [...]

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Creativity Must Not Die!
A lot of people I know or know of — artists, musicians, writers, journalist — are undergoing some serious identity crises. Many of them feel that, in the wake of the destruction and total shift in the balance of the world, their Master of Fine Arts or pithy critiques of art-house [...]

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