I went to a talk given a few days ago by Richard Jochum, an artist / philosopher / educator from Austria who’s been a visiting scholar here for the past two or three years now. His lecture, on ‘Understanding Contemporary Art,’ was really quite fascinating: accessible to persons like myself - who have little background [...]
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Posted in Art, tagged nostalgia, school art, soda cans on October 23, 2007 | No Comments »
Hey, remember these?
I spent this past Sunday afternoon loafing a bit, recovering from my Friday exam, clicking through E-bay looking for a dresser for my room. I then noticed that there are a number of people who are selling vintage, unopened cans of soda and beer - such as the one above (RC cola - [...]
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Posted in Art, New York City, tagged Photography on July 20, 2007 | No Comments »
Coming home to my apartment in Park Slope, I thought: gee, I appropriated the name of one of Brooklyn’s main streets as the title for my blog. Instead of blabbing on about sociology, my travails in grad school, my mounting irritation with my HIV education class - shouldn’t I try to write about Brooklyn, or [...]
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