I was doing these back in the pre-blog email days, and a couple of people have griped that I haven’t done one in a while. Well, that’s because until now there hasn’t been much art news to report. Now, though, I have a chance to see how many buttons I can push with one blog entry.
First up, the LAT reports on a Frank Lloyd Wright drawing which is currently featured in a local exhibition. The drawing? A “cottage studio” designed for…Ayn Rand. (A pretty nifty design, I think.)
By way of Balko, we learn of a couple on a quest: to photograph every Sizzler in America. And they’re planning to publish a book of the photos, too.
(The comments at Balko’s site are amusing, too, especially #24: “No. This is not art. End of discussion.” Since art is “any human activity that doesn’t grow out of either of our species two basic instincts: survival and reproduction“, (or then again, maybe it isn’t) the commenter is clearly wrong.)
(Hi, Mike!)
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