Woodcuts, Gallery Hops, and What It All [some of it all] Means

Shawna Khalily has a new set of prints at her Ex Voto gallery. The unflagging quality of her woodcuts owes to her clear mastery of both material and idiom, and once again she delivers variations on themes of self-discovery, self-disclosure.

On top of that, as an artist friend of mine pointed out, her output is astonishing. [...]

Art After Dark: Baloney, Emily Dickinson Eating Cookies, and Vampire Costumed Rock and Roll

“Art After Dark” at the Speed Museum in Louisville was a lively scavenger-hunt of an event. To look at the schedule, broken down into subcategories including music and performance, was to feel inadequately singular. There was just no way to see even most of what was on offer.

And maybe that was the point. It [...]

Do You Label Everything? Labeling is Not a Pastime.

It’s important to label items so that you can easily find something again or otherwise return to a place you are. Now, how vital is it to label something as something it is clearly not?

If someone went around labeling walls as doors, that would be funny. When Magritte labeled his painting of a pipe “Ceci [...]

Response to Anti-Bike Rant in the C-J

This is the response I posted to the online story chat for to STEVE WOESTE’s bicycle entitlement rant that appeared in the Courier Journal Readers Forum on Friday, October 23, 2009:

Mr. Woeste cries that bicyclists should be taxed (a Santa-letter of a wish without an enforcement suggestion) because he’s sick of drivers bearing the burden [...]

Dune 4.0 (no, there’s neither worm nor spice in this sequel)

Daan Roosegaarde gave a joybuzzer of a presentation at Ideafestival in Louisville on Sept. 25 that got the crowd tingling about art and architecture and technology. It was the most exciting and entertainingly-delivered mashup of ideas and artful execution I’ve seen in some time (except for the documentary Copyright Criminals shown earlier in the week [...]

Gallery Hop Review on LouisvilleMojo.com

Two spires, six major parks, 15 boxing rounds, 20 disco balls, and counting.

Those were the highlights of the kickoff reception for the Gill Holland book Louisville Counts! A Children’s Counting and Art Book at the Green Building. The event was part of the September First Friday Gallery Hop…

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