You May Have Heard This Already: Two Important Headlines Only Tangentially Related to the Texas Art Scene
President Obama Wins National Election, Will Remain In Office for Four More Years. Hurricane Sandy Pummels East Coast, Wrecking Jersey Shore and Flooding Chelsea Galleries.
Presidential Arts Policy Checklist: Don’t Vote Without It!
Arts advocacy PAC Americans For the Arts Action Fund has published a presidential arts policy checklist, comparing the two candidates’ positions on arts issues. On the list of seven yes or no questions concerning the funding of federal cultural agencies, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and support for arts education, and arts volunteering, the Obama-Biden [...]
Similar but Different #29: The Rainbow Connection
Well my issue of The New Yorker Magazine came today and on the cover was my inspiration for Similar but Different #29: The Rainbow Connection. Newsweek went so far as to say Obama is “The First Gay President”. In 2011 same-sex marriage became legal in New York and they lit up Niagara Falls to celebrate [...]
Chit Chat with Shepard Fairey and Pedro Alonzo
February 2, 2012. By 6:30 pm, the line waiting for the Shepard Fairey talk was already a block long. Thankfully, my RVSP and press status allowed me instant entry. After securing a seat, I went in search of a beer—finding instead another long line of people waiting for Fairey to sign their books. I spoke [...]
Whitehouse Chokes on Bad SOPA, Sends Back to Kitchen
The Whitehouse has chimed in against the upcoming SOPA anti-online piracy bill, hailed by big media, but feared by internet companies and free-speech advocates. In a blog post yesterday, Victoria Espinel, Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator at Office of Management and Budget, Aneesh Chopra, U.S. Chief Technology Officer, and Howard Schmidt, Special Assistant to the President [...]