THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE CEDAR VALLEY is an exhibit of art, design, photography, video, original music, ephemera, and other cultural artifacts to celebrate the prolific creative output and rich cultural impact of the underground music scene in the Cedar Valley over the past 30 years.
The gallery will showcase many examples of DIY design, including […]
In addition to getting married, having a baby, and raising an eight year old, I have been busily working on curating a multimedia exhibit which documents and celebrates the punk music scene in my hometown, Cedar Falls, Iowa. The exhibit, called “The Secret History of the Cedar Valley” will open March 17, 2007 at […]
In 1982 at Documenta 7 in Kassel, Germany, German artist Joseph Beuys initiated an epic project of social sculpture that consisted in the planting of 7000 trees.
I always wondered where these trees ended up being planted, so I’ve been trying to track them all down. I have a Platial map on which […]
Let me set the stage: You’re teaching an Art History survey class. You have two hours to discuss all of the art of the last 50 odd years (1950-2000). Going through a barrage of images and artists is a surefire path to complete confusion. You need to whittle it down to a […]
Meet Akbar the Great, grandson of Babur, the Muslim prince who conquered Northern India and began the Mughal dynasty (a line of Islamic kings who ruled over the largely Hindu Indian subcontinent for three hundred years), who in turn descended from Tamerlane (the founder of the Timurid dynasty) and Genghis Khan. Akbar was an […]
My old comrade-in-art M. Titus has written a delicious review of a Gauguin show in Dallas. Never one to mince words, Titus manages to both celebrate and smackdown the show’s ambitions: “the most fascinating exhibition of middle-of-the-road art I’ve ever seen” while summarily dissing the unworthies: “Camille Pissarro, a least favorite painter of a […]
Take a look at this portrait of Elizabeth I. What do you see?
Then read this brilliant article by Daniel Fischlin. Are you scandalized yet? Or on your feet cheering the empowered expression of femininity? Do you believe Elizabeth not capable of such polymorphous perversity? Take a look at […]
stunningly beatufiul fonts at misprinted type.
Cecil Kleakins is an eccentric academic known for appreciating noise, researching invisible topics, and taking long baths. When he is not feeding grapes to his leopards, he adores a finely crafted claret and, like the Duke of Burgundy, Philiip the Bold, disdains the ignoble Gamay.
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