Wood sculptor at work in Todos Santos

By Jack Brummet, NA American Travel Ed.

This amazing wood sculptor was hard at work in a hallway adjoining an art gallery in El Centro de Todos Santos.

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Photos from Todo Santos, Part 2

By Jack Brummet, N.A. Travel Ed.

Cardon cactus

 Ceramic figures at the Museum of Faces

 Keelin on the beach

 Cactus garden

 Cactus garden

 Cactus garden

 panorama of the desert near our house

street painting of a whale in La Paz

Maureen in a great taco stand that cooks two things: shrimp and fish tacos (great!)

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Drawings: Faces No. 564

By Jack Brummet

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Drawings: Faces No. 563

Drawings by Jack Brummet

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Drawings No. 563

Drawings by Jack Brummet

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Hammering Woman a/k/a Yael depicted in Bartolomeo Veneto's "Woman With A Hammer"

By Jack Brummet, Visual Arts Ed.

This fascinating painting is Woman with a Hammer by Bartolomeo Veneto, painted in roughly 1500.  The painting depicts Yael from the Book of Judges.  Yael killed Sisera to deliver Israel from King Jabin:  “While he lay asleep Yael crept stealthily up to him, holding a tent peg and a mallet. She drove it through his temples with such force that it entered into the ground below.”

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Oliver Voss's "Die Badende" a/k/a Hamburg water woman statue

By Jack Brummet, Visual Arts Editor

This (13 foot high and 98 foot long) statue of a woman is, or was, installed in Hamburg, Germany. Die Badende was created by the artist Oliver Voss.  I can't determine whether it is still there, or if the installation was just a temporary exhibition.  Pretty cool, in either case.  I like this.

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Arts & Crafts, take 19: a new take on rice carving

Excellent arts & craft:  Jeff Clinton found this great set of photos (creator unknown, so far) on the inets...sort of a new take on rice carving.  The Elvis in particular is awesome.

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Narboo's blog & his Flickr photostream

Narboo is a Seattle artist who always makes me smile. I bought two of his painting this fall. His Flickr photo stream is here, and his blogspot blog is here.

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Artist Brude Elliott follows up naked Sarah Palin painting with nude Rod Blagojevich

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Brude Elliott with his Governor Palin painting - click to enlarge

Brude Elliott, the Chicago artist who had fifteen minutes of fame following his nude painting of Sarah Palin is about to finish a new painting featuring a naked Rod Blagojevich. Rod's portrait will hang next to the Palin painting (sorry folks...we have been unable to uncover an uncensored version of either painting).

In Palin's painting, the governor wears her alternate swept back 'do, and holds an automatic rifle while standing naked on a bear-skin rug."I don't see how she could be offended by this," Elliott said. "I made her into a sex figure." [ed's note: You might have had a little help, Brude! And truth be told, she's homelier in your painting than in real life. . .your painting of Rod, however, seems flattering. ]


Click Governor Blagojevich to enlarge

Elliott's nude portrait of Blagojevich is nearly complete and will hang on the wall of Elliott's wife's bar, the Old Town Ale House, next to his nude Sarah Palin.

The Chicago artist who drew crowds, and notoriety to his wife's bar with his nude painting has begun referring to the paintings as a series, the "nude governor series."

Blagojevich nude painting Video
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Alien Montage

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All This Is That reheated: Hobo signs

Here are examples of some of my favorite hobo signs:


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Painting: The CEO and his two lieutenants

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Painting: Parade

Hobos! A Link to a great art site: 700 hoboes

Even though they form the plural of hobo as hoboes [sic], this is a great site! When I was growing up, dozens of hobos tramped through our town, bracketed as it was between the Northern Pacific and Burlington Railroad lines. They would often come to the back door, offering to work for food. The 700 hobos project enlisted 700 artists to each draw a hobo picture.

From the web site: "In the beginning, there were hoboes. Then, a notable non-historian wrote some lies about them in his wonderful and wholly inaccurate almanac. That man was John Hodgman. The book was The Areas of My Expertise. Amongst the lies was a comprehensive list of notable historical hobo names, numbering 700. After Hodgman read the list into a music flattening device, one Mr. Mark Frauenfelder of the Boing Boing teletyped a suggestion that 700 cartoonists volunteer to draw one hobo each as a public service or for no particular reason. And so it was, more or less, and here they are. "

About the website - In March of 2006, 65 years after the end of the Hobo Wars, several members of the 700 Hoboes project decided to build a new, majestic home for these noble hoboes. Check this one out! Love, jack (I'm going to sleep).

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Paris Hilton's Prison Self-portrait

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Paris Hilton drew this self-portait while she was in the hoosegow in Lynwood. These days, however, she's enjoying her freedom, while pledging to work for prison reform (because, she said, so many prisoners told her they were innocent).
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A Painting Of A Moroccan Dance Scene (artist unknown)

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This massive painting (I'd guess it is about 10 feet by five feet) hangs in a stairwell in my parent-in-laws 1904 mansion. It is a painterly rendition of a "casbah" scene. I've always loved the drapery and the pastel palette. If I am lucky I can buy or glom onto this painting when they sell the house--despite the fact it is too large to hang in anything approaching a normal house. I never saw a scene like this when I was in Morocco...the women in Morocco aren't nearly so pale, and I certainly never saw any of the women dancing. When you saw the women at all. . .

Dan Perjovschi at the Musem of Modern Art in NYC (includes video of him at work)

I went to MOMA a few days ago, mainly to see the new building, more of the collection on display, the fascinating Richard Serra show (and Van Gogh's Starry Night, the Monet, Picasso, Pollock, Brancusi's sculptures, Jasper Johns, Motherwell, De Kooning, Talouse-Lautrec, Rothko, Klimt, et al), and all the other great paintings. And then I stumbled onto Dan Perjovschi's fantastic, politically charged, and humorous wall mural. He creates these publicly on the spot--like Keith Haring did with paint, back in the day. I saw a lot of great art that day, but it took this Romanian to make me laugh.

You can download the newspaper Perjovschi created for the modern exhibit here. The New York Times review today of the show pointed out that his work is far more casual, and less formal than that of Haring's. This is true. It is a pictorial jumble of fragments that bludgeon's you with its politics. That's OK too. In some ways, this reminds me of a lot of Jonathan Borofsky's work in the 80s, where there really wasn't a message, but just deep images that spoke for themselves. Anyhow, if you're in NYC, it's worth it to see this show. The New York Times also pointed out this fascinating tidbit: people spend far more time staring at this wall that they do in front of Starry Night...arguably, the most famous painting in MOMA (or at least right up there).

Video: Dan Perjovschi creates his wall art

Note: The Richard Serra show was excellent as well. I like his epic piece at the sculpture park in Seattle, but one of these--Torqued Torus Inversion, was a real mindf'er. I know some people don't think welded rusty steel plates are a work of art, but then they are probably the same folks who think Jackson Pollack can't paint.
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A new banner for all this is that?

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Painting: President Bush Awakes From His Recurring Nightmare

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