In which a group of graying eternal amateurs discuss their passions, interests and obsessions, among them: movies, art, politics, evolutionary biology, taxes, writing, computers, these kids these days, and lousy educations.
E-Mail Donald
Demographer, recovering sociologist, and arts buff
E-Mail Fenster
College administrator and arts buff
E-Mail Francis
Architectural historian and arts buff
E-Mail Friedrich
Entrepreneur and arts buff
E-Mail Michael
Media flunky and arts buff
We assume it's OK to quote emailers by name.
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Art, Architecture, the Econ of Art
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Destination Pasadena
Monday, January 11, 2010
LACMA Report
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Las Vegas High-Rising
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Over-Theorized Design
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
A Gehry Encore En-Corpse
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Vanished Buildings Seen
Monday, November 16, 2009
Neiman's Interior Space
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Sacred Art Rumblings
Friday, October 30, 2009
American "Orientalism"
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Satisfying Paintings
Monday, September 28, 2009
Sixth Avenue, Remembered
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Are Sculptors Long-Lived?
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Bernie Fuchs, RIP
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Painter of the Indistinct
Friday, September 4, 2009
Pole Dancing
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Bubbles, McMansions
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Courbet, Seen Darkly
Thursday, June 11, 2009
A Searle Semi-Sighting
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Visual Arts Linkage
Monday, June 1, 2009
Matt and Derb
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Response to Chris
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Big Brother Bucky
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Oldest, Firstest, Fake
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Obama in Popular Culture
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Visual Arts Linkage
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Architecture Linkage
Friday, March 27, 2009
Art Linkage
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Automobile Art by Reuters
Monday, March 23, 2009
Alla Prima Alla Time
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Cherie, Nude
Sunday, March 1, 2009
The Craft of Putz
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Outline Style, 1890-1940
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
More on Porn and Art
Monday, February 23, 2009
Donald's Art Bookmarks
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Stuck on Evil
Monday, February 16, 2009
Is MAYA Extinct?
Monday, February 9, 2009
Secession in Seattle
Friday, February 6, 2009
Art of the Pickup
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Evo Bio Books
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Architecture, Insane and Sane
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Alexander
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Over-analyzing Art
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Tom Thompson of Canada
Friday, November 7, 2008
Art Recession Datapoint
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Architecture Linkage
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Please Explain: Cezanne
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Save the Embassy?
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Safdie Designs a Gallery
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Ottawa Isn't Rome
Monday, October 6, 2008
Stores With Art Books
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Canadian Spaces
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
A False Future Glimpsed
Friday, September 19, 2008
Annabella at 15
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
More Scruton
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Choosing a How-to-Paint Book
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Book Draft Snippet
Friday, August 29, 2008
Questions
Monday, August 25, 2008
Manny Farber, RIP
Thursday, August 21, 2008
The Alexander Effect
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Homage to a Catalan
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Less-Forgotten Painters
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Fred and Bill
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Read and Discuss
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Hermen Anglada-Camarasa
Sunday, July 20, 2008
More on Parking
Monday, July 14, 2008
Modern Classicist
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Mystery Painting
Monday, June 23, 2008
A Perl of a Critique
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Art in America
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Mickey D on Steroids
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Surrealistic Dreaming
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Notre Dame Gothic
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Glass Staircases
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Julian's Place
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Steve on Art
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Diebenkorn, Dubrow
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Icon World
Friday, April 18, 2008
Katie's Book
Thursday, April 17, 2008
This is Not Art
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Lego Living
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Painter Babes
Thursday, April 3, 2008
It's All in the Nose
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Nikos and James
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
"Early American Art"?
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Some Architecture Musings
Friday, February 29, 2008
Our Postmodern Economy
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Tiepolo's Hottie Madonnas
Friday, February 22, 2008
Frozen Mischief
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Architecture Linkage
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Urban Squeezing
Friday, February 15, 2008
Paul Avril
Friday, February 8, 2008
A Quick Rant
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Architecture Linkage
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Roger on Nikos
Friday, February 1, 2008
I Am Not Worthy
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Starchitects Win Work
Monday, January 28, 2008
Un-Masterly Anatomy
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Nikos Lectures
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Oh, Those Copycat Japanese
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Dutton's Doings
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Pic of the Day
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Art School Confidential
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Fab Freebies
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Best-Ofs, 2007 Edition
Monday, December 10, 2007
Derriere Guard Alert
Friday, December 7, 2007
What Will Last?
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Italian Efficiency
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Las Vegas Goes Modernist
Friday, November 23, 2007
Visual Linkage
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Italy's Dabbers
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Flickr Huh?
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Fascist Buildings
Monday, October 15, 2007
Modern Art, Italian Style
Friday, October 12, 2007
Separating Art and Artist
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Too Much Glass
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Balint Zsako
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Some Katie Opinions
Monday, September 17, 2007
The Problem of Simplicity
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Dealing With Collegiate Gothic
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Pygmy Painters
Monday, September 3, 2007
Singular Multiplicity
Monday, August 27, 2007
Craftsman A'Buildin'
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Skill and the Arts
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Pin-Up Masters
Thursday, August 2, 2007
A Less-Known Herter
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Rocky Architecture
Monday, July 16, 2007
Angels and Impasto
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Painting Frustrations
Sunday, July 8, 2007
At Right Reason
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Nikos on Amazon
Friday, June 22, 2007
Bagatelles
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Victoria, 2007
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Symbolizing States
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
More Jane Jacobs
Friday, April 27, 2007
New Nikos
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Stuffy Vs. Po-Mo
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Warhol and Worthiness
Monday, April 16, 2007
Are Captions Harmful?
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Symmetry Preferences
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Underground
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Dear National Trust ...
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Nudes in Nature
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Vollard on Art Trends
Friday, March 2, 2007
False Fronts
Thursday, March 1, 2007
Apatoff on Illustration
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Portraits and Modernism
Monday, February 19, 2007
Recent Reading
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Real Beauty?
Monday, January 22, 2007
Blogging Note
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Stacked
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Nasty Artist
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
The Invisible Hand Is Back
Sunday, January 7, 2007
Yet Another Vienna 1900
Tuesday, January 2, 2007
Nine Heads Tall
Monday, December 18, 2006
Not All Suburbs Are Alike
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Francis in Public
Thursday, December 7, 2006
Graham Nickson
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Contrarianism Is Creative?
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Dumping Classical Art
Saturday, November 11, 2006
Camille's Girly Side
Sunday, November 5, 2006
SoCal Art Museum Notes
Saturday, November 4, 2006
Nikos' New Book
Friday, October 13, 2006
The Reviver?
Monday, October 9, 2006
More Glass
Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Art? ... Who Sez So?
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Andy and Me and Joe and Don
Saturday, September 23, 2006
Glassy NYC
Friday, September 15, 2006
A New Head Architect
Thursday, September 14, 2006
Wabi Sabi
Saturday, September 9, 2006
Classical Art Training
Thursday, September 7, 2006
Sound-Effects "Art"
Monday, September 4, 2006
Separating Artist and Art
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Classicism Links
Saturday, August 12, 2006
Winning Artists
Wednesday, August 9, 2006
Architecture by Braun
Friday, July 21, 2006
Now It Can Be Told
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Lakeshore Luxe
Friday, July 14, 2006
Uninhibited
Wednesday, July 5, 2006
Modern vs. Modernist
Sunday, June 18, 2006
Modernism
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Aesthetic Ivy
Monday, June 12, 2006
Best?
Friday, June 9, 2006
Manny Farber
Tuesday, June 6, 2006
Fave Fairs
Saturday, June 3, 2006
American Cities
Thursday, June 1, 2006
Visual Delights
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Performance and Art
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Don Bachardy
Friday, May 12, 2006
Margi Young 4
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Margi Young 2
Monday, May 8, 2006
Art Innovation Bleg
Tuesday, May 2, 2006
More Art Metrics
Thursday, April 27, 2006
Letter to Nikos
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Jane Jacobs R.I.P.
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
"Fast Food Nation," Part 1
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Mike Slack's Polaroids
Saturday, April 8, 2006
Upscale Book Jackets
Thursday, April 6, 2006
William Whyte
Tuesday, April 4, 2006
Jack Vettriano
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Ionarts on Bonnard
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Digi-Photo Links
Friday, March 10, 2006
Peripheral Explanation
Friday, March 3, 2006
Art Links of Note
Sunday, February 26, 2006
John Sloan Updates
Friday, February 17, 2006
Bugatti Bliss
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Be Original! Do Like Me!
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
Jane Jacobs
Sunday, February 5, 2006
Should First be Best?
Friday, January 27, 2006
Same Old, Same Old
Monday, January 9, 2006
Art & The Middle Class
Wednesday, January 4, 2006
Shiney
Saturday, December 17, 2005
More Scruton
Friday, December 16, 2005
The Mona Lisa Algorithm
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Dueling Light-Painters
Wednesday, December 7, 2005
Revivals
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
De Young Museum Impressions
Friday, October 28, 2005
The Depression in Color
Friday, October 21, 2005
Graphics [Fads]
Thursday, October 20, 2005
Inside New Urbanism
Saturday, October 15, 2005
Watercolor vs. the DeYoung
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Popular Artists (1): Pino
Thursday, October 6, 2005
Giclée OK?
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Museum-Viewing Styles
Thursday, September 15, 2005
As Bad as All That?
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Mad-Dog
Saturday, August 13, 2005
Dutton on Evo-Crit
Thursday, August 11, 2005
The Albany Mall
Thursday, July 28, 2005
Sole Creators?
Thursday, June 30, 2005
Fact for the Day
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Steve on Golf Courses
Thursday, May 26, 2005
Building Boom
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Nikos Reactions
Tuesday, May 3, 2005
Weirdos and Culture
Friday, April 22, 2005
Architecture Elsewhere
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
More Silver
Saturday, April 9, 2005
Architecture Elsewhere
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Thom Mayne/Quinlan Terry
Thursday, March 17, 2005
Stoned Again
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Stoned
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Aurbach on Krier
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Barbarians
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Tinkertoys
Friday, February 4, 2005
Hughes on Goya
Saturday, January 15, 2005
Photography Questions
Wednesday, January 5, 2005
Graphic Design
Thursday, December 30, 2004
Vacation and the Arts
Monday, December 27, 2004
Museums
Thursday, December 16, 2004
Confessions of a Naked Model
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
More Francis
Saturday, November 6, 2004
Nairn
Tuesday, November 2, 2004
Elsewhere
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Classical Symposium
Friday, October 8, 2004
Renaissance and Religion
Thursday, September 23, 2004
Salingaros on Viseu
Saturday, September 18, 2004
Will Middlebrow Ever Return?
Saturday, September 11, 2004
Katarxis #3 Is Now Online
Wednesday, September 1, 2004
Responses and Elaborations
Friday, August 27, 2004
The Renaissance
Wednesday, August 25, 2004
Gals and Art
Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Elsewhere
Thursday, July 29, 2004
John Massengale
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
Lunch Emails
Saturday, June 26, 2004
Laughing at Rem
Thursday, June 24, 2004
Slow
Wednesday, June 16, 2004
A New Sarah Susanka Book
Friday, June 11, 2004
More on FLW
Friday, May 28, 2004
Underneath It All
Thursday, May 13, 2004
New-Urb Elsewhere
Monday, May 10, 2004
Froggytime
Wednesday, April 28, 2004
Salingaros on Tschumi 8
Monday, April 26, 2004
Salingaros on Tschumi 7
Saturday, April 24, 2004
Salingaros on Tschumi 6
Thursday, April 22, 2004
Salingaros on Tschumi 5
Wednesday, April 21, 2004
Salingaros on Tschumi 4
Monday, April 19, 2004
Salingaros on Tschumi 3
Saturday, April 17, 2004
Salingaros on Tschumi 2
Thursday, April 15, 2004
Salingaros on Tschumi 1
Wednesday, April 7, 2004
Architects and Glass
Friday, April 2, 2004
Three Questions
Friday, March 26, 2004
Light Entertainment
Thursday, March 25, 2004
Cultural Hype
Friday, March 19, 2004
Massengale on Modernism
Wednesday, March 17, 2004
Towers in the Park
Tuesday, March 16, 2004
Greek Elections
Thursday, March 11, 2004
Restaurant Realities
Friday, February 27, 2004
Michelangelo and Rodin
Thursday, February 26, 2004
Bay Area Figurative Artists
Wednesday, February 25, 2004
In the Neighborhood of Genius
Thursday, February 19, 2004
Taunton Press
Wednesday, February 18, 2004
Frederick Turner
Thursday, February 12, 2004
Virtual Architecture?
Friday, January 30, 2004
NEA Gripes
Friday, January 23, 2004
Jess
Friday, January 16, 2004
Person A and Person B
Thursday, January 15, 2004
Elvgren--Ahead of His Time?
Friday, January 2, 2004
Raphael on Popper
Tuesday, December 16, 2003
Salingaros on Kahn
Saturday, December 13, 2003
The Man or His Times?
Thursday, December 4, 2003
Design
Thursday, November 20, 2003
Greats I Don't Get
Tuesday, November 18, 2003
True Art School Tales
Tuesday, October 28, 2003
True Art School Tales
Thursday, October 23, 2003
Quotes of the Day
Saturday, October 11, 2003
Goltzius and Authorship
Friday, October 3, 2003
Pic of the Day
Saturday, September 27, 2003
1000 Words: David Milne
Friday, September 26, 2003
Another Oakeshott Quote
Friday, September 19, 2003
True Art School Tales
Thursday, September 18, 2003
Sculpture and the Inner Child
Wednesday, September 17, 2003
And The Nominees Are...
Thursday, September 11, 2003
Frank Lloyd Wright Redux
Wednesday, September 10, 2003
True Art School Tales
Tuesday, September 9, 2003
Pic of the Day
Monday, September 1, 2003
Parking Lots and Downtowns
Saturday, August 30, 2003
Pic of the Day
Wednesday, August 20, 2003
James Howard Kunstler
Friday, August 15, 2003
David Sucher, Day Two
Thursday, August 14, 2003
David Sucher, Day One
Tuesday, August 12, 2003
Contempo Figurative Art
Saturday, August 2, 2003
Pic of the Day
Friday, August 1, 2003
Elsewhere
Tuesday, July 22, 2003
East Meets West
Friday, July 18, 2003
Paul Johnson on art
Saturday, July 12, 2003
Hindu Art
Tuesday, July 8, 2003
El Grullo
Monday, July 7, 2003
Rethinking "Kitsch"
Friday, July 4, 2003
More on Libeskind
Wednesday, July 2, 2003
New Traditionalist Art
Tuesday, July 1, 2003
Brian on Bridget
Sunday, June 1, 2003
Manny Farber
Wednesday, May 28, 2003
The Arts Litany Redux
Friday, May 23, 2003
Doodles & Their Uses
Thursday, May 22, 2003
The Arts Litany
Tuesday, May 13, 2003
Our Evil Agenda
Saturday, April 26, 2003
Hot New Buildings
Friday, April 25, 2003
Architecture and Sex
Thursday, April 24, 2003
I don't know why I worry
Wednesday, April 23, 2003
Art Deco
Wednesday, April 16, 2003
Idolatry Redux
Wednesday, April 9, 2003
A Nagging Question
Thursday, April 3, 2003
New and Improved
Monday, March 31, 2003
Lucian Freud on Tape
Friday, March 21, 2003
Ignored no more
Thursday, March 20, 2003
Pic of the Day
Friday, March 14, 2003
Pic of the Day
Thursday, March 13, 2003
Bipolar Elvis
Monday, March 3, 2003
Pic of the Day
Saturday, March 1, 2003
Bad Meditator
Thursday, February 20, 2003
Bulletins from the Sickbed
Thursday, January 30, 2003
Art Survival Tips
Monday, January 27, 2003
Food As Art; Art As Food
Thursday, January 23, 2003
WTC -- Gaudi's Entry
Saturday, January 18, 2003
1000 Words: Addison Mizner
Thursday, January 9, 2003
Free Reads -- Philosoblog
Tuesday, January 7, 2003
Pic of the Day
Monday, January 6, 2003
Idolatry
Saturday, January 4, 2003
Pic of the Day
Thursday, January 2, 2003
Art Imponderables
Monday, December 23, 2002
Artistic Temperaments
Saturday, December 21, 2002
WTC Plans Redux
Wednesday, December 18, 2002
Modern Art 101
Monday, December 16, 2002
Art is Not Science
Friday, December 13, 2002
Photography and Painting
Thursday, December 12, 2002
Milton Glaser on art
Wednesday, December 11, 2002
PBS Responses
Saturday, December 7, 2002
TV Alert
Wednesday, December 4, 2002
Flash New Urbanism
Monday, December 2, 2002
Rewriting (Art) History
Thursday, November 28, 2002
Politics of the NEA, part II
Wednesday, November 27, 2002
Digital Photography Musings
Tuesday, November 26, 2002
Pollock's Drip Fractals
Monday, November 25, 2002
Art is Long, Life is Weird
Thursday, November 21, 2002
Aesthetics & Automobiles
Wednesday, November 20, 2002
Celebrity Smack Down
Saturday, November 16, 2002
Art in Santa Fe
Friday, November 15, 2002
Adorno's Self Portrait
Thursday, November 14, 2002
Our Mission, so to speak
Wednesday, November 13, 2002
The TiVo Revolution continues
Friday, November 8, 2002
Cultureblog Fever
Tuesday, November 5, 2002
The Living Dead
Sunday, November 3, 2002
TV Alert
Saturday, November 2, 2002
The Emperor Has No Clothes
Wednesday, October 30, 2002
Comments
Monday, October 28, 2002
TV Alert
Saturday, October 26, 2002
Media Surplus
Wednesday, October 23, 2002
Philosoblog and Envy redux
Tuesday, October 22, 2002
Getty vs. Acropolis
Saturday, October 19, 2002
TV Alert
Wednesday, October 16, 2002
Artistic Quote of the Day
Tuesday, October 15, 2002
Decades of Design?
Saturday, October 12, 2002
Times Square
Friday, October 11, 2002
New Cultureblog
Monday, October 7, 2002
Been there, done that
Saturday, October 5, 2002
Art in the Moonlight Redux
Saturday, September 28, 2002
Bye, Bye France
Friday, September 27, 2002
Fun With Flash
Wednesday, September 25, 2002
Hollywoodize Yourself
Tuesday, September 24, 2002
Every Picture Tells A Story
Saturday, September 21, 2002
Crunchy Cons, Reredux
Friday, September 20, 2002
Time-stopping Redux
Thursday, September 19, 2002
The Oldenburg Story, Part II
Wednesday, September 18, 2002
Free Reads -- Andres Duany
Saturday, September 14, 2002
Free Reads -- Adorno Redux
Thursday, September 12, 2002
Artistic Problems
Wednesday, September 11, 2002
New Classicists
Friday, September 6, 2002
Prissy Art Classes Redux
Thursday, September 5, 2002
Prissy Art Classes
Wednesday, August 28, 2002
Adorno
Tuesday, August 27, 2002
Scruton for a Day
Saturday, August 24, 2002
Carbuncle Awards
Friday, August 23, 2002
Andrea del Sarto Redux
Thursday, August 22, 2002
Academic Art Redux
Wednesday, August 21, 2002
Gris Design
Saturday, August 17, 2002
Voice of sanity
Friday, August 16, 2002
Art and Religion
Monday, August 12, 2002
The Uses of Reality
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