St. Paul Sculptural Complex is Torn Down
Monday, June 9th, 2008 Posted in Art | No Comments »A sculpture by George Sugarman that has graced a downtown St. Paul corner since 1971 is being torn down. A potential million-dollar masterpiece, "St. Paul Sculptural Complex" was left out when the building was sold and is being removed and ...
Discovering Art in West Bend, Wisconsin
Sunday, June 1st, 2008 Posted in Art | No Comments »Art keeps following me. Apparently it's not enough to be mapping public art in the Twin Cities. Last weekend we were in West Bend, Wisconsin (about an hour north of Milwaukee), helping my brother and his family move. While getting ...
Twitter, Moving, History & Art
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 Posted in Art, Blogging, Domicile, Familia, History | No Comments »Blogging has definitely slowed lately. I blame Twitter—I've been enjoying its strength as a place to make temporary, pithy comments that don't require much time or thought investment. Maybe that says something about how valuable/worthless my Twitter posts are, though ...
Caponi Art Park
Saturday, May 10th, 2008 Posted in Art, Twin Cities | No Comments »Last weekend I went to Caponi Art Park in Eagan, Minn., to check out the art. If you're not familiar with it (I wasn't), artist Anthony Caponi bought a chunk of land in the 1950s and build his home and ...
Simple Living: Artwork for Darfur
Friday, May 2nd, 2008 Posted in Art, Society | 2 Comments »I love this painfully poignant Darfur poster from Nadia Plesner: "My illustration Simple Living is an idea inspired by the media's constant cover of completely meaningless things. My thought was: Since doing nothing but wearing designer bags and small ugly dogs ...
Mmm… Felt Food
Friday, March 21st, 2008 Posted in Art | No Comments »Ninja Eema, my sister-in-law's Etsy site I mentioned a few weeks ago, is now stocking produce. Well, felt produce. Looks tasty.
Ninja Eema: My Sister-in-Law on Etsy
Thursday, March 6th, 2008 Posted in Art | No Comments »My sister-in-law, Limor, has set up shop on Etsy, selling her crafty wares under the name Ninja Eema. She's made some great stuff for Lexi for various presents, and now you can get your own stuff. I'm partial to Dudley the ...
Start Seeing Art on MNSpeak
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 Posted in Art, Company News, Twin Cities | No Comments »My little side project, Start Seeing Art, made it on the Twin Cities blog MNSpeak today. I'm pretty excited about the exposure. And a little frightened--though so far no one has mocked the rudimentary design, and for that I'm thankful.
Busy Week at Start Seeing Art
Saturday, January 26th, 2008 Posted in Art, Company News, Twin Cities | No Comments »Last week I was all excited to announce that Start Seeing Art had mapped 100 works of public art across the Twin Cities (if 'across' means primarily in St. Paul). But in the past week alone we've added 25 more ...
Start Seeing Art Hits 100
Saturday, January 19th, 2008 Posted in Art, Company News, Twin Cities | No Comments »My little side project, Start Seeing Art--which maps and identifies public art in the Twin Cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis--hit 100 yesterday. The site has now mapped 100 pieces of public artwork. It's been a fun little project. I've really ...
