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At Catharine Clark - Masami Teraoka. I learned about Teraoka through his modern takes on ukiyo-e, Japanese woodblock prints. But recently he has started doing his own epic interpretations of Italian oil paintings filled with graphic sexuality and drug use...among other things. The Renaissance never saw anything like this.
At SFMOMA - Henry Wessel: Photographs. This was the first I'd heard of Wessel, a Bay Area photographer who has been taking pictures for the last 30 years, but he is instantly one of my faves after seeing this show. His black-and-white photographs of the American roadside landscape make me just want to take off and drive. There are a few color pictures as well, of candy-pastel suburban homes and of Las Vegas interiors where the soul seems to have been leached right out of them.
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- American Alienation: Probing Henry Wessel's pictures acquaints you more closely with your own emotional affinities.
from Diesel:
"In Lost City Radio, Alarcón displays a sophistication and maturity beyond his years. His story is an intricately woven tale of a timeless, nameless South American country ravaged by a war between the government and a guerilla faction from the jungles."
Even though the novel is very much about the conflict in Peru with Shining Path, Alarcón said at his reading last night that he wanted his country and cities to remain nameless so that he could bring in experiences he'd had in other developing nations as well. I definitely heard a little bit of West Africa in the passage he read.
I'm DJing this weekend:
Matokie
Sunday morning
9am-noon PST, Sunday February 4
KALX Berkeley 90.7fm
I've said it before, but I'm so loving this time slot. I'm crossing my toes about what happens when my long-term sub is over in mid-March...
State of Delusion:
The Campaign for America's Future truth-squads Bush's State of the Union address.
