I deleted all the sponsored posts, which are sort of deceptive because they look like normal blog posts but are actually advertisments. I don't know exactly how many I wrote, but I think I deleted all of them.
So now this blog is just a blog about art, and related stuff. If you don't know me, I am an adjunct art professor in NYC, and I work as an assitant to a prominent artist. I have also been installing shows in Chelsea.
I went to school in the midwest, at the University of Iowa, with some really great people. If you didn't know the University of Iowa takes its art pretty seriously and brings in a lot of guest lecturers, it also has a very strong faculty. It is sort of strange because a lot of schools in urban centers and on the coasts won't get important artists and thinkers to come and talk to the students, but the University of Iowa really goes out of its way to bring people in there, and provided me with a top notch education.
I guess I am thinking about the University because I saw that the new art building was flooded last week when I spotted it on the news here. I thought it might flood because it right next to the river, and it is probably one of the lowest buildings in the entirety of Iowa City. I wonder if the art museum flooded? They have some pretty important paintings in there...
Ok, well starting soon look for pics from NYC galleries. I am going to try and make the blog more topical about art, and specifically stuff that pushes me away from my comfort zone.
Hope everyone in Iowa is doing ok.
3 comments:
bill, hey, i had a similar yearning to mentally be back there at the ol' UIowa.. i heard somewhere that they moved out the picasso and pollock from the museum (press-citizen?).. as far as the school and my education there goes, i feel like i got a good'n too and when i tell people where i went to school, they say, "why did you go out there?" and i can say w/ extreme calmness, "because it was freakin' wicked awesome out there."
Oh Man, I did some more research and the art school is pretty much completely under water. The Uiowa website says it will take months and maybe years to repair it. I called the art office today to see if I could speak to someone and they didn't pick up the phone, I imagine they are pretty busy. I wonder how much of the school was destroyed by the flooding. What is really crazy is that the new art building has only been operation since the summer of 2006.
sorry, your school got ruined.
but i am excited to see more art on these digital pages.
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