Tag Archive "kentucky"

New media art – White Hot Gold at Murray State

[I juried the new media exhibit at Murray State University Art Gallery, up now until Feb. 12. This is the foreword I wrote for the catalog.] What is new media art? It’s almost easier to say what isn’t: traditional painting, sculpture printmaking, photography — emphasis on tradition. New media art is experimental. It uses new technologies — digital technology, video, the Internet, video games, cell phones and computer programming. And while I don’t want to say “I know it when I see it,” there’s not a whole lot that holds the loose category together. Here are a few characteristics of ... More » »

The blues report

This is our first really long car trip since we took the kids to the Southwestern U.S. I always have loved place names, the more unfamiliar the better, and the Maryland panhandle and West Virginia and Kentucky are a place name lover’s dream. We drove past the Youghioheny River, Menongelia County and Salt Lick on our way to Lexington for Ben’s graduation from the University of Kentucky medical school.

Blue grass, Blue Ridge

I do not have the blues, but I’m visiting them. I’m not referring to the medical insurers. It’s the blue grass of Kentucky and the Blue Ridge Mountains. In Kentucky, there really is a medical angle; Minna’s Ben is graduating from medical school and we’re all going to celebrate big time.

Back from Lexington

Charmaine Caire, Self Portrait, chromogenic print Terminal F at Philadelphia International Airport was sporting some of Charmaine Caire’s candy-colored photographs of toys depicting surreal social commentary. But by time I got to Louisville, I found myself humming The Banks of the Ohio and Lily of the West. But this trip was not about folk music or culture shock. It was a visit with my daughter and a chance to meet her boyfriend Ben’s family–and to see the sights. The green grass of horse farms ain’t no blue Not included in the sights was any grass looking blue. But there were ... More » »