Comment Archives: Stories: Art
Re: “Long Are the Days, Short Are the Nights”
Thanks for sharing! Wish we could be there to experience it ourselves!
xx Konsthopp
konsthopp.wordpress.com
Re: “The Carnegie's leg of the Pittsburgh Biennial finds the art in work, and the work in art.”
Thanks for this. My comic is called "Blast Furnace Funnies" tho'...
Just sayin'.
Re: “Monthly alt-culture party Sinferno/Hanging Garden turns 2”
It was so nice to see that the Goth scene hadn't completely died after The Upstage closed. I had a great time at Hanging Garden! However, I feel that DJ Miss Amber's talent and support were overlooked in this article. She's a fun DJ and looks great doing her job. Kudos to LeeAnn and Julie for keeping the dark enchantment alive! ---A dancer at Sinferno/Hanging Garden
Re: “What's the story at Cyberpunk Apocalypse, Lawrenceville's "house-plus" art collective?”
dan's dad: YOU RULE!
dan: YOU ALSO RULE!
cyberpunk apocalypse: LOVIN' YOU!
callouttoarms: someone is jealoussssssssssss :( womp womp.
this place is awesome, the people who live in it could not be friendlier, and i'm glad it exists! keep up the amazing work.
(psssssst. i love showering. plz don't tell my friends or they'll drop me like a smushy banana straight from the dumpster) NOT!
Re: “What's the story at Cyberpunk Apocalypse, Lawrenceville's "house-plus" art collective?”
YOW! Callouttoarms, you must be one well-dressed hater. Strange as it may seem, it is the truth that Daniel McCloskey received a surprise inheritance of $10,000 from a distant relative. She was a retired telephone operator who lived with his Grandmother. Daniel actually may have met her when he was an infant, but otherwise the story that he did not know his benefactor is true. This was the seed money for the house.
Daniel had a full-tuition scholarship for his first year of college. He did borrow additional money from his father and has repaid a good portion of it. I am his very proud father. I was also one of the 66 donors to Cyberpunk Apocalypse's recent successful $2160 Kickstarter campaign, with a small donation of $100.
Most of the other donors were his friends in Pittsburgh and beyond. If Dan, or one of his friends, seemed rude to you, please shake it off and give them another chance. I wish you every success with your creative writing or other chosen career path.
Re: “What's the story at Cyberpunk Apocalypse, Lawrenceville's "house-plus" art collective?”
Dont get my wrong, you dont have to be poor to be into and a part of punk rock. This just makes me laugh because why would you lie about where you got the money at so people would think you were more PUNK. I would love to have graduated from a university with ZERO debt and then have my dad buy me two house so i didnt have to pay rent.
as far as the comment about Dan wanting to be everyone to be friends, this couldnt be further from the truth. Most of the people living here are not very kind toward new people unless they are 'poor punks' that eat out of dumpsters and write. If you dress nice and buy brand names they wont even give you the time of day.
Re: “What's the story at Cyberpunk Apocalypse, Lawrenceville's "house-plus" art collective?”
10,000 dollar anonymous donation? hahaha. i know that Daniel McKlosky's father paid for both of these houses as well as his college degree.
Even if someone did make a donation to him he would still have to come up with 30,000 to pay for the rest(the houses cost appox. 40,000) Sorry you dont get loans for $30,000 when you only work 2 days a week at a parking garage.
Re: “Venerable painter Richard Rappaport discusses five of his works.”
A amazing artist in our time!!!
Re: “Does Sandow Birk's American Qu'ran foster interfaith understanding, or merely court more controversy?”
Actually, there is no Qur'anic denouncement of depicting humans and animals. And in fact, worshippers have prayed in the presence of Birk's other shows.
These and many other details were discussed both at Birk's Warhol talk and at the Symposium.
Re: “Vatican Splendors shows off Catholic treasures -- and a few ironies of church-sponsored art.”
The beginning of the end for Catholicism came when in 312 AD Constantine took up the sward to initiate conversion by murder. Think about it!! Negative use of Power has consequences.
Re: “ModernFormations offers an engaging two-artist show about solitude and silence.”
Pittsburgh art reviews seem hard to come by when not having to do with the obvious mainstream venues and cliques so it's good to see a review of this exhibit.
It's too bad these reviews of ModernFormations have been few and far between (or nonexistent for the 2 main newspapers) because it won't be around much longer. It's not like critics have had 10 years to check the place out. Oh yeah, they have. The gallery was started in 2001.
rick byerly
the pittsburgh art blog
http://pittsburghgalleries.blogspot.com/2010/09/artists-ashley-andrykovitch-and.html
Re: “Art of the Steel”
I haven't seen the exhibit, but was wondering if it included the Steelerettes. Beginning in 1961 and ending in 1970, they were the first NFL cheerleaders and, according to Sports Illustrated in their tribute to the 75th anniversary of the Steelers, were the only significant thing that happened in the 1960's.
Re: “Organic bamboo and other eco-friendlier ingredients fuel local fashion line Jonano.”
If you can't travel to Pittsburgh to purchase blankets, bed sheets or towels fabricated entirely (100%) from viscose from Bamboo, then please visit us on the web -- http://www.greenproductsgallery.com. We sell these products and many other great green gift ideas!
Re: “Experimental narratives about power and identity fuel a retrospective of short video work by Andres Tapia-Urzua.”
I find the review as shallow as the subject matter. "Floating, omniscient (?? - what gives the impression that these heads are omniscient?) heads chanting 'money' and 'murder'..." how terribly 1957. Shouldn't such tired cliches be called out by the author? And the artist's comment that the USA has no "left" is just as shallow. Just because "the left" in America doesn't use terrorist style kidnapping and be-headings doesn't mean they don't exist, it MAY just mean that they're more civilized and mature than the central-american versions. he seems to romanticize the narco-terrorist version of dissent, which is nothing more than brutality and terrorism, the wellspring of Peruvian/Columbian profiteering. Like his native country, Urzua needs to grow up a bit.
Re: “Amidst gloomy news about libraries, the North Side's new Carnegie Library is a bright spot.”
The neighborhood process had a significant impact on this design. The original L & K concept exaggerated the horizontal aspects of the building and the site, completely out of context with the vertical rectangles that mark the surrounding historic buidings. Community asked that the facade convey a greater verticality in keeping with the rhythm of the existing built environment. While most certainly a contemporary structure, the revised design does "harmonize subtly" with its surroundings. Community input helped take this from discordance to harmony.
Re: “An exhibit documents the making of a Hitler youth.”
This sounds like a really important show. Thanks for writing about it.
Re: “Tim Kaulen's artwork helped transform the city's landscape.”
Absolutely love Tim's work. If you want to see some more of his work check out the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh. They have a few of his larger pieces in their collection.
Re: “Silver Eye celebrates its 30th anniversary with the engaging Self-Portrait.”
it look like she is trap and she dosen't know what to do or she is upset about something in her life.
Re: “Step into the surreal, unnerving world of James Duesing's animations.”
this is a wonder picture
Re: “Mexico Lindo returns with its popular Day of the Dead celebration.”
Great article and I thank both, Jean Pierre and Lisa, for keeping alive our Mexican traditions overseas. I can't wait to see pictures of this year's "Ofrenda".