Seven Pleasures: essays on ordinary
happiness, Willard Spiegelman

several weeks ago in LA:

Art of Two Germanys:
cold war cultures
this exhibition rewrites art
history & is only US venue
Franz West: To Build a House
You Start with the Roof

http://www.lacma.org/

Nine Lives: visionary artists from LA
http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/

Under Hand
http://www.culturalinquiry.org/
Plain Text Players
yin.arts.uci.edu/~players

desire line - an architectural term meaning
the path that people walk as opposed to
where the path is put.

New York again...

Piero Manzoni
Gagosian Gallery

Walker Evans Postcards
Metropolitan Museum

Rebus by Vik Muniz, MOMA

Fanfare, an exquisite performance at The Kitchen

Bruce Chatwin

restlessness, wandering, exile
among many other things

what I liked at the Dallas Art Fair

Sati Zech at Howard Scott Gallery
Hannelore Baron at Leslie Feely
Kiki Smith on silk at Pace
Jim Taurok, Ewan Gibbs at Lora Reynolds
meeting Michael Duncan & Jill Moser

solitary pleasures:

Unframed Originals
W.S Merwin

Of Montreal CD
"Skeletal Lamping"
see 1/26 New Yorker review

and the pursuit of happiness
Maira Kalman on the inauguration
http://kalman.blogs.nytimes.com/