Speed of Life

Ed Ruscha Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas 64.5" x 121.75" oil on canvas 1963 Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire © Ed Ruscha Opening this month in Southern California are a series of art exhibitions, Pacific Standard Time , documenting the Los Angeles art scene from 1945-1980. Pacific Standard Time is an unprecedented collaboration of more than sixty cultural institutions across Southern California. Initiated through grants from the Getty Foundation, Pacific Standard Time will take place for six months until April 2011. In a Teaser for Pacific Standard Time , Anthony Kiedis from the Red Hot Chili Peppers Takes Artist Ed Ruscha for a Ride The Getty Museum's comphrehensive exhibit of the period, Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950-1970 , opens on October 1, 2011. More at: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950-1970

by Gregg Chadwick Paul Revere 1734-1818 The Boston Massacre (The Bloody Massacre) 9 7/8" x 8 1/2" Engraving, hand colored 1770 Boston Museum of Fine Arts "We live in an age where, on every level, it is considered a sin to be wrong. From advertisers to kids on the playground to the world of corporate PR to politicians, the all-too-common wisdom is to defend the indefensible. That's what Palin is doing and that is what her renfields on Wikipedia are doing, and that's sad, because as anyone remotely successful in Silicon Valley can tell you, without owning our mistakes we cannot learn from them and without learning, we cannot win." - Curt Hopkins in Read, Write, Web I love to read history. Scores of books line my studio walls and the past is never far from my thoughts. Museums have been a favorite haunt of mine since childhood. Peering through glass at ambered papers and tattered journals never fails to remind me of the great divide between what happen...