This is a BFD. https://t.co/L0sh8ULo4T
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 16, 2022
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
The Inflation Reduction Act is Now Law
Happy Birthday Bill Evans
Saturday, August 13, 2022
A Day of Poetry in Los Angeles
Friday, August 12, 2022
Thinking of Salman Rushdie
"A poet's work," he answers. "To name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep." pic.twitter.com/6ZzbXZbe7j
— Rabih Alameddine (@rabihalameddine) August 13, 2022
"We must work to overturn the false narratives of tyrants, populists, and fools by telling better stories than they do, stories in which people want to live."- Salman Rushdie https://t.co/9IYojUUGYT pic.twitter.com/g1kzyUhwZO
— Gregg Chadwick (@greggchadwick) August 13, 2022
O Salman, our right seer,
— Kent Chadwick (@kentchadwick) August 13, 2022
how you’ve suffered
for our freedom
of imagination.
Heal strong!#Rushdie #tanka
Tuesday, August 09, 2022
New E Line digital screens feature rider portrait artworks
The Metro E Line (Expo) has newly installed digital screens on its station platforms, and in addition to Metro customer information and third-party advertising, the new amenity also features Metro Art programming.
The digital screens are the latest location where riders can view portraits from Metro Art’s multi-site We Are… rider portrait exhibition. Community art advisors worked with Metro Art to ensure that the commissioned portraits displayed on the new screens each have a link to the neighborhoods served by E Line (Expo).
Here are the nine portraits featured on the E Line (Expo) digital screens:
- Susu Attar, Self Portrait with Ancient Ones
- Gregg Chadwick, Frida Cano (E Line)
- Sheila Karbassian, Beautiful Santa Monica
- Miles Lewis, A Walk and Talk
- Carla Jay Harris, Self Portrait in Motion
- Maria Piñeres, Leo
- Javier Carrillo, Jose Carrillo, El Taquero
- J Michael Walker, Lisa D on the E
- Sean Cheetham, Ebony
There are lots of ways to see the artworks even if the A Line (Blue) or E Line (Expo) aren’t part of your normal route! The twelve A Line (Blue) and nine E Line (Expo) rider portraits are part of the collection of portraits in the exhibition We Are…Portraits of Metro Riders by Local Artists.
You can find them among the 41 portraits inside the Metro Art Bus, in the Union Station Passageway Art Gallery and in the online gallery on the Metro Art website. In addition, the A Line (Blue) portraits are also highlighted in the latest Art on TAP cards, too!
Click here for more information about the Metro Art program. Follow Metro Art on Facebook and Instagram and subscribe for email updates.
From Metro - The Source
Happy International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples
On International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, we recognize Indigenous knowledge, culture and practices that can inform the way we address climate, foster more inclusive communities, and live up to our responsibilities to future generations. pic.twitter.com/jcFgTLwDr7
— Secretary Deb Haaland (@SecDebHaaland) August 9, 2022
Monday, August 08, 2022
Vantage Point (Chicago Theatre)
30"x22"gouache on paper 2022
Sunday, August 07, 2022
PASSED: The Inflation Reduction Act!
PASSED: The Inflation Reduction Act! pic.twitter.com/WOfGgKYziy
— Senate Democrats (@SenateDems) August 7, 2022
This afternoon I cast the tie-breaking vote on the Inflation Reduction Act. This bill will help lower inflation and the cost of living for millions of American families—lowering the cost of health care, prescription drugs, and everyday energy costs.
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) August 7, 2022
— Gregg Chadwick (@greggchadwick) August 7, 2022
"This is an example of leaders leading." –@VP Kamala Harris leaving the Senate chamber after casting the tie-breaking vote to pass the Inflation Reduction Act. Honored to be witnessing history in the making! pic.twitter.com/cOAWLF5r2m
— Rodrigo Santos Legaspi (@rodrigoslegaspi) August 7, 2022
Wednesday, August 03, 2022
David Hockney: Moving Focus / Retrospective at Kunstmuseum Luzern
"The Kunstmuseum Luzern is currently showing the first comprehensive exhibition of David Hockney's works in Switzerland. The retrospective presents works from 1954 to 2018. Titled Moving Focus, the show includes his experimental early works, his famous pool paintings and double portraits, photographic works, and his more recent landscapes both in acrylic and as digital animation. One of the highlights is the monumental landscape painting Bigger Trees Near Warter or / Ou Peinture Sur Le Motif Pour Le Nouvel Age Post-Photographique (2007). The work consists of 50 canvases and measures more than 12 meters."
Tuesday, August 02, 2022
Cherries Jubilee for Two (L'Affaire Cerises Jubilé)
by Gregg Chadwick
My brother Kent called me last night while he was dining with our parents because he had a question for me. “Do you remember the name of the French restaurant in La Jolla where they would not serve me Cherries Jubilee for dessert because I was underage?”
When he finally claimed the restaurant as his own, he renamed it L’Escargot (the snail), redecorated it, and — most important — revamped the menu.
'When people first came here, they ordered escargot always the same way — with garlic and butter. Well, I thought up four or five ways to serve them, including en croute (in pastry dough).’”
"Defeat of the Imperial Guard
At about 7pm, in a last bid for victory, Napoleon released his finest troops, the Imperial Guard. They marched up the ridge between Hougoumont and La Haye Sainte, but had chosen to attack where Wellington was strongest. Under a withering fire from British guardsmen and light infantry, the Imperial Guard halted, wavered, and finally broke.
Their defeat sent the rest of the French into panic and eventually retreat. This continued all night, with the French harried by the Prussian cavalry. Napoleon lost nearly 40,000 men killed, wounded or captured. The Allies suffered 22,000 casualties.
Napoleon was defeated. He spoke of fighting on, but was forced to abdicate when the Allies entered Paris on 7 July. He spent the rest of his life in exile on the island of St Helena in the South Atlantic.”
Here are Julia Child‘s directions for Cherries Jubilee:
- A 1 lb (450 g) can of pitted sour red cherries
- The grated rind of 1 lemon
- ¼ cup (4 tablespoons) granulated sugar
- ¼ teaspoon powdered cinnamon
- 3 to 4 tablespoons kirsch or cognac
Drain the cherries (save the juice), and toss in a bowl with the lemon rind, sugar, cinnamon, and kirsch or cognac; let steep until needed.
[At serving time]
Blend a tablespoon of arrowroot or cornstarch in a bowl with the cherry marinating juices, then beat in a few tablespoons of canned cherry juice. Pour into chafing-dish pan and stir over heat until thickened, adding more cherry juice if needed. Before entering dining room, stir in cherries and heat thoroughly. To flame, set over chafing-dish flame, sprinkle with 3 tablespoons granulated sugar, and add ½ cup (125 ml) cognac. Heat, then set afire with a lighted match. Spoon up the flaming mixture until blaze dies down; serve over vanilla ice cream.” [1]
Sunday, July 31, 2022
Paint & Pitchfork: Illustrating Blackness | The New Yorker Documentary
"When the filmmaker Christine Turner got a call from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (lacma) asking whether she’d be willing to make a film about the painters Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, she didn’t hesitate to say yes. She’d followed the work of both artists for several years, once even going to see Sherald’s work in New York while nine months pregnant. And she knew that the only way to showcase Wiley and Sherald in all their glory, she told me, was to “give them the same reverence, dignity, and respect” that they grant their own sitters. The final product, “Paint & Pitchfork,” explores the unfinished legacies of two Black cultural icons, and how in painting themselves, their subjects, and their people into the art-historical record they attempt to rectify the social and cultural absence of, as Wiley says, in the film 'people who happen to look like me.'"