Let’s go to the arts festival! Everyone loves a good festival, right? Apparently. Have you noticed a certain proliferation in seasonal street carnivals? Everyone wants a piece of the action, with predictable results. There seem to be fewer juried events and more tented shopping malls that might generously be called flea markets. There are fewer arts and crafts for one to truly covet and more substandard tee shirts for one to quickly bypass. But I don’t mean to sound like a snob. I always appreciate a good reason to get out and mingle on a pretty day.
52 responses to “But Who Is Art?”
Heck, I will join you sounding like a snob about arts and crafts and juries events. Totally agree. Back in 1982 I opened the first such retail store in Houston, a novel concept there at the time. Idea was to sell the best and get us out of mud and hail storms.
You should have been the one who got pitched the crocheted yogurt containers by people who were neither artists nor craftsmen and got REALLY angry when politely told our group accepted no one because it was juries and selected and invited.
We ended up selling as much as my select group could turn out, so taste won out, at least for awhile. And we got out of the weather.
I have been told that when viewing artwork that just does not ring one’s artistic chimes, and asked by the artist for one’s opinion, the proper comment is “That’s an interesting piece.”
And I always appreciate a good reason to get out and “girl watch” on a pretty day. 🙂
I am sadly disappointed in Janis that she appears not to know that shrimp shells and tails may be used to easily make shrimp stock for cooking use.
OF about to blow: https://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html Peace,
Wrong. That was for pm, yesterday. No prediction for today yet. Sorry,
Just able to check yesterday’s comments. Debbe, Glad you enjoyed the cartoon. Anon,Jackie,
Dr. Hook is a local group from Baton Rouge. I absolutely love that song you put in and a bunch of others by them. My favorite is “The Cover of the Rolling Stone.” I’m sure you’ve heard it.
God bless us every one.
Yes. Being from Louisiana I love Dr. Hook and all their music. Cover of Rolling Stone is my favorite too and Shell Silverstone wrote it as well.
And Dr. John, love Dr. John, from Nawlins. Is there a doctor in the house?
https://youtu.be/SCRrXZP8b0I
Here’s the other doctor from Louisiana.
My sister is an artist, but I really don’t appreciate works of art. I enjoy watching her create it and respect it and don’t mind funding it, but frankly some art is so strange it is hard to support all of it.
I enjoyed going through the Vatican as much of the artwork told a story. The Pieta took my breath away. But call me and ask to go to an art exhibit???? I’d rather catch a ball game. But to each his own.
Debbe, we went camping in the late 90’s on August 23rd in Indian River MI (Big Cross in the Woods). It was cooler than normal, but we did not expect 29°. Of course when I go to Weather Underground, I can’t seem to locate the exact date, but I distinctly remember hearing that the temperature was below freezing! Not a memory issue.
Steve from Royal Oak, MI. If you are in Tulsa, see the Gilcrease Museum. It has art, military and Native American artifacts, pre-Columbian artifacts and a great set of gardens. Jackie took me there on my recent visit following the cat relocation. Sometime I hope I can go back and give it the time it deserves.
https://gilcrease.org/
OF due 1120-1140 CDT Might want to file the URL below. Peace,
https://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
Another of the displaced orphaned cats showed up this morning, a big gray and white long hair. Beautiful cat.
Mark, I will have to come help you catch the rest of your mama’s cats since you have my live traps. What woman doesn’t show up with her own traps?
Seriously, we will plan one day at Gilcrease and one at another museum, the Philbrook. Tulsa oil money brought a lot of beauty to Oklahoma.
Another great Louisiana musician, in honor of our resident learned ones, Professor Longhair, who I loved.
https://youtu.be/p-lsiDJWMsQ
And here is another doctor playing same song, Hugh Laurie who is amazing pianist, playing the song written by Professor Longhair. https://youtu.be/R1h_Z12fL6s
Hey, I like this game! It is like that game where everyone in world ends up connected to Kevin Bacon.
I went to Maine in mid-June some years ago. The weather was what this Southern Boy considered “late winter”. The lobster rolls featuring lobsters that had been hauled out of the Atlantic the day before went a long way to make up for the weather.
I went to the beach there, only to find someone had apparently scooped up the sand and replaced it with large boulders. Weird, but very scenic.
We went to sail on the Mary Day tall ship. From Houston where I had gotten sunburned playing tennis in a strapless dress. Our first stop off plane was to buy clothes to keep from freezing. The locals were all lying out on grass with white legs and arms “sunning” because summer had arrived. It was mid June and “season” was beginning.
I have gone north many a time with what we consider winter clothes only to freeze. There is a reason so many people from almost Canada are rounded. They need some insulation and then they add huge quilted clothes on top of that.
Don’t let PETA hear you say that, ole boy, or the whack-a-doodle’s will be hopping up and down so hard their lettuce leaf bikinis will fall off.
On second thought ……
I got a gardening tee shirt yesterday that said “Lettuce Pray”. I thought it was for germination? Or no bugs?
PETA…I thought that was People Eating Tasty Animals.
Not that I would ever disparage any organization responsible for making bikinis fall off.
I met a transplanted Englishman in St. Maarten while on honeymoon. He runs a butterfly farm there. His advice for visiting England was to go during warm weather. According to him, the English don’t believe they have poor heat in their buildings, only that you have inadequate clothing.
Lettuce leaf bikinis? That might increase salad consumption but isn’t it hard to keep the dressing on when they are standing?
How did Adam and Eve keep those fig leaves on? Fig leaves are inedible so far as I know.
Maybe they tied them on with a vine?
Where did Tarzan get that loin cloth? Inquiring minds?