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Oddities and Attractions: A Museum Travelogue at the Whitney, Met, Neue,...
At a question and answer session, the visiting juror said - with emphasis - that her venue would rarely curate a travelogue exhibit. You can guess why: too many 'I was here,' too many places rather...
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Approaching the new semester: Teaching style, the cost of books and online...
The semester begins in several weeks. Several questions top instructors concerns: the cost of textbooks; engaging students; being fair to different viewpoints.Here is my approach in a highly diverse...
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Commentary on the San Diego Art Institute: When media distort events and...
Ben Sutton of Hyperallergic recently penned an essay, Rebirth of Stagnant San Diego Art Institute Riles Some of Its Members. (I confess to being one of the riled.)Much of what Sutton says has been...
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7 billion Others: The dreams and fears of humanity plus an agenda
The selected stories of thousands of individuals in 7 billion Others illustrate themes such as Being at home, Family, Fears as well as Nature and Climate voices.These stories from across the world...
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Embracing the Centennial in Balboa Park: Trolley Dances and the Digital Art...
The San Diego Union Tribune featured 100 stories about Balboa Park to illustrate the 100 years (and memories) of the Park. I'm not sure whether other media have chimed in on what makes this Centennial...
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What would I have recommended President Obama to have seen when he visited...
Hiroshima (広島市, Hiroshima-shi)is a modern city with a symbolic mission.I recently visited this modern Hiroshima, perhaps two weeks shy of President Obama’s visit on May 27, 2016. His visit was the...
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Comics, Comic Con and Political Satire: A path to enlightened discourse?
Going to the San Diego Comic-Con is more about superheroes, intergalactic warfare and fantasy rather than snarkiness about day-to-day political partisanship. But the comic phenomenon is generally a...
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Trolley Dancin' from Barrio Logan to Fault Line Park
This year's Trolley Dances returned to Barrio Logan but with new twists and outbound visits to the Museum of Contemporary Art downtown and then on to Fault Line Park. The Trolley Dances continues the...
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The Art of the Shortest Novel: How we connect and disconnect from each other
Umberto Eco anointed Augusto Monterroso as the author of the shortest novel.El Dinosaurio ('The Dinosaur')Cuando despertó, el dinosaurio todavía estaba allí. "When he awoke, the dinosaur was still...
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Adding texture to 2D images: A fused glass overstrate approach
Taking a photograph is easy - unless, of course, you haven't taken a photograph before or cameras haven't been invented. Other difficulties that could be encountered in learning a new craft are...
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Why isn't Lady Science marching for science? The view from San Diego
There were many, many marches on April 22, 2017. All for science. And yet, Lady Science was not present, nor was Mother Nature - despite the hopes and wishes splashed on the posters that the marchers...
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Comic Con: Thy Name is Diversity
Having grown up in a Brooklyn housing project, having been a Peace Corps Volunteer in Colombia, having become a cultural anthropologist and doing research on the US-Mexico border, and now teaching a...
View ArticleSomes notes on Chicano Music as a Pathway to Community Identity
This article was published in 1975 in The New Scholar, V:1 73-93. Due to the difficulties of transferring the text from a OCR PDF, only pages 73-78.Some notes on Chicano music as a pathway to community...
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