René Magritte, The Treachery of Images, 1929 For my last day in LA, we headed over to LACMA for a walk through the modern art collection, as well as a peek in at the Ed Ruscha retrospective and the Simone Leigh show. Walks through galleries are often arbitrary—no theme connecting the standings works and the …
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Day 11: Death and the Printers
“Death and the Printers”from Le Danse Macabre (Matthias Huss: Lyons, 1499) The first-ever image of the printing press appears, strangely, as a story of Death. Printing was developed across the 1450s in a halting progress of experimentation. Johannes Gutenberg had taken a number of loans for various financial schemes. Printing paid off, but not quickly …
Day Six: Thinking about abstraction
Part of this trip is about getting back into motorcycling. Part involves seeing West Coast Friends. And part is a busman’s holiday: I’m attending the Medieval Association of the Pacific (MAP) annual conference at Pepperdine University, and then heading up to the Coursera Future of Higher Education Summit. This morning I drove down to Manhattan …
Day Five: Out and About in LA
Untitled (Man Walking Out of Tunnel), J.T. Sato, 1930 After getting the Sportster back in our garage, Richelle and I headed out and about in LA. First stop: Langer’s Deli. Langers is a landmark, and not for the weak in appetite. It’s famous for the #19, a daunting pastrami on rye slathered in slaw. My …
Onwards! 