Slog - Comments on In Which All the Good Ones Go Elsewhere http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/in_which_the_good_ones_go_somewhere_else Am I missing something or do all the best contemporary art speakers go somewhere else besides Seattle when they come to the Northwest? I bring this up today because today, San Francisco artist Kota Ezawa (who made the cartoon version of the OJ Simpson trial that showed at Seattle Art Museum a few years ago) is speaking in Spokane. It's part of Eastern Washington University's 2007-2008 Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Real, Surreal and Cartoons, focusing on artists whose work "is variously populist, anti-establishment, and plain fun." When's the last time the University of Washington art department brought in an artist... Copyright 2008 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:18:13 -0800 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:23:26 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by cos because uw art department ain't shit*. we just pretend it is because it's all that's here and we are invested in that scene.

*unless we are talking glass or ceramics or other crafts, i guess.

]]> cos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/in_which_the_good_ones_go_somewhere_else#c958079 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/in_which_the_good_ones_go_somewhere_else#c958079 Visual Art Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:16:29 -0800 Comment by boxofbirds I agree!

Stephen Sagermeister was at UW last night that was a great talk. Technically he's a designer, but his work looks and affects like art.

]]> boxofbirds http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/in_which_the_good_ones_go_somewhere_else#c958366 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/in_which_the_good_ones_go_somewhere_else#c958366 Visual Art Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:52:21 -0800 Comment by DevonD second that. Uws art dept is dookiesville.

]]> DevonD http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/in_which_the_good_ones_go_somewhere_else#c958503 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/in_which_the_good_ones_go_somewhere_else#c958503 Visual Art Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:23:26 -0800