Slog - Comments on Re: Impressionist Fact of the Day http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/re_impressionist_fact_of_the_day Commenter Suzi (an arts journalist in Oregon) responded to my IFOD: The UO's museum (Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art) is opening a show called "Faster, High, Farther: The Spirit of Track-and-Field Sports," and I don't think there's a single book or piece of information about running or javelin-ing that I want to convey to the overwhelmed-with-Olympic-Trials-trivia Eugene public. But if you know of any good sporty art history books, I guess I could give it a try. (And when the J-Schnitz's "Cuba Avant-Garde" hits the boards, watch out for the Revolutionary Fact of the Day.) I do not, in fact,... Copyright 2008 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:08:18 -0800 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:03:15 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by sepiolida is that a coke bottle hanging from a nipple clamp?

]]> sepiolida http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/re_impressionist_fact_of_the_day#c1059287 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/re_impressionist_fact_of_the_day#c1059287 Visual Art Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:12:18 -0800 Comment by Vince Nice ass. Is that a cash box on top? Is that even an ass?

]]> Vince http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/re_impressionist_fact_of_the_day#c1059338 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/re_impressionist_fact_of_the_day#c1059338 Visual Art Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:34:48 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Don't know about any sporty arts books, but Tiberio is finishing up a food arts book, with lots of food tastefully arranged about ... um ... unclothed persons.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/re_impressionist_fact_of_the_day#c1059389 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/re_impressionist_fact_of_the_day#c1059389 Visual Art Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:07:18 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Thanks, you just brought back some acute memories of college dorm rooms....

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/re_impressionist_fact_of_the_day#c1059460 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/re_impressionist_fact_of_the_day#c1059460 Visual Art Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:01:41 -0800 Comment by Suzi Thanks, Jen + Slog readers. God, that Dali is made of awesome. I think that's a DIET Coke bottle. That's an athlete, after all.

I posted about this at our blog just now. Olympics + art = Leni Riefenstahl, you know?

]]> Suzi http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/re_impressionist_fact_of_the_day#c1060012 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/re_impressionist_fact_of_the_day#c1060012 Visual Art Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:03:15 -0800