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The Members Show at the Nelson Museum
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And what's-her-name informs me about the members show at the Nelson Art Gallery.
All members eligible; they're using both galleries, works will remain up and for sale the entire 3 months of summer and time now for me to get off my ass, get cracking; 5 weeks isn't nearly enough time but it'll have to be enough, my jeep this summer depend on it....
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
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This was, of course, up to every standard I've come to expect of him. The names of the Characters and Institutions - W.A.S.T.E., N.A.D.A, an existential crisis; Yoyodyne industries, Scurvham, Oedipus Maas, Wharfinger, Invarity; Gengis Cohen; Inigo Barfstable; Oedipus Maas; Dr. Hilarius (The Therapist), Watus, imaginary people in imaginary places trying to puzzle out the mystery of their lives...blurred lines between fantasy and reality.
Masterpiece, no further reviews are possible.
Sinners - Ryan Coogler - 2025
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Now - this one punched well above what I thought it would, and I wished I'd watched it in theatres or at least on a big screen TV and LOUD.
It was a recommendation by a fellow cinephile neighbour - and I had a few recommendations for him as well, but before I asked about them I thought it polite to watch his recommendations.
This was excellent. And before I go on, there will be a few spoilers. So - read more only if you've seen it...
Canvas Prints
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Another rant for the morning, that in almost all the "galleries" and restaurants displaying art there's been a new trend. Photographers printing their pictures on Canvas, (what was wrong with a photo?) and digital and physical artists making stretched "canvas" prints and selling them for hundreds of dollars.
Hardly anyone anymore is touching brush to paper or canvas.
Now - to rebel against these trends, these digitally printed canvases, they're worth nothing, about as much as Robert Bateman's "limited edition 1, 000, 000 prints, all signed by the author, for the WWF..."
These will never be worth the paper their printed on, and he's famous. And they have a "Limited Run"; even if it is a million copies, these other printed canvases, well, the author just goes back and prints as many as he sells you own nothing unique or of any value whatsoever.
If you were knowledgeable about art, and mindful of costs you could buy a limited edition print by Matisse or Dali; genuinely limited, and if you had an eye you could buy an original piece - one off; for the same price.
Anyways, there's no arguing the times, and these printed canvases are everywhere and will keep their value like a "Bored Ape" or NFT.
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