a shot of the crowd before the room filled up yesterday, from a camera held high overhead, feeling the power, and documenting all the super Lesbians, and some very enthusiastic friends and supporte...

I had already planned to do a very quick roundup of worthy shows closing very soon when I saw Art Fag City's holiday post, "What To See Before Christmas". Now I was further inspired to go ahead, b...

cover of Tom Tomorrow's "The Future's So Bright I Can't Bear to Look" Just kill it. Put it out of [our] misery, now. It's been both appalling and nationally embarrassing to watch the healthcare ...

Robert Giard Mabel Hampton Sees the Pigeons at the Old Lesbian Herstory Archive 1989 The archive was somewhere out in Brooklyn, and also, as strange as it may seem today, I was pretty shy. It was...

Kate Fauvell/Daniel Turner, Visitor Services/Security Guard Untitled [detail of ceiling installation] Is an institution doing its job if its concern about ethics goes no further than the printed c...

HOW DO YOU ASK A SOLDIER TO BE THE LAST SOLDIER TO DIE FOR A PRESIDENT'S POLITICAL IMAGE? I've taken some liberty with David Sirota's phrasing in the title of his blog post today, but I'm totall...

minaret and church tower in Wangen bei Olten, in the northern Swiss canton of Solothurn Tell me again: Why is this a problem? [image from AFP, via Spiegel]

Max Ernst Europe After the Rain II 1940-1942 oil on canvas 21.5" x 58.25" It's what we do. For a while, I actually had hope he might do the right thing, although I realize now I had no reason to ...

No, it isn't the holiday that's being exacted. By "enforced holiday" I mean that my little Air is back in the shop, this time with an audio output malfunction (it simply stopped). If I'm very luc...

Wayne Thiebaud Display Cakes 1963 oil on canvas 28" x 38" We're telling the bakers' families that cake just isn't enough. Yes, yes, the rich and powerful have always been with us, and they have ...