Duke Cunningham Can't Have Gun
Don Bauder 9:47 p.m., May 25
W.S. Di Piero
W.S. Di Piero is a recipient of Guggenheim, Lila Wallace-Readers Digest awards, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. He lives in San Francisco and is the author of numerous books of poetry and essays. His most recent book, Nitro Nights (2011, Copper Canyon), is a collection of poems; before that was When Can I See you Again: New Art Writings (2010, Pressed Wafer), which contains many of his Reader columns.
W.S. Di Piero's Stories
Marfa Moments
Heavy metal art.
Author W.S. Di Piero stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Randy Quaid when the actor was on the lam. This was in Marfa, TX, where Di Piero stuck around to check out the work of Donald Judd.
Buddhas in Caves
Jewels signify the power of wisdom to dispel bad thinking, suffering, and ignorance.
Sweet, unbroken rhythm at the San Diego Museum of Art.
More Photographs Than Bricks
I will never develop a taste for the way most pictorialist imagery decorporealizes the body, vaporizing flesh and bone.
Next time you see a Ken Burns documentary, think of Lou Stoumen. It was Stoumen who invented a track that allowed a camera to slowly pan up and down while zooming in and out of ...
