my art website: www.shawart.com
I also enjoy history and old architecture.
Music
I LOVE IT
Movies
"Venus"- Peter O'Toole was Brilliant! Just saw "10 Items or Less" w/ Morgan Freeman- one of my favorite actors- his Spanish costar, Paz, was a beauty to behold as well. Wow. Fun little movie...
Television
Don't watch much T.V.- but I do like PBS- I love the Charlie Rose program, Nova, Nature, Antiques Road Show, BBC!
Books
I love art related/art history books and have dozens, including "365 Takes, the Andy Warhol Museum. And also "500 Self Portraits", Phaidon, 2000 HST's "Kingdom of Fear" and also "Hey Rube" by HST- funny shit! I read "Night Train" by Martin Amis, 1997 Vintage Books. ART IN THE AGE OF AQUARIUS, 1955-1970", Smithsonian Press, 1992..."An Anthropologist On Mars" by Oliver Sacks, Vintage Books, 1995- brilliant, warm, & thoughtful. "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger, Little/Brown Publishing Co., 1951...
"1984" by George Orwell, 1949- "A Painted House", John Grisham, Doubleday, 2000- my Mother picked cotton as a child. "The Road", Cormac McCarthy, Vintage Books 2006- I was profoundly moved.
Heroes
My college painting/drawing instructor, the late great Charles F. SHOEmaker, father of my creativity. My college art history professor, Mark J. Hall, gone from this world but never forgotten.
Composer and performer Tom Hamilton’s work with electronic music originated in the late-60s era of analog synthesis. Hamilton often explores the interaction of many simultaneous layers of activity, prompting the use of “present-time listening” on the part of both performer and listener. Hamilton was a 2005 Fellow of the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Umbria, has worked on more than 60 recordings, including 9 CDs of his own music, and is a longtime member of composer Robert Ashley’s touring opera ensemble. Hamilton returns to St. Louis to help celebrate the New Music Circle’s 50th Anniversary. Through the years, his events have been constructed like aural kaleidoscopes, constantly yielding sonic surprises in performances by some of St. Louis’ most original artists. We look forward to this unusual event in one of St. Louis’ newest and most exciting spaces. For more info visit http://www.myspace.com/dataday
Saturday, May 2, 2009 – 7:30 p.m.
Kranzberg Arts Center (Big Brothers, Big Sisters Building) 501 N. Grand Blvd.
St. Louis, Missouri
Tom Brady – performance artist Scott Bryan - percussion/guitar (or whatever) Robert Fishbone – congas/voice Zimbabwe Nkenya - bass/kalimba Rich O’Donnell - percussion Tony Renner - guitar Dave Stone - saxophone Bill Schulenburg - sound design Tom Hamilton – laptop sound
Hey Colin! There's an exhibit of photography tonight at Marbles Studio in Lafayette Square (near Sqwires) and the artist is a former Johnny Cougar band member. We're going! Call me if you wanna go! 6-9p Love you! Les.
