http://grammarpolice.net/ {how people are talking about} en-us grammardotpolice@gmail.com 2010-01-07T14:49:58-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://grammarpolice.net/archives/001813.php 1813@http://grammarpolice.net/ Literature 2010-01-07T14:49:58-05:00 http://grammarpolice.net/archives/001812.php This panel I moderated turned out to be a success, of a sort. Hatchets says that 138 people were in attendance. Of a sort, because at times it felt like a health-care townhall, a riot-turned-deliberation: 138 Angry Men. But a... 1812@http://grammarpolice.net/ District 2010-01-07T09:22:36-05:00 http://grammarpolice.net/archives/001811.php What a great Internet this morning. I hopped on early and started chatting with my friend about Ruskin and Turner and received in a flash an essay by Ruskin, one that draws heavily from his journals; in it he mentions... 1811@http://grammarpolice.net/ Art 2010-01-07T08:39:31-05:00 http://grammarpolice.net/archives/001810.php Barring a third snowpocalypse, I'll be boarding a red-eye flight back to the DMV and making quick time home to share Christmas with Wrecky and pick up the Flophouse before Keri gets here. The plan is to close out... 1810@http://grammarpolice.net/ Housekeeping 2009-12-26T06:00:44-05:00 http://grammarpolice.net/archives/001808.php Merry Christmas! This is where I am right now.... 1808@http://grammarpolice.net/ Housekeeping 2009-12-25T10:29:49-05:00 http://grammarpolice.net/archives/001809.php Keri Oldham, from Recital Shots, 2009 Now I hasten to note that Keri Oldham is one of my best and oldest friends. She's visiting for a few days after Christmas and if I hope she'll stay through New Year's. Anything... 1809@http://grammarpolice.net/ Art 2009-12-24T11:32:19-05:00 http://grammarpolice.net/archives/001807.php Jessica Dawson follows up on the 16 artists Mera Rubell selected for the 12 slots she was tasked to fill. I'm nodding my head to this comment: "A few on the list come as a surprise, given her comments during... 1807@http://grammarpolice.net/ Art 2009-12-23T09:40:57-05:00 http://grammarpolice.net/archives/001806.php 1806@http://grammarpolice.net/ Politics 2009-12-22T19:05:46-05:00 http://grammarpolice.net/archives/001805.php The image comes from the Guardian story on the petty thieves who allegedly pilfered the Arbeit Macht Frei sign from Auschwitz. There is a detail to that story that drives at the widespread and totally wrong misapprehension about how... 1805@http://grammarpolice.net/ Art 2009-12-22T14:57:14-05:00 http://grammarpolice.net/archives/001802.php 1802@http://grammarpolice.net/ District 2009-12-22T10:00:18-05:00 http://grammarpolice.net/archives/001800.php Photo by Matt WrightHirshhorn associate curator Kristen Hileman is leaving the Horn of Hirsh for the Baltimore Museum of Art. (That's my bit in Art in America on the news.) Some people expressed in correspondence that this was a mistake,... 1800@http://grammarpolice.net/ Art 2009-08-05T09:32:53-05:00 http://grammarpolice.net/archives/001799.php It is the V you double, not the U, as if to use two valleys in a valise is to savvy the vacuum of a vowel at a powwow in between sawteeth. It is to ask the painter of a... 1799@http://grammarpolice.net/ Poetry 2009-08-03T13:11:57-05:00 http://grammarpolice.net/archives/001798.php My Art in America report about G Fine Art closing is here. Now, this morning I'm leaving for Atlantic City for the Food & Wine Festival, and shortly after I get back I'm heading to Dallas to then drive to... 1798@http://grammarpolice.net/ Art 2009-07-31T07:44:16-05:00 http://grammarpolice.net/archives/001797.php G Fine Art, one of the anchor galleries in the 1515 14th Street NW gallery building, will close at the end of its August show, which opens tomorrow evening. I'll have more when my story goes up.... 1797@http://grammarpolice.net/ Art 2009-07-24T17:29:28-05:00 http://grammarpolice.net/archives/001791.php Cara Ober and I discuss the exhibit at the BMA, the jurors, the artists, and the outcome. The Baltimore Development Cooperative, Pavilion, 2009.KC: I need to post a disclaimer because it might come up in this leg of the conversation:... 1791@http://grammarpolice.net/ Art 2009-07-24T16:41:00-05:00