Last night Laura and I went to go see the play Art, which is running at the San Jose Rep through June 16. If you haven’t seen it: go. Go now. I’m talking to you in particular, M’ris. (By an unfortunate coincidence, M’ris and I are having an email discussion about the nature of art. Please believe me, M’ris, my exhortation to go see Art has absolutely nothing to do with our discussion. I just think you and Mark will really enjoy the play. No ulterior motives here whatsoever.)

This is the second play that I’ve seen first in London, then in the US. The last one was The Complete Works of Shakespeare, Abridged, which was screamingly funny in England but only somewhat humorous in San Jose. I had been worried that Art would suffer the same fate, but fortunately, it was quite good. At least as good as the London production, maybe better.

Since we’re on the subject of art, the AVArtFest is running at the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara this weekend. There are several dozen booths with local artists — mostly painters, although there are a few potters and sculptors. A lot of the paintings were quite good in my uneducated opinion, although they were mostly out of my price range. (As in, “Oh, that’s nice! Mmm, $1100.00.) Still, I ran into my ex-boss’s wife, and we had a nice conversation. I also talked with an artist who was almost exactly my age — we had an interesting discussion on how his paintings were like and not-like Giger. So I basically had a good time.