{"id":97,"date":"2002-06-01T15:49:19","date_gmt":"2002-06-01T19:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/art"},"modified":"2002-06-01T15:49:19","modified_gmt":"2002-06-01T19:49:19","slug":"art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2002\/06\/art.html","title":{"rendered":"Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night Laura and I went to go see the play <cite>Art<\/cite>, which is running at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sjrep.com\/\" title=\"fairly new theater in downtown San Jose\">San Jose Rep<\/a> through June 16.  If you haven&#8217;t seen it:  go.  Go now.  I&#8217;m talking to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marissalingen.com\/\" title=\"I'm link 2 on her Links page, tee-hee!\">you in particular, M&#8217;ris<\/a>.  (By an unfortunate coincidence, M&#8217;ris and I are having an email discussion about the nature of art.  Please believe me, M&#8217;ris, my exhortation to go see <cite>Art<\/cite> has absolutely <em>nothing<\/em> to do with our discussion.  I just think you and Mark will really enjoy the play.  No ulterior motives here whatsoever.)<\/p>\n<p>This is the second play that I&#8217;ve seen first in London, then in the US.  The last one was <cite>The Complete Works of Shakespeare, Abridged<\/cite>, which was screamingly funny in England but only somewhat humorous in San Jose.  I had been worried that <cite>Art<\/cite> would suffer the same fate, but fortunately, it was quite good.  At least as good as the London production, maybe better. <\/p>\n<p>Since we&#8217;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 &#8212; 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, &#8220;Oh, that&#8217;s nice!  Mmm, $1100.00.)  Still, I ran into my ex-boss&#8217;s wife, and we had a nice conversation.  I also talked with an artist who was almost exactly my age &#8212; we had an interesting discussion on how his paintings were like and not-like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrgiger.com\/\" title=\"Swiss surrealist\">Giger<\/a>.  So I basically had a good time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No ulterior motives here whatsoever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}