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It's Wednesday, and today's lunchtime news chum brings a chain that ties historic downtown synagogues to interesting art:

• Cityshul. A few days ago, I wrote about Wilshire Blvd Temple and their 2-year renovation of the main sanctuary (according to their FB page, they have started work on disassembling the pipe organ this week). WBT has been ( Read more... )

Today's news chum all has to do with reinvention and art. Perhaps it will inspire you to be creative enough to comment.

• Reinventing Confiscated Items. We've all imagined the collection of items that accumulate at TSA checkpoints. Michele Pred, an artist at the California College of the Arts, decided to do something about it. She worked with TSA to ( Read more... )

Whilst reading our corporate paper over lunch, I happened upon an article on the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef at the Smithsonian. The article was there because a colleague, fauxklore, contributed pieces to it. The entire reef exhibit consists of a variety of “sub-reefs” made by crocheting, and is a combination art project, mathematical wonder, science ( Read more... )

Yesterday, we did something we haven’t done in over 20 years: We went down to Laguna Beach for the Sawdust and Art-A-Fair Festivals. I recall we last went to the Sawdust festival in the late 1980s, shortly after we got married (I remember this because we got a beautiful rock carving we still have hanging on our wall). I also have memories of going ( Read more... )