Don’t miss the newest event in the Access Series on Disability and Art at the de Young Museum Feature by FeatureChuck Close, Prosopagnosia, and Pixels Lecture by Amanda Cachiawith Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and Anthony Tusler de young Museum | Koret Auditorium saturday, october 1310:30 a.m., reception following In conjunction with the exhibition Chuck Close and Crown […]
This month’s Telling Our Disability Stories interview is Amanda Cachia.Amanda is a free lance, fine arts curator from Sydney, Australia. She has organized exhibitions focusing on social justice issues including disability. Recently she selected and organized “Medusa’s Mirror: Fears, Spells & Other Transfixed Positions” for Pro Arts Gallery in Oakland. The show included 8 artists […]
Sandie Yi’s gloves.PDF FlyerSandie Yi will illustrate and discuss Crip Couture, her collection of disability fashion, at the de Young Museum Access Advisors Open House and Disability Arts Festival, 11–noon, Saturday March 31, 2012, in the Koret Auditorium. Free admission. Yi’s presentation is in conjunction with the exhibition “The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: […]
New Disability CDMost of us know Robert David Hall as the crutch-using coroner on CSI. He’s now joined the rare ranks of disabled singers and songwriters who write and record music about disability, . At least, that’s how I’m going to categorize his CD in my Disability: Songs, Singers, & Songwriters database. The songs are […]
For the past few years I’ve been submitting my disability-related photographs—no sunsets, no dappled brooks—to art shows for disabled artists with mixed results. The latest, “Equity for All Artists,” is at Gallery 85 on La Cienega in LA. It’s sponsored by the LA Art Association with a grant from the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation. […]
The first outsider artist I remember was Wild Man Fischer. Back in the heyday of Warner Bros records, the late 60s, Frank Zappa recorded Wild Man Fischer. Fischer had been discovered singing on the streets for 10 cents a song. I heard his recording, “Songs for Sale,” on one of the great Warner Bros/Reprise sampler […]
Where the Hits Keep ComingSometimes songwriters get disability just right. It’s not often. For every non-stereotypical, realistic portrayal of disability there’s two dozen country weepers or maudlin overcoming narratives. Today, I was listening to my favorite radio station, KALX. It’s UC Berkeley’s award winning font of everything hip and groovy. Majority Whip, all the DJs […]
Sometimes I get struck. I compulsively want to create something I’ve imagined.It happened yesterday. A friend was having a party. The invitation said it was a potluck. Down the winding, curvy road of cooking mania lead me to Bittman’s How to Cook Everything and his recipe for cornbread. A major plus was his recommendation to […]
Occasionally, on my emails I’ve been using the footer, “Yeah that doctor told me, ‘Son you don’t need no pills, just a handful of nickels and a jukebox will cure your ills.’ Carl Perkins, disabled rockabilly pioneer” I thought people might like to know a bit more. On the website, Rockabilly Hall of Fame, I […]
Last October I gave a talk on how disability culture and identity impacted Henri Toulouse-Lautrec at the de Young Museum. It was for the Disability Open House. We chose Toulouse-Lautrec because the museum was exhibiting “Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay.” There were three pieces by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec in […]