Photo by Niemster

One of the greatest bars in the world, Gooski’s, here in Pittsburgh, PA is difficult to describe. It is sensory overload and sensory deprivation at the same time. The fact that it is both the brightest bar and the darkest bar in town (depending upon where you are standing), is just one of the examples of why Gooski’s is one of the most dynamic cultural epicenters that serves alcohol in Pittsburgh. Pipe fitters, sneaker peekers, punkers, and retirees all commiserate over Iron Cities and Stellas while The New York Dolls blasts from the Jukebox. Girltalk plays to a SRO crowd in the back of the bar while the locals cuss him out in the front. A free drink or a boot to the ass could be coming at any minute… and the bathrooms are a Pittsburgh graffiti Mecca. They are a glimpse of Jackson Pollock vs. Jean-Michel Basquiat that results in a seizure educing sensory overload. I have compiled a collection of bathroom graffiti after the break.

DO YOU HAVE ANY GOOSKI’S GRAF PICS? - I’LL ADD EM IF THEY’RE UP TO SNUFF

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Lennon’s on sale again, ya’ll: The 55th Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, just opened a couple of weeks ago. I have yet to see it, but loved visually groping the pix posted on Artforum.com’s website of all the lawmen and sailors during the opening.
Our invitation to the Brillobox afterparty must have been lost in the mail.

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Here lies the venerable Robert Rauschenberg, purveyor of quality content-laden Abstract Concrete Expressionism. May he rest in peace.

(above, his Able Was I Ere I Saw Elba II from the Anagrams series).
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo, the 16th century Italian painter, has work featured in the KH Museum, Vienna, through late June 2008.
Arcimboldo is well known for creating images of people’s faces using fruit, vegetables, books, tools and other objects. His work was popularized in the twentieth century when the Dadaists and Surrealists cited him as a forebear. [Read more]

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