4-16-08 -

Kyoto Art and Antiques is having an open warehouse sale in Seattle, May 1-11. See the PDF flier for this auspicious event. Even if you don't want to buy anything, just go by and say hi to the charming proprietors who are old friends of mine. Also, their wares are superlative. Tell 'em cuke sent you. - dc

4-02-08 - The art of Karen Hamilton - wonderful collage paintings and landscapes.

During April she will be showing 50 small pieces at the 20th St. Gallery in Sacramento.

Karen Hamilton moved to City Center in 1980 and spent two practice periods and two summers at Tassajara in 1982-83. She was lay ordained by Linda Cutts in 2002. Karen lives in Sacramento and practices at the Iron Bell Zendo. Her paintings will be on display at City Center in Sept. 2008.

3-24-08 - Lane Olson has an article on Mayumi Oda in Persimmontree, an online literary magazine by women over sixty. No Lane - you can't be over sixty! - dc. You're supposed to sign up to get in and here's the link to Lane's article called The Artistry of Mayumi Oda. And here's Mayumi's site.

3-18-08 - Check out the art of Patrick McFarlin, an old Zen friend from back in the sixties. I've got a painting of his up above the bed - his version of Dogen's self-portrait. I've also got an interview from 1993 in Santa Fe, NM, with him and his wife, Deborah Madison of cookbook fame in here somewhere that I'll be working on to get on cuke. She and I were at Tassajara together way back then as well. And she was the chef at Greens at the first when I was the host.  - dc

3-05-08 - Check out Dharma Dog, the latest addition to the new cuke-Art-art department of the cuke-The-arts section.

featuring paintings and drawings by Brian Howlett with John Tarrant

of PZI - Pacific Zen Inst.

3-03-08 - See the watercolors of Michael Sawyer. The first item in the new art-art section of cuke.

Michael is under hospice care now at Green Gulch Farm. An article by Zenshin Florence Caplow is planned for the May issue of Tricycle.

Here's an art question which is a hyperlink to a bookmark immediately below. Why do that? Because someday there will be many entries between the two. Of course by that time I could just delete it. Ah - so many decisions.

An art question - What do you call art that's just paintings and drawings and stuff like that and not music and theater and film - can't be visual art cause prose, poetry, theater and film are visual too. Anyway now there are a Music, a Film n Video, and an Art sections. I want to add a conceptual art section. That's what I call it when I go running around screaming and end up at a slaughter house pouring blood all over myself. What would the overall name be for the Arts? That? The Arts? Oh - I know. I'll call it Art-art. I guess that's another art question. Hmm. I think I'll have an arts section with art, music, film n video, writing and poetry, and conceptual art under it. Anything else? How does that sound?