Beer, Art and Philosophy: A Memoir

by Tom Marioni, San Francisco: Crown Point Press, 2003. Introduction by Thomas McEvilley. 223 pp. With illustrations by the author The subtitle and leading epigraph to Tom Marioni’s memoir, Beer, Art and Philosophy: A Memoir is appropriately, “The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends Is the Highest Form of Art.”

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Mary Jo Bole’s Memento Mori

One of the first things you notice when you see Mary Jo Bole’s work is just how much there is to look at. In any project, say My First Dutch Lesson: Rust/Rest (1997–99) or Granny’s Necklace (1999–2000), there may be intricate surfaces and sculptural forms, tiny mosaic tiles and cast bronze plaques, images to decipher,

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