by Terri Griffith | Apr 15, 2011 | Blog
Over the last few years, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) has exploded in popularity. When I moved to Chicago in 2000, there were only a handful of CSAs available to Chicagoans. Now there are dozens. CSAs have become so popular that The New York Times frequently...
by Terri Griffith | Apr 1, 2011 | Blog
Last week on the NPR blog Monkey See, there was an interesting article by Linda Holmes about a new study released from the National Endowment for the Arts. In this study enticingly entitled “Age and arts participation: A case against demographic destiny,†the NEA...
by Terri Griffith | Mar 18, 2011 | Blog
For the longest time I thought John Cage was an asshole. The first thing I knew about Cage was his infamous composition 4’33â€â€”four minutes and thirty-three seconds of silence. To my young mind, this seemed ridiculous, a joke, a lark, or worse, a way to...
by Terri Griffith | Mar 4, 2011 | Blog
When I was a kid, I was crazy for Andy Warhol. I mean I just loved him, practically erotically. His photo hung on my wall along with pictures of his work that I cut from magazines. To signal my arrival as a teenager, for my 13th birthday my mom bought me a...
by Terri Griffith | Feb 18, 2011 | Blog
I might be late to this party, but I recently fell in love with photographer James Bidgood. Bidgood is what they call a “re-discovered†artist, though he was re-discovered more than a decade ago. That term always makes me nervous. I’m not sure why. Maybe because...
