“I myself am a failure at raising funds and sustaining my work. As a visiting artist I can hardly support basic functions. I do not have health insurance, life insurance, storage or insurance for art works; I do not have savings, retirement funds, medical plan,...
“The women’s figures which I see here among the people give me a tremendous urge, much more to paint them than to possess them, though indeed I should like both.” —Vincent Van Gogh in a letter to his brother Theo, 1885 Today I...
from the SFGate, August 30 2007 A Burning Man participant was found dead this morning, hanging from the inside of a two-story high tent, according to Mark Pirtle, special agent in charge for the Bureau of Land Management. The apparent suicide would be the...