Sweet: “We snooped around the West Side of late looking for new clues to “The Mystery of the Missing Museum.” Ate at the Grill for the first time. Everyone is right, this place is an A-plus. Old fashioned grill in front, TV screens in back, no frills but has great old school atmosphere. A-plus on the design-o-meter because it is so completely for real and W.Va. unpretentious. They don’t make ‘em like this anymore. The food was great and inexpensive.
Sour: “LOTS of pictures of famous Republicans on the walls from Betty Ireland to Shelley and W., looking in the shot for all the world like they are giving the Hitler salute. Sieg Heil!!” (more…)

“Our Art” is an occasional feature of the arts page of the Sunday Gazette-Mail section, showcasing artworks held in the collections of area museums. We’ve begun reprinting the feature in the Monday online gazz section. This past Sunday featured two works  by John Fulton Folinsbee, a landscape painter of the New Hope School, who unlike fellow painters in that grouping often captured grayer, gritty industrial scenes. Click the image or here to view the works.

Claire Sherwood’s installation on the stairs was one of many outstanding features at December’s Buswater show.

Sour: “Since Sweet got to award an ArtAttack DIY Medal of Honor in the post below, I hereby award another. Let’s hear it for the Buswater gang! The Dec. 1 and 2 Buswater show at a house on Kanawha Boulevard was excellent and everybody in it deserves a DIY award, especially Todd Griffith for pulling it all together — including that great space.
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Sweet: “I agree that the Buswater show was outstanding. All of them have been. I think there have been three so far. This one had outstanding work by Kristie Carlisle Duncan (we love her work — see this blog), Betty Gay, Todd Griffith, Jess Hamrick, Dane Klingaman, C. Mason, Jamie Miller, Eric Pardue, Vasilia Scouras, Claire Sherwood, Cigdem Slankard, Mark Slankard, Brent Thomas and Mike Mendez (Mendez, a Shepherd University faculty member, was one of the big winners of the recent W.Va. Juried show — see this post). (more…)