As I mentioned in yesterday's blog, I attended the First Friday Art Walk on South Santa Fe Drive here in Denver Friday night. There were a few places that had some decent art, but not many photographs on display this time around. Not as many people, either, like during the summer months. I went into the Denver Art Network Gallery, which seems to be one of the more upscale galleries, and in a room in the back saw he two "plug in" pieces of art seen in the above photograph. Plug in art seems to be everywhere these days, especially at the Denver Art Museum, where they even have a fish named Veronica Lake on a large screen television singing torch songs. Back when I lived in Chicago, I would sometimes walk up Milwaukee Avenue, near the Wicker Park neighborhood, where at that time one side of the street was Spanish and the other half Polish. You would sometimes see plug in art in the Polish storefronts, and it was derided. Back then it was tacky, but now it seems to be trendy. How times change. Of course, the Wicker Park neighborhood - writer Nelson Algren's old stomping ground - has been gentrified and is now infested with hipsters. Milwaukee Avenue probably has all kinds of art galleries on it now, no doubt featuring plug in art. The more things change...
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