{"id":127,"date":"2006-01-03T10:20:03","date_gmt":"2006-01-03T17:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/?p=127"},"modified":"2006-01-03T10:20:03","modified_gmt":"2006-01-03T17:20:03","slug":"basquiat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"Basquiat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We took the kids to see the Basquiat exhibit at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. Ford validated my anticipation, eagerly counting recurring symbols and remarking that &#8220;he uses crayons!&#8221; I knew the portfolio would captivate Ford, with the cartoony anatomy and cars and expressive style. But I didn&#8217;t realize how much it would synchronize with Ford&#8217;s interests. And I enjoyed it, too! Even if I couldn&#8217;t really stop and breathe much throughout the show. Our tour was characteristically whirlwinded; we bounced around the gallery, cross-referencing to find the ties that bind the work, punctuated with requests to go to the bathroom, get a drink, go home, no stay, go to Austin. Chas, for his part, snoozed in the stroller.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_0186.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_0186.jpg','popup','width=700,height=525,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_0186-tm.jpg\" height=\"224\" width=\"298\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Img 0186\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_0198.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_0198.jpg','popup','width=700,height=525,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_0198-tm.jpg\" height=\"224\" width=\"298\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Img 0198\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_0215.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_0215.jpg','popup','width=700,height=525,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_0215-tm.jpg\" height=\"224\" width=\"298\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Img 0215\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_0204.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_0204.jpg','popup','width=700,height=525,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_0204-tm.jpg\" height=\"224\" width=\"298\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Img 0204\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_0243.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_0243.jpg','popup','width=700,height=525,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_0243-tm.jpg\" height=\"224\" width=\"298\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Img 0243\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_0248-1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_0248-1.jpg','popup','width=700,height=525,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_0248-1-tm.jpg\" height=\"224\" width=\"298\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Img 0248-1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_0254.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_0254.jpg','popup','width=700,height=933,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_0254-tm.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Img 0254\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_0259.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_0259.jpg','popup','width=700,height=525,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steph.sicore.org\/IMG_0259-tm.jpg\" height=\"224\" width=\"298\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Img 0259\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We took the kids to see the Basquiat exhibit at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. Ford validated my anticipation, eagerly counting recurring symbols and remarking that &#8220;he uses crayons!&#8221; I knew the portfolio would captivate Ford, with the cartoony anatomy and cars and expressive style. But I didn&#8217;t realize how much it would synchronize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-seeing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stephs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}