We Come for the Art...But We Stay for the Greased-hog-catching Contest

So you like standing around in quiet, crowded galleries, knowingly staring at some square of art while nodding and murmuring, "ah...yes...how profound." Frankly, you sound pretty pretentious to us. But if you're resigned to that sort of thing, you might as well surround yourself with some really truly beautiful images at The Stephen Wirtz Gallery (to whom we refuse to link, due to their site's appalling use of frames). Now through January 15th, they're hosting two exhibitions (that's French for a pitcher-show) of photos by Michael Kenna [gallery one, gallery two]. We don't know much about art aside from those lovely Anne Geddes photos, but we know what we like ... and we like Michael Kenna. He takes these very dramatic, peaceful photos of landscapes, frequently with seemingly-abandoned industrial elements and a Marlene-Dietrich-esque soft focus. We don't believe we've ever seen cloudy skies captured with such profoundly meticulous etheriality - hey, look, your pretentiousness just rubbed off on us!

The Stephen Wirtz Gallery is located at 49 Geary St, third floor; and if you feel as through you absolutely must visit their dreadfully framed website, fine, here it is.