This Ron Nagle /Don Ed Hardy show at Rena Bransten Gallery is the bomb! This is one of those once-in-a-lifetime things - a mass conflagration of thoughts, adventure & commodity crammed into a small gallery in downtown San Francisco for a brief period of time. It takes you from the distribution of "china," Empire, tattooing and the body-politic politics of body, to pop & funk and the flac·cid·i·ty of late twentieth-century; post-nuclear aesthetics, back around through high-fire ceramics to the commercial distribution of amalgamated mass culture through the recent success of Don Ed Hardy in every Macy's and Nordstrom's in America. It's quiet. But if you can hear the noise, this show's the bomb. And the old guys sit around in the gallery by way of the power of video and say piss and sh*t and f@ck and everything. Jesse Hamlin wrote a nice brief intro in the Chron's Date Lines: News from the Bay Area arts scene : Ron Nagle and Don Hardy have been ch...