December 2008
31 posts
Rainy Sunday
So, my horoscope was not correct. There was no true love on December 20th despite all signs pointing in that direction. It was fun to dance, nonetheless, and I was pretty deep in the cups, as they say. I am glad there are no pictures. I walked all the way home and it was cold and slippery.
Today, I am gonna make a beef stew. Got everything i need. It’s going to be delicious. I want to make...
List: Books and the like being read by handsome...
1. Selling the Lower East Side, by Christopher Mele
2. The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman
3. Artificial Light, by James Greer
4. 2666, by Roberto Bolano
see? i am stalking in the name of literature.
NY Observer: Mysterious Croatian Artist Ana Tzarev... →
Modern Painters: How Unlike You →
excellent article in Modern Painters on imposters and the aura of the artist. does it really matter?
Dear Dave Magazine →
what a lovely name. and it looks very nice, too. i’d never heard of this before but I plan to check it out.
Laura Stevenson (yes, that one again), Beats...
nothing compares 2 u...
It’s been seven hours + fifteen days since u took your love away I go out every night + sleep all day since u took your love away since u been gone I can do whatever I want I can see whomever I choose I can eat my dinner in a fancy restaurant but nothing I said nothing can take away these blues, ‘cos nothing compares nothing compares 2 u it’s been so lonely without u here like a...
Seriously?! F You
From NY Mag’s Art Basel Miami Beach coverage:
Terence Koh Dazzles Art Basel Miami With Thrilling Nonperformance
Midway through the first day of Art Basel Miami Beach, not much was happening yet, at least when it came to selling big art. Indeed, ennui, we found, seems to be an art form: “Special performance by Terence Koh,” read the invitation. At Art Basel Miami, Shamim...
I need to clean my office.
it is such a mess. i don’t want to. it is getting out of control, though. there is so much to do and i can’t find any of it because its under boxes and piles of paper and photographs and show announcements and a magazine Victoria brought me from miami that is very beautiful. none of those things matter, though, if i cannot find the work i need to do. oh well. maybe i will just find a...
What I did on Sunday
we saw this:
and read this at the same time:
Having a Coke with You
is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irun, Hendaye, Biarritz, Bayonne or being sick to my stomach on the Travesera de Gracia in Barcelona partly because in your orange shirt you look like a better happier St. Sebastian partly because of my love for you, partly because of your love for yoghurt partly because of the...
Art Fairs Didn't Implode, did they?
From Artinfo.com: “Hopefully this reset on the market will be good for art and artists,” said New York exhibitor Sean Kelly, “but everyone has to adjust their expectations.”
From Kyle Bentley’s ArtForum Diary: “He [Jerry Saltz, in his talk titled This Is the End: The Rising Tide of Money Goes out of the Artworld and All Boats Are Sinking] prophesied something “even better” than...
Artinfo.com: "Pulse" Quickens on Day Two →
Maybe Miami won’t be a bust afterall?
Ben Brantley Reviews "Opening Night"
I took Adam and Shaina to see this last night and I thought it was absolutely phenomenal. We sat on stage as a part of the meta-audience of the play within a play, which I highly, highly recommend doing. It is up until Saturday, so get your tickets fast! Some snippets from Brantley’s review:
The walls come tumbling down in “Opening Night,” Ivo van Hove’s wild and woolly stage version of...
Miami Fair Update
Artinfo.com has two articles up about the preview days (Art Basel and NADA). The consensus is, so far, that the fairs are “kinder” and “gentler” and that everyone is looking for a bargain but still buying. Perhaps a tiny bit of optimism has returned to the art world, and since astronomical prices are back down to more realistic levels, maybe people will start buying again....
WTF Moments in Journalism
So, I am a terrible speller and i don’t have excellent grammar and i forget to capitalize (though fairly consistently). Nonetheless, I love the heinous nonsense that gets passed off as journalism. Typos and misspellings in print and on the web can be hilarious, but this goes beyond that ten-fold. From an article on CNN.com about Guns N’ Roses suing Dr. Pepper over a free giveaway...
Spring Preview Number One: Chris Piazza
So the first BAMart show for 2009 will be the work of Chris Piazza. I met Chris within the first week of working here and knew that someday we would do something together. Pretty much as far as one can be from my personal aesthetic, Chris’s work is bizarre and amazing and magical and that magic, I think, will profoundly effect our audiences. Can’t forget, I am not just programming for...
