January 2009
46 posts
F You Penguin →
OK. as usual, i am a day late and a dollar short, but this blog made me LOL all day long. it combines two of my favorite things: adorable animals and being rude. it’s all so cute and mean and funny!
BUCHSTABENMUSEUM →
jenbee:
The Letter Museum looks divine. (via Youngna)
god bless the germans.
Paul Sepuya, Alexandria Installation Shots →
the show ended on the 25th of January, but the installation shots are on Paul’s blog. it was a beautiful show.
i went running today
and i loved it. i just want to capture this day for posterity’s sake.
Laurie & Friends @ BAM
what an interesting evening to launch the $300m Next Stage Campaign (see that NYT article i posted earlier this week for more info) for BAM (and the next god knows how many years of work!) hosted/curated by Laurie Anderson. Believe it or not, I have a new appreciation for Laurie after tonight. Lou Reed was there, obvi, with Richard Belzer and, I think, Debbie Harry. Evan imagined they were all...
'80s Hardcore, Vivian Girls, Pissed Jeans & Fucked... →
ridiculously excellent show last night. i felt like i took i time machine back to the good old days. i recommend seeing any of these bands play when they come around. there was crowd surfing!
New York Times: Brooklyn Academy Thinks Big,... →
“Just contemplate the multitudes that are contained in this single depressing...”
– Huffington Post: Bush’s Depressing Goodbye Party. GOODBYEEEE!!!!!! Last President Bush Post EVERRRRRRR!!!
NYMag: Birds: Why They Hate Us →
ok. i really do not care for birds. and i hate that birds took down a whole airplane! yes, birds kind of scare me. this article from New York Magazine is good because they agree that birds are idiots. Also, here is a scary clip, which actually has no birds in it, by the artist Martijn Hendricks. I think I have posted these before, though it might have been in the old days before this version of my...
Art Fag City » The Worst of the Web, 2008 →
(via jenbee) I don’t know how I feel about all of these but…#7, #4, & #1- hell to the yes. Very much open for debate though.
The Omnomicon →
there is very little i love more than #1 saying “om nom nom nom…” and #2 cooking delicious foods so this blog combines the best of both worlds. i originally saw a reposting of the “rainbow cake” which is, while awe-inspiring, terrifying. nevertheless, there are tons of tasty looking recipes and beautiful pictures. check it out!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Gothic
“Corporate Gothic (also referred to as CorpGoth) was originally the name given to Goths working in the office from nine till five. The term Corporate Gothic referred as well to the formal clothing the ‘Office Goths’ were wearing during their work.
Recently, CorpGoth is more turned into a more independent, general accepted by other Goths, variation on the Gothic Subculture. These days, we...
NYT: In the Gloom, Seeing Rembrandt With New Eyes →
Morrissey Tickets
must have sold out in 2 seconds! if you, like most, did not get your hands on any and are depressed about it, please enjoy these four goth/darkwave/gloomy early videos by Chameleons UK, Christian Death, The Sisters of Mercy and Clan of Xymox. i am going through an incredibly goth phase musically this week, makes moz look like the monkees or someone else that sings happy songs. i don’t know...
Barry can't bare the thought of giving up his... →
and, honestly, neither could i. this just goes to show you how addictive technology is. The idea of tuning out or turning off for one day let alone for four years is terrifying. i do think Pres. Obama will be smart enough to use the Berry for good and not do anything that would compromise national security, etc. which is i guess what people are worried about. but why can’t the prez read the...
Some openings I want to go to tonight:
Team Gallery: Einarsson, Rhodes, Whitney (i have been fascinated by the idea of this show since i first read about it in the Whitney interview in the Brooklyn Rail last year some time. Great interview by the way. It’s a confounding combination of artists, in my opinion and i am curious to see how these works play off each other.)
Black & White Gallery: imMATERIAL (Jean Shin, who made...
“Act first, think later — that way you have something to think about.”
– — Marcia Tucker.
I finished her memoirs over the holidays and I have to admit I can’t stop thinking about what an amazing person she was.
this is sippey.typepad.com: deaccessioning to pay... →
jenbee:
Good links round-up of the deaccessioning debate.
the eternal question…and it’s true, this will be the big debate of the year. my two cents: i say sell it all!
what does my future hold?
Artforum: Kin of Louis XIV loses case...
The descendant of King Louis XIV who attempted to close the Jeff Koons exhibition at the Palace of Versailles has lost his court case. As Agence France-Presse reports, a judge from the administrative court of Versailles rejected the complaint filed by Charles-Emmanuel de Bourbon-Parme. De Bourbon-Parme claimed that the exhibition, which integrates Koons’s sculptures into the castle and its...
is it Ph.D. time?
i’ve been considering this for some time now (like, five years) and have come to the conclusion that maybe I should just go and get a Ph.D. You can’t get a curatorial fellowship, not job but fellowship, without being one (ABD considered…maybe). how do i expect someone to hire me? for what? the 20 tired, little exhibitions i have done over the past few years? (yes). am i being too...
awesome t-shirt awareness post.
ooh! look! timothy hull designed a t-shirt for brooklyn industries. i will get one and you should, too. (full disclosure: tim is my friend and brooklyn industries supports my place of employment, but still it’s a totally radical shirt, so get one.)
WatchBas Jan Ader read “the strange last voyage of Donald Crowhurst” before taking off in the “ocean wave” and dissapearing. somehow, that changes everything.
i just watched the documentary on Ader called “here is always somewhere else” and it was very interesting. the above is just one interesting fact that has forced me to reevaluate my thoughts on the artist.
“…if you’re going to buy a pair of pants you want them to be tight...”
– frank o’hara - personism, september 3, 1959
