Posted by Jason Diamond “Mirror Me” is a collaborative exhibition and performance organized by Brandon Stosuy and Kai Althoff, that has been turned into a zine. Knowing Stosuy’s good taste (which seems to extend far beyond just the music he writes about at Stereogum), I took the plunge and plopped down the eight bucks to attain a copy. The Zine features new materials by artists, writers and musicians such as Adam Helms, Brandon Stosuy, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, Kai Althoff, Karlynn Holland, […]
Fuck Yes Yoko Ono
Posted by Jason Diamond If you’re bored and have a day off, I’d suggest heading to MoMA, sit for an hour or more, and watch people look at the microphone placed in the middle of the same room that Marina Abramović sat in a few months back. Some will approach it (with a mix of trepidation and curiosity), some will pose for photos, others will scream, some will rap, but no matter what, 60 (or more) minutes of people watching […]
Tracking Art in Manhattan / Illuminating Art in Brooklyn
Posted by Tobias Carroll I have no formal training in art history. I tried: my junior year of college found me registering for a course in 20th-century art, only to be asked to leave five minutes into the first class. To be fair, I was joined by around two-thirds of the people gathered there; there was, apparently, a prerequisite that had never made it to the course catalog. Good times. What follows, then, are two short takes on art shows […]
NYRB Visits Otto Dix
There is an Otto Dix exhibition at Neue Gallery through August 30th. NYRB has a slide show.
Things to Buy: Prints of Writers Houses, New York Tyrant #8, Beer
1. New York Tyrant #8 (Pictured above) 2. Prints of writers houses done by M + E. 3. Beer to drink tonight, while I attempt to finish book 1 of The Instructions by Adam Levin.
Things I Like About This Week’s New Yorker
1. Bastard Noise gets a shout out. This gives all my high school crust punk fantasies some validation. 2. The Imperial Bedrooms review is tiny. So tiny that I am led to believe there is nothing good to gain from this book. 3. Peter Schjeldahl on the Charles Burchfield retrospective at The Whitney. 4. Nora Ephron parodies Stieg Larsson.
Polaroid: Instant Joy!
POLAROID: INSTANT JOY! Polaroid Photographs curated by Andrew Garn June 25- July 31, 2010opening reception: Friday June 25, 6-8pm A.M. Richard Fine Art 328 Berry Street (south 4th) Brooklyn, NY 11211917-570-1476gallery open: fri, sat, sun 1-6pm Although space restrictions have not allowed a complete survey of Polaroid art, this show attempts to capture the range of vision, spontaneity and experimentations possible with the Polaroid. The artists selected include Lynka Adams, Michael Anton, Jimmy Baynes, Todd Boebel, Ellen Carey, Brendan Carroll, […]
Coming Soon: “So Close to Awesome, Random Things, 2000-2009”
I’ve got a zine coming out next month on Julius Singer Press. It’s full of stories about messing up. Nick Gazin did the artwork, and if you aren’t going to buy the zine for my writing, do yourself a favor and do it for Nick’s handiwork.