Category Archives: Art
Louise Bourgeois
“I have been to Hell and back and let me tell you it was wonderful.”
Circus School
Photo by Anne Etheridge Anne says that people in Portsmouth are more comfortable really being themselves, really being eccentric, than the people where she grew up in Mississippi. I don’t know if that’s true, but I can see why she said that. I’m pretty sure she said that when we were scouting, right before our [...]
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It’s about time
Justin Bond has a blog. A taste: Actually my make-up was wind-swept and tear-stained already after being WHIPPED FROM PILLAR TO POST (OMG -What do you think that aphorism is referencing?) by that asshole Jack Frost when I was walking home from my shrink appointment, but DON’T EXPECT COMPLETE TRUTH in this blog and if [...]
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A Person of Interest
A recent interview with Susan Choi about her new novel in Time Out New York: link. Installation view of Chris Larson’s Pause (The Dukes of Hazzard ’69 Charger and Ted Kaczynski’s Montana Refuge), 2004
Book reviews
Links to recent reviews: a Mel Brooks biography and Don Rickles’ memoir in the New York Times Book Review; Rebecca Solnit’s essay collection, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics, in Bookforum‘s summer issue; and Michael Ondaatje’s Divisadero in the latest Time Out New York.
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Tasty Zine
Over at Feast of Fools, John Q. Sanchez patrols the internet so you don’t have to. Check out the video bounty of Tasty Zine. Here’s a sample: Debbie Harry and the Muppets
Assorted Pleasures
Little Annie (aka Annie Anxiety aka Annie Bandez) and friends will be at Mo Pitkins every Saturday in December. Visual AIDS hosts a preview party for World AIDS Day tomorrow, Dec. 1, followed by the Postcards from the Edge benefit on Dec. 2 and 3: “the most exciting and affordable way to build a collection [...]
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Francis Bacon on the MTA
Could’ve been the train delays or the general late-night stupor, but it wasn’t long before I swore I could see the screaming pope in the water stains above the Brooklyn-bound F platform at the Broadway-Lafayette station. Study after Velázquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X, Francis Bacon
“Michael Jordan, Save the World”
This past April, during a short stay in Philadelphia, I stopped in at the Fleisher Art Memorial. It was meant to be a brief visit, more of quick turn than a real tour of the nation’s oldest tuition-free art school. But then I got to the second gallery of the exhibition and I stood dumbfounded. [...]
Whistler’s Mother and Marina Abramovic