April 30, 2004
street storage: street parking
Let us suppose you have a chest of drawers that you sorely need for storage space but cannot fit into your small apartment. What to do? Here is one thought: Why not put it on wheels and leave it...
April 29, 2004
Ed Koch riding a trojan horse?
the keys to the city? Ah, now I understand why former Mayor Ed Koch appears to be pimping for this Summer's Republican Convention. Koch has accepted a job as chairman of a drive to attract thousands of volunteers to...
April 27, 2004
2 more
Coming in from 23rd Street, I went back into our lobby and past another set of doors to the garden, where I found these [another score for the number 2] dogwood trees. Incredibly, this too is Manhattan....
2nd anniversary
Remembering that as of today I've been at this blog for two full years, I went outside to look for something visual in twos. I found these three on the awning marquee of the Chelsea Hotel accross the street....
April 26, 2004
subway [in]security
this is as sophisticated as it gets Ray Sanchez knows what the city won't tell us: No one is really doing anything about subway security. But then, why should we be surprised? The subway isn't the politicians and bureaucrats'...
April 23, 2004
Joseph Maida
Wallspace Gallery shows the photo work of artists you probably haven't seen before. Once you have however, you'll want to keep looking. The current Joseph Maida show is no exception. There may be a small world in each photograph,...
Joe Andoe
Joe Andoe untitled (Car on road) 2003 oil on canvas 57 1/2 x 82 inches I loved this show. Period. But check out the stories on the gallery site. [image from Feigen Contemporary]...
Anton Kern's little family
Anton Kern is currently exhibiting two very different artists in his two rooms on 20th Street, and they are surprisingly comfortable together. Jim Lambie, "Mental Oyster" (installation detail) Edward Krasinski (installation detail)...
Paper Rad
one small work on paper (detail) More group life from Providence, Rhode Island, even if these three guys are now sowing their art all about the country. Foxy Production is currently showing the work of the collaborative Paper Rad,...
April 22, 2004
crush the Church before it crushes all reason
it's a slippery slope But it's 2004! Why do we still have to deal with this accursed thing? I've absolutely had it with the abominations of the Catholic Church, and don't get me started on all the other monstrously...
April 21, 2004
a police state serves only those who control the police
The Patriot Act is obviously a boon for homegrown tyrants. Only slightly less obvious is the fact that it won't be able to protect us from their bogeymen, even though that's the only excuse they can publicly offer for its...
future present
(storyboard image for filing cabinet scene not included in the film) I saw Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" in a movie theatre when it first came out, almost twenty years ago. I remember thinking it was exciting and pretty funny. B...
April 20, 2004
political trial, political prisoners
serious street theatre: Rachel Corrie remembered on 5th Avenue, March 26, 2003 Barry and I slipped into Manhattan Criminal Court on Monday to show support for our friends and their friends, sixteen defendents caught up in the trial from...
April 19, 2004
Brooklyn Museum looks up without talking down
19th-century terra cotta fragment newly mounted inside the Museum subway station The Brooklyn Museum celebrated its $63 million shiny new front door and merry greensward with a wonderful party this weekend. The elaborate entrance shed and its landscape approach...
April 17, 2004
Spring-ing
This is a view of the magnificent ornamental plum tree on 11th Avenue, surviving in the midst of the Chelsea gallery geography, captured late this afternoon....
April 15, 2004
April 15, the steps of the Post Office
"TAXES ARE NOT FOR EVERYONE" "TALK LOUDLY AND CARRY A BIG DICK" "WE'VE PAID OUR TAXES, NOW LET US GET MARRIED" By 6:30 this evening, on the last day for mailing income tax returns, the steps of the Main...
April 14, 2004
of mythical homelands and homelands blessed by god
For their replacement homeland it now looks like the Palestinians will just have to be content with a small rock somewhere south of the mythical Blessed Isles. I don't know how to deal with such idiocy as this. [the original...
April 11, 2004
David Humphrey comes off the walls
David Humphrey Wave Watcher (2003) acrylic on canvas 96 x 84 inches I used to think he was a brilliant, mysteriously compelling eccentric. Still brilliant and mysteriously compelling, David Humphrey is looking less eccentric today. But it's not that...
April 10, 2004
Joe Ovelman, "Like A Virgin"
detail of installation of C-prints No, he's not a virgin to the gallery world, and it should already be clear that I really like the work of Joe Ovelman, so maybe I don't have to say much about his...
April 9, 2004
Daniel Rushton
Daniel Rushton Motorcycle Seat (2004) acrylic on Panel 48"x60" One of our happiest acquisitions, now from a number of years past, was that of three beautiful silkscreen monoprints by Daniel Rushton. Our guests usually ask about them right away,...
April 7, 2004
Keith's anger, and his love
the same Keith Cylar who won the respect of civic officials for his tireless work with Housing Works clients was arrested more than 50 times for civil disobedience: here he is shown visiting the U.S. Senate chambers* WBAI's site...
April 6, 2004
Keith Cylar
A beautiful man died yesterday. Keith Cylar was the Co-Founder and Co-President of Housing Works, whose good people announced his death today. Keith had lived with HIV for over 20-years and was diagnosed with AIDS in 1989. In the...
stupidity and iniquity
The Bushites and their handlers: Although somehow they hijacked command of the most powerful country on earth, they clearly don't know what they're doing and they're doing it for the wrong reasons. I used to think that their stupidity is...
places in history
We also note that, even if he is remembered for Vietnam, LBJ at least managed to deliver on civil rights, a voting-rights bill, a Medicare program for the aged, and measures to improve education and conservation. What will Bushie be...
April 5, 2004
armageddon, finally, again
It may finally have come down to our millennialists against their millennialists. Over the weekend a new war may have begun began in earnest in Iraq, a very visible, coordinated, religion-based uprising against the occupation. The Christian soldiers running...
mercenary brouhaha hysterics, and reason
Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator in Iraq, shown on Thursday protected by a security guard employed by Blackwater USA, even while in a heavily guarded military complex in the city of Mosul Tom Moody writes about the Daily Kos...
April 3, 2004
OK
untitled (KO) 2004 Image taken from (inside out of) the most excellent and beautiful KOFOO on 8th Avenue between 26-27th Streets...
