April 29, 2007
citizens demand impeachment, occupy Senate offices
A.R.T. (Activist Response Team) lowers banners inside the Hart Senate Office Building April 26 I was delighted, one day after my French Revolution post, to come across this story. It needs to be circulated to a much wider audience....
April 27, 2007
no one will take Bush's head (although he'd never miss it)
I'm reading a history of the French Revolution, while still following the news of today, including headlines like this. Sometimes one could wish that history really does repeat itself. [image from CUNY]...
5 years of the jimlog
a survivor of the original IRT numbering system from 1904 I started this blog five years ago today. It was the successor to an eight-month series of emails with which I had been plaguing my friends since September 11....
April 26, 2007
April 25, 2007
13P throws a fundraising party
still from scene of Winter Miller's "The Penetration Play", produced by 13P in 2004 The feisty Obie-winning playwrights' collective 13P ("we don't develop plays. we do them.") is having a cabaret benefit at Joe's Pub this Sunday, April 29....
April 24, 2007
Williamsburg galleries on Sunday
This has to be just a teaser, because of time constraints (we're off to Spain in a few days), but on a beautiful Sunday afternoon Barry and I made the rounds of several Williamsburg galleries, visiting one of them for...
Williamsburg spring Sunday
on a beautiful Sunday afternoon in Williamsburg some did chores some partied in the sun and some of us enjoyed galleries, including the street gallery [the third image is a detail of the painted stoop outside The Front Room...
April 23, 2007
April 22, 2007
raw NYPD brutality, spawned by Kelly, Bloomberg and Quinn
stills captured from video on NYCindymedia site On Thursday I wrote about a demonstration in which I had participated (put together by The Radical Homosexual Agenda [RHA], Assemble for Rights NYC, and other groups and individuals), which was directed...
April 20, 2007
big, gold fish
Conversations with this big guy in the outer office of my entodontist this month almost made root canal fun. I'm sure it was all about food, but he definitely acted like he was paying some serious attention....
April 19, 2007
police "control" un-permitted parade protesting Quinn
I survived this afternoon's "Parade Without a Permit" more or less unscathed, although I was pushed to the ground while photographing the police exercising their "control" of our right to free speech. At the start of the parade in...
terrorist gets bail
detail of a temporary memorial to the 72 victims of Cubana de Aviación flight 455, erected outside the courthouse in El Paso in 2005 ADDENDUM: [April 21] "A Terrorist Goes Free" Terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, wanted in Cuba and...
April 18, 2007
Radical Homosexual Agenda [RHA] "un-permitted parade"
"keeping control" (wire and flesh, inside a holding pen during the 2004 RNC) No, Chris, in America the police are not supposed to write the laws and "control" demonstrations. Yesterday morning on the Brian Lehrer show NY City Council...
benefit performances: The Civilians tonight, 13P on April 29
a new musical based on Colorado Springs, Ted Haggard, the evangelical movement, and US I've been a little tardy in announcing two affordable benefits for performing arts groups that interest Barry and myself. I'm especially late with my The...
Christopher Lowry Johnson at Winkleman
Christopher Lowry Johnson Platform 2007 oil on canvas 66" x 78" [large detail of installation] [detail] This is not a walk-thru show. Actually, this is probably true for most painting shows (at least those where the gallerist/curator has any...
new cold wars
defense, like charity, used to begin at home We might have enjoyed a golden age, but instead we have been condemned by small, stupid, and evil minds to bear the burden of a new, unspecific [hot and] cold war...
April 17, 2007
Swoon person in Chelsea
Probably not invited. This Swoon drawing is attached to a wall just outside the commercial galleries on West 22 Street. UPDATE: I've received a comment from Adrian that the work is not that of Swoon, but either Elbowtoe or...
Gang Gang Dance, and friends, at Rhizome benefit
Liz Bougatsos from left, Josh Diamond, guitar, Liz Bougatsos, vocals, Tim DeWitt, drums, Brian DeGraw keyboards These are two images of Gang Gang Dance performing at the Rhizome benefit last night. It was a great concert program: GGD followed...
April 15, 2007
April 13, 2007
Elisa Lendvay at Moti Hasson
Elisa Lendvay's dramatically-lighted sculpture, and (parts of) part of the opening-reception crowd [installation view of "untitled (Chalice)" and "Lund (Demystify)"] [detail of "untitled (Chalice)"] Elisa Lendvay Field Sky Under 2007 steel, wood, acrylic, wire, chenile stem, papier-maché, acrylic paint...
April 11, 2007
Marjorie Schwarz and Ludwig Schwarz at Sunday
Ludwig Schwarz [large detail of "The Four Seasons (Season Premier)" installation of four works, each untitled 2006 oil and enamel on canvas 72" x 72"] Marjorie Schwarz Untitled 2006 gouache on linoleum 12" x 12" [installation view] Marjorie Schwarz...
Rhizome throws a party
drawing by Brian Degraw, artist and Gang Gang Dance member, for an album by TK Webb Remember these guys? I did I post almost two years ago about a show of internet-based art, hosted by Rhizome, installed in the...
April 10, 2007
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy at Cooper Union
Since I've already been writing about Matthew Lutz-Kinoy's art for over two years, it's very difficult to believe these images of his work are taken from his Cooper Union BFA show for a degree just completed only this spring....
April 9, 2007
more on U.S. databasing, this time of U.S. visitors
now almost anyone can qualify for this screen test It's not the first story like this we've heard, it's not the most disturbing, and unfortunately it won't be the last, but it's worth a read. It's an account of...
April 8, 2007
"we'll need your eyes" [a follow-up]
We'll just Need to Scan Your Eyes for Our Files Imad Salman Ichleef, 37, was questioned yesterday by American soldiers about insurgent activity in his neighborhood of Ghazaliya in baghdad. Using a biometric recording device, one of the soldiers...
April 7, 2007
Ryan Sarah Murphy at Outrageous Look
Ryan Sarah Murphy Untitled (Plots) 2000 wood, 10,000+ clothespins, paint, gesso, glue, each component 34" x 21" x 6" Ryan Sarah Murphy's installation was lying in the sun of the east window, just to the right of the door,...
Gavin Green at Outrageous Look
Gavin Green If (A) 2006, and If (B) 2007, both embossed plastic on panel 24" x 24" [installation view] Gavin Green Hoalam Haba 2006 embossed plastic and mirrored vinyl on panel 24" x 24" [installation view] Outrageous Look is...
"we'll need your eyes" - U.S. building database of Iraqi males
FOLLOW-UP: see this post for the missing image, and more I can't find it anywhere on the NYTimes site or through Google News, but our print edition of the paper this morning carries an extremely important photograph on page A6...
April 6, 2007
"Intelligent Design" at Momenta
Aaron Williams Forever 2006 tree, mirror, acrylic and enamel paints, wood shim, string 72" x 16' x 12", in the foreground, with works by Ivan Navarro, Deborah Grant and Aron Namenworth on the walls [installation view] [detail of "Forever"]...
April 5, 2007
cupcake preservation?
cupcake as landmark? I know I'm going to regret bringing the subject up again, and not only because the additional notoriety may only be what the owners of Burgers & Cupcakes want. But I did a post one month...
April 4, 2007
Josh Wolf is freed
Flanked by two prison officials, Josh Wolf (center) pushes a cart full of his belongings (mostly books and letters) outside the gates of the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin. Behind him is David Greene, one of his attorneys. Chronicle...
"A Cloudy Day's Epiphany" at Dinter
Valaire Van Slyck And even though we don't mean what we say, we throw our words like bombs and handgrenades 2006 enamel, acrylic, confetti, glitter and clear-coat canvas 36" x 48" Andrew Guenther The Space Between Faces 2006 acrylic...
April 3, 2007
Oliver Herring at Max Protetch
Oliver Herring Wade 1 2006 digital C-prints, museum board, foam core and polystyrene 68" x 22.5" x 15" [detail of installation] Oliver Herring's show at Max Protetch closed on Saturday. Everything in this multi-media installation was breathtakingly beautiful, but...
"The Art of the Deal" at Kantor/Feuer
The Kantor/Feuer Window show, "The Art of the Deal", which opened on Saturday may be "The ultimate art show for insiders.", as Art Fag City calls it, but if you do happen to find yourself inside it's actually very...
April 2, 2007
Hunter Reynolds at Artists Space
Hunter Reynolds Patina du Prey's Memorial Dress: 1993 to 2007 [detail of installation] Spinning, spinning, spinning. Hunter Reynolds's elegant installation, "Patina du Prey's Memorial Dress: 1993 to 2007", is currently installed in one of the galleries of Artists Space....
