June 30, 2007
June 29, 2007
Chris Quinn asks our civil rights to "take one for the team"
in this case an objective clearly worth a monstrous sacrifice Was the sacrifice of our right to assemble and speak just a matter of "taking one for the team"? And if it was, what will there be left to...
police to regulate when we can use cameras in NYC
just another day on the street Last time it was the MTA, and now the Mayor of New York City wants to keep us from taking its picture. The Transit Authority eventually gave up on its proposed photography ban,...
June 28, 2007
Shepard Fairey takes on U.S. rotten moral currency in print
I had almost forgotten that I had this image. It's been on my computer for a week. Once you get past its nightmare-come-alive reference, I think this Shepard Fairey* piece is very beautiful, not least for the color and...
Lower East Side blue (night blur)
untitled (blue construction tarp) 2007 With New York temperatures in the 90's and the humidity not so far behind, I thought a cool blue image might feel good today. I grabbed this shot on the move, while walking with...
June 27, 2007
"Homegrown" at David Krut Projects
Kuhl and Leyton Just Like Heaven 2007 acrylic tape on paper 60" x 54" [installation view] Lee Tusman Have a Nice Millenium 2006 quilt - mixed media, t-shirts, found fabric 56" x 54" [installation view] Renée Riccardo is the...
Tom Meacham at Oliver Kamm 5BE
Tom Meacham Untitled 2007 tape and acrylic on canvas 90" x 60" [installation view] Tom Meacham Untitled, Diptych 2007 tape on canvas 60" x 72" [installation view] Tom Meacham's work is always about much more than what first meets...
David Noonan at Foxy Production
David Noonan Untitled 2007 silkscreen on stretched linen 84" x 120" [installation view] David Noonan Untitled 2007 silkscreen on linen, plywood, dimensions variable (80" tall) [installation view] David Noonan returns to Foxy Production with a dreamy (each definition) show...
not just about clouds
While looking at this shot on my screen I was trying to decide whether to post what would just be another Lower East Side cloud picture. Then I thought of an excuse: I would say something about how if...
no word yet from the Democratic Party on Guantanamo
Still there, a monstrous abomination where not only its prisoners have been sent to rot, but its jailors as well, meaning every single one of us on the other side of the wire. [image, otherwise unattributed, via salvationinc]...
June 25, 2007
RHA and Queer Justice League march for assembly rights
We were colorful, loud, beautiful and cute, joyful and fierce, and we never really stopped moving, even when the march did. One of the group described himself today, after eleven hours of sleep, as a survivor of "the anarcho-queer...
NYPD rough up, arrest civil rights lawyer and wife
Geeeesh. Lawyering while black. Well, maybe that's a bit harsh, since there's no way to demonstrate that the New York police officers who beat a civil rights attorney and his wife yesterday would have behaved any differently had the...
NYPD secretly granted permits to Dyke Marches for years
Friday night's NYC Dyke March In the middle of everything else he was balancing this weekend Tim Doody of The Radical Homosexual Agenda [RHA] forwarded this I-Witness Video item to me on on Saturday, when I only read it...
Queers slam Quinn during Stonewall anniversary march
scene early today at the support truck bike for an "unpermitted" march RHA/Queer Justice League contingent [more tomorrow]...
June 24, 2007
June 23, 2007
NYC: yes to "street fairs", no to homo festival
the view from the parlor today It's not the pedestrian street we had in mind. We awakened this morning to the sweet refrain of amplified hawkers of corporately-manufactured goods, and the stench of greasy food. Yes it's another so-called...
June 22, 2007
trans march led by police wagon, loads of handcuffs ready
One of our sources tell us that tonight's Trans March was phenomenal! Donald Grove commented on Bloggy's post about the Audre Lord Project's experience trying to secure a permit for a transgender march tonight. This is the text of this...
Julian Pozzi and John Pearson at Jeff Bailey
John Pearson Daylight Landscape 2001 video [large detail still from installation] John Pearson Untitled with Commercial 2005 video [large detail still from installation] John Pearson Untitled (white light) 2005 [large detail still from installation] I've been a little distracted...
panel on radical history of Lower East Side
ACT UP demonstration for access to clean needles, seventeen years ago After yesterday's post, which was totally connected to current political activism, I'm going to turn back and examine what the territory looked like in the 80's and 90's....
June 21, 2007
Radical Homosexual Agenda zaps Quinn on police authority
outside balcony left balcony center and balcony right Tonight The Radical Homosexual Agenda struck once again, dramatically zapping Chris Quinn deep inside City Hall during her presentation at the the "Celebration of LGBT Pride" hosted annually by the City...
June 19, 2007
Peter Pezzimenti at Monya Rowe
Peter Pezzimenti Untitled 2007 oil and latex on wood and cardboard 31" x 36" [installation view] Peter Pezzimenti Untitled 2007 oil and latex on wood and cardboard 24" x 34" [installation view] Peter Pezzimenti Untitled 2007 oil and latex...
June 18, 2007
Sarah Peters at Winkleman
Sarah Peters Being American 2007 pen and pencil on paper 42" x 240" [details of installation] I was going to post about some very good shows we had seen earlier, but this show got in my way. I suppose...
June 17, 2007
sad ending for Brooklyn College MFA suit
still I was stunned when I first heard about the "settlement" of the Brooklyn College MFA students' cases against the City of New York, the NYC Parks Department and Brooklyn College, cases which had cited First Amendment violations and...
June 15, 2007
Guantanamo remains
Are any of our grasping, dissembling politicians even thinking about it? [image, otherwise unattributed, via salvationinc]...
June 13, 2007
"In Defense of Ardor" at Bellwether
Otto Muehl Wehretüchtigung 1967 film [two stills from installation video] Nathalie Djurberg Dumstrut 2006 DVD [two stills from installation video] Joao Ribas and Becky Smith have together curated a third, and unfortunately the final, show at Smith's gallery Bellwether...
June 11, 2007
Jonathan VanDyke opens Austin Thomas's Pocket Utopia
Barry and I had to see what Austin Thomas was up to now, so we headed out to further Williamsburg (the Morgan stop on the L) for Jonathan VanDyke’s installation/homage to the abandoned hair salon which has/will become Pocket...
June 9, 2007
tHe FinaL rUn iNs and Kalup Linzy at Taxter & Spengemann
tHe FinaL rUn iNs [detail of installation, including a bit of "unique miscellany"] Kalup Linzy The Pursuit of Gay (Happyness) 2007 digital black and white video with sound [still from installation] We were at Taxter & Spengemann this afternoon,...
June 7, 2007
Bicycle Fetish Day in Williamsburg
I've always loved bikes and bikers, perhaps almost obsessively (excepting the fiends who ride on sidewalks or yelp at pedestrians), and so on a recent Saturday afternoon I was determined to investigate the 3rd Annual "Bicycle Fetish Day", an...
June 6, 2007
follow the arrow
untitled (arrows) 2007 Most people were looking at the big hole (the site of the once and future World Trade Center) when we walked through the World Financial Center Winter Garden yesterday afternoon with visiting family members, but this...
June 4, 2007
Peter Fox, Jeanne Tremel at eyewash @ Hogar Collection
Peter Fox SOME WORLD 2007 acrylic on canvas 34" x 54" [detail] [oblique detail] Williamsburg's The Hogar Collection, which was located on lower Grand Street, west of Bedford for several years, has moved a number of blocks up-island, to...
Jasper Johns at MoMA
Jasper Johns Green Target 1955 encaustic on newspaper and cloth over canvas 60" x 60" What can I say?...
Ad Hunt, Beth Letain at Supreme Trading
Ad Hunt The Ambassador 2007 oil on canvas Beth Letain Every knee shall bow 2007 oil on canvas A show called "Place Setting", of work by students at the MFA program at SUNY Purchase College was installed at Williamsburg's...
June 3, 2007
last chance to support NURTUREart's benefit!
large detail of a fragment of a Byzantine floor mosaic (circa 500-550) with a representation of Ktisis, "a personification of generous donation or foundation", according to the plaque which accompanies this piece in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Sharp...
Ron Davis at MoMA
Ron Davis Ring 1968 polyester resin and fiberglass 11.25" x 56.5" [installation view] On Friday I saw this piece by Ron Davis hovering over the information/members desk at the Museum of Modern Art. Delicious. Looking like nothing so much...
Ben La Rocco curates at Janet Kurnatowski
Patrick Armstrong Virgo and Libra 2007 epoxy and gesso on paper 22" x 30" [installation view] [view from one side] Dorothea Rockburne Gravity Wave (Direction Painting #2) 1993 Lascaux Aquacryl, Beryl Artistic and Flasche on gessoed wood panel 40"...
June 2, 2007
Richard Serra at MoMA
Richard Serra Intersection II 1992 [detail of installation] Richard Serra Intersection II 1992 [detail of installation] Richard Serra Torqued Ellipse IV 1998 [detail of installation] This isn't really a review of Richard Serra's show, which tomorrow opens to the...
June 1, 2007
Dan Perjovschi at MoMA
four details of Dan Perjovschi's drawings, the third taken through an opening in the wall on MoMA's third floor In spite of their seriousness and the pain they evoke, the humor and compassion of Dan Perjovschi's delicate childlike drawings...
Fiona Banner at MoMA
Fiona Banner Nude Standing 2006 pencil on paper 106.25" x 69.25" [installation view] [detail] I spotted this drawing by Fiona Banner from the floor of the atrium space at MoMA yesterday. It's hanging on the third floor and part...
