September 30, 2007
PWOP 2: last night's second "Parade Without A Permit"
drum corps section the vanguard past the Stonewall site the campaign theme not as bad as it looks the curious gather on the sidewalks We're saying the First Amendment isn't just for the homos. It was a fabulous party....
September 28, 2007
apparently Sylvia Rivera still scares the cops
Sylvia at New York City Hall, with the community she helped create, in an undated photo "Hell hath no fury like a drag queen scorned" [Sylvia Rivera, 1995]. At the Sylvia Rivera Law Project's after-party following its fifth anniversary...
September 27, 2007
RHA asks Speaker Quinn about 1st Amendment, police rules
the RHA visits Speaker Quinn at the Stonewall Democratic Club open meeting Yesterday the junta in Burma invoked a colonial-era section of the nation's criminal code under which the government can use police or military force against any group...
Mark Stillwell at Front Room
Mark Stillwell Super Defense Force [two details of the installation] The current show at Front Room, Mark Stillwell's "Super Defense Force", seems like a perfect fit for the post 9/11 U.S. mindset. The theme runs something like terror as...
September 26, 2007
Andrew MacDonald in Front Room Banner Project
It seems everybody loves a banner, these days probably more than ever, and the Williamsburg gallery Front Room has been inspired by their popularity to commission works by a number of artists over the years. The current installation is...
September 25, 2007
"Death & Love in Modern Times" at Dinter
George Horner Skull 2006 acrylic, gesso, silkscreen ink and whiskey on canvas 35" x 29" [installation view] Valaire Van Slick Stop making eyes at me, I'll stop making eyes at you And what it is that surprises me is...
September 23, 2007
RHA, allies "Parade Without a Permit" for right of assembly
The Radical Homosexual Agenda [RHA] logo incorporates the group's Regulation Pink Gasmask®, which has been donned by members since 2006 while they pursue their perilous mission fighting the American mainstream - an environment which they argue, and few would...
September 22, 2007
a "7th haven" on international Park(ing) Day
hanging out in a park and free bike repair station on 7th Avenue at Charles yesterday Park(ing) Day, it's about serious greenstreets See Jim Dwyer's column for a word picture of the larger footprint of New York's part in...
September 21, 2007
platform beauty
untitled (pink line) 2007 I still wouldn't set anything down on it, but sometimes there's a bit of beauty in the lowly subway platform. Of course it doesn't show up if you bring something along to read while you...
September 20, 2007
"Quote Unquote" at Nurture Art
Jason Lujan Selections from the Native American Handbook 2005 paper, ink T-pins, variable dimensions [detail of installation] Carlos Motta SOA: Black and White Pain-tings I 2005-2006 book, 2 audio CDs, headphones, shelf 9" x 77" [detail of installation] A....
September 19, 2007
Hudson River Park, languor and vigor
We wandered through Hudson River Park along the West 20's and 30's on Sunday afternoon, intermittently dodging the distractions of speedy human-powered wheeled traffic (much of the pedestrian path remains to be built), construction equipment, the banshee screams of...
September 17, 2007
Matthew Northridge at Zach Feuer window
Matthew Northridge Memorial to the Great Western Expo September 11 - October 20, 2007 [no other information available for this piece, shown here in an installation view] I have to admit that among the changing installations in the Chelsea...
Capla Kesting throws blogger out of gallery
Travis Lindquist [image protected here from viewers] In Williamsburg last Friday evening Barry and I had just come from a reception and we had a little time to kill before the 7 o'clock hour when the galleries we had...
September 16, 2007
"The Pierogi Show" at Pocket Utopia
Manfred Fuchs Untitled 2002 12" x 16" mixed media on paper [installation view] Michelle Marozik Office Cubicle 2004 8.5" x11" [installation view] Bethany Bristow Blue and Orange Drawing 2002 ink on vellum [installation view] Bill Gerhard Four Day Exposure...
September 14, 2007
Jim Torok at Pierogi
Jim Torok Don't Forget Who You Are 2007 acrylic on panel 12" x 14" Jim Torok Do Not Be Too Afraid 2007 acrylic on panel 48" x 60" Jim Torok You Are Wrong 2007 acrylic on panel 48" x...
September 13, 2007
Kissinger to be Grand Marshall of Steuben Day Parade
the Realpolitiker's very favorite Tracht UPDATE: For concerned citizens of the world who might find the information useful, I've learned that Kissinger is expected to speak at the Parade Gala Benefit Banquet scheduled for 7 o'clock tonight, Friday, at...
the Chelsea Symphony is super!
supernal music between the altar and the first pew Barry and I are big fans of the two-year-old Chelsea Symphony. It has little to do with allegiance to a home team, even if that's what got us into the...
September 12, 2007
NYTimes still mixing "editorial" with the news
I'm going to end up skimming the features and skipping the "news" pages altogether. Is anybody else noticing this stuff? It's looking like the NYTimes is out of control. This is the way one of the paper's teasers read...
Greenpoint public library benefit Saturday
"Del Baldwin, Tence Massey and Anna Pope are preparing library books for circulation." Barry and I will be participating with Leah Stuhltrager as jurors in a benefit for the Greenpoint branch of the Brooklyn Public Library on Saturday. The...
Alex the parrot
"Thinking about animals" He was probably already my favorite member of the paper's staff, but a short piece by Verlyn Klinkenborg in today's NYTimes was worth far more than the price of admission. He is writing about Alex, the...
September 11, 2007
Michael Jones McKean at Sunday
Michael Jones McKean The Astronomers' Ecstasy As They See Solidarity Between Forms 2007 100" x 108" x 44" [large detail of installation] [detail] Michael Jones McKean The Allegory of Rule and the Geometry of Wind 2007 36" x 49"...
no roll call for our own victims, on 9/11 or any other day
GUANTANAMO DELENDA EST! It's the eleventh of September again. Yes, it happens once a year. But I'm not interested in adding to the revanchisme stoked by every mention of the terrible events which occurred in my city six years...
September 8, 2007
D-L Alvarez at Derek Eller
D-L ALvarez Occasion to be Denounced 2007 crepe paper installation, dimensions variable [large detail of installation] D-L ALvarez Something to Cry About 2007 children's clothing, dimensions variable [large detail of installation, with detail of "The Closet" behind] D-L Alvarez...
Thomas Lendvai at Winkleman
detail of Thomas Lendvai's site-specific sculpture, "Between Pain and Boredom" I doubt that any gallery installation in the city rewarded visitors with as much fun on Thursday night as that of Thomas Lendvai at Winkleman. It was a hit...
Jules de Balincourt at Zach Feuer
Jules de Balincourt Untitled 2007 oil and enamel on panel 27 ” x 34 ” Jules de Balincourt Cycles of Morning and Dyeing 2007 oil on panel 32" x 38" Jules de Balincourt Remembering Our Great Dead Heroes 2007...
Cheryl Donegan at Oliver Kamm 5BE
Cheryl Donegan The Hard Night 2007 water-based oil on cardboard 20" x 16" Cheryl Donegan Greatness is 1/3 2007 water-based oil on cardboard 24" x 18" Cheryl Donegan Luxury Dust (Gold) 2007 gold tape on cardboard 25" x 18"...
September 7, 2007
well, not quite Einsatzgruppen, but kangaroo courts for sure
another site found to be invaluable as a ruin (the Reichstag burning, 1933) "U.S. builds for future at Guantanamo"GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - The U.S. military is building a mobile courtroom complex on an unused runway...
September 5, 2007
Shane Hope
Shane Hope Chromosome More Clipped Graphite on Atomolecularly Manufactured Cell-ecular Unfolded Docking Decoy Proteins vs. Microbially Scribbled Scriptable Ornamentally Challenged Secondary Structures and Superstring Art, molecules, 2030 Shane Hope Infomorphic Animolecular Flowchart Food Chain of Event Horizons ’cause what’s...
fuck Mother Teresa!
a very rewarding friendship (Blessed Teresa greeting friend Charles Keating) On this tenth anniversary of the demise of Mother Teresa, the acclaimed world-champion of suffering and death [whose lifer inmates were refused even aspirin, but who died only after...
September 4, 2007
September 2, 2007
Mercedes micro delivery spotted outside bagel shop
pride-of-ownership emblem, or NYC-traffic-defense gizmo?...
September 1, 2007
why was Craig taken down and Vitter not?
(but right, even laudable, if I paid women for quickies) The Republicans have trashed and now unceremoniously sacked one of their very own worthy gentlemen for soliciting consensual, uncompensated sex with another person. Senator Craig was forced to resign...
the real meaning of Labor Day [redux]
National Guardsmen firing into demonstrators during the 1894 Chicago Pullman strike* [contemporary Harpers Weekly drawing] [Exactly five years ago today (I see now that it was almost to the minute) I did a post, "the real meaning of Labor...
