NYC

Spotted on a rainy night in Soho:

Poor poodle. Where’s the owner?

Has anyone else noticed these on lamp posts around Chelsea?

This amuses me. As one of the people involved with the new paper The New York Sun used to write Smarter Times (which critiqued the NY Times), there are already two similar sites for the Sun: Smarter New York Sun, courtesy of Flak Magazine, and Like Father, Like Sun.

The two critical sites are more interesting than the Sun. One of my favorite features of Smarter New York Sun is “Wire Watch” — in which they track the number of stories coming from the wire services. It appears that $20 million doesn’t buy much of a news-gathering operation these days.
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We spent a few hours in Williamsburg yesterday, lookin’ at art as one of my college friends always said.

There are 2 cool shows at Pierogi 2000 – a French artist named Christophe Cuzin (conceptual alert – check out the info on him and the drawings in the office), and Lisa Kereszi — a GREAT photography exhibit. She goes on the “to buy” list once I recover from the list of recent benefits.

Eyewash is presenting “Window Shopping” — 30 Brooklyn artists displaying work in shop windows along Bedford. We picked up a map at Pierogi, or you can get the list at Eyewash’s web site.

Finally, there’s a big smart show at Momenta, curated by Deborah Kass. It’s one of the best group shows I’ve seen in a while, ranging from 70s conceptual and feminist work to Hiroshi Sunairi and Eric Doeringer. Go!

Lovely — the site of last weeks’s explosion 3 blocks from here has been declared a toxic waste site.

The new issue of Free Willamsburg is now out, including Gay Williamsburg, Part Two. Luxx has a $4 coat check?!

Tonight (May 1) is the A.R.T. benefit. We’ll be there will bells on, along with some friends. Go! Buy Art! It’s for a good cause!

It looks like an accidental chemical explosion, so people should just calm down. Do NOT follow the example of the AP.

Otherwise, just a nice rainy day in NYC.