Yesterday we received a postcard from a gallery addressed to:
St. James Wagner
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The things a gallery will do to get noticed
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When I read this letter in today’s NY Times
To the Editor:
Paul Krugman (“Kansas on My Mind,” column, Feb. 25) mentions that at a town hall meeting, college Republicans started chanting, “Hey hey, ho ho, Social Security’s got to go!” Well, at least they are being honest about their real aim, scrapping Social Security.
Still, I can’t help but be furious thinking about this. We have a deadly, very expensive war going on. The dollar is sliding. Education needs a lot of work. But all these students can think of is that they want to scrap Social Security. And they seem happy about it. Don’t they have any shame? Don’t they have grandparents? Don’t they care about the elderly?
This has got to be the coldest, most callous thing I have ever seen.
Aaron Dellutri
Chicago, Feb. 25, 2005My first response was:
The new Republican Party: It’s a religion, not a political movement!
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DIVA TV Netcasts
Good stuff from the ACT UP web site, courtesy of James Wentzy: DIVA TV (Damned Interfering Video Activists) netcasts!
They include a speech by Vito Russo and part of a David Wojnarowicz reading.
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Not very attractive on a cloudy day
I had my doubts about The Gates on a bright sunny day. They look worse, and the color seems rather ugly, on a cloudy, snowy day.
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Is anyone reading this in Albany?
Our friend Elise Engler has a show at The College of Saint Rose, titled Your Tax Dollars and Other Drawing, through March 17.
James wrote about her when she was in a great pre-Republican Convention/occupation art show in August.
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Amusing Observation
Since my listing on ArtCal of Federico Solmi’s wonderful show at Boreas mentions it being inspired by the Italian porn star Rocco Sifreddi, I think it scared Google Ads. It’s only running public service ads on that page.
I apologize for the lack of posting. I have 3 projects with March 1 deadlines, plus keeping ArtCal up to date is taking more time than I expected. Current number of locations in the database: 215.
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Something Ephemeral @ Champion in Los Angeles
I’m sorry I won’t get to see this show in Los Angeles. It’s at the wonderful Champion Fine Arts Gallery, which I discussed here.
Any show that is curated by artist/performer Alix Lambert, whom I finally met when she was performing in Nobody’s Lunch by The Civilians, and includes work by our friend Charles Goldman, is not to be missed. It opens Saturday, February 26, from 6-8PM.
[I did the web sites for Champion and Charles.]
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Williamsburg Wedding @ Open Ground
width=”288″ height=”222″ />Christian Grosskopf
The wonderful collective Open Ground will be having its final exhibition in March, as the members move on to other projects, including “including developing an online arts magazine and innovative resources for art lovers.”
The last show is their half of an artists’ exchange with the Berlin gallery Galerie Scherer8. There is an opening/party on March 12.
[image from the Open Ground web site — Christian Grosskopf is a German artist from Berlin who creates work in figurative and landscape painting and works on paper inspired by early American animation.]
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Collectors’ Night presented by the City Reliquary
If you’ve walked around Williamsburg, I’m sure you have noticed the City Reliquary, at the corner of Grand and Havermayer, a window display of NYC ephemera, with audio explanations.
On February 23 at 7:30 (doors open at 7) they are hosting an event described as Collectors’ Night at Union Pool, at the corner of Union and Meeker Streets under the BQE, Williamsburgh, Brooklyn. I’ll quote the press release.
The City Reliquary Museum presents: Collectors’ Night
An evening For, By, and About COLLECTING, COLLECTORS, and COLLECTIONS
Featuring the StoryCorps Project by David IsayÂ’s Sound Portrait Productions
The World Premier of The Poo SyndicateÂ’s film The Flea Market Project
Collecting experts, Richard Roth, and Leah Dilworth,
And displayed collections of all kinds.
On Wednesday night, the City Reliquary is honored to present CollectorsÂ’ Night, a celebration of unique, fanciful and eccentric collections, presented by the people who collect them. The program will feature audio from the Sound Portraits’ StoryCorps project, films about collecting and that serve ascollections, and a panel discussion moderated by Long Island University English Department Chair Leah Dilworth and Q&A on collecting and collectors. Collectors’ Night will also feature the personal collections of postcards, vintage bicycles, bottle caps, baseball cards, geological artifacts and anything else deemed collectable by those in attendance.
[photo from the City Reliquary web site]
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Nayland Blake curates the Visual AIDS Web Gallery
Afflict the Comfortable, Comfort the Afflicted, 1985
Paul Thek
acrylic on canvas, 18” × 24”Good stuff for the February 2005 edition, titled it’s a rough world, how’s your armor?, including work by David Wojnarowicz and Jimmy De Sana.
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