Must the New York Times arts page have a story on Michael Jackson molesting boys? Can’t they find an “Entertainment” section for that sort of thing?
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I know art when I see it
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Cory Arcangel at Team Gallery
Cory’s wonderful show, titled Welcome 2 my Artshow!!!!!!!!! opened tonight at Team Gallery. I did a screen capture for him of the listing on ArtCal because I wanted to make sure he saw the ads for Simon & Garfunkel music. The ads show up because Google spotted the mention of the two in the description of the Sans Simon video. Click on the thumbnail to see the whole thing.
In Cory’s honor I wore my Stonehenge Consulting t-shirt.
Don’t miss the other show, a collaboration with Paper Rad, which opens Saturday.
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I can’t imagine the U.S doing this in my lifetime
Oh, Britannia!
[Emphasis mine below.]
Gays struggling for the most basic human rights in the tiny Himalayan country of Nepal are developing a sense of community with the launch of the country’s first LGBT newspaper.
The weekly publication will start rolling off the presses later this month. It is being funded by the British Embassy and will be prepared and distributed by the Blue Diamond Society, Nepal’s gay rights group.
Blue Diamond Weekly will be printed in both English and Nepalese and provide information about the struggle for gay rights along with information on HIV/AIDS. It will not be “controversial” the Society says – an effort not to incur the wrath of censors or the government.
Nepal has refused to recognize the civil rights of gays in the country and does not provide HIV information on male to male transmission of the virus.
Last year 39 members of the Blue Diamond Society were jailed after police rushed a peaceful demonstration for gay rights in front of the Parliament building. They were released three weeks later following an international outcry.
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Congratulations to Joy Garnett
Anonymous Was A Woman has announced the 10 artists selected to receive the Foundation’s ninth annual awards. The “no strings“Â grant of $25,000 enables women over 35, at a critical juncture in their lives or careers, to continue to grow, recover from traumatic life events, and pursue their work.
As the name implies, the nominators and those associated with the program are un-named, and artists are unaware that they are being considered for the award.
From the Floor has the details.
I should note that another recipient is the wonderful performer and playwright Carmelita Tropicana. I will never forget seeing her perform Your Kunst Is Your Waffen (Your Art Is Your Weapon). I first encountered her at Dixon Place.
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Jury blogging
They have WiFi in the jury rooms, for $9/day. I already had my PowerBook set up as a development machine, so I didn’t have to have a connection to work on code, but it certainly helps.
It’s pretty quiet, as things haven’t really started back up for the year. Everyone who started yesterday was released today.
I walked around Chinatown during the lunch break. My favorite thing I saw: gas-powered rice cookers for sale whose boxes said “We’re Changing The World!”
I had lunch at Chanoodle. I can’t really recommend the soft-shelled crab, but the fried baby silver fish were excellent — a bit like the little fish in the Italian fritto misto.
Now I’m back in the jury room. What’s with all of the people using the desks to sleep on them? Of course they also choose the ones at the ends of the rows, so that one has to climb over them to get to a free one.
The building, 60 Centre Street, is beautiful once you look beyond the metal detectors and bureaucratic detritus. It was built in the teens of the 20th century, and designed by Boston architect Guy Lowell (1870-1927) in a Roman classical style. The handout they had in the jury room says he was inspired by the Pantheon in Rome. There is a magnificent dome painted with a continuous mural showing the evolution of law from the Assyrians, culminating [sic] with the United States. He originally wanted to build it as a round building, but compromised and designed it as a hexagon. Economical considerations (a round building would cost more to construct), plus the fact that the judges were dubious of courtrooms with curved walls, forced the change.
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Tough old ladies at the library
I took a two-page printed list of the books from my Amazon wish list with me to my local library branch, since I start jury duty on Thursday. I’m a pretty fast typist, so I checked a bunch in a couple of minutes, but soon a little old lady tapped on my shoulder. “Are you going to go through that whole list?!” she asked. I told her I was almost finished, pointing to the item on the page I was then checking. She asked, “Is that the end, or are you going to flip it over and do some more?” I assured her it was really at the end.
My jury duty is at 60 Centre Street. I welcome any nearby attractions (ha!) or restaurant recommendations, particularly Vietnamese. This post from Chowhound pretty much sums up the way I feel about those court buildings.
Maybe I’ll get a chance to sneer at the Kerik Complex while I’m there.
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Daniel Dueck & Lily van der Stokker at Allston Skirt (Boston)
Daniel Dueck
Feeling It
Lily van der Stokker
This is a show I would definitely see if I were to be in Boston in January.
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Regarding Clementine
Regarding Clementine, the next show at Clementine (one of the pioneers of Chelsea and still going strong), should be a lot of fun. It includes some famous names from the blogosphere, such as Greg Allen and Joy Garnett, plus a lot of other talented artists. It’s curated by Choire Sicha.
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Update: I just learned that “Fort Necessity”, listed among the artists for the show, is a group made up of three women, including Jennie of Mr. Trinity.
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Tsunami
I’m not planning to write anything about it, but James and Joy Garnett have good posts on the subject.
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More on Susan Sontag
The NY Times has an odd obituary, including an entire paragraph of adjectives used to describe her.
I prefer Newsday’s coverage, with this obituary and this essay adapted from a speech she gave on April 7.
This post by a blogger I hadn’t read before is quite good. I found it via TBOGG.
I just realized something. None of the obituaries talk about her being queer, but she was in a relationship with Annie Leibovitz for a long time.
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