Wonder what that headline’s about? Check out Art Fag City and Jen Bekman on the idea of a “Creativity Now” conference that has a 95% male lineup of speakers.
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You mean there are creative women?
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Subway map abstraction
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Fette’s Gallery
The owner of my favorite art blog in Los Angeles — Fette’s Flog — is opening a gallery!
The inaugual show at Fette’s Gallery is titled “i know you, but you don’t know me” and includes work by marie blanchard, melanie bonajo, brian bress, roya falahi, mehdi hercberg, hyun-gyoung kim, susanne mewing, david ostrowski, körner union and stuart white. [the lack of capitalization is from the gallery’s site]
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One of the many stupid things I’ve seen lately
My thanks to fellow flickr Chelsea Pool member musiquegirl for the photos. Now we’re using traffic signs and huge amounts of the street to warn about fake IDs?
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Before you buy another “hipster” shirt at Urban Outfitters
… go read today’s Manhattan User’s Guide.
We never had Welch’s Grape Juice in the house growing up because Robert Welch was one of the founders of the John Birch Society, and that organization, still with us, opposed the Civil Rights Movement in the 60s.
Which brings us to a piece of jewelry we mentioned recently in MUG, available, as we noted, at Anthropologie. A reader better informed than we are pointed out that both Anthropologie and Urban Outfitters are owned by Richard Hayne.
Jonathan Valania wrote an excellent piece on Hayne in the Philadelphia Weekly a few years ago in which he reported that Hayne had donated $13,150 to Rick Santorum and his PAC over the years. (Santorum, as you’ll recall, is anti-abortion, anti-gay rights, and in favor of teaching intelligent design.)
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Two art benefits this week
There are two worthy art benefits with “good stuff” this week:
Brooklyn Rail – to keep this worthy non-profit paper going.
James Cohan Gallery
533 West 26th Street
Tuesday, October 3rd
Viewing: Noon-6PM
Silent Auction: 6-9PMDam, Stuhltrager – to help pay for the artists to attend an art fair plus museum show in Istanbul.
Sunday, October 8
7:30 Doors Open
7:30-9:30 Food & Open Bar
8:00-9:00 Art Raffle
8:30-9:30 Deep Dish Cabaret
10:00 Doors CloseTickets are $25 to attend, or $250 for the art raffle.
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Google holds press conference on its new Chelsea branch
Their new offices are just down the street, which will be handy if they decide to acquire ArtCat or ArtCal.
Here are two stories on the opening of an office in Chelsea:
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More information on the Dam, Stuhltrager show
We’ve added information on all of the artists to the listing on ArtCal.
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The Reeler
I helped S.T. VanAirsdale with all of the tech work to launch his new and improved website covering all kinds of matters film-related: The Reeler. Check it out.
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