HEY!
So this weekend walking around New York’s most glamourous art/industrial neighborhood I ran into one of WFMU’s truly great DJ’s, Trouble.
She alerted me to a really cool event, the WFMU first ever benefit sale of limited edition multiples at Printed Matter.
Being in New York on the first Saturday of December is so much cooler than [...]
Author Archive
I want my . . . I want my FMUUUUUU!!!!!
Thursday Favorites: Big Street Murals
I love running into great graffiti. You don’t see it that often, but when you do it kind of takes your breath away. It always catches you by surprise because you are never looking for it.
Last week I had to go to the South Bronx to run an errand and I came across this. It [...]
All Saints Day
Greetings from the International Man of Mystery! I don’t really like Halloween that much. I stopped dressing up in 5th grade, rather than 6th. I felt a little foolish the next day when all my fellow 6th graders brought candy to school. I thought “Shit I could have gone one more year! I thought I [...]
Thursday Playlist: Sydney Pollack RIP
A.O. Scott wrote a great piece on the director Sydney Pollack who died last week, of cancer, at the age of 73. He noted how Pollack had been involved in a type of film known as “the A picture.”
“In both capacities he worked, comfortably and with conviction, within the parameters of the Hollywood ‘A [...]
What the future looks like
Remember how the future was supposed to be all jet packs and monorails?
Here is what the future turned out to be:
Branding.
Come, come ye unbelievers
A friend has long remarked that “an agnostic is an atheist who lacks conviction.” As he and I have discussed that matter he has convinced me that I am indeed an atheist.
But I’m writing this to be more specific, and nuanced. In conversation I prefer the sound of A-theist, with the emphasis on [...]
No end to the things made out of human talk
This is a painting by Edward Ruscha that hangs in the Hirshhorn Museum of Art in Washington D.C.
I was having a conversation with someone recently about how different the world is today. The introduction of cell phones and the internet are making big, fundamental differences in how we interact, think, communicate and socialize.
I don’t [...]
Boring things
One of the coolest things about the art world is how tiny it is. On a lovely Saturday afternoon I ran into the producer of the recent PBS documentary on Andy Warhol. I was excited to see this acquaintance because I had loved this project. It was thoughtful, sincere, honest, a little creepy, and interesting. [...]
Various cults
“Artists are the worker priests of the cult of man.”
That’s a statement by Brice Marden. A brand new painting by Marden will set you back about nine hundred thousand dollars. In addition, Marden has been pretty up front about his drug use. He really likes to smoke pot. So what kind of cult is he [...]
“Think like a winner!” — Arsenio Hall
“Things don’t always turn out the way we want them to, how we imagined they could have been. Before events are committed to history, the possibilities are limitless in our minds. But when that cruel dividing line between the past and the present passes over events in our lives, there is nothing more that we [...]
