April 2009
15 posts
“Art has been crippled by the mandatory MFA, now visible on every artist bio in...”
– John Perreault in Artopia, writing about the New Museum’s The Generational: Younger Than Jesus. (via southtwelfth) (via andyinabox)
“After watching hours of videotape, the experts correctly identified only two of...”
– via NYTimes, ‘To Fight Stigmas, Start With Treatment’
“It is earth day.”
– Dwight Schrute
WatchI fear that I have or will become the annoying person who obsessively posts photos/stories/videos of their pet online. And Hudson is not even my dog.
Yet soon I will be leaving Bay Ridge for Red Hook. Hudson and I will be spending less time together; no more regular afternoon walks, no more regular sleepovers. He will be less happy. I will have more time.
So before this Internet-Posted-Pet habit...
“The Alabama’s second in command, Capt. Shane Murphy, is the son of an instructor...”
– I’m so glad that in America, we still teach courses on fighting pirates. via NYTimes
Academia Tackles Hipsterdom (topically, not...
Hipster: past or present? Sociology, or History? The dust is now clearing enough for American Colleges to begin empirical analysis of Hipsterdom, but will these institutions agree in their findings?
Hipster Culture Panel
presented by the University of Wisconsin on March, 26th 2009
What Was The Hipster?
presented by n+1 with the New School on April, 11th 2009
(It is funny to think about academics...
John Waters Encountered
Eduardo and I were strolling through Chelsea today, and happened into the Marianne Boesky gallery presenting the John Waters mixed-media show ‘Rear Projection’. One of the few sculpture pieces was of a miniature man in a leisure suit who I claimed to be Sammy Davis Jr. Eduardo disagreed. But there were plenty of other satanic references throughout the rest of the show, so I thought it...
The Case of Apartment 4h
“I didn’t actually use the phrase ‘putrid corpse’, but that’s the best description of the image fixed in my mind. I didn’t just suspect it, either, I KNEW it. It’s true that every dead person I have ever spent time around has been thoroughly pre-soaked with formaldehyde. But I also read ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ in High School. I knew this was the smell of the dead and unfound. There...