Writing as Practice: Peripheral Continuity Book Event this Saturday 10/20 at Murray Guy, 4-6pm

BOOK FAIR

come out come out!  lots of good stuff to see until sunday evening, we're on the third floor, stand Q08.  here are some images from the show.         Nandita Raman's circular book ∏r²         Lynley Bernstein's Baltimore         Winona Barton-Ballentine's zine         Michi…

year one of two, for Marvin!

There's a lizard on the wall of my bedroom, right next to the ceiling.  She's about 2 and a half inches long and has barely moved over the past three days.  In the day, to encourage her to flight to freedom, I leave the window open, but so far she hasn't wanted to escape.  Desired…

Vivian Maier

  How important is a photographer's personal life to the way in which their work is received?  And what happens when very little is known about them?  The recently discovered collection of Vivian Maier addresses these issues, in addition to raising questions about the dissemination, distribution, and sale of a deceased artist's work.    Read…

AI WEIWEI

This is one of thousands of images Ai Weiwei took in New York City between 1983 and 1993. Check out HERE a shorter version of the  video by Alison Klayman in which Ai discusses taking pictures in New York, speaking out, and the past.

Appropriation troubles

Richard Prince, reigning king of appropriation, has just been dethroned.  Or maybe just temporarily demoted.  On March 18th, Prince and the Gagosian Gallery lost the suit brought against them by French photographer Patrick Cariou for copyright infringement.  For his 2008 show at the Gagosian called 'Canal Zone', Prince took a large number of photographs from…

A year ago

Like Rony said, it's fucking cold in New York.  The temperature dropped 20 degrees from yesterday, and all I can think of today is what I was doing last year at this time.  I was heading through the Panama Canal on my aunt's 40-foot sloop. From Panama City, we went on to the Galapagos Islands,…

So much, and a little more

Two inclinations compete on a regular basis in my mind.  One is to stop the information flow, stop the inundation of images and thoughts and sounds and words.  The other is to make images, a compulsion to add my two cents to the pile. My aunt’s house burned down a few months ago in the…

Yesterday

Reaction to A Film Unfinished

Presented as an investigation of the Nazi propaganda film The Ghetto, A Film Unfinished seeks to expose and elaborate on the footage shot and roughly edited in 1942 in the Warsaw Ghetto.  As viewers, we are presented with new information and new ‘facts’; information that would not have been available to the average viewer of…