bloggy: January 2007 Archives

It would be cool to live in a secular country

From the BBC: Downing Street has said there will be no exemption from anti-discrimination laws for Catholic adoption agencies. But...

Posted Wednesday January 31, 2007 at 3:11 PM | Full Post

Favorite works from last Saturday's Chelsea crawl

At Black and White Gallery: Andrew Piedilato Untitled, 2006 oil on canvas 83 × 78 inches A new step in...

Posted Wednesday January 31, 2007 at 1:40 PM | Full Post

CUE Art Foundation benefit, Tuesday January 30

Art benefits are always a good bet for finding new art to buy. We have discovered a number of...

Posted Wednesday January 24, 2007 at 9:01 AM | Full Post

Life under occupation

Spotted on 27th Street in Chelsea...

Posted Tuesday January 23, 2007 at 9:34 PM | Full Post

"L'eau De Vie" at Anthology Film Archives

The developers, and the so-called art world, are the new conquistadors. Filip Noterdaeme of the Homeless Museum alerted us to...

Posted Tuesday January 23, 2007 at 9:01 AM | Full Post

The Horticultural Society of New York gets hip

Wow! Check out the upcoming schedule for the new location of their gallery on West 37th Street of The...

Posted Monday January 22, 2007 at 5:18 PM | Full Post

New loan fund for arts organizations

Again from newyorkbusiness.com... NYC Investment Fund offers arts loans The New York City Investment Fund, an affiliate of the Partnership...

Posted Monday January 22, 2007 at 5:03 PM | Full Post

NYC art fairs seeking PR help from city

From today's newyorkbusiness.com: Art fairs seek more city marketing aid Some organizers of the upcoming art fairs running Feb. 22-26...

Posted Monday January 22, 2007 at 5:00 PM | Full Post

Michael Rakowitz at Lombard-Freid Projects

Michael Rakowitz Headless Male Figure (Kh. IV 112) (Recovered, Missing, Stolen Series), 2007 middle eastern packaging and newspapers, glue...

Posted Monday January 22, 2007 at 11:51 AM | Full Post

Official portraits

Chancellor Schröder's portrait by Jörg Immendorff Bill Clinton's portrait by Simmie Knox I think we can argue that the...

Posted Friday January 19, 2007 at 10:15 AM | Full Post

JT Kirkland, "All's Fair"

JT Kirkland of the Thinking About Art blog is having a guerrilla art show in his hotel room...

Posted Thursday January 18, 2007 at 6:01 PM | Full Post

"Quotation Mark" Abuse

I love this flickr group. I wonder if there is an its vs. it's one. That drives me crazy....

Posted Wednesday January 17, 2007 at 3:22 PM | Full Post

Discharge is normal

Spotted in Brooklyn after our fabulous visit to the Homeless Museum....

Posted Sunday January 14, 2007 at 11:36 PM | Full Post

Darlene Charneco at Morgan Lehman

The show is up through January 27, 2007. Art Fag City likes her work too....

Posted Saturday January 13, 2007 at 2:03 AM | Full Post

"The Next Hour" on WBAI

Kate Valk looking at art, photo by Andrew Andrew James and I ran into Kate Valk of The...

Posted Friday January 12, 2007 at 3:10 PM | Full Post

Pelosi bans smoking near House floor

This story reminds me of this video....

Posted Wednesday January 10, 2007 at 12:20 PM | Full Post

Mark Creegan interview / other updates

Mark Creegan, Download Smurfette (detail), 2006 Mark Creegan (an ArtCat artist) is the latest entry in J.T. Kirkland's...

Posted Wednesday January 10, 2007 at 10:54 AM | Full Post

Mixing art and politics

The website Daily Kos is one of the most influential political blogs / communities on the 'net. Their...

Posted Tuesday January 9, 2007 at 2:53 PM | Full Post

"Attic" at Anton Kern annex on 21st Street

This was one of my favorite shows in December. It's closed now, but here is a slideshow with some not-so-great...

Posted Tuesday January 9, 2007 at 12:05 PM | Full Post

Web site annoyance

Why do so many gallery sites insist on resizing my browser? I know what size my screen is, and this...

Posted Friday January 5, 2007 at 1:19 PM | Full Post

Chelsea - the red light district?

Posted Friday January 5, 2007 at 1:10 PM | Full Post

Artnet to cut into the auction houses' business?

Thomas Eller and Hans Neuendorf, video still from VernissageTV I just watched a video interview of Artnet founder...

Posted Thursday January 4, 2007 at 11:10 AM | Full Post

Nothing says happy new year like...

having one's windows rattled by NYPD helicopters. Perhaps they should spend some of those fuel dollars on giving the NYPD...

Posted Monday January 1, 2007 at 1:00 AM | Full Post