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New magazine that I will lust over alert:

The Exhibitionist, a new journal made by curators, for curators, focusing solely on the practice of exhibition making. The objective is to create a wider platform for the discussion of curatorial concerns - encourage a diversification of curatorial models, and actively contribute to the formation of a theory of curating. It is published by ARCHIVE BOOKS and will be distributed internationally, selling at major and specialty bookstores and newsstands.

I don’t want to go to the website because I don’t want to see that it’s $30 an issue 2x a year. Alright, I just checked anyway and it’s only half that, if you subscribe.

February 08, 2010, 2:37pm  

Dan Perjovschi, Postcards from the World (North America), 2009

February 08, 2010, 2:04pm  

Megan Feldman Anna and Michael at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center 2010

Look what Flavorpill did:

Even if you haven’t wandered up to 86th Street recently, chances are you’ve heard whispers of something unusual afoot. That something is courtesy of performance artist Tino Sehgal, whose ephemeral pieces rely on empty space and spectator involvement. One such piece in his current solo show at the Guggenheim, titled “The Kiss,” involves a couple embracing on the floor of the rotunda in a “changing, slow-motion, amorous” entanglement. We at Flavorpill love staging elaborate photo shoots in museums and decided to reinterpret Sehgal’s performance piece in five New York City art institutions: The Metropolitan Museum, New Museum, Rubin Museum, P.S.1, and the Brooklyn Museum.

I kind of did some kissing at a museum this weekend, but nothing was documented. I guess I will have to settle being not as cute.

And yes, it is that Anna and Michael.

February 08, 2010, 1:24pm  

Seen on lamp post down the street from my apartment. It is fairly high up, I am curious how long it has been there and how many people have seen it.

February 07, 2010, 5:20pm  

Painted in the garage of Blick Aet Supplies on Beverly and Poinsettia.

February 07, 2010, 1:59pm  

Toby Christian Pinch 2007

Let’s do a link round up, shall we?

• Totally un-art related and kind of scary, but worth it for a picture of the HIGHLANDER!
• Experts are saying that Giacometti purchase wasn’t a fluke and expect more to come. Some say that confidence in the art market has returned to the same level as Fall of 2007.
• Pie pops.  Also not art related, but also awesome.
• The case of the Grosz heirs vs. MoMA, where the heirs were claiming the pieces in the collection constituted as Nazi Looted, has been dismissed to do statute of limitations being exceeded.
• This is purely included so I will remember to read about the intellectual consequences of forgeries later.
• Hey NYers, there is a book swap at MoMA Saturday.
• Never too late to get your fix, it’s World Nutella Day today!
• Jeff Koons is hiring.

February 05, 2010, 4:32pm  

Tim Hawkinson Uberorgan at the Getty

February 05, 2010, 4:01pm  

In this weeks edition of my most indulgent feature, here comes “Book I Really Want, Do Not Have, and Cannot Afford”.

Taschen has come out with a collector’s edition of an extrememly covetable book of one of my fave photographers, Dennis Hopper.

During the 1960s, Dennis Hopper carried a camera everywhere—on film sets and locations, at parties, in diners, bars and galleries, driving on freeways and walking on political marches. He photographed movie idols, pop stars, writers, artists, girlfriends, and complete strangers. Along the way he captured some of the most intriguing moments of his generation with a keen and intuitive eye. A reluctant icon at the epicenter of that decade’s cultural upheaval, Hopper documented the likes of Tina Turner in the studio, Andy Warhol at his first West Coast show, Paul Newman on set, and Martin Luther King during the Civil Rights March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. via…

Swooning for days.  However, at a robust $700, I will not be adding it to my collection…YET!!!

February 05, 2010, 3:32pm  

Chuck Close Lucas 1987

Finally a visual artist has been nominated to the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, and I can’t think of someone better.

Fred Goldring, Sheila Johnson, Pamela Joyner, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Ken Solomon have also been nominated.

February 05, 2010, 3:01pm