Two links; both dealing with artistic legacies and work coming from New York City.
1. Whitney Pastorek announces the shutdown of Pindeldyboz, with some nicely bleak humor thrown in.
And then hopefully, someday, I’ll stop paying the web hosting fees, and the site will be gone. In my dreams I see it hosting an exciting array …
Yesterday, I went to the Guggenheim. While there, I took in “Grey Area, an exhibit of Julie Mehretu artwork. Taking in her large-scale, informationally-dense works, I thought about the recent New Yorker piece on the artist. In turn, that prompted thoughts of another piece from the same publication – Sasha Frere-Jones’s essay on noise-rock. Specifically, …
One: The culture site Big Other — including many a writer affiliated with The Chapbook Review — has launched. Good stuff, with topics ranging from text separated from the page (which put me in mind of this) to authors’ final wishes concerning their work.
Two: Given that the readings given by both in Chicago are still …
My first significant introduction to the work of photographer Chrissy Piper came via her 1998 collection The Unheard Music, a visually distinctive collection of live and portrait photos of bands making their way in the indie/punk/hardcore world of the 1990s. It includes bands whose names still inspire devotion today (Fugazi, Rocket From the Crypt), and …
One: Tracy Wilson on Jeremy Enigk. It should be also be mentioned here that Wilson, a onetime Thursday Agitation interviewee, has taken her Ringfinger project on the road, and will be playing throughout the east coast in the next week or so, including Hoboken and New York City.
Two: Nell Boeschenstein on art, privacy, and online …
Very quick tip of the hat to my friend Jeremy Olson, whose work will be part of NYU’s 2009 MFA Thesis exhibition opening on Tuesday. Highly recommended, if you’re in NYC; otherwise, some of his art can be viewed online.
A quick note to direct y’all to the newly constructed website of Eilish Cullen, who is currently involved in myriad aspects of art on the coast opposite this one. Definitely worth paying a visit (or visits).
The debate over the loss of arts criticism in newspapers nationwide has led to a heated debate between critics Glenn Kenny and Michael Atkinson over Atkinson’s comments in this Brooklyn Rail article. (Links for both come via The House Next Door.) Kenny weighs in on his blog Some Came Running with some harsh words regarding …
One: In which the mothers of numerous indie rockers talk indie rock. Specifically, their children’s.
Two: New York on The Night Marchers.
Three: Souvenirs + installation art = kinda genius.
One: for artists, writers, and those with an interest in intellectual property rights, this is very worrisome.
Two: I’ve liked what I’ve read from Joy Williams, and the news that an older novel of hers is being reissued (with a new Rick Moody introduction) definitely has my interest piqued. [via: Maud Newton]
Three: Apparently, pigeons are tasty.
Maria Tessa Sciarrino is a hell of a photographer. She’s posted a number of photos from SXSW, and they’re worth a look.
I have said this before, but it bears repeating: Chris Frey takes damn good photos.
Black Mountain/Bon Iver last night: fantastic.
Home internet was down since Thursday morning, and is only now restored, hence the seemingly sparse posting here lately.
Expect the scintillating commentary to resume shortly.
For now: New York residents with a fondness for art might want to check out “Flip” at Brooklyn’s Like the Spice gallery.
Chris Frey takes damn good photos. He has a new site up. You should visit it.
Have just returned from seeing Kara Walker’s work at the Whitney, and Zhang Huan’s at the Asia Society. My brain will now be hard at work processing both for the next few days, if not much, much longer.