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Monthly Archives: December 2010

I Enjoy Having Fun

A hilarious reminder from my boy Zach to never post anything about yourself online. Thirty years from now some punk ass kid is going to be laughing at your Friendster page, so you paint as good a picture of yourself as Maurice here: executive by day, wildman by night.
And remember, kids, it’s fun to [...]

Kazuko Miyamoto

Kazuko Miyamoto Untitled, String Construction, Installation at 597 Broadway, New York, 1978
I’ve probably seen Kazuko Miyamoto about a zillion times at her L.E.S. gallery onetwentyeight, but I never knew about her work until now. The Japanese artist works in dialogue with the likes of Sol LeWitt and Joseph Beuys, and her gallery shows portraits of [...]

“Jeffrey told me he was looking for artists with star qualities,” Inka Essenhigh said of Jeffrey Deitch, one of her former dealers. She compared his gallery to Warhol’s Factory. “Jeffrey wanted to be Andy,” she said. “He wanted his Edie and Paul America. He wanted me to have a drug problem. He wanted me to [...]

Protect Your Rights; Watch This Video

A Fire in My Belly from ppow_gallery on Vimeo.
Super big shout-out to the New Museum for picking up the slack after the Smithsonian Institution / National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., caved to religious organizations and pulled David Wojnarowicz’s 1987 video “Fire in My Belly, A Work in Progress” from the show “Hide/Seek: Difference and [...]

Gil Scott-Heron x the xx

Sneak peek track from the Jamie xx remixx of Gil Scott-Heron’s latest album “I’m New Here.” Full album drops February 21…check it out/preorder at We’re New Here. And the early word is it gets even better. Want more? Check out the original here and live remix over here.

The former musician in me can’t help following along, and firmly believing that I could still play this.

Long Live the French

The manager of Château Cheval Blanc, Jacques Hebrard, was outraged at the evaluation of his 1981 vintage barrel samples made by influential wine critic Robert M. Parker, Jr. and asked him to re-taste. Upon arriving, Parker was attacked by Hebrard’s dog as the manager stood idly by and watched. When Parker asked for a bandage [...]

New York U.S.A.

Discovered this video in the new doc Public Speaking, Martin Scorsese’s profile of writer/icon Fran Lebowitz. It’s one of those moves that makes me equal parts envious of the New York that no longer exists and pissed off that people won’t stop talking about it after 40 years. Just the other day I read a [...]