Exposure, a new photography exhibition presumably modeled after Jen Bekman’s Hey Hot Shot, asks a $25 submission fee for a chance at $2,800 and a show at Leo Kesting Gallery. Now everyone has a chance to show with the same people who brought you celebrity sculptor Daniel Edwards. Score! Deadline June 17th, 2008
Related: Oprah’s Dead Bitches. (Via Gawker)
ArtCal - Chelsea - Schroeder Romero - Michael Waugh, The More I See of Men
Waugh was working on this show through the holidays while also at Momenta helping me with the fundraiser. I’m looking forward to seeing the new drawings! Opens Friday January 16th.
ArtCal Zine - Events - The Concept of Time at the Guggenheim
“Rirkrit Tiravanija and Douglas Gordon’s Cinema Liberté presents an epic program of previously banned films to be comfortably watched on beanbag cushions.” Not necessarily a bad idea, but who hasn’t seen screened films like The Last Temptation of Christ before? How valuable is the gesture if the films have already been absorbed into the culture?
Mysterious Sweet Smell From 2005 Returns to Manhattan - NYTimes.com
Labeled “Headline of the Day” by one facebook friend. It’s a little early yet to know, but he may be right.
Op-Ed Columnist - Fighting Off Depression - NYTimes.com
“Let’s not mince words: This looks an awful lot like the beginning of a second Great Depression.” Hello scary.
If it were anyone else I’d think promising to review 1,000 new releases in 2009 over Twitter was a little Internet hokie but I bet music critic Christopher Weingarten can pull it off. Note that the use of dashes does not indicate a minus number rating.
Frieze Magazine | Archive | Sean Landers: Onwards!
Sean Landers reflects on his own experience with the crash in the 80’s and his expectations for the imminent crash.
Fimoculous.com - misc - 30 Most Notable Blogs of 2008
The Tomorrow Museum made Fimoculous’s list this year!
Ms. Jen Bekman - Amazon customers ordered more than 6.3 million…
Amazon customers ordered more than 6.3 million items on Dec. 15, compared with roughly 5.4 million on its peak day last year, the company said. It shipped more than 5.6 million products on its best day, a 44 percent rise over 2007, when it shipped about 3.9 million on its busiest day
ArtCal - Chelsea - Jack Shainman Gallery - Nick Cave, Recent Soundsuits
More Soundsuits by Nick Cave. These things are amazing. Opens January 8th.
ArtCal - Chelsea - Rare - Donovan Barrow, Portraits of Savoye
Recommended. Opens Thursday, January 8th
Green Puppy Farts and a couple of Pauls | the blind swimmer
My dog’s farts are apparently making the rounds on the Internet. Also, a quote I don’t wholly understand from Paul Gauguin on farts and Cezanne.
Green Puppy Farts and a couple of Pauls | the blind swimmer
My dog’s farts are apparently making the rounds on the Internet. Also, a quote I don’t wholly understand from Paul Gauguin on farts and Cezanne.
As relevant as Eric Fischl. New York art news, reviews and gossip.
Art Fag City is Paddy Johnson.
