At the entrance of the Chelsea Art Museum

One would hope that a pairing of a show of “celebrity art” curated by Baird Jones, and one of Goya’s Los Caprichos along with contemporary art, curated by the brilliant Elga Wimmer, is ironic. I showed up at the museum wearing a t-shirt, khakis, and my favorite sneakers. I knew I would be headed to Monya Rowe opening later, which I expected to be warmish, given the 20+ artists in the show for a moderately-sized space. Someone at the museum entrance looked at me, and said, “You’re here for the Goya?” The scary guys with Blackberries, briefcases, and bleached-blonde bimbos in tow where pointed to the other show.

As a bird lover, I’m intrigued by the work of Paul Urich I just spotted at Wooster Collective. He has a show opening Saturday in San Francisco at Low Gallery.

[image from Low Gallery website]

DAN IS NICE
LAMB & RICE

I saw this on a glass door in Williamsburg. I have no idea what it means.

• Jerry Saltz writing about art auctions on artnet
• David Byrne’s streaming radio

Eric Heist
installation view of Travel Agents

I was just reading the May issue of The Brooklyn Rail. There is a great essay by William Powhida on Eric Heist’s show, titled Travel Agents, that was up at Schroeder Romero in April.

[photo from Schroedero Romero’s web site]

This is a detail from one sculpture. It is almost completely made of paper. The gallery is open tomorrow, so you have one more chance to see the show.

Adia Millett
Pre-Fabricated Innocence: Reproduction (Globe with rabbits), 2004
11″ × 14″
c-print

We saw this photograph Saturday at the new Mixed Greens space on 26th Street. It was the last day of the show, but you can see more on their web site.

I love the outside — inside too, but I don’t have a great image — of the new space. It’s a great way to announce the new location:

[photo at top from the Mixed Greens site]

Hello?, the video blog, has a short clip of a performance by DEVA — the all-girl DEVO cover band.

Our friend DJ Citizen Kane — no web site yet, coming soon — has two DJ sets on line worth a listen. I have to find out what record is in the first one with the line “If it feels good, it’s alright!”

• From Pure Pleasure Mixes, Citizen Kane – One Take No Dubs
• For BPM Magazine and My Space — click on Citizen Kane

He has a column in BPM, in case you want to see and read more of him.

K8 Hardy, plus others, at The Muster

We were out of town, but check out posts by Todd Gibson and Nicole Eisenman — including photos.

[photo above is from Nicole’s flickr album]