Regarding Clementine, the next show at Clementine (one of the pioneers of Chelsea and still going strong), should be a lot of fun. It includes some famous names from the blogosphere, such as Greg Allen and Joy Garnett, plus a lot of other talented artists. It’s curated by Choire Sicha.

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Update: I just learned that “Fort Necessity”, listed among the artists for the show, is a group made up of three women, including Jennie of Mr. Trinity.

I’m not planning to write anything about it, but James and Joy Garnett have good posts on the subject.

The NY Times has an odd obituary=, including an entire paragraph of adjectives used to describe her.

I prefer Newsday’s coverage, with this obituary and this essay adapted from a speech she gave on April 7.

This post by a blogger I hadn’t read before is quite good. I found it via TBOGG.

I just realized something. None of the obituaries talk about her being queer, but she was in a relationship with Annie Leibovitz for a long time.

If the city can use eminent domain to take away people’s houses to build a stadium in Brooklyn, why can’t it use it to save an 1837 town house that the owners are allowing to fall part? This was a viable building in the 80s.

The Merchant’s House, on the left, is well worth a visit for anyone interested in NYC and historic houses.

Susan Sontag has died, aged 71. She was born in here in New York, and died here.

She was one of the only “public intellectuals” I regularly encountered in New York, as she was someone, as James and I are, voraciously interested in art of all kinds, especially when it was new, or rare. I would see her at a BAM performance of Frankfurt Ballet, or at an obscure play in the East Village, or at an art exhibit related to the siege of Sarajevo at the New York Kunsthalle on East 5th Street.

We have one signed book of hers, but I will let James tell that story.

I’m moving our blogs to a new version of the blog software and putting them back at Pair so that I don’t risk breaking our blogs when doing updates to the server hosting ArtCat and ArtCal.

So, you may see some occasional problems until everything comes over and the whole internet sees the right server…

P.S. You can now use bloggy.com without the added /mt/ as the home page for my site.

He has achieved fame in the print media. He is one of twelve art bloggers in a write-up in the January Art in America_. Joy Garnett (another of them) has the details.html.

I have written before about Jay Blotcher being fired as a stringer for the New York Times because he did media relations with ACT UP over ten years ago. Here is a coda. The person that followed him in that job — I won’t give his name but you know who I mean if you’re familiar with ACT UP — has been freelancing for the City and Escapes sections for five years. He continues to work for the Times.

Click on the image for the rest.

Awesome. All 15 minutes, with choreography, as stop-action Lego animation.

You can download it for safe-keeping. It’s the link that says Tᅵlᅵcharger la vidᅵo.