My favorite link so far to the new ArtCal is one from a discussion board in New Caledonia.

The title of this post is my favorite line from Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul.

• Webcams in Venice
• The MoMA Annual Artist Pass
• Angels in America as an opera by Hungarian composer Peter Eötvös – we have his Three Sisters opera on CD and it’s amazing
• Photos of new Apple Store in Ecuador
• No wonder we never make it into the Artnet photos — we never look as glam as the lovely ladies of Wallspace do in this photo

Charles Schumer, quoted in Newsday

“We will have to review his record very carefully, but I can tell you already he’s a better candidate than John Ashcroft,” said Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), a member of the Judiciary Committee, which will consider Gonzalez’ nomination. Still, Gonzalez has his own civil liberties baggage. He wrote a controversial February 2002 memo in which President George W. Bush claimed the right to waive anti-torture laws and treaties designed to protect prisoners of war.

Note that Gonzalez called the Geneva Convention “quaint” in that memo.

Schumer also voted for the war in Iraq, the Patriot Act, and the Defense of Marriage Act (as a congressman).

I haven’t been diligent about updating the openings calendar lately, as I was getting ready to launch my new and improved version, with information on recommended shows, not just openings. I present:

ArtCal

I apologize that there are no iCal or RSS feeds yet. Those are coming soon.

American Fine Arts closes its doors for good tonight. There is a closing party from 5-8 with performances. Be there.

530 West 22nd Street

Zach Feuer of LFL Gallery has bought out his partners and changed the name of the gallery to Zach Feuer Gallery. Note the page title at that link.

P.S. The Dana Schutz show up now is great. I think it’s the best work I’ve seen from her.

P.P.S. We went to MoMA today for the members’ preview. Expect posts on that subject from James and me later.

It’s the talented young painter Dan Levenson. I saw the photo here on From the Floor, and then I looked up who owns the domain name. I think that’s Orly Cogan standing next to him! We love her too.

I was looking at Casey Kaplan web site just now. It’s new. It’s flash. It’s awful.

Comments are off. Eventually I might have the patience to monitor them for wingnuts and spam, but at the moment I get too many of those to bother.

Sorry.

Derek Jarman’s manuscripts are featured in an exhibit titled The Writer in the Garden at the British Library. I read about it in The Guardian.

Some of his late manuscripts and notebooks – covers beautifully personalised with gold or black impasto, full of poems, jottings and memories – will be revealed this week at an exhibition at the British Library in London.

Jarman kept 16 volumes of diaries recounting the making of his garden at Prospect Cottage, on the Kent coastline, where he moved in 1988. Here he created a curious Eden in the most hostile, salt-caked, windswept environment imaginable, a strange garden full of twisted metal and driftwood, in the shadow of the Dungeness nuclear power station.

Much of the material from the notebooks was incorporated into his published diaries, Modern Nature, but the exquisite objects themselves, two of which the British Library has borrowed from Jarman’s estate, have never before been seen in public.

Speaking of visual/film artists with a talent for the written word, last night we attended an event at PPOW featuring writers and artists inspired by the works (written and otherwise) of David Wojnarowicz. The main reason we attended was to see Matt Wolf slide show on Wojnarowicz’s “magic box” in his archives at NYU. It’s amazing to realize that Matt is only 22. We have already seen several works by him, and even “invested” a small amount into his latest film project. It’s titled I Feel Love — Matt titles his latest films after Communards/Bronski Beat songs — and has Andrew Cunanan as its subject.

DAVID WOJNAROWICZ Untitled (One day this kid . . .) 1990
photostat edition of 10 60 × 48 inches