• Hotel Chelsea Blog: Are Seniors No Longer Welcome At the Chelsea?
  Hotel Chelsea is threatening to evict 89-year-old drag king Storm? DeLarveri?
  tags: nyc chelsea queer realestate hotelchelsea drag

Judith Bernstein
11 × 14 inches, 2008
charcoal on paper, 11 × 14 inches

This was my favorite image from the sexy show How To Cook A Wolf: Part One at Dinter Fine Art. I’m embarassed to say I didn’t really know Judith Bernstein’s work before, but now I will watch for her! Check out her entry in the Brooklyn Museum’s Feminist Art Base.

This looks like a great weekend of performance, curated by Chase Granoff and Chris Peck:

LAPS: Live Sh— Alternative Presenter Fair

Saturday January 10 6-10pm & Sunday January 11 4-8pm

FREE admission, homemade chocolate chip cookies and cheap drinks!

The Chocolate Factory Basement
5-49 49th Avenue
L.I.C., NY 11101
Directions

Live Sh— invites a number of independent presenters (including performance series, record labels, galleries, and collectives) to share video and documentation from their associated artists in a casual fair format. The event will include informal discussions with presenters from around the country, including institutionally-affiliated guests. LAPS is a direct response and alternative to APAP (Association of Performing Arts Presenters).

LAPS will likely include the following:

Ana Keilson / the zine
AUNTS
Basekamp
Bowerbird
Catch
Chocolate Factory
Daghdha Dance Company
EkS Scena
Evolving Ear
International Festival
itch journal
Lucky Trimmer / Clint Lutes
MGM Grand
Outpost for Contemporary Art
PAIN / BLIK
Show Box
Throw
and more…

[photo courtesy of Live Sh—]

• Heart As Arena: No.
  The Warhol Museum no longer allows press, or anyone else, to take photos! [Update: press must get a photo pass in advance.]
  tags: warhol no-photography photography
• New York Based Gay Magazines Are Thriving — New York Magazine
  mentions Shoot, Butt Magazine, K48, Straight to Hell, etc.
  tags: queer magazine zine glbt
• Ada Louise Huxtable, the Dean of Architecture Critics, Discusses New York – NYTimes.com
  Architecture is one of my weak points when it comes to the arts, but she has always been one of my favorite critics.
  tags: architecture interview ada-louise-huxtable
• Fanboy.com > How Can You Call Yourself Educated if You Haven?t Seen Citizen Kane?
  tags: culture film citizenkane

• Art Fag City > The Art Fag City Year End Fundraiser
  My favorite art blogger is having a fundraiser so that she can devote her time to blogging rather than day jobs. Give some (tax-deductible) money and we all benefit!
  tags: art blog fundraising

• The Associated Press: NY Times published fake letter from Paris mayor
  The New York Times published a fake letter from the mayor of Paris criticizing Caroline Kennedy’s bid for a U.S. Senate seat as “appalling” and “not very democratic.”
  tags: newyorktimes letter caroline-kennedy

• CC licensed book uses Bauhaus to teach design software – Boing Boing
  A new book – intro to media design – by Michael Mandiberg and Xtine Burrough
  tags: bauhaus design webdesign creativecommons book adobe
• Two Coats of Paint: Art Blogger Think Tank on January 18 in Brooklyn, NY
  Art blog gathering at Pocket Utopia Jan. 18. Save the date!
  tags: art brooklyn bushwick blogs
• Letter from Berlin: German Spy Revelations Put Steinmeier on the Defensive – SPIEGEL ONLINE – News – International
  German intelligence assisted the US with planning in the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
  tags: germany iraq war
• Edward_ Winkleman: Passing the Exhausted Hares
  Ed reveals his new book (coming out July 2009) on starting and running an art gallery
  tags: art gallery business startup

Velda Setterfield, photo by Steve Gunther

Q: Will he toe the mark?
A: Not if he can find it.

Do NOT miss David Gordon’s re-imagining of his 1982 piece “Trying Times” at Dance Theater Workshop through December 20th. Parts of it are hilarious — as in the quote above during a mock trial of his postmodernist tendencies — and one duet was so beautiful I got tears in my eyes.

Barnaby Whitfield, Cute Overload II (thanks Michael-Anne Rauback!), 2008, Pastel on Paper, 22.5 by 30 inches, Pastel On Paper

Sad news from one of my favorite galleries: 31 Grand is closing and is having a final one-day show on Saturday, December 20th.

Megan Bush continues to work as an independent stylist while chasing after Polly the chihuahua and 4-year-old Henry. Heather Stephens continues to art direct at the Wall Street Journal and is joining Black & White Gallery in Chelsea.

I’m doing a server move, and I accidentally used the notifications feature to send emails to about 20 people. My bad.