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• Family of faggot fans fly the flag – “A West Midlands family is playing a central role in the quest to raise the profile of a forgotten British dish – faggots. The Doody family from Wolverhampton has been crowned The Faggot Family in a national competition, and to kick off their reign they will launch National Faggot Week.” For those not in the know, faggots are a kind of meatball. Via The House Next Door.
• Your moment of Mr. Sparklepants

Bonus photo: one half of Andrew Andrew spotted in the wild:

Found Art (Soho): Unmonumental 58 by Joy Garnett

• New York City has the largest high-tech workforce in the nation.
• Fascinating article by Ben Rosen at Huffington Post about the Metropolitan Opera’s financial health and marketing strategies.
• MTV, for the first time in its history, will accept political advertising.

• Art Fag City interviews Nayland Blake. Related: Nayland Blake products at CafePress.com.
• Hrag Vartanian gives us a chart of star architect projects in totalitarian countries.
• And I Am Not Lying brings us photos of a Fight Club in Union Square.

“He loves you, and he needs money!”

“Results like this do not belong on the resumé of a supreme being.”

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Marcus Kenney, I Aint Tryin to Be a Hater, 2007
mixed media on canvas
36 × 36 inches

(detail)

Postmasters has an excellent show up through July 12 titled AMERIKA: Back to the Future. My favorite discovery of the show was the work of Marcus Kenney — collages that include found paper such as that from old ledgers, adding machine tape, and canceled checks.

The soundtrack for the show is provided by this Rammstein video, playing in the gallery’s entry.

The artist’s website doesn’t have any content, but I know that Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta had a solo exhibition of his work for their booth at the Pulse NYC fair in March.

The other artists in the show are David Herbert, Anthony Goicolea, and Jennifer and Kevin McCoy.

Friday

• Cinders Gallery opens Crooked Smiles, Steady Voices, and a Trunk Full of Cash (see invitation above)
• Over the Opening presents LOSHADKA
• Ad Hoc Art presents Poets of the Paste featuring ELBOW-TOE, Armsrock, Gaia and Imminent Disaster

Saturday

• Art In General Fundraiser
• Sarah Braman opens at Museum 52
• Joao Ribas curates a show at Andrew Kreps
• Eyebeam MIXER

Saturday and Sunday

• Art By The Ferry Festival on Staten Island

Aurora Robson, photo by Hrag Vartanian

• Hrag Vartanian braved the heat to visit many of the Bushwick Open Studios last weekend and put up a massive flickr set.

• The New York Yankees have decided that $940 million in (legally dicey) tax-exempt bonds they have been given already are insufficient and now want an additional $350 million. Nice priorities, public sector! $2 billion a year in public subsidies for sports team isn’t quite enough? Meanwhile, the New York City Housing Authority is raising rents and cutting back programs due to falling tax revenues.

• Happy Loving Day to everyone! quote: “Mrs. Loving stopped giving interviews, but last year issued a statement on the 40th anniversary of the announcement of the Supreme Court ruling, urging that gay men and lesbians be allowed to marry.”

I see that a huge email of posts from the last week or so went out tonight to those who subscribe to my email list. As you can see, I’ve relaunched this blog and James with a new layout and the latest version of Movable Type, and apparently this confused our email service.

• U.S. seeking 58 bases in Iraq, Shiite lawmakers say
  58 bases, total control of airspace, and immunity from prosecution – sounds imperial to me
  tags: usa iraq occupation war