I spotted this on Tenth Avenue in Chelsea today. Actually, if I had done a 9/11 post, it would have been to mention that I worry about how many people I see wearing flip flops these days. I was at Grand Central at rush hour a few days ago, and easily half the women I saw were wearing them. You can’t run in those in an emergency!
James and I, along with Leah Stuhltrager, are participating as jurors in this benefit on Saturday. I think that means we three will award a prize or prizes to some of the artists who donated works for the benefit. Show up and be shocked to see us outside before 2pm!
The Greenpoint 100: Friends of the Greenpoint Library Artists’ Benefit
Saturday, September 15, 2007
11:00 am to 2:30 pm
At the Greenpoint Library
107 Norman Avenue at Leonard St.
Brooklyn, NY 11222
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For more information please call the library at 718-349-8504 or email friendsofthegreenpointlibrary@gmail.com.
We made two shows on the Lower East Side “top picks” on ArtCal today:
Ahmed Alsoudani at Thierry Goldberg
Michael Jones McKean at SUNDAY. Look for a post from James soon, as we spent an hour at the gallery hanging out, looking at the work, and talking with the artist.
[top image from the gallery website, bottom image by me]
The new ArtCal uses feeds from Flickr, blip.tv, and also searches for links back to each listing via Bloglines Citations. When you’re out taking photos and videos, or writing about shows, don’t forget to tag/link appropriately.
This page (which was used for the screencap above) shows a good example of all three.
Update: Here is another idea for artists and galleries. If you have video or computer animation in a show, and your website isn’t really set up well for video (unlike this), put some excerpts on blip.tv and tag them so that people visiting the exhibition page on ArtCal can watch them.
John Cage and Merce Cunningham
Today is the anniversary of the birth of one of my saints, John Cage. WNYC is playing his music all day, which you can listen to via MP3 or Windows Media stream.
[image from Music From Other Minds]