• Preserving the ‘Texas German’
  University researchers in the United States are documenting a dying Texas dialect born of German more than a century ago
  tags: german language texas dialect
• jameswagner.com: panel on radical history of Lower East Side
  June 26th, at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum — includes our friend Jay Blotcher
  tags: queer history actup

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ArtCat’s relentless march across 27th Street continues.

John Connelly Presents is the latest gallery to sign up for the ArtCat hosting service. A few pages are a little slow to load at the moment, as they have some huge images which haven’t been web-optimized yet.

For a Friday in June, there is a lot going on tonight. Some recommendations follow.

Chelsea Opening

• Bayard, Do You See What I See? (these fags are for sale but you can’t buy this queer) at Schroeder Romero – This project is presented in commemoration and celebration of the 38th anniversary of the death of Judy Garland and the birth of Gay Pride. Free commemorative caps for the first 144 mourners attending the reception and commemorative pins for all.

Lower East Side Openings

• New American Portrait at Jen Bekman – Co-curated by Ms. Bekman and Jörg Colberg, editor the photo blog Conscientious
• Jacques Louis Vidal at SUNDAY — the first NYC solo show by one of the artists in our Dangling Between show
• New Mutants at Canada — including recent Hoggard/Wagner acquisition Michael Williams

While you’re in the area, you can stop by the Drag March too.

Other Stuff

• ROFL! – Touted as an Internet gong show of sorts, the competition takes place at 11:30 tonight at JoeÂ’s Pub, and brings together some of the best web mavericks working today. The concept is simple: Eight cewebrities pit their best Internet finds and creations, and the audience determines the winner of each round of submissions. Participants include Marisa Olson and S.T. VanAirsdale of The Reeler.
• This looks like an excellent concert of piano music at 8pm at the Tenri Institute on West 13th Street. Our friend Idith Meshulam is one of the performers.

[image above is a detail of a Jacques Louis Vidal drawing from our show]

A new image from Peter Corrie, found in his flickr feed. He was in the show we curated last fall.

For those of you following along, I’m wondering if the powers that be are realizing that appearing to be hostile to parades, especially queer ones at this time of year, is a bad thing. According to onNYTurf, The Audre Lorde Project is getting their permit to parade in the streets on Friday after having been denied several times. They received their permit as they were about to take the NYPD to court.

It will be interesting to see how “un-permitted” and historic protest marches such as the Dyke March and the Drag March are treated.

• Rockefeller Foundation launches arts fund | Crain’s New York Business
  Rockefeller Foundation Associate Director Joan Shigekawa says potential grantees could include museums, performing arts organizations, universities, dance companies, media organizations and more.
  tags: art foundation grants nyc rockefeller
• MoJoBlog – Who Needs It? Only Tiny Percentage of Baghdad Embassy Employees Speak Arabic
  Only 10 of the 200 Foreign Service officers in the US’s Baghdad Embassy are proficient in Arabic
  tags: iraq arabic language usa
• Oily Yes Men – Hrag Vartanian
  YES MEN’s Andy Bichlbaum, along with fellow Yes Men member Mike Bonanno, impersonated oil industry officials and announced a plan to turn human flesh into fuel at the Gas and Oil Exposition 2007 in Calgary, Alberta.
  tags: oil yesmen activism performance
• DJ Cosmo Is Indestructible – Mixed by Cosmo
  A great mix courtesy of A Brooklyn Life
  tags: music mixes djcosmo
• Housing Works – Positive Art for Positive Women
  online auction of art by HIV+ women
  tags: art aids charity housing housingworks nyc

Here are another couple of images from the Renee Ricardo-curated show I mentioned yesterday. The works are created by printing out stills of videos produced by visualizing audio information, then cutting them up and making collage/sculpture works.

• Trojans Lurking In Fake Video Postings On YouTube
  In the past week, two fake video postings have been set up on YouTube to infect users with a Trojan that includes pop-up porn ads
  tags: trojan spyware youtube
• FREEwilliamsburg: Music Hall of Williamsburg To Open 9-4-07 with Patti Smith
  formerly called Northsix
  tags: music williamsburg pattismith
• Josh Peters
  Showing tomorrow (Thursday) 12-6PM at Chelsea Terminal Warehouse, 261 Eleventh Avenue, between 27th and 28th Streets (in tunnel across from the sandwich shop)
  tags: art joshpeters gibsonprojects chelsea painting
• South Carolina treasurer indicted on cocaine charges – CNN.com
  Ravenel is also the state chairman for former Rudy Giuliani’s presidential campaign.
  tags: politics gop giuliani

A full image and a detail of a Doug Morris foam and ribbon sculpture from “Homegrown” at David Krut Projects, curated by Renee Riccardo. Good light that day — these photos were untouched by Photoshop.

Related to my previous post, here are a couple of news items of note.

• President Bush has spoken to UK PM Tony Blair about his becoming a Mid-East envoy, a White House official says. One of the running jokes in “The Trial of Tony Blair” is that Blair doesn’t realize that he is increasingly irrelevant and most of the world hates him.
• Blair feared U.S. would ‘nuke the shitÂ’ out of Afghans