Another favorite photo from the ones I’ve uploaded so far to flickr.

Strange Eyes, 2005
mixed media

While we were traveling, ArtCat got its first artist outside of the U.S., David Kefford. The work I’ve seen so far looks quite interesting, so I’m excited about this!

His about page says:

David Kefford is an artist who uses low-tech craft processes to transform “redundant and un-loved” found and ordinary objects into surreal creations imbued with human characteristics and emotions.

Check out the site as he adds more info, or subscribe to the RSS Feed to follow along.

Still getting caught up with email and work stuff. Posting will resume soon.

No, I didn’t post more in Spain. With one computer, we would spend too much time in the hotel room if both James and I were blogging/uploading photos.

If you can get to a TV, watch CNBC’s Power Lunch today at 1:15. I hear Edward Winkleman will be on!

Note: This is probably the only time bloggy will ever link to CNBC’s website.

Update: The video is online now.

I will add more as I have time to flickr.

We’ll be back on the 16th, and don’t plan to blog much. It’s a vacation!

Here are some recommended events while we’re gone. Remember not to spend so much money that you can’t attend the Nurture Art event on June 4.

Benefits

• Smack Mellon Kentucky Derby party and benefit on May 5
• White Box benefit on May 8. You can view items online now.
• Soho Rep, one of my favorite theater companies, has a benefit on May 14 — performances by Matt Dillon, Tim Blake Nelson, Joe Pantoliano, Meryl Streep, and Lili Taylor in short works.
• Exit Art 25th Anniversary benefit and art auction on May 3.

Theater

• We know half of the people involved in a new play titled God’s Ear presented by the New Georges. We’re going after we get back, but if you go soon you can get discount tickets. Go to SmartTix and use the code PRE10 to see it for $10 May 2-6.
• The Experimental Text Festival at Ontological looks fascinating, and includes visual artist’s Jason D. Szalla’s directorial debut: “Copy 8852 is an alcohol fueled, candy flavored transcribed, circum-conversation about River Phoenix, Pop Culture, and Contemporary Art. Anonymity will be the new celebrity. Now and then in the Viper Room a museum can be found . . .”

I would mention this benefit even if James and I weren’t the honorees! I am told you should be able to buy tickets on the website starting Wednesday.

Not only do you get to support a good cause, and have a chance at some inexpensive art, you can meet my mother if you attend. She had suggested that week to visit without even knowing about the event.

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NURTUREart Non-Profit, Inc. Invites You To:
NEW ’07
Celebrating Ten Years of Nurturing the Edge

Monday, June 4th, 7 PM
Hosted by the CUE Art Foundation
511 West 25th Street
New York, NY 10001
Purchase Tickets Online at: www.nurtureart.org

Join Us for our Ten Year Anniversary Party
Honoring Visionary Supporters of Emerging Art:
Barry Hoggard and James Wagner, Collectors, Bloggers and Curators
Introduction by Artist William Powhida

Honorary Chairs:
Marty Markowitz, Brooklyn Borough President
Sina Najafi, Editor in Chief and Co-founder, Cabinet Magazine

Nurture the cutting edge of contemporary art by collecting from our Annual Small Works Salon Sale, an extraordinary array of new work by our talented and ambitious emerging artists. See the future in the student projects from our Education Outreach Program with the Juan Morel Campos Secondary School.

Student Art Materials Awards funded by the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation Inc.

Ticket Prices:

Gala Entry Ticket: $75
gala celebration with wine & hors d’oeuvres, from 7–9 p.m.

All Artworks: $150 Each
choose your own from the extraordinary array in our
emerging artists small works salon

The Following are Available for Purchase by May 31st Only:

Combination Ticket: $200
includes entry to the gala and one artwork

The VIP Preview: $275
exclusive for dedicated collectors, first choice art selecting at the
champagne reception at 6:30 p.m., includes one artwork

This is an interesting use of YouTube. Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ is trying to organize security workers at Chase buildings. They have posted a video on YouTube claiming to have found client records in the trash of several bank branches in the city.

Via Crain’s New York.

From the press release:

Lance Wakeling is the director of Art Mini, a miniature art fair. Each participating artist designs every detail of their booth including layout and the work to be shown. Parody and satire are indistinguishable from earnest and literal representation.

Seen in the “One Pill Makes You Small” show at Tastes Like Chicken Art Space. Here are some photos I found on Flickr from the opening.

I suspect if someone put a bomb outside a post office, government building, or religious institution, not only would the New York Times write about it, our federal officials would be on TV talking about it. If it’s a bomb outside of an abortion clinic, neither thing will happen. There are not a lot of big deal media outlets in the Google News Search on the suspect’s name.

Via Reuters.

A 27-year-old Austin man was arrested on Friday and charged with placing an unexploded bomb containing some 2,000 nails outside an abortion clinic in the state’s capital.

The explosive device also included a propane tank and a mechanism “akin to a rocket,” Austin Police Commander David Carter said.

The device was discovered on Wednesday in the parking lot of the Austin Women’s Health Center, police said.

The Texas Joint Terrorism Task Force — made up of federal, state and local law enforcement authorities — arrested Paul Ross Evans, who authorities said was on parole for an unspecified crime.

Evans was charged with violating federal laws banning the manufacture of explosives and interfering with access to an abortion clinic. He appeared before a federal magistrate, and was being held without bail.

No further arrests were anticipated in the case. “The threat is over,” Carter said.

A robot was used to disarm the bomb after the unmarked clinic building and an apartment complex were evacuated, police said on Thursday.

This was the first bombing attempt this year at an abortion clinic, according to the National Abortion Federation, which tracks violence against abortion providers.

Four incidents of attempted bombing or arson were reported in 2006, the NAF said. More than 40 abortion clinic bombings have occurred since 1977, with the last reported in 2001.