(Nothing But) Flowers.
Photo via the wonder that is
C-Monster'sI am diggin' this photo of Creative Time alum
Jim Hodges' 1996 piece
No Betweens at SFMoMA, even though it shows an adult museum goer behaving badly. I highly recommend clicking
here to get the full effect. Wicked. Beautiful. Man,
I loved the
sculpture Hodges did for Creative Time back in 2005. Unrelated, but not: The color scheme for
No Betweens really reminds me of the
print Fred Tomaselli did for CT.
In Motion.
NY1 did a really
nice piece on Bill Brand's
Masstransiscope. It's a great place to see the painting animation in action. Or, of course, you could just jump on the Q train.
Things Fall Apart
Damn right they do. Creative Time hero
Paul Chan, in collaboration with NOLA-based
The Front, is in the group show
Things Fall Apart at Winkleman Gallery curated by
painter,
blogger, and general kicker of ass
Joy Garnett. The appropriately-timed exhibit centers around, well, the center not holding so much. Yeah. I know. We've a new president. That's great, but it doesn't mean we're not totally screwed for the long moment. So, after draining that last celebratory pint (which I'm assuming will be a few days from now.) head over to Winkleman and remind yourself that this shit is
real.
Ooh. Mandatory listening . . . a gallery talk was given on Saturday by Chan + The Front and you can listen to it
here.
And the owl? Oh, hello. It's a drawing by Paul Chan, and for 5 bucks you can
enter the raffle to win it. Proceeds will benefit The Front. What's not to like about this? Nothing, I say. Not a thing. Jump on it.
With Or Without You.
Hey Hey Glossolalia star Genesis P-Orridge seems to be on a bit of a roll lately. I posted about the new PTV album a couple posts ago, and barely had a chance to turn around before there was another must-have that hit the shelves. The mighty
Period Tapes has released the cassette
A Reading From The Swiss Institute, dedicated to Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge. It's filled with grief and the confusion and certainty that often accompanies it. A life listen.
Pulse.
photo from the NYTimesCreative Time, always on the pulse. Sometimes twice. The recent refurbishment of an early CT project, Bill Brand's
Masstransiscope brought the work back into the
Times on New Year's Day. It was difficult to not think of the mirror of hard times that the piece represents. Love among the ruins.