…which has a 6′ hole in the middle to accommodate the beginning of the rug we made at Mildred’s Lane this summer, is now up to 12′ in diameter back in LA, where local friends have contributed clothes to the crocheting effort – and now it is going in a box headed to MoMA where ..
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…the beautifully designed book edited by Nancy Holt and published six years after his death in 1979 by New York University Press (kindly presented to me last night by my friend who found it at Logos Books & Records, the very awesome Santa Cruz bookstore – with a surprisingly extensive knitting section by the way ..
…the trail-blazing artist couple now based in Santa Cruz whose work I have been aware of since college days – their early work taking the form of radical dirt, farm, and orchard making projects, were inspiring and charming dinner companions tonight at Montalvo (the artist residency where Lorenzo from NERO has joined me for a ..
…at the Hammer Museum’s biennial show Made in L.A. is a dramatic L.A. spirited standout that responds nicely to the strange rainbow shaped window she found on the otherwise awkward 2nd floor Lindbrook terrace, now beckoning you over with her installati..
…packed the LACMA Art Catalogues space and lobby with crowds to hear an engaging interview event marking his new ar..
…not to be confused with that other thing going on over there in Italy – casually and graciously infiltrates, while paying homage to, the existing landscape of art, craft, performance and booths along the Venice Beach boardwalk this weekend organized by curator Ali Subotnick as a part of the Hammer Museums’s Los Angeles Biennial exhibition “Made in L.A.” featuring ..
…is a lovely open-door semi-weekly summer tradition here, starting with an elaborate ‘hooshed‘ meal al fresco somewhere on the grounds followed by a fire and then gathering to hear visiting artists talk in the barn – an ideal place to talk about Domestic Integrities tonight – where a highly evolved and conscientious domestic behavior is ..
…for a few days began this afternoon pulling into the bucolic scene in rural Pennsylvania, just over the Delaware River and the New York state border, where J. Morgan Puett, along with Mark Dion, have managed create an idealist alternative communal living environment/school/artist residency/think-tank/community center. (website) MILDRED’S LANE is a rustic, 96-acre site deep in ..
…Petite Mort: Recollections of a Queer Public (2011) and We Who Feel Differently (2012) – by artist-activist friend, and contemporary queer culture instigator, raconteur, organizer, and editor – arrived in the mail today, which I look forward to reading, and then adding to our little library at next months Sundown Schoolhouse of Queer Home Economics ..
…opened tonight, featuring set installations by artist friends Alice Konitz and Katie Grinnan (presenting a bright shiny colorful dramatic ‘Junk Heap’). Crescent City is a hyperopera with music by Anne LeBaron, libretto by Douglas Kearney, and directed by Yuval Sharon. It’s the inaugural production of The Industry, a new home for new and experimental opera in ..
…is the title of today’s event featuring farmers, market stands, local honey, fresh produce, and talks (including one by me and also by Bay Area artist friend Amy Franceschini of Future Farmers) organized by the yet to open MSU Broad Museum (to be housed in a Zaha Hadid structure still under construction) here in East ..
…is a local arts space started over 10 years ago by George Scheer (in the buildings where his grandmother ran a thrift store for decades) which I had heard a few stories about but nothing prepared me for the inspiring visit this afternoon, encountering room after room after room after room after insane (in a good ..
…are some of the old friends whose work I am especially jazzed to see at the show this year – just opening tonight – like Dawn Kasper‘s studio relocated to a gallery where she will work, nap, hang-out, receive the public, and generally occupy (who performed two of her “Evil Series” murder enactments at Sundown ..
…(endangered Natterjack Toads) were created by some sensitive folks from the Port of Rotterdam and the Bureau Stadsnatuur Rotterdam to provide a place for these little creatures to mate in the summer, strangely surrounded by this extreme industrial landscape of one of the largest ports in the world, where we are driving around today gathering ..
…(who runs an amazing place called Mildred’s Lane where I spent a dreamy few days in the summer of 2010) joined us this afternoon in our cozy tent HQ pitched in the center of campus to talk about her work, collaboration, comportment, algorithms, hooshing, and generosity…
…kicked off last night at LA’s Human Resources in Chinatown (where, despite the crowd, I managed to get real Doris Day parking – right at the front door) with an opening for the big exhibition of new work and videos plus an audience participation performance of ‘personification’ where about 15 spectators were pulled up on ..
…established in 2010 by recent Portland Maine transplant friends whom I first met at Mildred’s Lane just before their momentous move west – is one of the more recent exciting indications of a new Detroit – a beautifully design storefront space that also functions as a place for events and exhibitions, currently featuring the work ..
…established in 2006 by extreme urban-adventure-seeking visionary revolutionary activist artist and architect duo Mitch Cope and Gina Reichert, headquartered in a gradually evolving powerhouse laboratory with veggie garden beds flanking a boat sculpture in front of pastel striped siding topped by a new system of passive/active solar roofing – spawned a whole city quarter (as yet ..
…was the first stop in the first hour of my first day in this really real, amazing/puzzling, invigorating/unnerving, fascinating/shocking, picturesque/grotesque town with a real ‘edge’ as they say, I have heard so much about but never seen (where I am giving a talk tomorrow at Wayne State University and spending some time teaching and doing ..
…(the Ball of Artists, that is) last night gave us a little preview of some upcoming new work for their big big show at Human Resources next month – yes, we are looking forwar..
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