People's Biennial

Alert! Awesome new show organized by Independent Curators International! Curated by Jens Hoffmann and Harrell Fletcher, People's Biennial is touring across the U.S. for the next two years. Read all about it here.

Manhattan Poster by Three Potato Four

Saw this and fell immediately in love with it.... Reminds me of the "This is...Paris, London, Edinburgh" book series by M. Sasek. Get your hands on it here.

Past Archive of Exhibition Reviews

A few links to pieces I've written this year - more to come after the madness of gallery openings this week in Chelsea!

Photocollage at the Met Museum

Iannis Xenakis at The Drawing Center

"the back room" at MoMA P.S. 1 as part of Greater New York

Song Dong at MoMA

Slash/Stroke: Issue 3

Issue 3 of London-based fashion/art magazine is live today. Check out the many wonderful photos, articles and contributions including a piece I wrote on the exhibition "People's Biennial" that just opened at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art.

"Ah!" by Oval

My dear friend D just made the most beautiful short film....


Oval - Ah! from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo.

Ask A Curator Day on Twitter, 9/1

Two interesting posts from Elinora Schinella and Danny Birchall on the recent Ask A Curator event on Twitter. I both answered questions (for the curatorial organization I work for) and asked them (and I agree with Danny that the answers were often a let down). Can Twitter actually do anything other than satisfy rampant voyeurism, lust for advertising (both self and other products) and speed up the decline of our attention spans? Maybe that's a little harsh (I totally use Twitter) but AAC Day didn't make me feel closer to the thoughts of other curators. It did, at least, start a conversation with a species often shy of the general public.....

"Daytrotter's genuinely hip. Like, "Jack Kerouac" hip": Arts Awards for Music Website

Sean Moeller and Daytrotter have made many sessions with contemporary touring bands inching their way across the states. They just got awarded grants from Iowa Arts Council and the National Endownment for the Arts to finish off what promises to be a beautiful document of an historical moment in music: when a website in Rock Island, Illinois began producing studio sessions for the Pitchfork generation. Except that Moeller and his crew avoid becoming Pitchfork. Daytrotter listens rather than pontificates, recording emerging and established musicians thoughtfully, carefully. I can't wait to see it when it's finished.

And, very excited that a Suckers drum solo begins the trailer!

Great Ready for Chelsea!

The gallery world ignites next week, opening its doors for fall. My bible for what to see and where to go: Morgan Croney's wonderful ArtCards! Never misses a beat.

One of his picks for the weekend warm-up? Two blocks from my house.

"Our Town Main Street Monster Island USA" at Secret Project Robot
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 210 Kent avenue, 2pm-midnight open house & block party,