So, what else? Brand-new art gallery Factory Fresh, formerly Orchard Street Gallery, held the opening reception for Un Named Rottens on Saturday evening. The show features artwork by Jeremiah Maddock, Daniel St. George and Beau Velasco. I went to check out Jeremiah’s pretty seriously intricate hieroglyphs but I was also swayed by Daniel’s collages of text with the occasional [...]
So, on the off chance that anyone cares what I will be reading this summer, (while everyone else in the world or at least those who write on this blog, are going to music festivals) I’m going get down with some Cairo Trilogy. These days I am mostly reading short fiction, so I am excited to read something that requires [...]
Artwork by Elizabeth Peyton
This past weekend was a pretty ambitious one, and, as such, potentially worthy of blogging about: Friday night my friends Kara, Kyra and I trekked up and over to Music Hall of Williamsburg to see Teddy Thompson, supported by The Grey Race and warbling nymph sister act, The Pierces - who did shimmy [...]
For my first film post, I’d like to draw your attention to two movies playing here in Brooklyn as part of the BAM Director’s Fortnight, billed as a retrospective celebrating “Quinzqine des Réalisateurs”. Perhaps you noticed the flier for this event with that image of French actress Juliet Berto wearing a feather boa and puffing [...]
Photo: Vincent Laforet/The New York Times
“The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What’s that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die [...]
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