Archive for December, 2008

Peter Callesen - Folded Thought & Papercut

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Eismeer by Peter Callesen

Eismeer by Peter Callesen

Detail of Eismeer

Detail of Eismeer

Human Ruin

Human Ruin

Snowballs

Snowballs

Snowballs detail

Snowballs detail

Looking forward to checking out Peter Callesen’s show, Folded Thought, at Perry Rubenstein before it’s close on Jan 17!

More on Peter at his website: here.

Pictures on Walls & New Work by Parra

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Couldn’t pass up the opportunity to put one of Parra’s new pieces up on the blog. (actually not so new, and of course, already sold out!)

Nippletwister by Parra

Nippletwister by Parra

More on Parra:

Arkitip + Parra + Incase from Arkitip, Inc. on Vimeo.

Sneaky Slinkachu

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Local Amenities for Children - Slinkachu

Local Amenities for Children - Slinkachu

Obviously taking advantage of the huge amount of traffic created from my last blog post - Slinkachu signed a bunch of books and put them up for sale.
Sorry, sold out now!
rats.
Also - check out the new site here.

Slinkachu

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

Slinkachu - Manhole Swimming

Slinkachu - Manhole Swimming

Wooster Collective the A’s to our Q’s with Slinkachu: here

Check out Slinkachu’s site, too.

slinkachu - I can't actually graffiti

slinkachu - I can't actually graffiti

Street Art, Street Life Panel Discussion

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

 

photo by Jamel Shabazz

photo by Jamel Shabazz

 

Last night, last minute, I decided to check out the Aperture/New School panel on Street Art, Street Life. The talk was in correlation with the exhibition of the same name that is up in the Bronx Museum of the Arts now. Overall the talk was a bit dry (the woman next to me actually feel asleep for most of it!)… but there are always interesting things to be culled from any lecture.  The panel was Barbara Moore (wife and archivist of Peter Moore), Jamel Shabazz, and Martha Rosler. Most of the work discussed was much older, mostly photography, and mostly based in and around NYC.  It was more or less a history of older, alternative street photography. It was cool to hear about New York City of the different eras-  the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s… Peter Moore’s photos of the early Fluxus movement in Soho and the destruction of the old Penn Station, Jamel’s images of the street fashion and street scenes from Brooklyn and Manhattan since the 70’s, and Matha’s various Bowery projects. 

 

Destruction of Penn Station photographed by Peter Moore

Destruction of Penn Station photographed by Peter Moore

I picked up the exhibition book, (cover featuring Robin Rhode!) and will try to get a better feel for what’s in the exhibition. The curator touched on one of my favorites, Nikki Lee, in her intro, but we never heard more about her in the discussion.