Art viewing on the Lower East Side. Not so inspiring, I must say. It seems that the time at which people were down there trying to do something different has pretty much passed, and the current vibe is smaller shops looking forward to the time when they become bigger shops. My companion remarked “the next… Continue Reading
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Notes of a schvitzer…
Shower now? I suppose so. Boom, it’s New York Summer – with the New York dust and pollen on the attack. Grace Jones is telling me she just feels contempt when I cry. So part of me is transported all the way back to the early eighties before I could afford air conditioning, and drank… Continue Reading
Introducing the rantlet…
Listening to Grace singing “Bullshit”, if singing is really the right word for it. Doesn’t matter: I still love her. There’s a whole degree of “I’m bat-shit crazy, now and for eternity” in her whole career that I just have to admire. I’m suffering from the inverse of the usual web rhetoric inflation impulse; every… Continue Reading
Trash and Blur…
If you have time and 75.00 this weekend you should come and spend them both at Postcards from the edge VisualAIDS’s annual benefit, that allows you to buy great art inexpensively and support the practices and legacies of HIV+ artists at the same time. I have something in there as well as many more talented… Continue Reading
In response…
A friend wrote me a letter and after thinking about it for a while I decided that I wanted to respond to it here. He consented graciously to me reprinting it: hi Nayland, I hope you’re enjoying your travels. Can you answer me this? How do I keep the faith when everyone tells me my… Continue Reading
Click and come see me…
Steps had to be taken to protect the art in Union Square from the rain. Some folks on my frlist have been migrating to dreamscape or dreamworks or whatever it is. Which is all well and good, they seem like a nice company and all, but I’m the owner of a permanent membership here at… Continue Reading
At the Armory Art Fair…
Tags: art world, daily photo, new york in black and white
Still question month, yo…
From itsolivia “I have finally been thinking about grad school. How does one start feeling confident before applying? Is confidence the key sign to finally get off my butt and applying? Help me, Mr. Blake.” The way to feel confident about applying is the same way to feel confident about doing anything: lather, rinse, repeat…. Continue Reading
A return to answering…
siokaos asks; “for an artist with no entrepreneurial spirit, how does one penetrate and deploy their material, when normal channels such as “art school” seems more of a career steps posing as a legitimate educational experience?” A weighty question, if I parse it correctly. As I read it you are asking “How do I get… Continue Reading
Just before…
Things getting underway at the dinner for the opening of Jasper Johns’ drawing show at my gallery. Tags: art world, daily photo, Jasper Johns