Borna Sammak Jeff Cold Beer

Friends,

Come to this,
my first non-electronics-store solo show

JTT
170A SUFFOLK STREET
NEW YORK NY 10002

BORNA SAMMAK

JEFF COLD BEER

OPENING RECEPTION: SUNDAY, MAY 6th, 6pm to 8pm

  

If JEFF is a measure or degree of coldness, what is THOMAS?


a shape? a texture? what is a texture other than a style of shape?

below is an image of a Cheeto, as Cheeto has never before been seen

Cheeto, As Investigated By Expensive Microscope, 2012

what, then,
do we call this shape?
the shape that,
when repeated many millions of times
creates the texture we know as Cheeto

i, for one, propose we name it GEOFF
in honor of the microscopist who
first pointed $ 800,000.00 worth of lasers
at a fucking Cheeto

Andy Warhol self portrait

http://andy self potrait

$5 Find Could Be $2 Million Andy Warhol Sketch

4 April 2012

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This $5 garage sale find could be an early sketch made by Andy Warhol around age 11.

A possible early Andy Warhol drawing has been discovered in an unlikely place.

English businessman Andy Fields purchased a drawing by legendary art patron Gertrude Stein at a Las Vegas garage sale for the astonishingly low price of $5, a notable find in and of itself. The seller's aunt had once babysat for Andy Warhol, and in the process of reframing the Stein drawing, Fields found what could be a drawing done by an adolescent Warhol.

The image is said to be of 1930s singer Rudy Valee, with bright red lips and sketched on a background of yellow, orange and green squares.

A value of over $2 million has been placed on the work, but the drawing has yet to be 100% authenticated.

Fields says he hopes the work will be put on display in a museum for all to see.

Read more at BBC

OUT SIDE: MICHELE ARAJUO, ELANA HERZOG, LISA SIGAL

OUT SIDE: MICHELE ARAJUO, ELANA HERZOG, LISA SIGAL

Opening: March 29, 7-9 P.M.

Exhibition Dates: March 29, 2012 - April 22, 2012

Out Side showcases the work of three artists, Michele Araujo, Elana Herzog and Lisa Sigal. All three work abstractly, with an awareness of the theatrical potential of materials and a desire to dislodge the viewer from a sense of previously understood terrain. Formal abstraction becomes a means to step outside, to lead the viewer through and past boundaries to an intimation of meaning that cannot be fulfilled in the traditional sense.

For Herzog, there is a powerful sense of absence and incompleteness in her structures, a presence infiltrated by what is not there. Like scenes from a comic opera, she creates playful, intimate, psychological spaces. Sigal’s structures utilize great economy, fostering a sense of the definitive while subtley relocating the viewer to a lesser known place. By using day-to-day materials she offers the viewer a sense of familiarity before insinuating bigger questions of where the frame and the viewer are located. For Araujo there is a feeling of abandon and desperation in her surfaces. The ever-present collage material consistently interrupts the flow of paint, even as it wreaks havoc on the cohesiveness of the picture plane. The combined result of these dislocations and disruptions are emotionally saturated works delivered with subtlety and elegance.

www.michelearaujo.com

www.elanaherzog.com

www.lisasigal.net

art fag benefit

The Art Fag City Rob Pruitt Art Awards and Auction*

Get your ticket now!

Who used their genitals best this year?
Who spent the most time doing nothing?
Who is the art world’s best Jerry?
Who is 2012′s most ubiquitous person?
(and most importantly)
Who is 2012′s Most Powerful Person in the Art World, by bench press?

This February 23rd, Art Fag City will host The AFCRPAAaA*, because let’s face it: no one can get enough of Rob Pruitt (or the quiet implication that he may be involved somehow, in spirit). Get ready for awards, cocktails, and mayhem.

When:
Thursday February 23rd, 2012
6:30 – 10 PM

Where:
Site/109
109 Norfolk
New York, NY 10002

We haven’t announced all the details yet, but here’s what we can tell you:

• An auction with auctioneer C K Swett, featuring work and contributions by Zachary Aarons, Joshua Abelow, AIDS 3D, Greg Allen, John Baldessari, Bruce High Quality Foundation, Saul Chernick, John Giorno, Debbie Harry (yes, that one), Independent Curators International, Richard Kern, Scott Kilgour, Marilyn Minter, Stephen Petronio, Rob Pruitt, Johnny Reinhold, Felix Salmon, Alec Soth, Penelope Umbrico, and Hennessy Youngman
• Awards decided by an expert jury including Anton Vidokle, William Powhida, and Jen Dalton.
• An Award ceremony hosted by William Powhida
• Andrew Andrew to DJ
• Free bouncy rides by Nate Hill
• A pig fountain, providing a selection of smoked meats and live-gathered fresh fruits wrapped in edible gold and silver, provided by Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw
• Drinks provided by Bomb Beer, Blue Moon, and White Pike Whiskey
• Music
• and special guests!**

Prepare for a night of entirely too much.

The best part of all? All proceeds from the AFCRPAAaA* ticket sales will go directly to keeping New York’s best art blog running. Tickets are $100, $50 for artists. If you’re buying a full-price ticket, and feeling extra-generous, you can also choose to sponsor an artist for just $50 more – which means we’ll be able to give somebody out there (your choice or ours) a free ticket to the event of the year season month. All the ordering information’s below – we hope to see you at the awards!

In-kind donations from Abrams Books, ArtCat/Idiom, Collectrium, Double Triple, Independent Curators International, The L Magazine, Nectar Ads, Roberta’s, Skyframe, Site/109, and Yerba Buena

Benefit Committee Members: Joshua Abelow, Helen Allen, Fred Benenson, Jill Brienza, Catherine Brodsky, Sean Capone, Carolyn Cartwright, Lauren Cerand, Saul Chernick, Collectrium, Andrew Ehrenworth, Michael Gillespie, Rachel Greene, Veken Gueyikian, Dylan Fareed, Dave Harper, Heather Hubbs, Rob Hult, Julia Kaganskiy, Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Scott Kilgour, Rhiannon Kubicka, Allegra LaViola, Michelle Levy, Doreen McCarthy, Risa Needleman, Murat Orozobekov, Marsha Owett, Marcin Ramocki, Sara Reisman, Magda Sawon, Andrea Serbonich, Daniel Stedman, Steven Stern, Steven Stewart, Jeffrey Teuton, Benjamin Tischer, John Thomson, Alexis Tryon, Ken Tyburski, Rachel Uffner, Penelope Umbrico, Manish Vora, Sam Wilson

*Still not affiliated with Rob Pruitt
**Possibly including Rob Pruitt

via John Gasner

Long Island City lab on cutting edge of urban farming with aquaponic system

LOFT LIC to set up water-based growing systems on rooftops and lots

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By Clare Trapasso / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 6:00 AM

Christie Farriella for New York Daily News

Rael Clarke works in his aquaponics lab in Long Island City where he grows heirloom vegetables and tilapia using a water-based system.

Christie Farriella for New York Daily News

Rael Clarke works in his aquaponics lab in Long Island City where he grows heirloom vegetables and tilapia using a water-based system.

A former Abercrombie & Fitch model has become a pioneering urban farmer without trading in his preppy clothes for overalls.

Rael Clarke, the 24-year-old owner of LOFT LIC, transformed a Long Island City office into a laboratory where organic vegetables and fish are grown using an eco-friendly aquaponics system.

Clarke plans to turn the system into a business that sets up the water and space-saving designs on rooftops and vacant lots across the city

. He is trying to raise $6,000 by March 1 on the fundraising website kickstarter.com for the project.

“My plan is to spread the knowledge of how to grow your own food,” Clarke said. “I wanted to show you could grow a high-density amount of food in a small carbon footprint.”

The growing system builds on the local food movement that has spawned urban farms and greenhouses all over the city.

Clarke constructed the aquaponic mechanism last month from plastic tubs, tubes and wood from Home Depot after he read a manual on the water-based growing method.

“I hope to one day see systems like this all across New York,” said Clarke, who lives on the upper East Side. “It’s the most sustainable way to produce food in New York.”

It works by piping fish waste generated by tilapia and goldfish swimming in his 27-gallon tank into a plastic tub filled with water, worms, clay pellets and seeds.

The waste becomes food for the plants once they sprout. They are then moved into an 8-foot-tall pipe system that resembles a bookcase propped up against a wall.

The seedlings continue to be fed the same water circulated through the system through holes in the piping before the liquid is piped back into the fish tank.

“The nutrients all come from the fish,” Clarke said. “I don’t feed the plants at all.”

Christopher Toole, who gives lectures in the Bronx on urban farming, said aquaponics makes growing food easy in the city.

“Aquaponics have caught [on\] in the locavore movement, the organic movement [and\] the sustainability movement,” he said. “It’s sustainable, it’s economical and suitable for urban and crowded environments.”

Brooklyn College Biology Professor Martin Schreibman said it’s “the wave of the future.”

“This is going to be the new revolution in food production,” he said. “You can raise a lot of food in a very limited areas without using much water or any soil at all.”

ctrapasso@nydailynews.com

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/long-island-city-lab-cutting-edge-urban-farming-aquaponic-system-article-1.1021844#ixzz1mMTyjQdV

Destroy all Monsters

Mike Kelly R.I.P.

Sopa Pipa Protest

We are shutting down.

Makes no sense at all Husker Du

eat your robot

http://www.tommoody.us/archives/2011/12/21/my-robot-can-eat-your-robot/

Michael Richards 911 memorial

scrape book to write any memories one might have.
I met Michael in the Aim program at the Bronx Museum. As far as I know he was the only artist to die in the collapse of the towers. I went to the memorial yesterday and after probing a screened guide found his name. We got there during daylight and at first i was awed by the enormous absence the enormous square hole created. As it got dark and I started to search the names for my lost friend a whole new experience was created. The light from behind the water grew interference patterns that climbed up the cascades. Michael was a really great artist that was included in an early artMoving show in 1995. R.I.P.
Grant

"Play Station" & "BYOB" @ Postmasters

December 8 - 22, 2011 opening Thursday, December 8, 2011 6-8pm*



PLAY STATION

curated by MARCIN RAMOCKI AND PAUL SLOCUM

*BYOB: Bring Your Own Beamer:
Games Edition on Thursday, December 8

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
MIKE BERADINO
MAURO CEOLIN
MARY FLANAGAN
TRAVIS HALLENBECK
JEREMIAH JOHNSON
ERNESTO KLAR
JOE MCKAY
JASON ROHRER
RAFAËL ROZENDAAL

EDDO STERN
CJ YEH

clockwise from top left: Mary Flanagan, Eddo Stern, Rafael Rozendaal, Jason Rohrer

Postmasters has the pleasure to present “Play Station”: a collection of 12 game and play related pieces by 12 digital artists from all over the world. We would call them "interactive", except nobody likes that word anymore... We would call them "fun and exciting", but that would sound contrived and corporate… We would call them "post-video-game", but that would sound offensively academic. So we will not say anything about them except that you can play with them all you want at Postmasters Gallery from December 8th through 22nd.

Featuring recent playable art projects by MIKE BERADINO, MAURO CEOLIN, MARY FLANAGAN, TRAVIS HALLENBECK, JEREMIAH JOHNSON, ERNESTO KLAR, JOE MCKAY, JASON ROHRER, RAFAËL ROZENDAAL, EDDO STERN and CJ YEH, plus bonus selected objects from PAUL SLOCUM'S early videogame collection.

Not interactive and fun enough for you? On December 8th during the opening, the exhibition will be supplemented by Bring Your Own Beamer: Games Edition. BYOB is a series of one-night-exhibitions started by Rafaël Rozendaal where artists come together Salon-style with their video projectors. For this iteration of BYOB, we are asking participants to bring their projector with interesting and unusual video games to show and play. This BYOB event is open to anyone with a projector. If you would like to participate RSVP to BYOBgamesedition@gmail.com with some information about what you plan to show on your beamer.

Ken Butler

Opening reception Sunday 1-4 ... http://islipartmuseum.org/

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KB performing live for a film being shot at Jalopy this Monday 1-4

They requested an audience ... come by and be in a movie!!!

(We'd like Ken Butler to play a variety of instruments from his set, that get increasingly inventive. Including a couple of his stringed creations ('anxious objects'), the ax, bicycle wheel, umbrella, toothbrush, and his skull (or other body parts!)

We may ask him to go through 30+ minutes of his set)

Paper Chain Productions LLC

paperchainproductions@gmail.com

www.facebook.com/paperchainproductions

JALOPY THEATRE

315 Columbia Street in Brooklyn (between Red Hook and Carroll Gardens)

http://www.jalopy.biz/

REVOLUTION

Pick

Issue #3:
TELEFONE SEM FIO: Word-Things of Augusto de Campos Revisited

November 4 - December 17, 2011

Opening Reception, Friday, November 4, 6- 9 pm

@ EFA Project Space

323 W. 39th St., 2nd fl. (b/t 8th & 9th Ave.)

A collaboration between Telephone and EFA Project Space
with Ugly Duckling Presse

Poets: Jean-Sébastien Baillat, Jen Bervin, Ray Bianchi, Macgregor Card, Nico Pam Dick, Kenneth Goldsmith, Thessia Machado, Benjamin Moreno, Charles Perrone,Steve Savage, and Edwin Torres.

Artists: Angela Lain & Rafael Detanico, Bibi Calderaro, Deric Carner, Brendan Fernandes, Rossana Martinez, Tom Moody, Trong Gia Nguyen, Jennifer Schmidt, Dannielle Tegeder, and Andrea Van Der Straeten.

Curated by: Sharmila Cohen and Paul Legault for Telephone; Michelle Levy for EFA Project Space

Beyond the pop

Low Anthem rises high but remains grounded

By Jed Gottlieb
Friday, October 21, 2011 - Updated 2 days ago
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Jed Gottlieb writes about music, film and pop culture for local, regional and national publications.

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A fat chunk of modern pop music resembles fast food. It may be tasty to the ears, but it’s mass produced without creativity and leaves you hungry for something real.

The Low Anthem is something real.

The Providence band — which plays and films a live DVD tonight at the Somerville Theatre — performs its strange and sublime folk rock on antique pipe organs, rusty singing saws, battered guitars and other odd instruments. It has recorded albums in a house heated by wood stove in January on Block Island and at ex-Providence mayor Buddy Cianci’s long-shuttered pasta sauce factory.

But as the Low Anthem transitions from local favorites to a global touring sensation, the band is determined to never serve fans a Big Mac.

“We know we have to face the reality we’re in,” singer/multi-instrumentalist Ben Knox Miller said. “We know we can’t hand-make our CDs anymore. But we can still try to do things differently, to never repeat ourselves.”

In 2008, when a Low Anthem gig attracted 60 people at Cambridge’s Toad, the band spent a month hand-painting 7,000 CD covers — a personal touch impossible to keep up with now that the band is playing to 100,000 fans a year.

“We have more than 40 songs for two albums, but they will be more than albums,” Miller said. “They’ll be a story, a picture book and a set of sculptures. It’s going to be a full multimedia project.”

The planned 16 sculptures are based on a piece Miller saw at the Burning Man festival. His hope is that strobe lights and spinning pieces will make the installation look like a primitive stop-motion animation film.

So far Miller only has blueprints, but he hopes to eventually bring the piece on tour. Actually, he hopes the piece gives the Low Anthem a reason to tour again. After spending the better part of three years on the road playing from Golden Gate Park to Oslo, Norway to Mass MoCA, the band struggles to keep its live show fresh.

“When we began, we were petrified of our audience,” Miller said. “Just now have we started to open our eyes and look around. We’ve gotten comfortable interacting with our audience, and all the smoke and mirrors disappeared. We want to rebuild some smoke and mirrors, maybe literally with this installation.”

The band may not play a single show in 2012 after wrapping up a tour of Canada in February — another unique quirk, the Low Anthem jumped at the chance to play Edmonton, Saskatoon and Quebec City in the dead of winter. The group may never tour again, although Miller says that’s unlikely.

“The goal is to spend the year on all-new projects,” Miller said. “If these projects go smoothly, we might be out on the road next year.”

Then Miller laughed.

“If we run into the problems ... well, who knows what will happen?” he added. “I know I just need to get back to working with my hands, back to building something.”

The Low Anthem, at the Somerville Theatre, tonight. Tickets: $19; ticketmaster.com.

-— jgottlieb@bostonherald.com