dont even ask

haunch of venison newyork presents 'its already the end of the world',a solo exhibition of new werk by brooklyn based artist brian alfred.the show features 14 new paintings,collage werks,and a major new video werk.alfreds werk is inspired by his interest in globalization,civil unrest,political and social opposition,and influential figures and locations.the animations will feature mulitple soundtracks by musicians flying lotus,ghislain poirier,roberto carlos lange,and many others.

a few of us participated in the x initiative 1day show in chelsea

naturally I hung my print about 20ft

A Celebration of Granta 109:Work

A party in celebration of Granta Issue 109:Work
featuring contributor Colum McCann
52 Prince St

Thursday nite were toasting Granta magazine and their release of an amazing new issue.Seriously though,have you read this issue yet?Very very good.The initial essay by Daniel Alarcon alone is worth the price.
Anyhow to help us celebrate we'll have Editor Patrick Ryan here along with wine and good cheer and the winner of this past year's National Book Award, the novelist Colum McCann.

deciphering the little phrase of vinteuil's that runs through the entire structure of remembrance of things past

its perfect weather

for an alleycat and nitetime goldsprints

carlos nino &friends

dusk & dawn, hotel by erwin olaf at hastedhunt















the old master and his muse

px 3 prix de la photographie paris

moments de grace



cartier-bressons go see book

down these mean streets

New York is a city of blocks, each with its own history, customs and characters. Yet from these small stages spring large talents. Anyone who doubts that need look no further than a stretch of Edgecombe Avenue perched on a bluff near 155th Street...

40x30x1

"I'm never not werking.Even as I sit here chatting of Kafka or cranberries,sodomy or softball,my mind is simultaneously glued to the piece I'm currently creating;the physical act of inserting the notes on a staff is merely a necessary afterthought."

-Ned Rorem

crazy like us

its 5°F in newyork rite now

another reason u gotta love lower 6th ave

william eggleston book signing at cheimread

two cigarettes at once



anxiety attacks are backk

our w.village bookprinter

das trailer

two ten!

we use to get it in forsure

new werk

winters finally here

as newyork sleeps

holiday brownies

the13th witness photo show

5ft by 9ft lightbox

you'll understand in 10 years

futura,dondi,lady pink at soul artist studios 1981



keith haring,futura,fabfive,edit deak


LA2's book

charlie ahern blogs

coldcrush







freddy madball party

obviously

thursdaynite sober crew is back

The 9th Annual Red Show
Cheryl Hazan Gallery
35 North Moore Street

MoMA byNight
Wednesday,December 17,2009
Join PopRally for an intimate evening of afterhours gallery talks in two of MoMA's current exhibitions, and enjoy a cocktail reception with music by DJ Secret Squares.
Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity explores the influential avant-garde school that brought together artists, architects, and designers in an extraordinary conversation about the nature of art in the modern age. The Bauhaus was the site of a dazzling array of experiments in the visual arts that have had a profound impact on our visual world.

happy birthday Bauhaus

MoMA curator anna kellen

laszlo-moholy-nagy

walter peterhans

laszlo-moholy-nagy

behind the scenes

we've been printing alot lately.silkscreen and prints on fabric.
thursday thru sunday on the streets of soho

some of the best art you've seen in awhile and you know it

jorge has a new site

my werk will be up for one last show at artprimo

were here'
my werk will be showing alongside thundercut,the london police,ladypink,destroyrebuild,cachefour,cycle,darkcloud and many others..






4040 NE 2nd ave,suite103
moore building miami design district

aedistrict

INDUSTRIAL LIGHT MAGIC
032c’s Berlin Decade w/ Thomas Demand, Cyprien Gaillard, Konstantin Grcic, Helmut Lang, Slavs and Tatars, and Patrick Li
24.11.–18.12.2009, Goethe Institut, Wyoming Building, NY, NY

On the occasion of its 10th anniversary, 032c will bring together a selection of its defining contributors for an interdisciplinary group exhibition, mapping the magazine's varied and often unexpected content and activity through a series of mini case studies. The show combines artifacts related to past contributions to 032c, tangential works by contributors that have shaped the ideas and aesthetic of the magazine, and new works produced specifically for the exhibition. The show thus posits a multi-layered engagement between a magazine and its content—an interrogation of the mutable identities and functions of editors and contributors. The result is a collaboration in which the words, images, and structures that create the content of the magazine generate new forms in an exhibition space.

saturday nite at artprimo 100 forsyth st

young and shady

Friday, November 20
Blane De St. Croix and New York based art critic and curator Jill Conner discuss Mountain Strip as well as De St. Croix's research process and selected past projects.

Bande À Part: New York Underground at Clic Gallery

Featuring Blondie, Suicide, the Velvet Underground, the Ramones, the New York Dolls, the Talking Heads, Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, etc, BANDE À PART premiered at the agnes b. galerie du jour in Paris, and has since been shown in London, LA, Tokyo, and Hong Kong.

everytime I go above 125th st I lose all sense of direction.day or nite it never fails

all of a sudden this guy was walking with us

one of the infamous soul artist' bridges

see you at Basel

scariest part of newyork I've found

destroyrebuildnyc

londonistan

Bruce Davidson:Five Decades

This exhibition at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery celebrates the fifty-year career of Bruce Davidson, with representative works from many of the artist's well-known essays. Photographs from Time of Change (1961), Brooklyn Gang (1959), Circus (1958), Subway(1980) as well as recent images will be exhibited. For this exhibition, Davidson has produced large format prints, many for the first time. The scale and position of the new Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery provides an opportunity to re-contextualize Davidson's work. Of his show Wolkowitz said, "Bruce Davidson has had a profound influence on contemporary photography over the last five decades. We are excited to have the opportunity to showcase this legendary photographer's work in the heart of Chelsea's contemporary art district and to introduce it to a much wider audience."

hangnight presents 6x6 show

join us for one of harlem art community's most creative events.hundreds of well known and up and coming artists have been invited to create unique werks of art,all measuring 6x6 inches.

friday november 6th 2009 7-11pm
Heath Gallery New York
24 W 120th St.

radar reveals world under antarctica's ice

"Much of that information is coming from special radars on the DC-8 that produce images in vivid colors on a computer monitor as the plane flies over a targeted area. The images provide a rough sketch of the bed beneath the ice."
npr story

tuesday nite, 8 W8th St


Robert Longo
Untitled(Et In Arcadia Ego) ,2009

Untitled(City of Glass) ,2009

Untitled(Cathedral of Light) ,2009

The Freud Cycle ,2000

Todasanan(Big Line Up) ,2000

come spend halloween in chinatown.my werk will be showing alongside the artistBIGFOOT

we ride with masks



PASEFEX

friday nites after werk at MoMA where else ?

PaceWildenstein gallery is honored to present a two-venue exhibition at 32 East 57th Street and 534 West 25th Street on the occasion of David Hockney’s first exhibition of new paintings in New York in over 12 years. The show features recent landscape paintings of the artist’s native Yorkshire, including 14 new works that have never before been exhibited, as well as 14 which travel to the gallery from a major museum exhibition at the Kunsthalle Würth in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany.

Through the looking glass:Further adventures in opticality with David Hockney

the real holy spirit

record collection part 2

thanks scott

Conversations with Contemporary Artists: Anish Kapoor at The Guggenheim
Thursday, October 22 @ 6:30 p.m.
Best known for his explorations of “the void,” Anish Kapoor redefines contemporary sculpture as architectural, perceptual, and a human interface. This program is concurrent with his presentation of Memory, a 24-ton Cor-Ten steel installation.

history of mirrored objects lecture

As the train door slides open I hear the familiar robotic and good natured voice of the DSB woman broadcast "Viborg", just loudly enough to hear (but not loud enough to offend). The cold air is whipping violently past my nose, eyes, and ears, stinging my appendages. I stiffen and then I jump right in, right down the platform stairs, grey lurks above me lovingly.

“Lighter?” “Lighter?” I’m asking around and someone hands me a pack of matches. As the match grinds against the grit and sparks up, the sulfur spits into my nostrils. Even as a teenager I understood how to look like a real smoker, how to buy real smoker cigarettes. The first drag of this prince is harsh, and a head rush ensues.

Outside the window the cold winter sun is setting, while fluffy snowflakes parachute from the canopy above. It only takes a quick peer out there to realize why the warmth of the bar is alluring and illuminating to the soul of the patron. Another drag and a scan around the room. There are friends abound, there is laughter, and I have a tasty buzz pulsating through my blood.

She was there, and looking my direction again. With kind brown eyes and a soft nose. Knowing about her attraction to me is stirring my curiosity, and her smile is gentle and inviting. I have watched her walk around the town for sometime now, she was older than me, maybe twenty-five at the time. She carried herself with purpose and laughed without reserve with acquaintances. I liked her mix of sweetness and boldness.

“I know your friend, the one with blond hair.” Instantly realizing my mistake I continued, “You look bored. Who are you here with?” She pushes the obvious reference to her more popular friend aside and looks me directly in the eyes. “I am bored. And I’m here with... well... it doesn’t matter. Do you have a cigarette?” Swiftly, instantly, a pack emerges from my pocket, a prince is withdrawn, the pop of the match.

I listen to the click of her heels on the maroon cobblestone, the leather of my shoes creaking, our breaths preceding us. The white snow coats everything, hugging rooftops, perfectly formed and untouched. For the moment the sky is clear, the air is still. Along the narrow back road we walk, ignoring the chocolatier’s neatly arranged truffles and licorice sweets. Her arm slips between my own, it is natural and not forced, no hesitation. My suit is black, her dress is white, peeking from beneath the soft wool coat covering her. Like the effect of some antique elegant heirloom we are transported to another time; when all distractions were removed.

Round N' Round by Mark Gonzales
October 16 – November 28, 2009

Franklin Parrasch Gallery is pleased to present Round N' Round – an exhibition which includes the premier of a new film and sculpture, as well as drawings, poems and correspondences by Mark Gonzales. Gonzales, who has been skateboarding professionally since he was a teenager is a prime mover in bringing the inherently improvisational, free-ranging attitude manifested in skateboarding's engagement with the built and graphic environment to a wider audience. Gonzales's work has been exhibited internationally, and his skating has been documented by Spike Jonze among other filmmakers.

Round N' Round, which includes recent sculpture and video, as well as a selection from two decades of drawings, poems, and correspondence Gonzales sent to Jocko Weyland, author and curator of the Elk Gallery, defines and further contextualizes the artist's philosophical pursuit of skating. These are brimming over with evidence of influences, cultural touchstones, and historical figures both obscure and well known that Gonzales' incorporates into his work, creating a singular artistic universe that is profoundly allusive and interconnected. In this sense his visual and textual conversation with the wider world around him is shown to be correspondence on a grander scale, an all-encompassing call and response with everything and anything he encounters in those "ecstatic" moments as well in the detritus and scraps of daily life. As Weyland said in a New York Times article about Gonzales in 2003, "the artist Robert Rauschenberg famously declared that he wanted to exist in the gap between art and life. Mark Gonzales performs in that space every day."

1968 BBC recording

my werk will be showing for awhile at the artprimo store 100 forsyth st. btw broome n grand.the trendiest block in chinatown

genuine fractals 6

is a lifesaver

ArtTalk at christie's with philip-lorca dicorcia


SPACE PROJECT is a photography series based on Vincent Fournier’s fascination with the Jules Verne novel “From the Earth to the Moon.” Fournier photographed observatories and astronaut training stations in some of the most desolate places in the world, including the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center of the Russian Federation, the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, and the Atacama Desert Observatories in Chile. His ghostly, composed photographs--mysterious, space suited men walking on a vast desert plain, a researcher quietly sitting in a blindingly white sterile environment, abandoned monitors blinking codes in a simulation room—have an otherworldly, unreal aesthetic. In these fascinating images, Fournier explores the paranoia and darkness of man’s attraction to the disconnect of space.

tomorrow night come join us

another weekend in queens

the star womb project phase 1: monad to nomad

Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstractions
September 17, 2009-January 17, 2010

The exhibition includes more than 130 paintings, drawings, watercolors, and sculptures by O'Keeffe as well as selected examples of Alfred Stieglitz’s famous photographic portrait series of O’Keeffe. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with essays by the organizers, excerpts from the recently unsealed Stieglitz-O’Keeffe correspondence, and a contextual chronology of O'Keeffe's art and life.

never-not-werking-class-hero

Cities,Bicycles,and the Future of Getting Around, featuring David Byrne (Bicycle Diaries) Paul Steely White (Transportation Alternatives) Janette Sadik-Khan (NYC Dept. of Transportation) and Mitchell Joachim (Professor at Columbia and Parsons).

best way to see a city
-walk
-bike
-???

Mitchell Joachim urban design+planning

my werk was used in a live performance by the harlem dance theater.wont go into history,but its the oldest dance theater company in upper manhattan.

Author of twenty-five published books and six plays to date, Ishmael Reed is a novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist. He is also a publisher, editor of numerous anthologies and magazines, television producer, radio and television commentator, teacher and lecturer.
His online literary magazines, Konch, featuring poetry, essays and fiction, can be read at www.ishmaelreedpub.com

old friends

words without pictures collective making history

1/7 of my photo gods

fake basquiat

monday nites are always a good time

New York is a strange place to look for and find love.I'm sure I'm not saying anything that many already know but this city is such an insane conglomeration of personalities from all over the country and all over the world,that many have a hard time finding "the one".If that shit even exists.Such diversity within one city is something about this place that you can applaud but in a weird way it also makes things difficult. New York is the type of place where its all about choices.Other cities wait for things to jump which,if there lucky,happen on monthly basis.Here on any given day or night tons of things happen.Therefore one is forced to make decisions.The same can be said for relationships here.Because their are so many people from all over the place,here its very difficult to focus on"the one",because another "one" may be right around the corner.What am I Dr.Ruth?I hope not.

I'll tell you what though,New York is one city that can and will break your heart in half and hand you the pieces,thats for sure!Just when you think you've found the best piece in the world...Boom!!Reality check!You discover that person has several other"persons" on the side and suddenly you're left feeling like the last man standing.Dont sleep!This can and will happen if you let it!Still I love being here.It's the only place in the world for me that I can leave my house and fall in love 12 times before making it to the subway,especially during the summer.

all the best,

dazeworld

juergen teller has a blogspot too

bjork

intelligent minority

underlining books is so satisfying

how we spend our sundays









congrats alex

metadata with julian and amber gray

learning chords(again) with this

10 day trip to sf and northern california

the typical story

boy-meets-girl-girl-ruins-boy

all that we see or seem
is but a dream within a dream

one world by peter singer

the new foreign policy.com

labcabincalifornia

location scouting



reverse casting



we love italians

zwarte achtegrond

this same time last week

Tsubaki Noboru Aesthetic Pollution

tomorrow night

rooftop soccer in tribeca

jorges book

andsticker



byHand

destroy rebuild ny

claw





bzeeees zine

cycle TC5

c walk

ladypink

rammellzee mask c.1980

jumunji art for andy

vaughn bode



saint sighting

saint 1972

the de la soul issue of FRANK151 came out with one of my images

aftermidnightnyc





my target audience

issue party in germany

producer extraordinaire bob power

best purchase in weeks

dustin yellins studio

the leak spot

tomorrow night

keiichis' book signing

congrats


mark g. opening













after color at bose pacia

20 year anniversary

so we all went and met spike

the story of life is this

dinosaur jr.de graca!

i before c except before k

voyeur of utter destruction (as beauty)

par excellence

see you soon

People have been drawing since they lived in caves, if not before. But in the Western world, drawing as an art is said to have started with the Renaissance. An exhibition, Pen and Parchment , at the Metropolitan Museum of Art reveals how incorrect that assumption is. The show, open until August 23rd, is hung with more than 50 finely detailed, beautifully observed and executed medieval drawings, all created between the ninth and 14th centuries.

The Middles Ages started around 500 AD and lasted for 1,ooo years. The period had no Giorgio Vasari, the Renaissance artist who publicised the magnificent achievements of his contemporaries: his book, The Lives of the Artists , is still widely read. But medieval draftsmen have gained a passionate champion in Melanie Holcomb, the exhibition's lead curator. Loans have come from world capitals and from remote monasteries, such as the Einsiedeln in Switzerland. The names of most of the artists remain unknown but their werk will be seen by tens of thousands.

The show is arranged thematically and chronologically, the main segments are labelled: Early Medieval Masterpieces, Scholarship and Science and Tools and Materials.

here

one last time

best turkish coffee downtown

everything depends on a person's idea of where they fit in with creation

plain and simple

war photographer by james nachtwey

2009 leica digiscope

tomorrow night

hey rene

OG poet,artist,critic

I speak of the city, poems of New York

Preface by Stephen Wolf

Along the esplanade of the World Financial Center in Lower Manhattan, where the city began nearly four centuries ago, runs a low fence inscribed for twenty yards with bronzed passages of poetry. The first is Walt Whitman's, timelss and majestic, composed when the city foresaw the epic role in the world it would soon hold: "City of the World ! ( for all the races are here. All the lands of the earth make contributions here;) City of the Sea ! city of wharves and stores ! city of tall facades of marble and iron ! Proud and passionate city ! mettlesome, mad, extravagant city !" A century later, New York's limitless potential had far surpassed even Whitman's vision to become the financial, mercantile, entertainment, and political capital of the world. More important, to twenty-five-year-old Frank O' Hara, the capital of the art world had shifted from Paris to New York, and his poetry along the esplanade proclaims the city-its destiny fulfilled-complete unto itself: "One need never leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes-I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life. "

canal st location scouting

great project just wish another producer got it

2009 cannes awards

me n t-dog use the same w.village internet spot

they should sell national geographic in check out lines at supermarkets

building this was so much fun

entrance prayer of death

project no 8 had a party sunday night for their new store. congrats to brian and elizabeth

cities of light series by christian stoll

thursday night sober crew

what up miss rosen

rene et radka

we went and met one arm case



computer

rock

case 1982 style wars

if you only knew where to look

Take Care of Yourself by Sophie Calle
gallery info

le lever du soleil à mon endroit préféré sur la terre

lou reed and nico 1966

modern, postmodern, so now what post-postmodern nyc
david harvey on wnyc radio

gang gang dance-rawwar

saint dymphina

life

record collection part 1

The 2009 Pulitzer Prize Awards

Edgar Allen Poe 1848
Written only shortly before his death, Eureka is considered by many to be Poe's masterpiece and the key to unlocking his entire writings. Its significance, in both literary and scientific worlds, cannot be underestimated. Turning his immense intellect and remarkable artistic flair to the most challenging concepts of all - that of the creation of the world, its continued existence and its ultimate end - Poe has created a truly extraordinary work. In his strange blend of poetry and scientific treaty, fact and frenzied speculation, he displays amazing prescience and foresight, anticipating some of the key scientific discoveries of the twentieth century.
read it here

us vs them

The material in this book was collected between 1963 and 1967 in an attempt to record and glorify the life of the American bikerider. It is a personal record, dealing mostly with bikeriders whom I know and care for. If anything has guided this work beyond the facts of the worlds presented it is what I have come to believe is the spirit of the bikeriders: the spirit of the hand that twists open the throttle on the crackling engines of big bikes and rides them on racetracks or through traffic or, on occasion into oblivion.

Photographer Danny Lyon

Arising as a mix of the ancestor worship and animistic traditions of West Africa, and the Catholicism or Christianity of the European slave traders and plantation owners of the Carribean and Central and South America, the Afro-Cuban religion of Santeria continues to capture the imagination. The practices and rituals of Santeria are often portrayed in films, television, and song. Although many portrayals of Santeria still focus on its mystery and negative connotations, it is becoming more widely understood and accepted. Santeria is considered a syncretic religion, meaning that it attempts to merge or reconcile the contradictory beliefs of the African people brought to the region as slaves with the Christianity of the European imperialists.

Due to the heavy emphasis on worship of the saints, and the perception of traditional Catholics that such an emphasis deterred from the worship of the Christian god, the name “Santeria,” was originally coined by the Spanish as a derogatory term for the new religion. Santeria is also called “La Regla de Lukumi,” or Lukumi’s Rule, as well as “The Way of the Saints.” In modern times, people are no longer forced to hide indigenous traditions behind a veil of Catholicism, and Santeria as we know it is practiced in many countries, especially in Latin America and the Carribean. The Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, became the first Santeria church incorporated in the United States in 2007.

asalamalakum aleykum us salaam

my man qualid bin salems bodega
on the use to be ruthless and still is Ave d

wrapped in plastic

one of the last secrets left in chinatown

we keep going back to this spot

life on mars

digging thru the trash one day at werk I found this type 88 polaroid of bowie shot by mick rock

my boss told me he did the same thing and has one of ozzy

On Liberty

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) profoundly influenced the shape of nineteenth century British thought and political discourse. His substantial corpus of works includes texts in logic, epistemology, economics, social and political philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, religion, and current affairs. Among his most well-known and significant are A System of Logic, Principles of Political Economy, On Liberty, Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women, Three Essays on Religion, and his Autobiography.

an excerpt from his biography:
began the study of Greek at the age of three and took up Latin between his seventh and eighth years. From six to ten each morning the boy recited his lessons, and by the age of twelve he had mastered material that was equal to a university degree in classics. He then took up the study of logic, mathematics, and political economy with the same energy. In addition to his own studies, Mill also tutored his brothers and sisters for three hours daily. Throughout his early years, Mill was treated as a younger equal by his father's friends, who were among the greatest intellectuals in England.

closing show this sunday

we walked over the manhattan bridge to dumbo to see this show

Broken Landscape by Blane De St Croix

8o ft model rendering the US / Mexican Border

emphasizes how absurd the idea of fencing off a country is



the show closes this sunday. check it out if your here

gallery info

glad I didnt have to ride into brooklyn this morning

the real west side story

"we could see that a crime of epic proportions was building"

best free food in nyc

when they feel like opening

LEE TF5 interview

LEE Charlie Ahern and Glen O Brien+open bar

the first time I saw Wild Style it turned me out

Charlie Aherns l.e.s. production stories



thx eddieb

1982

"hell express" 1979

LEE and Lady Pink 1981

upstate ny

werked in upstate NY with a photographer and poached these 3 shots

photographers final images

chinatwon

classick manhattan bridge smash TWON CREW NYC

new image

when it was all good

Charles Dickens 1870 uncompleted "The mystery of Edwin Drood"
Edgar Allen Poe 1839 "William Wilson"

NPR

NPR gains audiences while other radio stations at all time low ...wonder why?

cross your eyes

Studio Report

Alberto Giacometti switzerland
Bernard Buffet paris
Pavel Korin moscow
Pablo Picasso cannes

Franz Kline nyc

fuck your swag

faux freedom

like bikes?

midnight racing

Artificial Paradise

artificial paradise

Destroy Rebuild NYC Vienna Austria Show

I had werk earlier this month in a Destroy Rebuild NYC group show in vienna austria
yep, those are the gallery window reflections
2esae, av, ski, leeto, katsu, caype, saloon, ribs, les, est canvas
vernissage
museum of modern art

under vienna while you sleep

gallery info

Arthur Russell was wayyyy ahead of his time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK1mGrsm0yw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYfUGBfKCPU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjzsnNkL-7o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO2F48JKIlo

interview :
http://gothamist.com/2008/12/05/tom_lee.php

MTA Stories_preview

"Because I grew up in a perfect world, other things were a contrast. When I visited New York as a little kid, it scared the hell out of me. In the subway, I remember a wind from the approaching train, then a smell and a sound. I had a taste of horror everytime I visited New York."

Director David Lynch