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2009-01-27T15:02:00.002-05:00

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One more cool thing... for the Year's END...

2008-12-30T20:19:00.003-05:00

I love Carsten Holler. I know as a curator, someone once told me that if I wanted to be taken seriously, that perhaps doing a show with this artist wasn't going to put me there. But I think he's awesome, and he does show with Gagosian. And this is at the Gugg. Not bad for not being serious. Here's to Realness in '09 and planning for futures. xo FP Betty, thanks to everyone coming out and picking up our issues, for all the contributors and folks doing rad shit who inspire us. I've always felt inspiration comes from leaving my comfort zone. This hotel room could be that place. Happy Holidays, rest up for the big one...

Wrap it UP.

2008-12-26T19:22:00.004-05:00

We're working on a new blog that will link directly with our firstpersonmag.com site. It will be full of goodies that you will want to hit almost as much as yr facebook / myspace pages, wittled down to just our pick of events, shows, reviews, and faves weekly. An online version of the magazine will feature interviews with bands, artists and all of the cool above once we get live for '09. Thanks and we'll be sure to post once we juice IT UP.

Happy New Year, already.. phew!

Love this cartoon.. kinda says it all for me on a personal and biz level. xo

Inspiration.

2008-12-09T03:21:00.002-05:00

Sometimes it's hard to find it... sometimes there's not enough time in the day...in this cold weather season, when opportunities like Miami Basel come around, and I find myself on the West Coast feeling so far away from the day to day interaction with the art world, I have to just look harder. I want to take the time to go to Mollusk soon to check out their new gallery show. I want to see new bands like Jonesin' at RVCA do their boombox jam, and then sometimes I just wanna swim in that social pool. Through the First Person Magazine publication and this blog, I want to give back all the radness that folks have taken the time to make so that people like me, who are looking for it, can be inspired. Communicating this world inside of us to the outside world, and showing this keeps me going and the magazine. Tonight I went online instead after indulging in my weekly television show, which is starting to feel like a trailer for its upcoming episode without having any guts in the current viewing but I was happy to find interviews online with curators like Francesco Bonami whom I've always admired. I guess when I was living in Paris, and I was feeling noncommunicative at breakfast time, I read the entire back catalogue of the old Index magazine online, and I felt as if I was eavesdropping on some great conversations, which is what I'd like to continue to do with First Person. To generate an interest in creative diversity and global communication of music and arts that I find inspiring. So, when yr cold and run out of books to curl up with, just fiddle with some photoshop, garage band, surf online a bit, and call your loved ones. It's weird, but my two fave shows have narrators in them, and maybe I'm beginning to sound a bit like one myself. When in doubt, check the moon.

Get Over It and LIVE

2008-12-01T14:42:00.005-05:00

The new-ish Martin Puryear show at the SFMoMa is awesome. And in these grey times, waiting out the recession or any other crappy situation you might be experiencing this time of year, here's a perfect chance for escapism: An art show that is just a feel good inspiration without sex, collage, or penis all over it. Puryear was about removing himself as much as possible from the equation and letting the object be the center of attention. Although his work was full of emotion and ideas, he had this total adoration for the craft of working with wood. In contemporary times of computer manipulation, a million assistants and casting objects by high end shmancy industries and factories, this dude took the time to study since a very young age the craftsmenship of working with his hands, and later transcending his learned skills from the top furniture makers and electric tool-less dudes in Africa who made things stick together the old fashion way of notching, etc. into creating objects that inspire, might I suggest going in the daytime, having a fucking fresh juice and just going for it balls to the wall straight to the top floor of the SFMoMa? It's free on first Tuesdays, but I think you'll find this exhibition worth every penny. This dude even took young green saplings and shaped them together while they matured. I mean, who does that? Maybe someone in Africa, and maybe he learned a staple or two from his time in Stockholm. Anyway, they look like huge old tinker toys, but a bit more whimsical and well, shit at least go step into the SFMoMa atrium if you don't believe me and get a free peak at the 60' branch ladder that points to the Matthew Barney Drawing Restraint remnants. And I think you'll want to see more.

Le Croc Monsieurs

2008-11-21T19:16:00.003-05:00

Fuck yeah..
last night i saw some San Diego bands and thank gawd, they still have it going ON. the Crocodiles singer of previous band, "the plot to blow up the Eiffel Tower" was fucking hot hot hot amazing. from the land that invented skinny pants 15 years ago, duh, the sex, raw, mod shit was making me HIGHER. and the Dum Dum Girls they played with were like seeing Debbie Harry except with masks and of course, black clothes (another SD band). And their DJ was this dude from the all boys highschool brethren to my all girls highschool who had a mushroom haircut back in the day and "got together" with my best friend. Oh, those shoegazer boys with their shoegazing bands.. used to run around the tunnels late at night drunk thru the tunnels underneath our campus and write our names in their undies and hang em in the courtyard the next day... and Michael would print fake Morrissey tickets for all of us to go to the Arena shows and we'd follow their cars to their hotels and strewn them with gladiolas and hang out.

anyway, Crocodiles rule. fucking HOT. Back to my roots. Thank. You. Boys!

Crocodiles - Refuse Angels from christin turner on Vimeo.

Congrats, OMG.

2008-11-18T22:28:00.003-05:00

No one's really mentioned this to my knowledge, but like has anyone noticed how like every top designer or every other at least is Asian American??? From our darling Alexander Wang, who just won the most coveted $200,000 New York designer award from the CFDA to Michelle Obama's fave scandalous or deemed rather "unconventional" dress for the acceptance speech at the DNC by Thakoon? Well, here it is folks .. from Doo.ri, Richard Chai, Philip Lim, Vera Wang, Derek Lam, so on and so forth, I just wanted to say, congrats on being awarded and recognised based on merit, like President Elect Barack Obama, not just having your ethnicity at the forefront of what you do. But what you're doing and how. Much love to everyone sweating out this fucking recession and keep on trucking!

This Saturday! in the BK. Fuck the Police.

2008-11-18T16:13:00.007-05:00

Jason Yates is a subversive artist, like a bunch of genius folks who can't get their head around the industry and want to pave their own ways, stuck between the aisles, is again coming out of the woodworks. He's in our current issue compared to Raymond Pettibon in a sense that one of his formats is making posters for music bands. And like the raw energy and signature style of Pettibon, Yates owns his own aesthetic identified from miles away - stickers, glitter, mylar and fucked up drawings of animals morphed into characters.. with various meaning and non-meaning when trying to interpret them. Like elephants with penis trunks and cracked out acid werewolf faces representing Ariel Pink or not, we enjoy them just fine. Here's rooting for an artist dipping back into the art world. He never left his own art world, but hey, we've all cut our teeth at some time or another, and well, shit, if we all just stopped fighting for what we believed in and making what's inside outside in fear of a corporate planet ripping us off in one way or another, we'd be in Shitsville. Here's to renewing good faith and ART uncensored. Pictured here is the artwork he graciously donated to our FP Art Benefit to keep our magazine going! We love your work and hope that it keeps on existing, man.

THIS IS OUR JAM RIGHT NOW!!!!

2008-11-18T01:27:00.002-05:00

i loveeeeeee margaret tedesco. she's the shit in SF as far as Gallerists go.

2008-11-18T01:16:00.001-05:00

Arthur Russell. Calling all heartfelt "weirdos"

2008-11-11T14:53:00.009-05:00

This movie has come and gone and came and went... but seek out this film, it will keep you interested til the ticking end. Not only was the film footage from the 80's in New York super intriguing but the commentary by David Toop was my favorite. All the directorial choices were really enjoyable, informative, personal, and entertaining. Arthur Russell reminded me of Henry Darger, in a sense that he made such a vast amount of work for himself because there was this world inside him he created. Despite all his killed opportunities or whatever, he made like hundreds and hundreds of tapes, which I have a feeling are all incredible or at least pushing something around that's his own and interesting. It's like you gotta just admire that he fucking put cello to house music and embraced his individuality as a singer with a distinct style unlike anyone else at that time or even to this day.. I think that the Hercules and Love Affair production on their album must have been definitely influenced by Arthur Russell, their choice to have Antony and the Johnson do vocals, for sure. I like them both, but he's the maverick. RESPECT.

Yemen Wed Opens this Week NYC!!!

2008-11-10T05:30:00.005-05:00

Shawn Mackinnon, part of the Yemen Wed artist collective is the real reason I started this blog and First Person magazine. He asked me, "How do you know about all these art openings?" So, I started this blog while I still lived in NYC and was working with a gallery. Then when I was art editor for another magazine, he was like, "You're too creative for them". So, here I am... and Shawn, who, has contributed generously to every issue of First Person along with collaborators Jay Farrer and Gloria Maximo and Paul for this and FP magazine, what seems to me like one of the most anticipated art pieces since like the dawning of some experimental new genre shit going down. Their visions together seems scary like super hero powers. I'm so glad their my friends! Thanks for all your support and good luck w. your video and site specific architectural installation at this new gallery. I'm secretly hoping to catch it and the EP show before they close. Sorry if this reads weird. It's late, and I wanted to post this now...

Go Family. FP loves you. Always.

We Heart EP

2008-11-06T16:53:00.004-05:00

Elizabeth Peyton is having her first ever survey show hosted and curated by the New Museum in New York. I was recently out there to launch and distribute the current issue of First Person, while I was in what felt like the Palais De Tokyo bookstore downstairs, as it is defined by a kind of aluminum free standing wall, I was hoping to catch this show... but it was still being installed. She is my most favorite contemporary painter as her work, despite the subject matter of grunge celebrityism, seems timeless. Those red lips and romantic tattoed boys sleeping... omg, how I used to stand and stare at the acquisition at the SFMoMa in my early twenties... sigggghhhh.... I'd consider flying back out to NY just to see this show. It takes up two floors and comprises not only paintings but also her photo studies of I'm sure a promisingly romantic mural of English boys, half awake half asleep, flowers, sunlight, cigarettes and tired eyes... and more. Catch it before it closes and travels on to Europe. Im sure it will be worth it. Like being in love with a painting. And all it should be. Total Gift.

YSL

2008-11-01T18:24:00.005-05:00

We're going to check out the Yves Saint Laurent exhibition at the De Young Museum that opened this week and catch the documentary film made about the designer and his atelier the same evening. I've seen a few costume shows now at the De Young, from Vivienne Westwood to Comme Des Garcons and although the exhibitions haven't been as thrilling as the Victoria and Albert program or the Met's, I'm glad that San Francisco is interested in hosting fashion exhibitions. This is the only US venue for this special retrospective and I'd like to come with no expectations. Hopefully, I'll be surprised.

A Touch of Class

2008-10-19T23:34:00.005-05:00

It's cuddle season, as things start to chill a bit and we pair off for the Winter as mother nature intended. So, as we tire of the political rhetoric or Madonna's divorce, why not go out for a bit and support our once forgotten indie movie houses. This institution the Red Vic, was where I once volunteered. After my eyes kinda popped out at age 18 over their plentiful condiment section, they offered me a gig. And as a teen, I smoked in the back garden discovering for the first time wild Jasmine growing all over the fences, learned how to project massive plates of film, and even did a little film programming. Come have a bowl of popcorn, in a wooden bowl, of course, sip on a grape soda, and get stoned for this masterpiece. "Film", indeed.

San Francisco. Please register to vote!

2008-10-16T01:55:00.001-05:00

Park Life Gallery

2008-10-13T20:33:00.008-05:00

Our friends at Park Life have put together a much anticipated show.. by me, mostly, but it will be rad. Curated by Don, it includes new works by these emerging artists including some by one of my faves Ben Jones (paperrad?).
I was once invited to go with Taylor and Misaki Kawai during Art Basel Miami to one of her collector's homes far out with another awesome Japanese artist, whose shoes I bought at the Mori Museum earlier that year in Japan... it was pretty memorable as we drove out with a tailgate party of artist friends into a gated community ended up having a black out and the host showed me her collection by candlelight. She had this awesome Kawai piece in her living room which was like a Pee Wee's Playhouse meets early George Lucas Chewbacca tree house type sculpture with vidoes in the consoles of the spaceship mountain. Later on that evening we cosied up in the guesthouse. While the collector was giving me the dish on her divorce, I looked around and all this miniature art was hanging by this knockoff artist that I was having a dilemma with at Aqua Fair - Christopher Wool's, and I can't remember what else but a few in the room. But whenever I go to Miami, I always want to buy something at Aqua and this year, it was a tiny Elizabeth Peyton painting.. but it was a knockoff. I knew I loved her work and I think I had heard of this guy being like yelled at at Chelsea openings for being a total con... but thinking I could never afford the original and feeling like Miami is a foreign country I tried to compare it to like buying some weird knockoff in Nam or something like an Aphlex Trin record or something. Was this unethical? Complimentary? Anyway, I didnt get it because the work was covered in gel medium, which was kinda funny, but I thought I could do better.
Back to the show..., good folks, good artists. And the notorious Kathy G. will be in town wreaking havoc no less! Kathy is a curator at Deitch, whose got a competitive edge.. but I guess in NYC, who doesn't? Congrats to PL on this show and I think they are making a catalog to go along with it. CHECK IT OUT!! THEY ARE TOTAL FP FAMILY...fpxbn.

Albino Crocodiles

2008-10-13T18:13:00.005-05:00

Well, now I know from where those Martin Margiela wallets come from... there's an unbelievable white crocodile at the entrance of the well-raved about Academy of Sciences that just opened last Saturday in SF's breathtaking and breath-inducing Golden Gate Park. It's the first thing you see when you walk in, and I don't recall it being there at the last aquarium before they renovated, so I'm going to assume this is a new rare edition. Along with an insane looking "Dinosaur Fish". This thing doesn't even need to swim. It just floats and swear, to god, looks at you and prolly completes some thought. This species is endangered and lives to be 100 years old. They had a few fish in their aquariums that looked like if they had legs, they could totally walk ashore and be the first reptiles. I was pretty stoked on their new species. Of course, competitive now with the Monterey Bay Aquarium, I'd say the one in GGP is well of course, closer to the City, doesn't have as many large tanks - big enough to fill a great white shark, or any adorable sea otters paddling about, but I think it's definitely worth a visit.
They also boast a 4 story rainforest which I wasn't too impressed with. Yes, there are cute butterflies in arresting colors sipping on halved oranges, tiny venomous tree frogs and a few Geico lizards, but overall I guess I wanted to really hold a baby orangutan's hand or something more exotic.. kinda fucked up. But the overhead fish tank on the bottom is pretty nice. The benches provide a good lil' chill zone for watching massive catfish hover over the glass and those big silver fish you might have seen during the 80's at the entryway of a lot of Chinese fancy restaurants as a sign of luck and prosperity.. or show offiness.
Don't wanna give it all away.. you should just go, once at least. Admission is a whopping $25 for the public, but I'm going to go again this Wed. Oct. 15, as third Wed's of the month are FREE and I missed the planetarium.
Happy to hear Hilary Clinton was in town for the groundbreaking. And hope to meet w.some of the researchers to do a more in depth interview for Issue 3 of First Person Magazine.

Lydia Fong

2008-10-11T19:09:00.005-05:00

The Barry McGee show at Ratio 3, delivers wall to wall eye installation, painting and video in the new space. This is the first solo show that I feel really fills the space with multimedia. Although it offers the usual Barry runnings, spray graffiti, and abstractions, the piece that I mostly enjoyed was the animatronic hand tagging the wall out of a tree and whiting out. Check it out before it ends Oct. 18.

Man on Wire

2008-09-27T18:39:00.003-05:00

I'm excited to see this new film about Phillip Petit, the tightrope walker who had a vision to cross the Twin Towers and did it. Late in the evening they shot an arrow with the metal cable attached at at 7:15am the next morning he crossed 1300 feet above the Manhattan sidewalks. I first read about him in an interview in Acne Paper and thought it was so romantic. He reminded me of a real life version of Baptiste from the film Children of Paradise, whom I might be for Halloween. The beauty of his falling in love with a woman who resembled the moon, forever constant in his mind and heart, but unattainable in his complex world. "Love can be so simple" she said. I haven't seen it yet, but know I will be moved and inspired. It's playing at the Sunshine Theatre in NYC where I'll be to launch the current issue of First Person mag and excited to see all NYC has to offer, and there is always plenty, and all my great ambitious warm friends. Here's to having a passion and vision in life and carrying it out in reality.

fpxbn

Thing is you will end up like me

2008-09-05T17:04:00.005-05:00

Is the title of Paul Shiek's new exhibition which opened last night at Stephen Wirtz Gallery. Congratulations to the young emerging artist for being signed to their great roster of photographers. And to Stephen for noticing such bright talent. Funny thing is I've seen two great shows this week with piles of books. Paul's show had a stack of his catalogs on a palette in the middle of the painted white room still wrapped in shrink wrap. He said he wanted the area around the palette to stain with shoe prints to create some sense of aura, and he'd send me a catalog after the show was done. a student of Jim Goldberg, Todd Hido and Larry Sultan there's a bit of them in there mixed with a witty Wil Rogan and youthful Ari Marcopoulos. Paul's off to a wicked start. check it out on 49 geary. black and white photos,and be sure to check out his publishing imprint TBW. The other pile of books was by one of my fave artist collectives Claire Fontaine. Showing upstairs at the Wattis at CCA SF, the stack of bricks covered by French subversive book covers from the usual suspects makes an homage to Carl Andre and the collectives affiliation with 60's French radicalism. Other pieces in the installation include a home video on how to pick locks and a neon sign in Pharsee spelling 'Foreigners Everywhere'. And if you do stop by bring something blue to add to the nest installation upstairs. And be sure to check out the Wizard of Oz show downstairs. Use the elevator. There's a cool rendition of a Steve Martin record played by artist Tim Lee on the banjo! I heart "elevator art". I'm gonna coin that. It's gonnna be bigger than Electroclash, Larry T...

Dots Dots and Less Dots

2008-09-02T01:09:00.003-05:00

So, I know you know Tauba Auerbach's conceptual letter and word series. And if you don't, you may find her reconstructed Bible at the SFMoMa amongst other objects in the Design section. Her new series based on chance, comprise of; an abstract minimalist painting of crumpled papers blown up. Her floor composed of randomly thrown tiles like dice resembling a pattern on a computer generated postage stamp, and airbrushed works on paper. Tomorrow at 5pm, Tauba gives a short talk at the Wattis on the 2nd floor in the gallery space featuring her work amongst others (I presume. As I didnt receive the official press release, but rather a hello letter from Tauba). I'm excited to see her new offering in a series of works that I hope are Tauba: totally fun, accessible but brilliantly brainy. She knows how to make conceptual works WORK. Like Sol Lewitt in aesthetic, and almost in practice, as she has a few assistants she could direct entirely like a Yoko Ono instruction painting, her works are thrilling to engage with and that simple kind of "why didn't I think of that" type stuff artists are envious of. In a recent collaboration with a scholar in Oxford, Tauba's research has yet again set her on another adventure deriving symbols for scientific formulas and theories. Good luck in New York and beyond, Tauba. You don't need our blessing! FPxBN

Mozz's got a new Single

2008-06-04T16:21:00.004-05:00

So, I've been missing in action lately, drawing dots for Tauba Auerbach's new breakthrough abstraction works. Helping along roundtable of friends and assistants, I was filling in a slew of black acrylic watery dots. The dots are part of a half tone transformation from a crumpled up piece of paper when seen up close are just dots, but from at least 15 feet away looks like the original crumpled piece of paper. I think she just one-upped Bridget Riley! For an upcoming show at Deitch including Xyler Jane, Ara Peterson and Mitzi Pederson dealing with Popstractions.... go check it out soon in June. Tauba's been wonderful to work for and her fresh lemon squeezed on ravioli will forever remain a classic addition to my cooking lexicon. Here's to evolution in art, cooking and her move, everyone's moving it seems .... to .... New York.

SFMoMa Now Showing...

2008-05-06T11:50:00.007-05:00

For some reason, the SFMoMa has paid all this advertising for the Lee Friedlander show across town. But it's kind of like saying the special on the menu for the evening is a bland hamburger, the kind of lunch you get for punishment on Hell's Kitchen for losing a round, when there is a beautifully complex frozen foie gras cured with sake, freshly caught sashimi and delicately robust arugula salad also on the menu in small print. The tightly curated and more individual pieces at the SFMoMa are simply wonderful. They are enjoyable in a sense that they make you feel like a kid on an art playground with friends and everyday objects transformed into something greater but not in a big showy way. In "Cut", curated by Henry Urbach, their new Architecture and Design Curator who also commissioned the visionary frozen BMW by Olafur Eliasson, Peter Wegner delivers two great installations: his photographs of upside down skylines which make you turn your head slightly and his sublime color piece of papers stacked on their side creating an industrial sunset. A Gordon Matta-Clark hallway shows his "Splitting" video documenting the physicality of sawing light through a house and slanting its foundation. Upstairs "wonderful" continues to describe the Joan Jonas video where you are transported to a playing field with her friends in the cold enacting games which could be warm up excercises for a Fellini film. Bundled up, they roll past the camera performing cartwheels, strike wooden blocks above their heads to make plonky sounds, follow chalk lines that lend structure to their movements, and have multiple conversations painting an audio depth of field for the camera. But perhaps the well-known name of Friedlander is a tool to bring in the masses and hopefully they will be lured into one of these other great pieces. Or, like the Guston exhibition that showed simultaneously with their well publicized Manet show years ago, perhaps the hardcore art fan can rest assuredly enjoy his or her trip in peace, while the general public cues up outside the museum in droves for what they have been told is important by textbooks. Afterall, their ticket stubs do help pay for these other shows, and illustrate how marketing can be successful. I guess... but maybe you decide.

Dream Date.

2008-04-07T00:49:00.008-05:00

If you want to take your date somewhere private, somewhere other, somewhere magical, come to the Legion of Honor for their Cinema Supper Club. Completely unaware that they housed one of the most enchanting movie theatres in San Francisco, this quaint cinema house with hand-painted ceiling of winged horses and blindfolded maidens above, and comfy velvet opera antique seats below, made me giddy as a school girl, a Catholic school girl. That evening the screening was "The Ballet Russe" with a thorough introduction to the film by a knowledgeable and articulate programmer. The film was totally entertaining, educational, and chalk full of archival footage which brought the Ballet Russe to life. With regards to the film itself, my one critique was that I wished it included more on its originator, impresario Serge Diaghilev.

The kitchen and wait staff at the Legion Cafe have never let me down but for some reason there was a group with walkie talkies and badges at the entrance of the restaurant gathered round a cheeseplate chatting which kind of threw off the elegant ambiance of the room. Anyhow, initially trying out their restaurant for jazz brunch not too long ago, their dinner proved just as sumptuous, light and satisfying. Their aforementioned cheese plate which I was curious to try needed a bit more worldliness to it (Jack Cheese?). The menu selection is catered to an older crowd; fish and chips, but spiced up with special touches like tamarind ketchup, and meatloaf and mash potatoes were presented as a deliciously stacked mountain of homecooked perfection. I think it might give the cafe more of a restaurant feel if they painted some of the walls a richer, darker hue, because the high quality food deserves elegant surroundings. Or perhaps it's the best Museum cafeteria food, one will ever have priveledge of tasting. Next time, I might wear nice jeans and a jacket instead of a designer dress and heels?

Part of the Cinema Supper Club includes free access to the galleries without the daytime crowds. Having a somewhat private view is great as the Leibowitz exhibition takes some time to soak in with a video documentary, an entire nook of snap shots pinned onto bulletin boards, and noticing details like a Presidential belt buckle on George Bush, who stood like a proud warrior alongside Condie, Rumsfeld and the head of the FBI. The portrait was dated December 2001, shortly after the 9/11 intervention. Also on view, which is quite special to experience in the evening is a new installation of Dale Chihuly's works. Vibrant blown glass standing over 2 stories tall, the sculptures were in good company in the Rodin room and glowed outside in the courtyard. The contrast of the kinetic colorful work proves to be a wonderfully strong asset to the FAMSF collection breathing an unexpected contemporality into the classic atmosphere. Linked to an upcoming exhibition at the De Young Museum in Golden Gate Park, the yellow Chihuly which seems as if it's growing out of their garden fountain is spectacular from a distance, like a mustard lorax tree from a Dr. Seuss story but up close its structural support kind of gives its organic quality away.

But, please do take advantage of the Cinema Supper Club while it lasts at the Legion. And, wear a coat because it can get quite windy up near the Sutro Cliffs. Driving recommended. Check the famsf.org site for program listings to this special affair and other events. I think they're making a wonderful attempt at programming exciting ways to access art and enjoy a refined and memorable evening out. Becoming a member wouldn't be such a bad idea. I think their offerings are unique and worthwhile, not trendy.

censorship is still prevalent

2008-03-19T23:47:00.003-05:00

INDIA REFUSES MEESE SCULPTURE

A sculpture by Jonathan Meese has been turned away at the Indian border. As the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung's Swantje Karich reports, Indian customs officials at Mumbai airport took a "drastic" approach to Meese's bronze sculpture Don't Call Us, We'll Call You, 2007, which was en route to the gallery Mirchandani + Steinruecke for inclusion in the exhibition "General Sweetie." According to Karich, the dealers attempted to persuade the airport customs officials to let the work through by citing "traditional Indian erotic literature." Just as the shipment was due to be checked again, the official in charge gave up and simply sent the sculpture back to Germany.

collector craziness.. our names on your babies

2008-03-19T23:38:00.002-05:00

KOOLHAAS SUPPORTS CEMETERY PYRAMID

Rem Koolhaas has added his support for plans to build a giant cemetery pyramid near Dessau, Germany. As the Süddeutsche Zeitung's Ijoma Mangold reports, the Dutch star architect participated in a gala event last week at Berlin Hebbel-Theater. Koolhaas presented the results of an international architecture competition launched last fall. The final four designs were selected by a jury that included the architect, as well as the designer Miuccia Prada.

Dubbed "The Great Pyramid," the cemetery, in a sign of peace, would be open to all religious beliefs and nationalities. A five-hundred-foot-tall structure could hold up to five million stones and might be expanded to include more. According to the association Friends of the Great Pyramid, more than a thousand people have already reserved a stone and want to have their ashes kept in the structure. If the plan goes forward, a stone may cost around one thousand dollars.

But the residents of both Dessau and neighboring Streetz—where the pyramid may be built—are not so happy about the plan. During a "pyramid party" held in Streetz last year, some locals attended with the banner WE DON'T WANT 500,000 DEAD PEOPLE. "All the same," writes Mangold, "it's completely conceivable that the project will succeed. There are many terrible things in the world that have met with success."

Karl the Kaiser

2008-03-17T15:09:00.003-05:00

Karl Lagerfeld is a relentless force in fashion designing over 4 collections a season- Chanel, Fendi, Lagerfeld Gallery and Karl Lagerfeld (might have sold this). You can tell he never stops thinking and working by the looks of his atelier... If u wanna see Karl Lagerfeld's over the top ring collection, him being totally cunt about his life- the man knows how he wants to live, why he wants to live and not love, and hear about his mother, whom he prolly gets his succinct style and no nonsense from, go see Lagerfeld Confidential at the Roxie Cinema which screens til Thursday.. and again, go support indie film houses. They need you... I'd be sad to see them close. Historically, this may be the first movie house to open in San Fran according to their site. I know it's the first movie house I went to when I moved to SF when I was a lil' pink haired punk of 18 to see some Frank Zappa doc or something.

Anyway, it's really cool...and u get to see him as a child, awww... in super 8 which is always icing on the cake, no?

A Tribute to Susan Sontag by Annie Leibowitz

2008-03-09T13:47:00.013-05:00

San Francisco still continues to satisfy my need to surround myself with beautiful things including the views and landscapes which will remain forever new to me even if I've seen them a million times. From Golden Gate Park stretching to the ocean, the easiness on the eyes is there for the taking. As I trekked to the Legion of Honor again for another wondrous daytime adventure, starting with a delectable brunch of Scharfenberger chocolate muffins, which Eddy gulped down with "yums" and I, savoring my minty fruit salad, the most crabbed out fritata ever, and a delicious belini, was surprised to encounter the Annie Leibowitz photography exhibition already opened to the public. Not thinking I would be interested in her imagery which, in my mind, seemed to pervade every pore of Vanity Fair for the past decade, I surprisingly found integrity in a body of work which gave due homage to friend, critical writer and fellow photographer, Susan Sontag. A personal heroine of mine, Sontag, during her terminal and fragile times leading up to her last days after she was diagnosed with cancer can be seen intimately through Leibowitz's ease of camera, in her private home, airplanes to see Paris one more time, last bicycle rides with friends and carrying Leibowitz's baby (whom she birthed at age 50). It was a really beautiful way to give respect to her confidant and close friend in a survey show of which I'm sure she had to edit thousands of photographs from.
The one here, displays the intimacy of Kate Moss and Johnny Depp, giving Leibowitz this unsaid kind of, "yes, we'll do anything you want for the camera, because we trust your vision completely" and that is what makes this show interesting. There is a genuine trust and respect inherent in all her photos, reflecting from a total and willing honesty on both ends of sitter and shooter. And to give yourself completely to someone else is a beautiful thing.
Afterwards, we hiked through the Sutro Hills and discovered that whistle that you can hear for miles along with the sea lions at night if you sit quietly enough. It's a metal form of architecture similiar to a short lighthouse stranded a mile away from the coast visible from the cliffside. Whoooooooooooooooooooooooooo...

come out and arrrrrrrrrrrrrrt with us!

2008-02-10T14:19:00.000-05:00

Zidane by Douglas Gordon

2008-02-04T02:08:00.001-05:00

Vexed by the sound engineering and shots in this film, art, art film?, the music editing is phenomenal. Composed by Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine, it was the most dynamic sound experience I've ever had from a sound system. Imagine if sound were 3 dimensional. It's even better as sounds are vibrations which penetrate our bodies, so it was completely visceral not only for the ears but for the body ear. The visual component of the film was just as complex showing the intimacy of the soccer players using closeups juxtaposed with long shots of stadium goers from a pigeon's perspective the range of camera works was impressive and immersive. Cameo's by Beckham, this is the Spanish team that seduced him away from Manchester United, and of course following Zidane, fans will be happy. As someone who had no idea who the soccer player was and more interested in the work by the artist, I'd say it was more a work that expanded my vocabulary for the possibilities for film, soundtracks and risk taking in documentary filmmaking. Harmony Korine gets sported. Beware the real futbol fans going to see this, young, loud, and by the family droves it was cool to kind of see fans come out for this but they do heckle, burp and distract from the peanut gallery. I guess it just made the experience more real. Thanks again to Joel at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. He's never disappointed as an informed and current curator in San Francisco.

Reppin'

2008-01-31T02:07:00.001-05:00

We proud to be reppin' BAY. Rap and beats slingin' it here and NOW. None in LA. Uh-uh in NY. Ridin' it, Dumb. Studdin' and scrapin'. LUVFP, we down.

Wise Words

2008-01-28T04:05:00.000-05:00

I was never a darling of the New York Times or of the Whitney—far from it, believe me—but there are many ways to have a career in the art world, many ways to have a valid history. Come to think of it, don’t you find it odd that whenever we think of an artist, in any field, who no longer appears active, we always think that it’s because they somehow “failed”? Really, isn’t it just as likely that they found not to their liking whatever system they were required to engage in order to get their work out—the system failed them, on the human level—and, in an act of maturity and self-possession, they moved on? Culture systems such as the art world may be all we have, but that doesn’t mean they’re good systems. From a certain perspective the art world is a deeply unhealthy network that brings out the worst in people. It’s too bad that the pursuit of beauty and knowledge should do that, but it does.
The more time I spent in the art context, the more uncomfortable I became with the faith-based dimension of it. I had to invent a way out, and into another kind of creativity.- David Robbins

GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS!

2008-01-28T01:52:00.000-05:00

The most anticipated show of the year in San Francisco is the debut of GIRLS, Sat. FEb. 16 at Cafe Du Nord. Don't miss out. Grab your latest interest for a night at Cafe Du Nord, strewn w. romance and perfumed girls and made up boys, this Valentine's Day weekend show, Sat. Feb. 16 is gonna be very special. Not since the craving for Cassie on Youtube has there been such a frenzy for a band on Myspace. GIRLS is Christopher Owens, artist, opinionated, and genuine mad article of dressing to the nines and Chet JR WHite, soft-spoken studly song engineer will be playing their debut show sponsored and promoted by flattered little us, First Person Magazine. Christopher came up to us at our Sonic Boom party at a warehouse on the water saying, "I've decided, you throw the best parties". Awwww... so here we are double trouble at the helm bringing San Fran a night you'll all remember...

GIRLS
*Special Guests TBA
FP Mag DJ's
Cafe Du Nord
Sat. Feb. 16
Advance Tix on sale now! get em before we sell this bell out.
www.cafedunord.com
$10 adv / door

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Someone make a bootleg of this, puh-leez!

2008-01-25T14:38:00.000-05:00

Keyshia Gurrrllll Saved me on the plane home

2008-01-25T14:37:00.000-05:00

Ringing it in with YOU!

2007-12-20T21:06:00.000-05:00

from First Person Magazine and Circlesquare, an exclusive Xmas track from one of our fave bands. Just a note, we are busying elves producing the second issue, pysched growing up from the last issue with sophisticated design keeping with our lawless punk independence redefining editorial, connecting to what is really fresh and informed, celebrating talent and visions, not following trends. See you in the New Year! FPxBNMerry Holidays

Happy Holidays.. now stop shopping and start resting.

2007-12-11T15:54:00.001-05:00

www.IMAGINE PEACE.com

2007-12-07T14:04:00.000-05:00

Losing oneself in a Box

2007-12-05T12:22:00.000-05:00

The De Young Museum is finally getting it's identity game ON. With various transitions and a few small commissions with big names since it's inception, they've hit the nail on the nose with a very handsome, well displayed and generous Louise Nevelson show in tandem with an eclectic and very SF friendly Besser collection of African beadwork, kitschy tea pots, and graphite drawings. I've always loved visiting the museum in Golden Gate Park, blessed with the futuristic 70s Herzog and De Meuron design with its decadent narrow angles, fern and slate stone landscaping, and Blade Runneresque overhang... but yesterday, on their Tuesday free day, I happily encountered two exhibitions that made me look just as deeply at their art works. There's a new trend in San Francisco exhibition design marrying their education department into the show. A video discussing the artist and interviews is usually on display to supplement the shows which is great. Louise Nevelson, in said video, with her trademark heavy lashes, vivid style and jewelry can be seen talking confidently about her sculptural artwork alongside testimonials by Jessica Stockholder about form, color and how they can transform one another. She used found objects or everyday discarded things in her “assemblages” or assemblies, one of which was three stories high:

”When you put together things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created."

Bros Stay Warm

2007-12-02T14:46:00.001-05:00

International NO Music Day

2007-11-21T14:43:00.000-05:00

It would be great to continue this to No Cellphone Day, No Computer Day, No Car Day, No Complaining Day, No Eating Meat Day, No Bad Thoughts Day, No Drinking Alcohol Day, No Gossip Day, No TV Day, and perhaps even better to name it something more proactive like Try Something You've Always Wanted To Do Day, Talk Dirty To Your Lover Day, Draw Something Day, Write a Letter and Mail It Today, Call a Family Member Day, Buy Flowers Day, Park Day, Watercolor Day, Write a Grant for a Public Sculpture Day, Make Dinner for a Friend Day, Volunteer at the Pet Orphanage Day, Beach Clean Up Day, Eat Something You've Never Tried Day, Travel to a Certain District of Town You've Never Been to Day, Play an Instrument for an Hour or So Day, Read an Entire Book Day, Donate to a Charity Any Way You Can Day, Play Tennis Day, Wear Something Night Wear Daytime Day And See How It Makes You Feel Day... etc. Setting limitations is good to make you think differently. Have a good day.

The City as Social Museum

2007-11-20T14:31:00.001-05:00

I'm ready to commit to you San Francisco, and get to the bottom of why your public is not engaging in ART. Whether it be at SFMoMa, Headlands, private gallery or non-profit, in the park, at the ocean, in the mountains.. I am going to invite YOU to participate because I know you have it and you want it.

Museums have always been instruments of power, but in San Francisco we are almost waiting for something to happen there. But let us question the role of the museum within the rigid operating system of art. Is it possible to counteract the hectic, superficial nature of short-lived exhibitions and encourage delights of deceleration and depth, or collect contemporary art without merely amassing objects that will soon be forgotten when the zeitgeist changes?

Can the museum bear witness to time by preserving a common history for itself and its public? It is now time to nominate for Bay Area Now at YBCA and the SECA nominees from the SFMoMa will be announced soon. When was the last time either of these awards really took risks or got you excited about Bay Area artists? They have either been too little too late or is this mirror of the best of the Bay Area disappointing in itself? Should we just start macrameting and becoming sommeliers?

Instead of espousing the myth of the museum as a neutral venue of pure being, let's collect transience. Let's collaborate with diverse artists to execute new works and pursue works in progress. Let's reference place and continuity, content and experience, and in-depth contact with the public. This exceptionally open framework appeals to artists; with the museum as their active partner, they accept and enjoy a greater responsibility within the public sphere. I will do my best to do my part. Gathering my nuts for the Winter. Bring it San Francisco. This is a call to arms.

Morrissey and the Quality of Accident

2007-11-19T13:59:00.000-05:00

I had no idea he played at the Fillmore in SF not too long ago.. and I heard that he was wonderful, even more so than when he began his first solo career. I went to the Bona Drag and Kill Uncle tour, saw him in a chapel, (we proved our fanaticism and won our tix into that show, where Morrissey signed my jeans), and even went shopping with him and Gary Day at Horton Plaza in San Diego and basically, ended up talking about homelessness in America. We bootlegged our own xerox copies of tix to go to his big arena shows. We found out where his hotel was and strewn gladiolas all over their tour buses. That euphoria.. I know it's inside locked in age and the stakes are higher but it's still there. We never googled him, or read about him in the Sun, he never made the cover of Vogue. He is ultimately a hero of MINE.

Oil Spill Updater

2007-11-17T18:31:00.000-05:00

Okay, today's update on the Cosco Busan Oil Spill:

We went to the volunteer training this morning for this specific spill that happened 10 days ago and received very thorough professional, community information from the National Park Society, Human Resources of the City of San Francisco, and an Industrial Toxicologist... Let's just say this morning brought out and signed up 1,400 new volunteers, which literally brought tears to my eyes. What would California be without its miraculous beaches, marshlands, habitats, and the people that really care about them? (Similiarly, I watched this town meeting in Seattle on KQED outraged at the Federal government loosening it's restrictions on monopolies for newspapers to buy television, radio in similiar markets, that's another story). We learned that as of today, the beaches specifically, OB, will be reopened soon. Maybe even tomorrow they will be deemed, "Clean". I myself, suggest that you take your surf down to Pacifica or Santa Cruz, because remnants of this sticky bunker oil can still be around in the water due to tides and a few surfers who ignored or were unaware of warnings were hospitalized this past week.

What's in the water?
Bunker oil- sticky dense oil that has trace carcinogens, most fumes have flown off into the atmosphere (yikes). Some who were exposed to the oil on their skin developed rashes. If you get any on you, they suggest soap and warm water to get it off or an alcohol based cleanser like those anti-bacterial nonwash gels.

What to do?
Don't go near it if you see any globules left somewhere. And don't come near or try to rescue wildlife that have oil on them. They've been traumatized enough. There's all these numbers to call on a new site for San Francisco www.www.sfgov.org/sf311

Bay clean up:
Apparently, it didnt affect the South East sector of the Bay marshlands but when they deployed hundreds of volunteers in that area, they cleaned up over 8,000 lbs. of debris, so the animals have a clean, safe place to migrate to if necessary, and they've never been cleaner.

My friend Charlie, used to ask us to accompany him down to the beach to collect those plastic flip lids for his art installations and I'd always come back w. two bags filled w. trash because I couldnt help but pick it up. If you go down there daytime, would be cool to at the end of your laxation to just bust out yr trash bag w. friends or your kids for like a few minutes and pick up some stuff. It gets kind of addicting actually once you start. You'd be surprised how many cups, plastic knives, cig butts, and styrofoam things you find blown up near the heathers.

You can also donate funds to the different organisations cleaning the wildlife, etc. on that site. Ps. the Trees look really good today, the fog or something just crazy LUSH. Just imagine if they were spotted in gross oil, how sad that would be or littered in the trees. Don't neglect our Bay.... FPXBN

Marie Antoinette's Style Guide for La Petit Trianon

2007-11-16T18:13:00.000-05:00

This morning I woke up with anticipation to a glorious and mysterious drive up towards the Legion of Honor, one of the Fine Arts Museums in San Francisco. Perched on a seaside cliff at the end of a windy pathway through the golfcourses in the Presidio, men teeing off in the fog, and sighing with relief when I spotted the landmark waterfountain in front where little Asian kids in uniform plaids were wrestling and tugging on each other. I've been wanting to see the Rodin sculptures, craving this escape up here, but what finally brought me was a preview of Marie Antoinette's personal collection of commissioned clocks, lanterns, sofas and paintings from her private estate, one that was historically set aside for the mistresses of the French King, now her stylish countryside getaway, not from the king himself, but from the public eye. It wasn't a large collection, but after the furniture being auctioned off to Boston corn farmers or English aristocrats, her collection is slowly being restored and sought after by the Director of Versailles, who was a charming man who led the tour alongside the Curator of the Museum's Decorative Arts collection, his English accent and knowledge of every bronze gilded wreath, acorn and dog hair on her chairs made for a wonderfully delightful start to an art-filled day.. later spent with a Collector at a favorite Bruschetta Bar of mine, and then off to an arts presentation about Eliasson's HR2 vehicle development. Lots of rotating spheres... and a soothing Danish accent sort of led me to nod off a bit. But back for the Ant Farm and Buckminster Fuller lectures (possibly) this evening, all at SFMoMa.

Anyhow...
If you're interested in the decadent and complex lives of queens, the Legion of Honor is screening films about La Reine's from all periods with dinner reservations. From Elizabeth w. Cate Blanchett, and yes, of course, Coppala's Marie Antoinette to other documentaries, illustrating the full thrust of how public life for royals can be a fulltime occupation as we saw in The Queen last year, the pressure, alongside its power, of how one may focus one's attention to political duty, and one's people, or a dress collection will be up for your discussion or pure entertainment value.

FAMSF.org

Sic Alps US Tour Doc

2007-11-15T18:04:00.001-05:00

LOVE!!!!!

PFA film schedule for Winter

2007-11-15T11:58:00.000-05:00

East Bay and West Bay.. Pacific Film Archives programming is so underrated. If you're looking for something to do indoors, there are so many amazing films up right now... Chaplin to Passolini. Check their site for scheduling.

Have a Gentle Day

2007-11-13T14:22:00.001-05:00

obNoxious fumes

2007-11-11T07:16:00.000-05:00

Gas prices are ridiculous in San Francisco. $3.74 USD... It's comparable to Britain without the strength of the British pound to pay for it. Historically, we've been the most expensive city to buy gasoline in the US. And why is that? I'm going to myspace Mayor Newsom and see what his reply is...ps. What is he doing about the oil spill in the Bay.. why is it left to beach volunteers??

Pretty Much at the SFMoMa

2007-11-09T03:08:00.000-05:00

It's rare that a Museum can be spot on with every aspect of an exhibition-the lighting might be too hot or off angle, the sculptures might be too tall for the scale of a room, or perhaps the painting department is strong but the photography is, meh.. After a month of just envying the raucous felt from New York's Fall kick off and second annual Performa buzz, the SFMoMa tonight volleyed its weight and hit every nail on the nose with its current exhibitions in every department.
The Design and Architecture Department houses an almost surreal frozen BMW by Olafur Eliasson with his distinct neon yellow beaming from below the stainless steel exoskeleton like a modern day Christine from Stephen King's novel. The Modernist permanent collection shook off its dust and looked so fresh it could have fooled me as a solid contemporary show. Groupings of artworks by one artist resonated seamlessly to the others in its proximity, echoing either its color scheme, or complementing its subject matter. Walking through the galleries became a lucid experience of joy. For example, a few electrifying Yves Klein paintings and a scultpure in one corner bled into a sublime cerulean Mark Rothko painting whose dense abyss emerged into a brilliant orange abstract sunset. Unusually muted Philip Guston paintings, let the room breathe leading your eye to a delightful Dali sculpture of a red Dorothy shoe filled with marble squares, hairs and brass twining on a plinth that made you feel like a kid gawking at unusual creatures at the Bay Aquarium. Around the corner, Alexander Calder's sculptures and merry mobiles playfully interacted with the contours of a glowing Hans Arp bronze. Three minimal white Robert Rauschenberg panels are lit by a blue neon Dan Flavin jetting up at a 45 degree angle. I imagined for a moment that the Flavin could have been a glorious beacon in the night lighting pristine white futuristic architecture as public sculpture if the glowstick were thirty times its original height. Jeff Wall's lightboxes were perfect in scale to the museum walls. My standing ovation goes to SFMoMA building architect, Mario Botta, for anyone who knows a museum's layout can make or break its exhibition designs. The SFMoMA building is like a comfortable modern home. It is sleek but doesn't shout at you or make you uneasy. Although, the bridge on the Fifth floor where Matthew Barney's permanent Drawing Restraint lives is a doozy, rightfully so. Not to fret, as one can easily be distracted by the Eliasson nano-lacquered tunnel temporarily canopied above the footbridge. (Look up, unless you live for vertigo tingles in your fingertips). I was only once claustrophobic when accosted by about nine of Wall's gigantic lightboxes in one room together. The most recent SFMoMa acquisition (pictured above) is an exquisite piece and didn't make any fanfare announcements of its arrival. A silk yarn sculpture by Teresita Fernandez. Elegant, whimsical and breathtaking, it lives in its own room, complemented by a few graphite drawings that reflected similar subject matter, string and rubbery bits. That was kind of pushing the limit of exhibition design, but I accepted it. Okay, someone was on a roll. But the blue ribbon winner for the evening went to the Douglas Gordon exhibition room which I spent over an hour and a half with. Well, I was waiting to go to the New Langton auction later that evening as well, but this room kept me entertained regardless. Titled, "Pretty Much Every Film and Video Work from 1992 until Now", the room was painted black and tv's were perched on plinths of every size, lining every wall. I felt like I was in David Bowie's living room in "The Man Who Fell to Earth" or Chris Marker's "La Jetee" or even in the privacy of my own home where I have itunes opened, youtube, myspace, the television and a call on the phone going simultaneously. Every visual and audio sensory stimulated and engaged. Some videos had headphones, some were silent. I sat for a long time listening to Gordon sing acapella, Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, which I've been indulging in this Winter, but you can watch other videos in the room too while on the headphones to alter the experience. There was Captain Kirk flirting with all types of glamorous space ladies, an elephant on HD lying around, walking around and blinking, The Excorcist overlayed with a Christian black and white bible thumping film. Even the museum goers in the dark room added to the enigma. It made me feel like I was living in an art piece somewhere between a Todd Hido photograph and that scene in Nightmare on Elmstreet 3 where the patient gets sucked into the TV in the mental ward. The room itself was compelling, eerie, and felt very 70's family room with square cushion chairs, and old monitors. There were scenes from TV, cinema noir, voyeuristic performances of Gordon taping his face, painting his hand with a sharpie. It was gross and it was TV at its most magnetic. I couldn't turn away. There was a video of a lady stripping with an enormous rack and I caught people watching it but feeling ashamed and trying to look past it. When the late night Thursday crowd entered they felt so at ease in the room they just started chatting as if it were a lounge. I had to shhhhsh them, but...I had to. If their jokes were funny, maybe I'd let them chit chat. But it was like, "Dude, I can do that", kind of jibberish. Kudos to all the curators and installation staff. The SFMoMA looks handsome as ever. You know it's a good sign when it keeps you there. Oh, and their education lounge is showing films about the artists work on display. It's not just for kids anymore, although I couldn't get the docents to fix the Jeff Wall artist talk video to save my life. Another story.
Well, later on, over at New Langton which I was fashionably late to, the Catherine Wagner photo was the piece to bid on. It was, coincidentally, an homage to Yves Klein. No, after, I didn't go the Avant Guardian party, or Kaila's birthday, or to see M.I.A. I had a quiet dinner at a German restaurant adorned with fantastic wreaths of dried flowers and caught up with a friend. Tomorrow night is Lucy McKenzie's opening, Friday at the SFMoMA. Her friend's boutique is part of the installation, so if you don't have anything to wear, well, you can just buy something off the rack. How cool is that?

Alpha Opening Tonight

2007-09-07T19:00:00.000-05:00

Dont Give UP

2007-09-07T18:56:00.001-05:00

A Kiss in the Woods

2007-08-27T12:08:00.001-05:00

Menomonee Valley

2007-08-27T12:06:00.001-05:00

Burning Sky Dust in September

2007-08-24T16:12:00.000-05:00

Can U Believe It?

2007-08-22T18:15:00.000-05:00

Ian Curtis from Joy Division

2007-08-20T18:32:00.000-05:00

Jimmy is a Rubber Johnny

2007-08-19T04:21:00.001-05:00

Can You Afford the New Tom Ford

2007-08-18T00:27:00.000-05:00

Head up to Portland for AFFAIR

2007-08-13T00:33:00.000-05:00

Olafur Eliasson Take Your Time at SFMoMA

2007-08-13T00:24:00.000-05:00

Our Poor Friends

2007-08-03T01:06:00.000-05:00

Encounter Gianni Motti

2007-06-07T19:26:00.000-05:00

SCORE

2007-05-30T10:22:00.000-05:00

THE LONG WEEKEND

2007-05-26T12:48:00.000-05:00

THAT'S SO 17TH CENTURY AGO

2007-05-24T15:51:00.000-05:00

FLOATING BEARS

2007-05-22T18:04:00.001-05:00

LIBRARIANISM AND A NOTION OF RADICAL POETICS

2007-05-22T17:11:00.000-05:00

NO ONE BELONGS HERE MORE THAN YOU

2007-05-15T13:33:00.000-05:00

Retina Riddim

2007-05-14T14:34:00.000-05:00

SEND PIC NOW...

2007-05-09T18:16:00.000-05:00

ROOTS OF MADNESS

2007-05-09T17:17:00.000-05:00

THE KIDS ARE, ALRIGHT!

2007-05-08T12:39:00.000-05:00

A VERY ANXIOUS FEELING

2007-05-07T19:23:00.000-05:00

THOSE CROCODILE TEETH...

2007-05-07T18:07:00.000-05:00

SUMMER PURGE IN STYLE

2007-05-07T12:39:00.000-05:00

THIS SCULPTURAL LIFE

2007-05-04T13:35:00.000-05:00

NORTH LAKE SHORE DRIVE

2007-05-02T12:22:00.000-05:00

SHE'S GOT LEGGS

2007-05-01T23:18:00.000-05:00

NEUE SACHLICHKEIT

2007-04-29T03:11:00.000-05:00

BENEATH THE UNDERDOG

2007-04-28T09:02:00.000-05:00

SILENT PARTY

2007-04-27T23:24:00.000-05:00

METAL STORM

2007-04-27T17:46:00.000-05:00

PINEAPPLE RING RAVER

2007-04-26T16:36:00.000-05:00

JARVIS COCKER, FAMILY MAN.

2007-04-25T12:30:00.000-05:00

LITTLE FRIEND

2007-04-25T10:09:00.000-05:00

Speaks in 20 Different Languages!

BLACK NOISE

2007-04-24T21:14:00.000-05:00

MELT IN YOUR MOUTH

2007-04-24T15:20:00.000-05:00

ONE SEASON IN HELL

2007-04-24T15:18:00.000-05:00