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{ Monthly Archives } November 2006

new work @ Krut

Click to enlarge. From DKW: We are launching a new portfolio set by Nathaniel Stern and showing new works by William Kentridge, Deborah Bell, Colbert Mashile, Avhashoni Mainganye, Wilma Cruise, Alastair Whitton and Sean Slemon. Join us for a drink, art and snacks.See printmakers, Jillian Ross and Niall Bingham at work in the studio and [...]

Happy Birthday Ellen

Ellen Papciak-Rose is so cool. And she’s 40 today. We wish her a great day. Tags: me, south african art, uncategorical, nathaniel stern

I could not resist:

Photo: Tom Hanson/Canadian Press, via Associated Press, New York TimesThis image was just too hilarious not to post: President Bush and other leaders today at the Asian economic summit meeting in Vietnam, where U.S. officials talked of a new set of incentives for North Korea to give up its nuclear program.There have also been serious [...]

John Gerrard: Dark Portraits

Went to see this beautiful show at the Royal Hibernian Academy on opening night this week, with Ralph Borland. Not much time to write (still no internet at home), but the Smoke Tree work was just breathtaking (liked the smaller one better, and the interactivity was not really necessary – tho it did make people [...]

I speak Dublish

We should have internet at home by Monday night it seems, and then communication will be back to normal (whatever "normal" means with my new life in Dublin – have not quite reached equilibrium yet. Hell, given the papers Nicole has to write and the various tidbits we need to do – plus all the [...]

Ron Mueck at the Brooklyn Museum

This weekend, Ed Young and Christian Nerf were in town – to cause trouble. So we took a break from that and went to the Brooklyn Museum, where Ron Mueck currently has a mid-career solo on show. If you don’t know his work, he pretty much makes small, or large scale super-realistic sculptures of humans. [...]

still no interweb + help turbulence

Still have no internet at home (and also no phone, given that we are going with mobile skype), so blogging will be even less than the aforementioned very little blogging whilst in dublin, thinger…. But things are moving – settled in a bit, having our first guests for dinner this evening and a friend from [...]

greetings from Dublin

Dia dhuit (not that we know how that is pronounced)! Our introduction to Dublin was a day of uncharacteristic rain – in that it spit all day, not just for part of it. We think the isle was just trying to “help” us get acclimated. Sid was none too pleased. last days in South Africa [...]