Annette Monnier’s new blog project seeks to let her really focus in on one show she sees every month. She recently reviewed #class, a show in New York City meant to underscore the controversy about a bigger show by the famous Jeff Koons, also in New York City. In her review of the response show, [...]
The following continues the series of paired interviews with artists carried out here and at This Too Will Pass. Leah Beeferman is a young artist who recently had the opportunity to show her work at Philadelphia’s SPACE 1026. SPACE turned 10 years old this year, and it’s one of the focal points for the alternative [...]
A few weeks ago, I watched a staged reading of David Strattan White’s play Simulations, at The Walking Fish Theater in Philadelphia. Simulations is a play inspired by the world of the computer game, The Sims. It imagines two people in the real world, two people in The Sims world and one person who might [...]
This will be the first of a team-up I’m creating between This Too Will Pass and implicit art. On this site, I’ll post some interviews with artists about the work that permitted me to discover them. On TTWP, I’ll publish exterviews, that is, discussions about everything but. Kessler’s exterview is here. This is my first [...]
Every now and then I see art that sort of crushes me and elates me at the same time. For example, Brian Dettmer‘s book sculptures. I love books. We might be at the tail end of the book as a form. I understand that, and, if books go extinct, it will probably be for the [...]
Every artist should have a website, or at least a blog. This is a point I’ve been making to a friend of mine who’s trying to make her creative way in New York City. She’s doing this and that, meeting with little successes here and there, but it isn’t quite adding up to something whole [...]
Today I did something embarrassing. It was the kind of thing that only an Internet neophyte does. See, I’ve been really focusing in on my blog lately and reading sites that talk a lot about good blog promotion and use of social networking and blah blah blah. So I finally decided that I should join [...]
You probably know what greenbaiting is, right? Like when they put hybrid engines in an SUV? Or when they put 20% post-consumer content in paper plates and call them "eco-plates?" Tonight, I think I experienced the same thing in technology and entertainment. I went and saw Superman Returns at the Tuttleman IMAX in Philadelphia. The [...]
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I know that most of the folks who read this aren’t American… but if any of you follow American literature for what ever reason and find it wanting… it’s worth knowing that there is a group that is resisting the mainstream not just by producing its own work, but by doing the occassional protest and [...]
Are we losing our edge? I’m sitting here working and struggling with something that has never been a problem before: I want to listen to music, but it is definitely distracting me. Once upon a time, I could listen to music and write with no problem. In fact, it was better that way. Now I [...]
REVIEWS! REVIEWS! REVIEWS!So, I’ve been so busy that I’ve hardly had any time to read all the comics and mini comics I bought at the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, Maryland at the end of last September. But I am finally getting started. I thought I would review all the comics I read on here, [...]
DISCLAIMER: I have a feeling that Nat is going to hate this post. If you know me (and if you’re reading this then you probably don’t), you know I am no flag-waving patriot. That said, there is no debate that bores me more than the ongoing one about the cultural supremacy of the USA, like [...]
So I have always wanted to be a writer. When I say always, we’re talking Grade School here. I’m not screwing around. Recently I learned about PublishAmerica, because a fellow participant in the 3-Day Novel Contest had said she’d published her book product of the previous year’s contest through them. Well, well, well, I thought. [...]
Apparently a biography of Eudora Welty that came out a few years ago “diminished” her because it accused her of turning to writing because she was homely. A friend of hers has written a new biography after getting a chance to thoroughly go through her papers in an effort to defend her friend. What’s to [...]
I read in The Week this week about a new study of blogging that shows it’s growing by leaps and bounds. Naturally, Editory & Publisher magazine hopped up to criticize the excitement about the trend immediately. And why shouldn’t they? Blogging is a serious threat to their business interests. Not that I am either an [...]
Nat’s first guest blog… So this morning (afternoon for Nat), he asked me if I wanted to be one of his first guest bloggers on here. Is this his first? I read back a little ways until I found him asking for guest bloggers, so maybe I am the first on this one. I thought [...]
