{"id":486,"date":"2004-11-02T08:11:46","date_gmt":"2004-11-02T06:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=486"},"modified":"2005-02-04T07:33:02","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T05:33:02","slug":"catch-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/02\/catch-up\/","title":{"rendered":"catch-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so, admittedly, I&#8217;ve been waiting to get some pix from <a href=\"\/storytellers\/\">my opening<\/a> afore blogging &#8211; truth be told, I forgot to bring my camera, and have been struggling for digital donations for this &#8220;publication&#8221;. Anyhow, there was a fairly good turnout (somewhere between 150-175), and I was really happy with all the work before it opened. The response seemed to be positive, and I&#8217;m looking forward to getting some critical feedback from wherever it may originate (let&#8217;s hope!). Robyn Sassen has already spent some time chatting with me, so we might see something on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artthrob.co.za\/\">artthrob<\/a> and\/or <i>the jewish report<\/i>. Anybody else? Criticism welcome!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s actually a very big week for the JAG. Wednesday the 3rd will see an opening of a huge show of works from SABC&#8217;s stunning collection, and Saturday will be the final show of the negotiate series (see <a href=\"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/index.php?p=426\">this<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/index.php?p=406\">this<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/index.php?p=392\">this<\/a> blog). I&#8217;ll see ya there.<\/p>\n<p>OK. Back to working and catching up (after the last few weeks) for me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so, admittedly, I&#8217;ve been waiting to get some pix from my opening afore blogging &#8211; truth be told, I forgot to bring my camera, and have been struggling for digital donations for this &#8220;publication&#8221;. Anyhow, there was a fairly good turnout (somewhere between 150-175), and I was really happy with all the work before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3,7,2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-tech","category-me","category-south-african-art","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-7Q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1401,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/06\/welcoming-art-on-paper-opening\/","url_meta":{"origin":486,"position":0},"title":"welcoming (art on paper opening)","author":"nathaniel","date":"06 February 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Sorry for the lack of posts whilst in SA. Just been too hektik on this visit home. It's been so great, and I miss this place immensely... Old friends and colleagues... great art and passionate community builders... yadda yadda.Sitting in 44 Stanley making a quick post. Here's a great photoset\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"william kentridge looking on to sating","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/124\/381522035_0c4cc62f5e.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1387,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/31\/happy-new-year\/","url_meta":{"origin":486,"position":1},"title":"happy new year","author":"nathaniel","date":"31 December 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm exhausted. I know, I've been on holiday for the last couple of weeks (but that was visiting family, so it's not really \"restful\"), and I mostly just took the last two months \"off\" to move to Dublin. But a new baby, moving continents, catalogue production, many shows, starting a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":497,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/13\/11-promising-artists\/","url_meta":{"origin":486,"position":2},"title":"11 promising artists","author":"nathaniel","date":"13 November 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I weaseled my way into the private opening of this show at Alliance Francaise last night - and it was fantastic. We really did get to see work from a lot of names previously unknown, they were actually mostly young (and all emerging), and the show, on the whole, was\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1276,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/17\/victor-ious\/","url_meta":{"origin":486,"position":3},"title":"Victor ious","author":"nathaniel","date":"17 July 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"diane victor @ fried contemporaryMade it to the Roles\/Robes opening at Fried in P-town a few nights ago, and it was a strong show - I can't believe that place has been around for an entire year now, and it is really going strong (huge turn out, for a starving\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"diane victor @ fried contemporary","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/62\/191609667_b965454442.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":355,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/01\/tipping-the-gaff-others\/","url_meta":{"origin":486,"position":4},"title":"tipping the gaff + others","author":"nathaniel","date":"01 May 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Oops. I forgot to blog that I gave a brief public talk at Wits yesterday. I gave some context of my work, but mostly, it was a test of my new installation, followed by some great crit and stunning feedback from those who attended. (Shout-outs and appreciation to them; I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;me&quot;","block_context":{"text":"me","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/me\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":459,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/24\/blackheart\/","url_meta":{"origin":486,"position":5},"title":"blackheart","author":"nathaniel","date":"24 September 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Lesego Rampolokeng's book (blackheart) is being published, and the launch is over at one of my fave spaces - gallery momo. Here's an interesting article on him \/ the book. Admittedly, I've seen Lesego perform a time or two, and it was most certainly worth the effort; and then some.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}