{"id":799,"date":"2005-09-26T19:10:47","date_gmt":"2005-09-26T17:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=799"},"modified":"2005-09-26T19:28:42","modified_gmt":"2005-09-26T17:28:42","slug":"doin-the-sean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/26\/doin-the-sean\/","title":{"rendered":"doin the Sean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who didn&#8217;t notice, we added yet another guest blogger to our ranks a short while ago!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?page_id=798\">Sean Slemon<\/a>, a South African artist currently doing his MFA at Pratt in NYC  (and winner of the 2005 Sasol New Signatures award), will be doing occasional write-ups of exhibitions, shows, performances and talks over in the five boroughs.<\/p>\n<p>And I will be writing about his solo show in Chelsea this November, at David Krut &#8211; NYC here I come! Hey Sean, should I ask to write about it for a more professional SA pub, too? Not that they like me or anything&#8230;. Or you, for that matter.<\/p>\n<p>Psyched to have you on board, <a href=\"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?page_id=798\">Sean<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who didn&#8217;t notice, we added yet another guest blogger to our ranks a short while ago! Sean Slemon, a South African artist currently doing his MFA at Pratt in NYC (and winner of the 2005 Sasol New Signatures award), will be doing occasional write-ups of exhibitions, shows, performances and talks over [&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":[17,2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sean-slemon","category-south-african-art","category-uncategorical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-cT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1527,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/29\/public-property-sean-slemon-in-utah\/","url_meta":{"origin":799,"position":0},"title":"public property: Sean Slemon in Utah","author":"nathaniel","date":"29 August 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"We love Sean Slemon, a South African, award-winning artist, currently living in NYC.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"sean slemon in utah!","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/slemon.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1449,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/26\/sean-slemon-pratt-brooklyn\/","url_meta":{"origin":799,"position":1},"title":"Sean Slemon @ Pratt, Brooklyn","author":"nathaniel","date":"26 April 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"My favorite South African displaced in New York, and an inspired\/inspirational sculptor and artist, Sean Slemon, is having his Masters Solo Show at the Pratt Studios in Brooklyn, 30 April - 4 May. If you're around, do yourself a favor and attend (and tell him I said hi - he's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"nonexclusiveinvite.jpg","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/nonexclusiveinvite.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":721,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/20\/sean-slemon-at-premises\/","url_meta":{"origin":799,"position":2},"title":"sean slemon at premises","author":"nathaniel","date":"20 August 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"OK, so I forgot my camera and you will not be getting any images, but I can at least talk about the show. Sean Slemon really left SA with a bang! 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