Courtesy oF Ken Knabb’s Bureau of Public Secrets:
IF SHARKS WERE MEN (from Stories of Mr. Keuner)
“If sharks were men,” Mr. K. was asked by his landlady’s little girl, “would they be nicer to the little fishes?”
“Certainly,” he said. “If sharks were men, they would build enormous boxes in the ocean for the little fish, with [...]
Swim in the lake, for pleasure. The water
Which could drown you
Buoys you up.
Swimming you cleave it, behind you
It comes together again.
Robert Heinecken (1932-2006) at Cherry and Martin: A complete group of the magazine pieces, selections from the “Hite Hustler Beaver Hunt” and “Socio/Fashio Lingerie” series, and color and black and white photograms from the 1960’s and 1980’s.
Mary Reid Kelley’s “Sadie, the Saddest Sadist,” at Susan Vielmetter. My favorite line: “Brittania waives the rules.”
Robert Rahway Zakanitch at Samuel Freeman. Zakanitch is now in his 70s.
Next door, at Greenfield Sacks and Frank Lloyd, Ed Moses, now in his 80′s, continues his own exploration of pattern and decoration.
An image from my MFA thesis show at Art Center this past February. The show title, “Our Coming Was Expected,” referenced the second of Walter Benjamin’s Theses on the Philosophy of History. More images in the projects section.
Code X was a 60-step algorithm I wrote that fetched the Google news page once a day at one minute after midnight, transformed the text into an image, and then uploaded the image to a website where it could be viewed along with all previously generated images. Although seemingly identical, every image, like a fingerprint, [...]
I failed to mention how the social clique I was trying to delineate, which was well represented in Frankfurt, was specifically reflected in the December 2007 issue of Artforum. John Kelsey had gone to the Miami Basel art Fair with 13 unsold paintings of mine as my gallerist at Reena Spaulings Fine Art [...]
I found this sunny example of Socialist Realism here. No artist name or date given.
Cy Twombly ceiling at the Louvre. Another view.