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today was a good day under blue autumn skies, at the new york art book fair, at moma’s ps 1. there were too many wonderful exhibitors to give them all credit, so i’ll only mention a small fragment of the whole here. e-flux’s airstream trailer book coop was parked outside the main building of ps […]

exhibit in brooklyn: starved for attention

i would encourage you to see the photo exhibit from doctors without borders • médecins sans frontières, about child malnutrition called, “starved for attention,” at grand army plaza [prospect park west and eastern parkway], wednesday, thursday and friday, between 9:30am and 5:00pm, september 21st through the 23rd. starved for attention, brooklyn
doctors without borders […]

of visual interest: klein basel, switzerland & myrtle avenue, brooklyn . . .

klein basel, switzerland, 1990 . . .

myrtle avenue area, brooklyn, new york 2007 through 2011 . . .

untitled, number one . . .

untitled |ˌənˈtītld|
adjective
1 (of a book, composition, or other artistic work) having no name.
2 (of a person) not having a title indicating high social or official rank:
lesser untitled officials.
untitled, number one . . .

jörg ratzlaff: matthew, 1981

a metaphor for manhattan . . .

the opening exhibit for the smithsonian’s national museum for design was entitled, “MAN trans FORMS”. when the cooper hewitt museum opened in october 1976
in the former andrew carnegie mansion, dianne pilgrim and her crew had invited, among others, oswald mathias ungers to give a direction for what this institution could be. ungers used visual examples […]

pattern: variations on a theme in red & white . . .

i would encourage you to go and see infinite variety. it’s a special
free exhibit from the american folk art museum of 650 red & whites
quilts that span 300 years, on loan from joanna rose’s collection. this
rather unique exhibit is only up until this wednesday, the 30th of march,
between 66th & 67th streets and park avenue: […]

hank de ricco’s sculpture in the snow & otherwise

david weinrib’s notes* about hank de ricco’s 27 pole piece:
think totem poles . . .
think brancusi . . .
think david smith forged shaft series . . .
walter de maria lighting field project . . .
out west & west . . .
broadway dia centimeters room . . .
one hundred buddhas in kyoto . . .
arlington […]

x-mess photo from fire island girl . . .

today is the fourth sunday of advent and let us not forget that popular culture
has made much of the inclusion of nikolaos the wonderworker (*greek:
nikolaos o thaumaturgos) and his feastday of december 6th. saint nicholas
(model for santa claus, whose modern name comes from the dutch word, sinterklaas) is the patron saint of sailors, merchants, archers, […]

walking the earth . . .

people put their foot to the ground everyday without even thinking about it or being consciously aware of what’s happening; the behavior that we call walking can also be described as a physical repetitive motion of a body falling forward. usually people are wearing some sort of boot, shoe or sandal and if their inside, […]

art & design books . . .

wonderful art & design books for the * five senses at the new york art at book fair at moma’s ps 1 in queens, this past weekend, november, 5th through 7th. philip aarons, of printed matter, said, “the new york art book fair is the premiere venue to find what’s new in art publishing. while […]