December 2008

One of the locations of the Distributed Gallery where some of my GIF videos are showing is the store Ooga Booga, in Los Angeles. It is having an opening tonight of a show called Secondary Market, curated by Hanne Mugaas, consisting of paintings, sculptures and art ephemera bought from eBay.

In Dallas, And/Or Gallery features "new paintings by Milwaukee-based artist, Peter Barrickman, and new digital prints and images by Petra Cortright, a new media artist from Los Angeles." The reception is tomorrow.

Bringing this post full circle, Paul Slocum, artist and proprietor of And/Or Gallery, will be showing work in the project space at artMovingProjects in NY (John Giglio in the main space). The opening is tonight.

Kind of a real world web ring (critics might have a more off-color term).

Really dislike the trend (especially egregious on Talking Points Memo and Huffington Post) of having a photo, usually unrelated to a story, of a politician smiling or frowning depending on the day's news about that pol. It seems mainstream-media-fake, or even photoshop-fake. If the photographer captures a pic of a candidate grimacing at the precise moment of being told "you lost the recount," fine, that's honest and accurate. But for Josh Marshall to tell an intern, "get me a pic of so-and-so looking super grumpy" is just phony baloney. If you need visual interest to spice up your blog page, use a cartoon.