Zoe Strauss: Ten Years

She is at her best, however, when exploring communities closer to home: staking out local bodegas, immortalizing Philly characters like the South Street clothing store proprietor Benny Krass, or putting a face to the urban tragedy of Camden, N.J., just across the Delaware River from Philadelphia... In these shots, and in the series as a whole, the highway is as much of a divider as it is a thoroughfare. It isolates neighborhoods or splits them in two, a condition emphasized by Ms. Strauss’s careful attention to seams, scars and lines of demarcation... It’s fair to say that Ms. Strauss has accomplished more in the past decade than many artists do in a lifetime. With more gumption than wherewithal, she spun a single idea into a magnum opus.

Review: Philadelphia Stories (NY Times)

Zoe Strauss: Ten Years opens on Saturday and continues through April 22 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

My favorite shop —

South Willard (in Brutus #713)

Mondo Right

Then: Venini and Now: Scarpa (Mondo Blogo)

Dance Works I: details

From the Walker Art Center's installation photos of Dance Works I: Merce Cunningham / Robert Rauschenberg, on view until May 13, 2012.

Eye Sea Posters; I want posters —

More/buy: Eye Sea Posters

Ito House

Ito House, 1967
Hiroshi Hara
Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan

Bertjan Pot: Progress / Face Value —

You cannot sit and wait for progress. Creating impulsively and reacting on the outcomes is a way to make the world increasingly better. It’s about being naïve at the right times and trying to be smart at others, having the guts to do so, despite high expectations and need for security.

To be quite honest, the best part of the whole experience is the day after the vibrant opening of the exhibition, back at the office working on a new product. Once more it becomes clear how impulses and fun can finally have their result in a functional piece of furniture. The different exhibitions are an underlining of Studio Bertjan Pot's diverse worlds. Nevertheless there is no preference for one or the other. Somewhere in the middle feels good, we're doing well.

Progress (2011) by Bertjan Pot

Closed Mondays.

John McWhinnie, Bookseller

1968–2012

Um Um Um

A Banned Segment from Saturday Night Live

The 1998 Robert Smigel animated short film "Conspiracy Theory Rock", part of a March 1998 "TV Funhouse" segment, has been removed from all subsequent airings of the Saturday Night Live episode where it originally appeared. Michaels claimed the edit was done because it "wasn't funny". The film is a scathing critique of corporate media ownership, including NBC's ownership by General Electric/Westinghouse.

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Watch/share: Conspiracy Theory Rock upload and fair use caption by spuddy83 (via Tagbanger).

You are not burdened to do something important. You are not dealing in big things.

More: Saul Leiter (This Long Century)

Works for New Spaces

Sam Gilliam, “once associated with the Washington School of Color-field painting,” had by 1971 “abandoned the use of the stretched canvas” to make works like Carousel Merge, above. Gilliam intended the canvas to be “hung in a variety of configurations in any given space.”

From the Walker Art Center archives.

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Miscellaneous: Best of 2011 —

See you next year!

Peace

No blog posts = I've been keeping cozy with this new little guy and his sisters. Happy Holidaze! from Tully and his family.

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She's gotta have it —

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