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commodity fetishism gone right \/\/ banzai!!!!! | brooklyn
These days, Brooklyn is the destination where art comes to be born and to die. After all, this is still New York City, the global center for commercial art distribution. But beyond that, Brooklyn is home to the overwhelming majority of studios, ateliers, and actual artists in New York City. Soho and Chelsea obviously... »
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Rock, Paper, Scissors, Shoot! Ahh healthy competition. The healthiest kind. We at the avant guardian support both health and competition. Which is why we like all fighting styles. We like Tiger Fist and Flying Crane. We like the guy with the moobs from Fight Club. We like beast wars (where you pick two animals and... »
seeing monkey-suits\/\/ g.a. at the mla
Hi Friends, This week I’m at the MLA conference in Philadelphia. For those of you that have never heard of the Modern Language Association, it’s the biggest club of all the big clubs for people that make their living, or attempt to make their living, out of being teacher-y book nerds (such as yours truly). The... »
get on with the…real?\/\/une danse intentionnelle
hi friends, So, now a close reading of Rush’s ‘Limelight’…which I acknowledge is totally inappropriate for a prog-rock song, because that’s exactly what those nerds wanted when they wrote it, but here goes… (oh, by the way, JUDITH BUTLER!!) The theory that will go into this is comes from Butler’s amazing books Gender Trouble and Undoing Gender.... »
moving too fast? \/\/ poetry to slow you down…
“Whatever you have to say, leave the roots on, let them dangle, And the dirt, Just to make clear where they come from.” – Charles Olson, “These Days” Dale Smith, a poet out of Austin, Texas, made a stir recently by calling for a “slow poetry” that, like “slow food,” would avoid the over-produced and fast-paced language of the... »
what’s on my list? \/\/ a d.i.y. film festival
Growing up amidst the maize fields of the great Midwest, I volunteered at a restored movie theater on weekends: single screen, ‘30s era art deco interior, concession stand inside the theater. The Normal Theater in Normal, Illinois. My old man took me to see Vertigo when I was ten. A few months later I... »
art basel \/\/ part two \/\/ in which the garbage gets better
“Every Art Basel I learn a new nickname for cocaine.” -overheard in a gallery at Art Basel, Miami 2009 I am completely exhausted. Basel is effectively a five day citywide party. Stimulus is everywhere. Art, music, people. Lots of people doing drugs. Over-stimulus. Everyone involved in the fairs, or people who spend every moment soaking it... »
art basel \/\/ part one \/\/ in which chicken flava doesn’t cross the road
“I’m really sorry guys, I thought that was going to be so different. It’s my fault, I wanted to go.“ -overheard walking out of an event at Art Basel, Miami 2009 Ahh Art Basel. Its that time of year again in Miami, Florida. My fine city. The Magic City, or as the ubiquitous New Yorkers this... »
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