Happy New Year from The Usual and King + Grove
We (The Usual) partnered up with King + Grove to come up with the ten resolutions that promise to make 2012 the best year to date. Here they are, Happy New Year!:
Archived entries for Writing
Contributing to Surface Magazine’s new website
I wrote a couple of pieces for Surface Magazine’s newly launched site. I’m loving their redesign. Here one article by yours truly:
JIM LABIE’S “SPIRITUALIZED” AT ANTON KERN GALLERY
Read the full article HERE
Cynthia Rowley Shares Bill Powers’s Secrets
For Interview Magazine, I talked to the coolest power couple in New York about art vs. fashion and pink blazers:
This fall, designer Cynthia Rowley launched Mr. Powers, a menswear line inspired by Bill Powers: owner of Half Gallery, judge on Bravo’s Work of Art, and her husband. Set to debut around the same time that the second season began in October, this new waist-up only collection of blazers and jackets has been modeled by none other than Mr. Powers every week on Work of Art, which will air its final episode at the end of this month.
Read the full article HERE
Mitt Romney challenges Rick Perry to a casual $10,000 bet during the Republican debate tonight. Ah, the things I could casually do with $10,000.
Party, Party, Party
I went to Art Basel for the crazy five day, every night-is-New-Years-Eve-art spectacle. It was great writing for Style.com down there: I got my nails painted in camo, was transported to a “enchanted garden” in a private airplane hangar, dined under Swarovski crystals and ate bbq with Paris Hilton (nope, she didn’t actually eat). Here are the highlights: Night One, A Higher and Higher Level, Cinema Paridisio, and “It’s Kind of Insane How Everybody’s Here.”
A Freer Mumia
Though I’ll mourn the loss of so many “Free Mumia” posters at every protest for any-cause-USA, this is amazing news: “Death Penalty Dropped Against Ex-Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal” via CBS News.
15 NY Art World-ers on Art Controversies Today
Happy to be included among the 15 “Art World-ers” in this interesting article on Hyperallergic.
Performa
I’m excited to have joined the team at Performa, New York City’s “New Visual Art Performance Biennial,” as their Web Editor. The Biennial takes place all of November in various venues throughout NYC and features some of my favorite artists including Liz Magic-Laser, Rashaad Newsome in a medieval-style rap joust; Mika Rottenberg and Jon Kessler‘s first collaboration; a courtroom reenactment by Shirin Neshat; and the omnipresent James Franco.
