Another lunch break at a gallery. This time I strolled around the corner to The Hole on the Bowery. They’ve got a show of portraits of artist by artists. The artists are paired off. For example, Kenny Scharf does a portrait of Kembra Pfahler and vice versa. I think there are 100 artists involved so it’s …
Husk–my collaboration with Jeff Hutchison–is working on a new project. It involves the Samia cynthia, otherwise known as the Ailanthus Silkworm. This particular silkworm feeds on a diet of Ailanthus leaves. We are thinking about raising Samia cynthia to help us transform the Ailanthus tree, which is considered a weed tree, into something useful and desirable. …
In the Pharmacy window
A luxury home on top of a housing project. Is it only a matter of time…
What came first?
Today it just so happened that I finished reading WG Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn on the subway as I was riding the subway to the Upper East Side to see Mark Dion’s The Phantoms of the Clark Exhibition at the Explorers Club. Interestingly, both works refer to a trip and in both pieces history, colonialism, and …
Sadly, I lost a stalk in a recent thunderstorm. But otherwise the corn is doing well. Tassels are slowly lifting themselves out from the leaves. One reason I love growing corn is that it moves at just the right pace. And I also love growing these rare, Northeastern varieties of corn is for reasons described …
Another day of ducking out of work for an extended lunch and visit to a gallery. This time it was e-flux down on East Broadway. Animism, a show with a heady theme and populated with diverse, interesting work. The gallery was appropriately animated with a collection of moving images on monitors, walls, and on a …
It’s that time of year again to live the drama of the Tour de France. In honor of today’s rest day we watched Louis Malles’s 1962 short film Vive Le Tour. Absolutment wonderful! This brief film gives great insight into the race — the eccentricities (riders raiding roadside bars for beers and stuffing them into …
I saw this at BAM and it has now joined the list as one of the very best films I’ve ever seen. Right up there with Celine and Julie, with whom it shares some qualities. A surrealist, anarchic, hilarious romp of extremely bad behavior. Even after all these years, you can see how this …
Wild pigs are the height of mischievousness