Dan Graham: Beyond

photo credit: copenhagen.unlike.net

Over Memorial Day weekend we saw the Dan Graham: Beyond exhibit at
MOCA Los Angeles. This morning I am happy to learn the show arrives to the Whitney later this month: opening June 25, 2009.

Its a powerful show with work that is inclusive and displacing all at once. My favorite pieces in this retrospective are the transparent, two-way mirrored glass installations. Viewers see reflections of themselves and their surrounds as well as views through the glass. The audience becomes part of the sculpture.

Dan Graham interview

The New Yorker gets an iSketch cover

Last month I got a lovely Jorge Colombo print, iSketch098, through 20×200. So I was thrilled to see this week’s cover of The New Yorker featuring a Jorge Colombo iSketch cityscape. Looks amazing.

Check out The New Yorker Cover Story

Check out Jen Bekman’s 20×200

Check out Jorge Colombo

Soft Shuttlecocks, Falling, Number Two

Walking over to the Whitney Museum after work to see the Claes Oldenburg / Coosje Van Bruggen exhibit.

NYT Review: A Low-Cost Show Reinflates a Big Bag

Sweet Little Green Typewriter

Thanks marichelle for the heads up on michele maule’s work. I think I’ll put this in my office.

The Dreamland Gala

The Dorothy Parker Society is hosting The Dreamland Gala fundraiser on Sunday, May 24 with Michael Arenella and his 12-piece Dreamland Orchestra. Come out in vintage clothes for a great night of music in Carroll Gardens to support Parkerfest 2009.

The speakeasy-themed gala will be held at the Green Building, a 19th-century warehouse nestled along the banks of the Gowanus Canal, at 450 Union Street in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.

The Kills at Music Hall of Williamsburg

Alison Mosshart kicked ass with her spitting, smoking and singing. Jamie Hince really kicked ass- actually roughed up an idiot audience member who crawled on stage. I heart The KIlls.

Jorge Colombo’s Brushes

Yes, I’m hooked on Jen Bekman’s 20×200 and I’ve ordered another print.

iSketch098
by Jorge Colombo
The iSketches are drawn on location using an iPhone application called Brushes. No photo references, no tablets, no brushes to wash: just my finger on the tiny touch-screen. Don’t even need a proper light: the drawing itself glows in a dark corner. At $4.99, Brushes is a very democratic tool (provided you have an iPhone, sure) and I suspect it’ll be to drawing what email was for letter-writing. Something is lost, something is gained.

I only got an iPhone in February 2009, so all this is still very new. It all started when I realized I could draw while night-riding in a car. Soon I found myself sketching NY spots that are part of my life. I’ve lived in the USA for 20 years and I’m still looking at its urban landscape as if I was discovering it for the first time.

Moon Trailer

Paul Sahre: A Designer And His Problems

Thanks AIGA/NY for posting this!
Click here for the AIGA/NY Vimeo presentation- Paul Sahre: A Designer And His Problems

A Designer and His Problems is a once-in-a-lifetime inspirational journey through one designer’s typos, questionable color choices and poor font selection. A Designer and His Problems deals with the feeling that we all have from time to time: that something is wrong but we don’t know quite what. Or maybe we do know, but it’s too late to do anything about it. Heartwarming and refreshingly honest, Paul Sahre identifies problems in all their different forms and urges us to accept them, nurture them, caress them.

telegramstop

As older methods of correspondence become more obsolete in today’s digital age, TelegramStop brings the best of the old and the new world. Through the company’s website, anyone can send vintage-era telegram to any country in the world for a flat fee of $4.70.

Read more of Laura Neilson’s TelegramStop post for Cool Hunting