tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61447541068076313782024-02-06T18:33:06.035-08:00Hard-To-ReachArt and music from a reliable baal koreh.Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13556660395011177563noreply@blogger.comBlogger110125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144754106807631378.post-64461619445705112922014-04-15T08:40:00.004-07:002014-04-15T08:40:58.260-07:00How to Fix a Flat: with Lance Armstrong<script height="288px" src="http://player.ooyala.com/iframe.js#pbid=MzMyN2JkYjc5ZWFlOTg1N2FkMjk5MmI5&ec=l0cGgzbTp6pXWkTaybT4CznmWMTvzEl2" width="512px"></script>
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My dad: They let him into your office?!<br />
Me: Yes.<br />
My dad: Lance Armstrong?<br />
Me: Yes. He was here.<br />
My dad: How can they do that?! He lied to everybody! He destroyed people who spoke out against him! What was he even doing there?<br />
Me: You know, Dad, I'm not...disputing, but...sigh...he's a complicated guy, and he gave a lot of money to charity, helped a lot of people, and it's not as if he hasn't paid for what he did.<br />
My dad: They let him into your office?!<br />
Me: I'm just telling you that he was here. I saw him, but we didn't make eye contact. If it was Roger Clemens, I'd have gotten out from behind my desk and spit in his face, but...I'd really rather not get into it.<br />
My dad: What was the video even about?<br />
Me: I don't know. We're not supposed to talk about it until it goes online.<br />
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Los Angeles could see a renaissance of mural painting following last week’s approval by the Planning and Land Use Management Committee of an ordinance that lifts a ban on the creation of murals on private property. The city council is due to vote on the ordinance on 20 August, potentially reversing restrictions that have been in effect for a decade. Continue reading in <a href="http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Los-Angeles-council-to-vote-on-lifting-ban-against-mural-painting/30182">The Art Newspaper</a>.Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13556660395011177563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144754106807631378.post-75881353719563094722013-08-08T10:18:00.003-07:002013-10-02T21:06:02.880-07:00Saving Badass Dogs From Idiot Humans<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Of the dogs who stood in front of NYC Pet on Driggs Ave. on Saturday, a surprising number had both first and last names. There was a collie-shepherd named David Hasselhoff, a basset hound-boxer named Patrick Henry, and a Calhoun hound-pit bull named Faye Dunaway — in addition to a “super mellow” beagle mix, whose dirty blonde erudition and Germanic allure had apparently compelled a previous owner to name her Carole Lombard. Though some of the dogs were still considered puppies, most were at least twice the size of a shoebox, and all of them were hoping to find adopters, as part of the weekly-to-biweekly events organized by <a href="http://www.badassbrooklynanimalrescue.com/about/"><b>Badass Brooklyn Animal Rescue</b></a>. Read the full post on <a href="http://greenpointers.com/2013/08/08/saving-badass-dogs-from-idiot-humans-the-most-badass-animal-rescue-in-brooklyn/#more-21069">Greenpointers</a>.Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13556660395011177563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144754106807631378.post-14967322969100999012013-07-18T08:58:00.005-07:002013-07-18T08:58:59.497-07:00Dave Van Ronk<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ncJf9uzwhSg" width="420"></iframe><br />
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I was doing some background research on the Stonewall Uprising, where a commemorative plaque was supposed to be installed this week (the ceremony has been postponed), and I came across Dave Van Ronk, a blues guitarist who was among the few people who could confirm having been at the Stonewall on the night of June 28, 1969. Now I can't stop listening to his music.Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13556660395011177563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144754106807631378.post-54128332294183114832013-07-07T16:26:00.002-07:002013-07-18T08:59:45.550-07:00Bruce McCall's Faux Nostalgia<iframe src="http://embed.ted.com/talks/bruce_mccall_s_faux_nostalgia.html" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe>Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13556660395011177563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144754106807631378.post-21669984795936709172013-06-16T15:51:00.000-07:002013-06-16T15:51:44.018-07:00Danny Wilde<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmvy80k-FQDcZ36vVKQqzHbuiDt0MF-Jn2nH7C78hpy8TNSp3FdVGgFifKhHBhfCP6YkcU9s07JISF5UnGhd0A9ttdgvv0FflkqZcMXXgAEtRXJdoAeyrWSvKwZw7qbQ7yhQ6Pk79itg2v/s1600/hqdefault.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmvy80k-FQDcZ36vVKQqzHbuiDt0MF-Jn2nH7C78hpy8TNSp3FdVGgFifKhHBhfCP6YkcU9s07JISF5UnGhd0A9ttdgvv0FflkqZcMXXgAEtRXJdoAeyrWSvKwZw7qbQ7yhQ6Pk79itg2v/s1600/hqdefault.jpg" /></a><br />
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In the early sixties, in the heyday of group journalism, I spent a year as one of the writers in Time Edit. I’d previously spent a year as a reporter (or “correspondent,” as the masthead had it) in the Atlanta bureau, covering the civil rights struggle in the South, and six months in the New York bureau—a misfit operation in the group-journalism scheme of things, staffed by two or three reporters who sometimes compared themselves to Transit Authority policemen assigned to the tunnels. For half of that year in Time Edit, I was what we called a floater—a utility infielder who was brought in to a section when, say, the person who wrote Sport was home with the flu, or when one of the World writers was on vacation. Since writers were listed on the masthead as associate or assistant editors, I’ve assumed ever since that I could justifiably refer to myself, on occasions when credentials are called out to add weight to a point of view, as the former Art editor of Time (four or five weeks, at various times) or even the former Medicine editor of Time (two consecutive weeks, although I must admit that the section was killed both weeks).<br />
Read the full story on <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/03/time-magazine-calvin-trillin-memoir.html">NewYorker.com</a>Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13556660395011177563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144754106807631378.post-84593496370343232722013-04-01T15:28:00.001-07:002013-04-01T15:28:12.474-07:00Depeche Ode<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A decision by the historic but broke Bialystoker Center of Nursing and Rehabilitation on Manhattan’s Lower East Side to accept designation of its building as a landmark now appears to be conflicting with its most pressing moral imperative: paying back wages to its workers.<br />
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Read the full story on <a href="http://forward.com/articles/173753/bialystoker-home-spawns-new-controversy-over-landm/?p=all#ixzz2Oy3Ygppz" target="_blank">Forward.com</a>Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13556660395011177563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144754106807631378.post-39626893487901293112013-03-14T14:34:00.001-07:002013-03-14T14:34:31.942-07:00Eddie Kendricks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Several months ago, I was talking <a href="http://vimeo.com/marievic" target="_blank">Marie Vic</a> about her project, "<a href="http://vimeo.com/48524226" target="_blank">Popcorn</a>." The installation she was working on was really simple (it involved handing out bags of freshly-made popcorn to passersby in the Chelsea gallery district), but her preparation was really intense, and so even though all she wanted me to do was write a brief artist's statement for the show, we talked for hours about relational aesthetics, institutional critique in Chelsea, and loads of other topics that I hadn't had to think about (as part of my job, at least) since I was in college.<br />
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It was fun as hell. Hoping to give Marie some further background, I suggested a blog post I'd written for Hard to Reach about a <a href="http://hardtoreachareas.blogspot.com/2011/01/fia-backstrom-and-christian-philipp.html" target="_blank">show at Murray Guy</a> that was relevant to her new project. Reading stuff for this blog has been like hearing my own voice played back to me, but eventually I did give the post a look, and I ultimately decided that most of what I wrote here between November 2010 and January 2012 was nothing to be ashamed of.<br />
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Now that I'm freelancing full-time, it's come up that I should try to revive this thing. I've decided to start by re-posting some recent articles in The Forward and The New York Times, as well as a mix I made for a friend's wedding in the fall. Here they are.<br />
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Congregation Beth Hamedrash Hagadol, considered to be the oldest Russian Jewish congregation in the United States, is looking to reverse the landmark status of the venerable structure in which it once prayed in order to demolish it and make way for a multi-use development. Architectural preservationists have expressed dismay at the idea of losing a building that has been among the Lower East Side’s most prominent houses of worship since the mid-19th century.<br />
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<b>Before Word Can Spread, Party’s Over at a Brooklyn Speakeasy</b><br />
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Later, Sully, who was serving as a bartender, projected a 1980 Sonny Chiba film, “Shogun’s Ninja,” on a screen opposite the bar. Sully had been toting an archaic Walkman cassette player for music, and played mix tapes he had prepared especially for the evening. The alternative, he said, would have been flipping records over a turntable. But there was simply no room.</div>
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And finally, my wedding gift Isaac Plumb and Erin Mesa, a tribute to His Awesomeness Al Pacino.<br />
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Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13556660395011177563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144754106807631378.post-1565072290285404362012-01-26T07:02:00.000-08:002012-01-26T07:02:36.135-08:00Is “The City Dark” Self-Parody?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">There’s nothing immediately offensive about the premise of Ian Cheney’s new documentary, <i>The City Dark</i>. Living in New York, I can believe that Cheney, an amateur astronomer since his teenage years in Maine, might miss seeing the stars at night, and feel deprived. When he attempts to stretch that wistfulness into an authoritative documentary, however, the results are less than convincing.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Read the full post on <a href="http://www.artfagcity.com/2011/12/22/sculptor-john-chamberlain-dies-at-84/" target="_blank">Art Fag City</a>.</span>Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13556660395011177563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144754106807631378.post-75084861957816428092011-12-21T10:23:00.000-08:002011-12-21T10:23:17.032-08:00Chris Burden<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/llacDdn5yIE" width="500"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.6807707129046321"><span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Though canonized for his work in body art and performance art in the 1970s, for the past four years Chris Burden has moved his skills towards moving architecture and sculpture. When looking at “Metropolis II” (2011), his room-sized, bafflingly complex road way of matchbox-sized cars, one begins to understand how life in Burden’s home city of Los Angeles can often feel so de-centered as to be placeless. </span></span></b><b id="internal-source-marker_0.6807707129046321"><span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“It wasn’t about trying to make a scale model.” he says. “It was more to evoke the energy of a city.” </span></span></b><b><span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a short documentary on the sculpture, the chiming minimalist background music played under an interview with Burden recalls a Michael Mann film. </span></span></b><b><span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">California art and Hollywood action movies apparently have a lot in common.</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></b></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/yBeU-JmEvFE" width="500"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><b id="internal-source-marker_0.6807707129046321" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No less an ode to wide-open spaces is his "Beam Drop" (2008). You can't help but be reminded of the Los Angeles landscape when looking at the background of a video reposted today by</span></span></b><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <a href="http://hydeordie.com/post/14570035596/chris-burden-beam-drop-directed-by-pablo-lobato" target="_blank">Hyde or Die</a>. </span></span></b>Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13556660395011177563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144754106807631378.post-86936123852045559932011-12-21T07:41:00.000-08:002011-12-21T07:41:20.327-08:00Flux Factory Honors Paddy Johnson<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Filled with naches, I visited the old DIA foundation location in Chelsea last night to see my editor, Paddy Johnson, honored for her work on the art blog Art Fag City. During a silent auction to benefit the Flux Factory, presenters talked about how much she has done to lend exposure to emerging artists and to improve public dialogue with honest, intelligent criticism that "meets the reader at eye level." O</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ne of my co-workers got a little teary eyed after Paddy gave a speech. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was really touching. </span><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you missed the auction event because of a work-related scheduling conflict, a babysitting obligation, or a crucial visit to a karaoke bar, worry not. This time of year, there are still many opportunities to help this organization. B</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">y <a href="http://www.fluxfactory.org/artauction2011/" target="_blank">buying the work</a> made by their resident artists, or make a <a href="http://www.fluxfactory.org/donate/" target="_blank">fully tax-deductible donation</a>, you can go a long way towards supporting </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the work Flux Factory does giving time, mentorship, and exposure to young and emerging artists in Long Island City. </span></div>Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13556660395011177563noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144754106807631378.post-84322952890505834552011-12-20T07:37:00.000-08:002011-12-20T07:37:21.952-08:00The Art of Loving Phil Collins<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">Revolt against a tyrant is legitimate; it can succeed. Revolt against human nature is doomed to failure...</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">Most of us have to conquer and ceasele</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">ssly reconquer the person whom we desire." - André Maurois, </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">The Art of Loving</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">.</span><br />
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