Even if I didn't know Jim Kempner, and Dru Arstark, and the rest to the crowd at Jim Kempner's Fine Art, the opening scene in this mini-comedy of Jim crossing 10th Avenue against an onrush of cabs would still be hilarious. Then comes the reveal, because in the best parts of this show you start seeing situation in the art world that you've experienced before, or overheard, or wish you hadn't overheard. Watch the whole thing, then for god's sakes go over to Jim's and buy a piece of art, will ya...
Category Archives: Around Town
Sharon Mesmer for Brooklyn Poet Laureate
Sharon Mesmer is on the short list for the next Brooklyn Poet Laureate to succeed Ken Siegelman.
It really isn’t a contest is it? She has to get the nod.
In a story Gene Kuntzman did for the The Brooklyn Paper he wrote:
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blockquote>"Mesmer will get the vote of anyone who likes a randy dame who’s not afraid to write poems with titles like “Annoying Diabetic Bitch” and “Holy Mother of Monkey Poo.”
“If anyone is suggesting me [as poet laureate], it must be because I slept around so much,” she said. But she’s being modest: Mesmer, who studied under Allen Ginsberg, teaches at the New School and, this fall, at Brooklyn College.
Also posted in Best Of, Writing Tagged Alan Ginsberg, flarf, Gene Kuntzman, Poetry, Sharon Mesmer, The New School 1 Comment
MoMA goes ready to wear with Pre-Fab houses
Why don’t prefabricated houses seem to work?
Architects from Wright to Gropius, and inventors such as Edison and Fuller couldn't make them work. Even with all this visionary genius, prefabricated dwellings have been an oddity in the modern world and often historical artifacts.
This is the struggle that this Fall’s big show at the MoMA, "Home Delivery - Fabricating the Modern Dwelling" tries to overcome. While artists of all types continue to be drawn to pre-fab as a design platform, so far nothing seems to have worked.
More on the show and pre fabs as a model for urban experimentation...
Also posted in Art, Best Of, Visionaries Tagged Airstream, Architecture, Arcosanti, BioSphere 2, Buckminster Fuller, Disney, EPCOT, Expo, Frank Lloyd Wright, MoMA, New Urbanism, SUV, Walter Gropius 6 Comments
“What do we need for cars here in Manhattan anyway?”
My buddy Sal has a solution to New York City's traffic congestion problem.
"Dump them all in the riv'a!"
Watch out!
Posted in Around Town Tagged Bloomberg, Cars, Congestion Pricing Plan, Dinkins, New Jersey, NYC, pedicab, Sharpton, Woodside 7 Comments
Tourist’s guide to Manhattan Fuana
"Look Daddy, a yellow spotted Risk Manager..."
Mayor Mike is absolutely wrong about promoting tourism in New York City, one of the direct outcomes of which has been the infestation of red double decker tourist busses on all the streets of our city.
Its like being in a zoo.
St. Lawrence University Commencement Address: Gomes trumps Sotomayor
Oh, a Supreme Court Justice spoke as well, but she didn’t have much to say, again.