Category Archives: Recession Advice
Work exchange at Harlem’s Taller Boricua is cool; but the artist’s statements? Eh. You decide.
I really like the concept driving this event on Feb. 23 at Taller Boricua in Harlem: exchange your skill for someone else’s skill. It’s created by an artist named Chanika Svetvilas, and it came into my Inbox described much like this:
Here’s what (the artist, presumably) has to say. It’s pretty good, no?
Do you have an [...]
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Roberta Smith: WooHoo! Crowd-hungry museums, following “latter-day Postminimalism” get their comeuppance
In the New York Times, Sunday. As you prob know. RS sounds off masterfully on the subject of why museum solo shows of work by contemporary artists all feel cool, distant, alike. Or, rather, “part of a big-box chain featuring only one brand.”
…What’s missing is art that seems made by one person out of intense [...]
Also posted in Chelsea Galleries, Uncategorized Tagged A. M. Richard, Martin Wilner, Postminimalism, Robert Smith, Ward Shelley 2 Comments
fisk and fern, Provo Designs, nutrition advice @ Gowanus’ (OA) Can Factory
The Old American Can Factory in Gowanus is a cool, block-long former-factory complex where some amazing artists (some of them, my former students) have their studios. That said, it’s also got….retail therapy!
I hopped inside the structure, at 3rd Street in Gowanus, on a whim, and found a kind of farmer’s market-meets-craft-art thing. I hate to just call [...]
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Still lovin’ “Art Bum” Comix
Ever feel like this?
Still goin’ strong, Lawrence Swan.
Mid-life writer works in fulfillment house, finds fulfillment sez NYTIMES
A recent talk with my bank branch manager, Nikhil Gadkari, and a short “life” story of a woman’s part-time job in the Times Magazine inspires me to share Recession stuff.
First off, the writer is one Beverly Willett, a former lawyer living in Brooklyn, who says of her $12 per hour holiday job:
“There was no way [...]
Posted in Recession Advice Tagged beverly willett, credit card debt calculator, home budget calculator, mint.com, Recession, smartypig 2 Comments
Artist Statement, the Good/Bad List
People have been asking me for this lately (Hi, Julie, in India!!); so I’ll just re-post it here.
DIY…Sazerac?
Sorry to rip off the Wall Street Journal for artsy stuff, but their video on local hackerspot NYCResistor and Brooklyn’s MakerBot Industries (which is producing low-cost 3-D printers) is pretty instructive.
A robot at NYCResitor (Downtown Bklyn, near Fulton Mall) makes a Sazerac—a difficult drink to make, even for a human. It involves rinsing the glass [...]
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The Artist Statement Writing Workshop, DAC, ‘09
Dunno if I published this, but Amanda (and others) at DAC were kind enough to give me an edited version of the workshop I did there last summer. Sorry, the sound isn’t great. But if you stick with it, it might be humorous, um, educational. The gloss, below, is courtesy of DAC.
Making a Statement from [...]
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i will attempt to write artists statements—in real time, at #hashtagclass