THE PIT

NEXT fair: Chicago

If you happen to be in Chicago, please stop by the NEXT art fair
to check out the Mixed Greens booth (featuring Joan Linder's work)

just for fun

SoHo's newest addition has an "architectural mullet". That's one of the best descriptions I've read in a long time.

VOLTA Basel posts their list.

Celebrities get a chance to stare back.

Linder opening (part 2)

It got seriously busy.

Check out the show in person!
Cost of Living
on view through May 28 @ Mixed Greens

JOAN LINDER: the opening (part 1)

Here are a few pictures from the very beginning of Joan Linder's opening (before it got insanely crowded!)

above: a class stopped by to see the installation up close

above: visitors getting a closer look at Linder's, "Resume: Louise Bourgeois"

above: Steven talking about Linder's "Documents," 2008-2010 (installation)

above: lots of detail in "Table 8, (cadaver)"

above: getting a close view of "Green Weed (Love Canal)"

Joan Linder's "Cost of Living" is on view at Mixed Greens through May 28th

Alas, a wretched folly did occur!

Last night’s merriment was dampened by the chill of sorrow and sadness at the loss of one Linder drawing. During the hustle and bustle, methinks it was stolen quite accidentally (perhaps by some ‘poisonous bunch-back’d toads’?).  Anyhooo, we’re getting over it.  So on Shakespeare’s 446th birthday, may I quote,

“what’s gone and what’s past help
should be past grief”
The Winter’s Tale (III, ii, 223-224)

And have fun on this Talk Like Shakespeare Day.

More LINDER installation pics!

larger-than-life Louise Bourgeois resume

Mattress

Mattress (detail)

Rob and HDB, hard at work

another beautiful day

Wednesday news (good stuff)

"Because the new bookstore will be designed by Los Angeles-based artist Doug Aitken, the Hirshhorn plans to pay for it with funds set aside for acquisitions." ?!?!?!!! Ohhh, boy.

Whoa: Retraction.

Limited art vendors in NYC parks??

DiggingPitt blog has all the info you need to submit proposals to Flux Factory's Going Places (Doing Stuff)

Ed is OCD about T.Y.M.S.E.A.P.

in other news

Christina Mazzalupo has designed LIMITED EDITION T-SHIRTS, "Types of Hairstyles"...read more about them (and BUY THEM!) here. This might just be the perfect gift for your crazzzzy friend with the "death hawk", or your nice neighbor with the "devil lock".

OTHER NEWS:

Art Brussels is still A-Go, despite the travel complications due to ash.

I'm not sure this is what art-world people mean when they say "they keep recruiting younger and younger", but this certainly is young (for a show).

Once again Paddy gets the scoop (this is more interesting than the Goldman Sachs saga)

Joan Linder: installation pics (part 1)

Yup. The custom-made, glass table has arrived. You'll have to check it out in person...

Joan Linder's "Cost of Living" opens THIS THURSDAY, April 22nd, 6-8pm @ Mixed Greens

More Road Trip pics

Here are some more pictures from our Friday adventure -- they aren't too roadsy (like I said, I forgot to bring my camera). If you can, please imagine our rest area stop lunch and iPhone maps. At least we did get a few photos from evening's main event:

above: Last year's Grand Prize winner of the West Prize, "Ice Cream Truck Tank," 2006 by the Billy and Stephen Dufala. [we love love love it]

above: Courtney peeks inside and prays that real ice cream trucks
don't also have toilets in them

above: Rob listens as Courtney just can't over that whole Barnes Foundation debacle (meaning: that we didn't get there in time. SAD.)