Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.
— Berthold Auerbach
To be a book collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
— Robertson Davies
For, after all, what is Man in Nature? A nothing in relation to infinity. All in relation to nothing. A central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.
— Blaise Pascal
Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
— Voltaire.
Friday Overture: A Good Joke, Well Delivered
SAM VAN AKEN: I AM HERE TODAY...
in the gallery thru June 4
gallery hours Tues to Fri 11am to 6pm, Sat 11am to 2pm
Sam Van Aken appears courtesy Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York.
Read Colin Dabkowski's preview interview with Sam Van Aken here.
Artists&Models STIMULUS Post-Event Press Roundup
5 Reasons Artists & Models Is Back With A Vengeance
Buffalo Rising
Artists & Models: STIMULUS - Jax Deluca from hallwalls on Vimeo.
HERO Printing Live @ Artists & Models
Artists & Models: STIMULUS - David Butler from hallwalls on Vimeo.
My photo and video footage from the event was super-lame and should teach me once and for all that a Coolpix cannot do everything, but I saved just a bit of video footage of a hula hoop dancing girl that has a nice segment of music from Bev Beverly:
Music By Bev Beverly from John Massier on Vimeo.
The rest of April/May 2010 @ Hallwalls
Opening Elsewhere
• Roman Zabinski @ Artsphere op Fri, May 7, 6:30-9pm
• Nina Leo, Kevin kline, Anne Muntges, Niki Shelley, Jonathan Barcan @ The Vault op Fri, May 7, 6-10pm
• Dorothy Fitzgerald @ The Tri-Main op Sat, May 8, 5-9pm, suite 532
TONIGHT Grand Opening: Dog & Pony Projects
feat. John Fleiscer and Arjan Zazueta
7-10pm @ 561 Forest Avenue
TOMORROW @ Squeaky Wheel
Beth Pedersen, Susan Copley
op TONIGHT @ Indigo, 6-9pm (June 6)
Artists' talk Sat, May 22, 6-9pm
Matthew John Pasquarella
op TONIGHT @ College Street Gallery, 5-10pm (May 30)
op TONIGHT
Lecture and exhibition tour of “Under Each Other's Spell": The Gutai and New York by Exhibition Curator Dr. Ming Tiampo, Associate Professor of Art History at Carleton University, Ottawa
Thurs, May 13, 7pm @ UB Anderson Gallery
"Dr. Ming Tiampo, Associate Professor of Art History at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada will provide a lecture and tour of the exhibition “Under Each Other’s Spell”: The Gutai and New York, on view at UB Anderson Gallery through August 22. The lecture and tour examines the fruitful relationship that developed between the avant-garde Gutai Art Group, which was founded in Osaka, Japan, in 1954 and New York artists in the 1950s and 1960s. Martha Jackson, mother of David Anderson and famous gallerist in New York City, introduced the Gutai to American audiences in the important 1958 group exhibition at the Martha Jackson Gallery. "The exhibition draws on material in the Pollock-Krasner House collection, archival material in the Martha Jackson Archives of UB Anderson Gallery, David Anderson’s Collection and a group of paintings in the collection of Paul Jenkins, who was an artist in residence at the Gutai Pinacotheca in Osaka in 1964. The Gutai paintings were given to Jenkins in exchange for his own works as an act of friendship. As he recalled the time he and the Gutai artists spent together, Jenkins said that they were "under each other's spell." In addition to paintings by several Gutai members, including Jirō Yoshihara, Atsuko Tanaka, Shōzō Shimamoto, Sadamasa Motonaga, Kazuo Shiraga and Akira Kanayama, the exhibition features examples of the Gutai journal, rare videos of Gutai exhibitions and performances in Japan, and photographs of American artists, including Jenkins, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and John Cage during a visit to the Gutai group in 1964."
Amanda Besl @ Lyons Wier (NYC)
op Tues, May 25 (June 20)
Joan Fitzgerald Retrospective @ Art Dialogue thru May 28)
Continuing Elsewhere
• ALBRIGHT KNOX • Fletcher Benton (July 5), The Dorothy and Herb Vogel Collection (May 9), Guillermo Cuitca (May 30), The Automatiste Revolution (May 30) Buffalo News
• BIG ORBIT • Hyeyoung Shin (May 29)
• BUFFALO ARTS STUDIO • Dennis Maher, Kyle Butler (May 29)
• BURCHFIELD PENNEY • Park School Students (Mar 28), Charles Cary Rumsey (May 30), Surreal Inclinations (July 11), Charles Burchfield: Heatwaves in a Swamp (May 23)
• CARNEGIE ART CENTER • Tom Holt & Brian Milbrand, Scan Lines (May 15)
• CASTELLANI ART MUSEUM • Felice Koenig (May 23), Surrealism and the Museum of Dreams (May 30), BSA Catalog Exhibition (Sept 5)
• CEPA GALLERY • Sally Rebl, Edgar Heap of Birds, Biff Henrich (May 29)
• HALLWALLS • Sam Van Aken opens April 23, 8-11pm
• SQUEAKY WHEEL • Signal Scavengers (May 8)
• UB ANDERSON • Paul Jenkins (Aug 22), Annette Cravens
• UB ART GALLERY • Alberto Rey & Precious Cargo (both May 15), Marc Tomko, Jason Seeley, Timothy Scaffidi, Ellen Rogers, Shasti O'Leary Soudant, Carolyn Kaser, Carrie Firman, Caitlin Cass, Heather Brand, Katrina Boemig, Jonathan Barcan, Alice Alexandrescu (May 15)
• Julian Montague @ B&W (NYC) thru May 28
• Greg Kuppenger, Viktoria Ciostek, Gene Witkowski, John Merlino, Sharon Kalstek @ Buffalo Big Print (Apr 17)
• Adele Cohen @ WNYBAC (May 15)
"DON’T blame it all on Arizona. The Grand Canyon State simply happened to be in the right place at the right time to tilt over to the dark side. Its hysteria is but another symptom of a political virus that can’t be quarantined and whose cure is as yet unknown." 
NY Times Rich
“This thing is replaying visually in the person’s head, and we really have no idea what is going on. But the idea, conceptually, of taking that moment and recontextualizing and placing it in the civilian world, is based on a therapeutic model.” 
NY Times McKinley
NY Times Lee
"Mr. Furlong considers the magazine a work of art itself: a monumental audio sculpture. Though it has never received much attention in the United States, it has long had an art-world cult following in Europe, and in 2004 its archive, thousands of hours of tape, was acquired by the Tate Britain, which describes it as the most comprehensive collection of artists’ voices in the world."
NY Times Kennedy
"After lukewarm reviews and initial box office results in Europe, Paramount Pictures, the American partner brought in toward the end of the shoot, took control of the film and made drastic excisions, arguing that Lang’s cut was too complicated and unwieldy for American audiences to understand."
NY Times Rother
"Mr. Peña is among the growing ranks of artists who have gone natural, who are scavenging the world’s vivarium and rummaging through the life sciences in search of materials, ideas, cosmic verities, tragicomic homilies, personal agency, a personal agent, a way to stand out in the crowd." 
NY Times Angier
“This story was murky at the time, and it’s just as murky looking back. There’s no way we can find the truth. Was this a rape? Was it him? Was it consensual? Or an affair? To this day it still divides people along racial lines. Everyone has a different agenda and their own version of the facts.”
NY Times Rother
"Count Panza’s budding enthusiasm for art found a big target when he visited the United States for the first time in 1954. Smitten, he began buying the work of abstract expressionists and then, over the years, moved on to Pop, Minimalism, environmental art and Conceptualism, always buying in depth and from an artist’s most fertile early period." 
NY Times obit
"At various times Mr. Sear was a professional tuba player; a designer, importer and dealer of specialty tubas; a composer of film soundtracks; and an electronic music enthusiast who advised Robert Moog on the design of his Moog synthesizer, the instrument that revolutionized popular music beginning in the 1960s." 
NY Times obit
"The Anthora has spawned a flock of imitations by competitors over the years, but it was first designed by Mr. Buck for the Sherri Cup Company in Kensington, Conn." 
NY Times obit
“If a teacher said you shouldn’t use black paint, that you should mix red, yellow and blue instead, he would use black and show you that it was the most beautiful color in the world..."
NY Times obit
For Your Netflix Queue...
(1966, dir. Massimo Pupillo) Or maybe not. Well, for your queue if you're in a generous, humorous mood. Otherwise, pass on this wretchedly awful film. If only it were half as good as its luridly great movie poster or its English title, Bloody Pit Of Horror. A study in low budget lameness. Loosely based on the writings of the Marquis de Sade and mixed with more than a little bodybuilder self-love courtesy of Mickey Hargitay, but it never achieves any sense of real dread or even real kink, it just falls flat and laughable from beginning to end. It's in the public domain, so it's a work begging to be made into an art piece. Avoid or watch with several intoxicated friends.
Something I listened to this week...
(2010) MOS DEF • THE ECSTATIC
I wouldn't have been disappointed had Mos Def decided to remain primarily an actor, particularly after his hilariously engaging performance as Chuck Berry in Cadillac Records, but I was more than happy to see this new disc roll out. I haven't vetted if fully yet, it just keeps coming up on the iPod shuffle, but it all sounds really stupendous. Verily, I like it. Verily much. Great album cover art too.
Let us so live that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry.
— Mark Twain
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