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Erick and Randall at Thalia after "Once"
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Photo diary: the week in review
April 10, 2012Photo diary: a stroll through MOMA
March 30, 2012
Seeing decades of Cindy Sherman self-portraits in such profusion surprisingly increases my admiration for her. The transformations, especially involving crazy makeup and wigs and costumes, make them impressively theatrical. My favorites are the clowns, a logical and witty extension of her more grotesque experiments.
The “Exquisite Corpse” show has very little to do with the Surrealist-spawned parlor game among artists and a lot to do with artistic rendering of body distortions. I encountered some intriguing artists new to me (Andre Racz, above is his “The Flesh Fly”) and surprising pieces by old favorites (a fascinating multimedia collage by Jean Cocteau, below).
These smartphone pix of Paul Wunderlich’s delicate drawing “Chair Man” (above) and Kenyan artist Wangenchi Mutu’s multimedia piece “One Hundred Lavish Months of Bushwhack” (below), which hangs right outside the “Exquisite Corpse” show, don’t do them justice — worth checking out in person.
Photo diary: weekend in New York City
March 26, 2012
Michael Serrapica (with Andy Holtzman and friend) at "The Eyes Have It," the Il Chiostro art show at 25CPW Gallery
starlettas in bloom on Jane Street
Mike Banino, guest of honor at his surprise 40th birthday party, singing with fellow members of the Hangovers, Cornell's a cappella group (Andy Willett and Terry Horner)
decor on the third floor of 5 Ninth
men's room wallpaper
singing in the limo on the way to the after-party ("A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" and "Round Midnight," if you must know)
Kim and Jake
Terry
Viva, co-host (with Ian) of the Silly Mustache After-Party
the next day, on Bleecker Street after brunch at Jane: Uday, Anne-Cecile, Cesar, and Andy
the monthly video salon: Tom, Craig, Jonathan, Andy, Dave, Andy, Michael, and Stephen
Photo diary
March 24, 2012
I love the strange ugly beauty of tulips as they molt and fall apart.
Photo diary: Rally in Union Square in support of justice for Trayvon Martin
March 22, 2012
The murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin by a self-appointed neighborhood watchman in Sanford, FL (a suburb of Orlando), has touched a lot of Americans, including the couple of thousand New Yorkers who showed up in Union Square as part of the national Million Hoodie March demanding that the killer, George Zimmerman, be brought to justice. The speakers at the rally included Trayvon’s parents, Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton (below). They spoke briefly and received a communal laying on of hands.
One of the other speakers enumerated some of the outrageous facts of the case — that the police who arrived at the scene ran a background check on the victim, not on the shooter, and ran a drug-and-alcohol test on the victim, not on the shooter. If the victim had been white and the shooter had been black, would the police have questioned the killer for an hour and then let him go home? That was one of a string of rhetorical questions the speaker posed to the crowd. Another, alluding to Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee, was “What do you do when your employer won’t do his job?” Someone yelled out, “Execute him!” which caused the people around me to both gasp and chuckle in disbelief. The woman standing next to me and I exchanged bemused looks. “Wrong answer,” she said.
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