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No Soul For Sale: 2 Articles, both alike in dignity

In May of 2010 the Tate Modern staged No Soul For Sale, billed as a ‘Festival of Independents’ that was ‘neither a fair or an exhibition, [but] a convention of individuals and groups who devote their energies to art they believe in, beyond the limits of the market and other logistical constraints’(1). NSFS brought 70 artist collectives to Turbine Hall who exhibited alongside one another without partitions or walls. The organization of the non-fair was purportedly modeled after the set of Lars von Trier’s film Dogville(2), meaning that the non-exhibition space for each invited party was marked out on the ... More » »

May First Friday frenz-y

It was a cupcake of an evening last Friday.  We dined on cake at Grizzly Grizzly, Bambi and Little Berlin.  Here’s a few people pictures and a little gossip.

Isolated Fictions at FLUXspace–our collective memory

You have a few days left to get to Isolated Fictions, an evocative exhibit at FLUXspace of work related to the publication of The North Georgia Gazette, a beautiful reprint of an 1821 shipboard journal, by Chicago’s Green Lantern Press.

At Nexus–my face in your space

A fabulous show of contemporary portraits, my face in your space, at Nexus, is a reminder that 1) no two faces are alike 2) no two eyes are alike 3) no two minds are alike, and 4) we all love to look at faces.

Not pretty in pink

Nike Desis’ Fashion activity book, Color Me Fierce! www.quirkbooks.com The first girl to break into the boy group that runs FLUXspace was Nike Desis. So you know she’s gotta have some spine. And the spine has showed up on a book that arrived on my doorstep the other day. She has just published a coloring and activity book in time for Christmas–it’s aimed at girls and it’s about girls, but the pink cover doesn’t mean that what’s inside is pretty in pink. This is a page about poor Libby. She got a raw deal. Desis’ book, which comes with its ... More » »