I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
— Seneca

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
— John Buchan

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
— Malcolm X

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
— Sir Winston Churchill


Rollins Autograph 1
Given that I could count on less than one hand the number of autographs I've acquired in my life, don't ask me how I ended up with two autographs from Henry Rollins, but they're both keepers...



Hallwalls 2007 Members Exhibition
Future Artemi
CONCLUDES TOMORROW!
gallery hours: Tues to Fri 11am to 6pm, Sat 1-4pm

Including works by:
Bruce Adams • Linda Anderson • Mollie Atkinson • Amanda Besl • Nancy Belfer • Kristyn Bellino • Dennis Bertram • Bruce Philip Bitmead • Pricilla Bowen • Nelson Bradley • Bradley Butler • Patricia Carter • Virginia Cassetta • Stephanie Cassidy • Attilio Celotto • Lukia Costello • Cassandra Couch • Nancy Treherne Craig • Kara Daving • JM Reed • Jax Deluca • David Derner • Aasta Deth • Liz Drumm • Val Dunne • Donna Jordan Dusel • Edollia • Andrew Erdos • Curtis Erlinger • Kristina C. Faulkner • Jackie Felix • Donna Fierle • Lizzie Finnegan • Joan Fitzgerald • Dorothy Fitzgerald • AJ Fries • Suzie Molnar Goad • Brenda Godert • Jennifer Gottdiener • Alison Greene • Jody Hanson • JT Hayer • Joyce M. Hill • Tom Holt • Ani Hoover • Billy Huggins • Anita L. Johnson • R. Kat • Kevin Kegler • John E. Kennedy Jr. • Zoe Knauss • Jamie Kubala • Susan Lakin • Mark Lavatelli • Zoe Lavatelli • Elizabeth Leader • Polly Little • Sandra Ludwig • Adrienne Lynch • M. Matthews • Scott McCarney • Chris McGee • Marty McGee • Peggy McKendry • Mark McLoughlin • Gerald Mead • Diane Menchetti • Lily Mendez • Coni Minneci • Julian Montague • Bernard Mullane • Asia Negron-Esposito • Gary Nickard • Frank O'Connor • Mary Grace Ohrum • Cathy Pardike • Nancy J. Parisi • James Paulsen • Kate S. Parzych • Kirby Pilcher • Joanna Raczynska • Lorin Roser • Nicki Santini • Salvatore Scrivo • Caesandra Seawell • Katie Sehr • Victor Shanchuk Jr. • Kathleen Sherin • Benjamin Spencer • Catherine Linder Spencer • Nathaniel Spencer • Norine Spurling • Rosemarie Bauer Sroka • RH Stamps • Luke Strosnider • Nathan Sutton • Kurt Treeby • Ramone Troutman • Christopher M. Verel • Christopher Vesper • Kurt Von Voetsch • Alfonso Volo • Patty Wallace • Adam Weekley • Mary Weig • Janet L. Winkie • Diane Yunque

Some selections from Future Artemi:


Amanda Besl, Diane, 2007, oil on wood panel


Nelson Bradley, Friendly Fire, 2007, mixed media


Nancy J. Parisi, Photo-Realistic Hound Mauls the Ankler of Artemis, 2007, graphite on papyrus


Nathan Sutton, Towards Boulder, 2006, oil on aluminum screen


Alfonso Volo, Where'd Those Antlers Come From?, 2006, watercolor


Falling Together in New Orleans
Tues Sept 4 8pm @ HW

"Solo journalist and documentary artist Farrah Hoffmire was inspired by grassroots organizing and volunteer efforts in the weeks and months after Hurricane Katrina. She has traveled to New Orleans numerous times to create a solo work that is part art-vignette, part documentary film and part grassroots journalism. In stark contrast to the failure and corruption stories that have dominated mass-media coverage, Falling Together introduces us to powerful people fighting to save lives, preserve culture, and bring a sense of well-being back to New Orleans. Conceived as an ongoing subscription-based platform to follow events in New Orleans as they unfold over the next few years, it also explores the ongoing complexities of rebuilding in areas of the city still severely damaged—such as the Lower 9th Ward. The film features music by Ani Difranco as well as top New Orleans musicians."


Eye Contact
Wed Sept 5 8pm @ HW

Matt Lavelle (trumpet, bass clarinet) Matthew Heyner (contrabass) Ryan Sawyer (drums, percussion) "War Rug is the group's studio debut and follows two live CD-Rs on the Utech label. Eye Contact might loosely be termed free jazz, but the reality is far more complex, as a typical performance finds them drawing on elements of free improv, Latin music, metal, drone, and psychedelic, to create a very unique sound."
http://www.myspace.com/eyecontactthegroup
http://www.myspace.com/mattlavelle

Opening Elsewhere
• 16th Annual Regional Artists Exhibition at Art Dialogue opening Friday Aug 31 7:30-9:30 (thru Oct 5)
• Gloria Joseph at C.G. Jung Gallery (408 Franklin St) opening Fri Sept 7, 7-9pm
• ABOUT FACE: Portraits from the Gerald Mead Collection at Daemon College opening Fri Sept 7, 7-9PM (thru Sept 28)


Mark Your Calendar, Earmark 10 Bucks

CAE Defense Fund
Strange Culture


Continuing Elsewhere
(winding down/see em now)
• Jean-Michel Reed at Studio Hart thru Sept 22
• Ghen Dennis at Squeaky Wheel thru Sept 12
• Bruce Adams, Monica Angle, Dorothy Fitzgerald, Joan Fitzgerald, Peter Fowler, Dana Hatchett, Ani Hoover, Becky Koenig, Kathleen Sherin, Catherine Linder Spencer at InSite Gallery thru Sept 7
• Bob Schulman at Globe Market, Chateau Buffalo, Brodo Buffalo Rising
• Rolf Hoeg, Greg Lago, Christopher Stangler at the Kenan Center thru Sept 5 • Sarah Prochownik at the BPAC thru Sept 9
• Andrea Warner at Olean Public Library thru Sept 22
• Lauren Emmett at College Street Gallery thru Aug 31
• Douglas Bauer at Betty's thru Oct 14
• Emma Hollister Colby at Nichols School thru Sept 30
• Rob Lynch at the Castellani Art Museum thru Sept 16 Artvoice
• Diane Baker at The Mansion on Delaware (indefinitely)


Foreign Correspondent: Thumbs Up! Way Up!

Former Hallwalls intern Amanda McKnight is currently in Europe and emailed this observation following last week's posting of the Gober exhibition in Basel:
"i went to the gober exhibition when it first opened. the schaulager might be the best art space in the universe, its the most incredible building - i honestly was in awe. i just wish the public had access to the collection. the only thing i remember about the show was being frustrated that none of the literature explained why all his feet sculptures were left feet. and being in love with the installation piece with the water running down a set of stairs...my favorite thing was how the lines of the different levels matched up with the ceilings, not easy to explain."
Amanda is right. The image above doesn't do the building justice. Follow the organizational link below to read the design concept behind the building and see more illuminating photographs of the space.
Shaulager


"...the buyers...did not receive a discount..."

"Damien Hirst is selling his diamond-encrusted platinum skull for $100 million to an investment group, Bloomberg News reported yesterday. The skull is studded with 8,601 diamonds, including a 52.40 carat stone valued at more than $8 million. Mr. Hirst’s business manager, Frank Dunphy, said the buyers, who were not identified, did not receive a discount and would pay in cash. He would not specify the payment period but added that the sale would close in three or four weeks, and that the buyers would be required to exhibit the work for two or three years in museums around the world. The skull, which cost $23.6 million to make, according to the White Cube gallery in London, where it was exhibited, has been on the market at least since June 3. Art professionals said Mr. Hirst, 42, who made his name by pickling sharks, cows, sheep and the like, is likely to get 75 percent or more of the proceeds of a sale."
NY Times


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Sure it's got a beat, but can you goosestep to it..?

TimesOnLine


Hilly Kristal 1932—2007

NY Times
CBGB


Rollins Autograph 2
Do I remember Anna? I sure do, though that number's long gone dead. But I was pretty impressed when Rollins grabbed my notebook and concocted this on the spot:



Something I listened to this week...

I've been listening to Nick Cave for so long now—over 20 years—that I'm not sure I have critical perspective on his work. That is, it's all good to me, always has been. What he's done with the Bad Seeds is a much slicker and more stylized version of murder balladry and plumbing of operatic emotional depths, but it's not intrinsically different from his work with the Birthday Party, pre-solo career. In fact, most of the horrible delicious eloquence that dominates the solo work was in sharp evidence on two of the last Birthday party releases, the ep's The Bad Seed and Mutiny, both of which contain four songs of harrowing, hellish beauty. On the latter ep, the title track begins with a graveyard yelp and Nick leaps in the crypt with some staggeringly terrific lyrics. When he sings well ah jumpt! and fled this fucken heap on doctored wings / mah flailin pinions, with splints and rags and crutches! / (damn things nearly hardly flap) / canker upon canker upon one million tiny punctures/ that look like, that look like...long thin red ribbons draped across the arms of a lil mortal girl (like a ground -plan of Hell) / curse these smartin strings! these fucken ruptures! / enough! / enough is enough! / (if this is Heaven ah'm bailin out) / if this is Heaven ah'm bailin out / ah caint tolerate this ol tin-tub / so fulla trash and rats! Felt one crawl across mah soul / for a seckon there , ah thought ah wassa back down in the ghetto! / (rats in Paradise! rats in Paradise!)
ah'm bailin out! / there's a mu-ti-ny in Heaven! you know he means business. As if to drive the emotional point of his career a little deeper, Nick wrote a really great work of fiction in 1989 called And the Ass Saw the Angel.

This live album from the recent Bad Seeds tour is a great package—2 cds of music, 2 dvds of live footage—and it's immensely satisfying. Gone is the psychotic spontaneity of something like Release the Bats or Big Jesus Trash Can, but I enjoy Nick Version 2007 and it's pretty satisfying, especially in the dvd footage, to see how tight the Bad Seeds have become as a band. Johnny Cash is dead, Leonard Cohen's in his twilight years, but don't we still need a Man In Black?
Official Website
The Birthday Party





We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
— Kurt Vonnegut

Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.
— Satchel Paige

Whenever anybody says he's struggling to become a human being I have to laugh because the apes beat him to it by about a million years. Struggle to become a parrot or something.
—Jack Handy

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
— John Lennon


Check out the hipster headgear—he's ten minutes old and he's already dressed better than me...

Rafael Marcel Linder Vanouse • August 12, 2007 at 2:56 am


If you ever hear of a Buffalo curator who took a header off his bike and split his helmetless skull open like a cantaloupe, here's why...

Regrettably, Buffalo gets its only national media play when some big pile of snow dumps on us but to me, Buffalo is Psychotic Cloud Central. They always stop me dead in my tracks. This cloud was actually almost twice as wide as it appears here. Corner of Niagara/Maryland 08.17.07)


In Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman, but she's also a top-notch dj...

http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/photoshop/pandora/index.html
I haven't had a computer at home in years, so my web-trolling is sporadic at best. Sometimes you just have to listen to what people tell you. Former Hallwalls Media Curator Joanna Raczynska was raving to me about Pandora, after which I went to Ron Ehmke's blog and found his most recent posting was also about the same site. If you don't already know Pandora, give it a go. Type in an artist or song and let it stream a playlist for you. If you're partial to Nana Mouskouri, you would type in her name and it generates a Nana Mouskouri Playlist. Based on the last week or so, I give it ten thumbs up. Terrific mixes, I have yet to hear anything I didn't like. The playlists I've built so far have sprung off from Low, Curtis Mayfield, Built to Spill, Jules Shear, and Senor Coconut.


Hallwalls 2007 Members Exhibition
Future Artemi
continuing through September 1
gallery hours: Tues to Fri 11am to 6pm, Sat 1-4pm

Including works by:
Bruce Adams • Linda Anderson • Mollie Atkinson • Amanda Besl • Nancy Belfer • Kristyn Bellino • Dennis Bertram • Bruce Philip Bitmead • Pricilla Bowen • Nelson Bradley • Bradley Butler • Patricia Carter • Virginia Cassetta • Stephanie Cassidy • Attilio Celotto • Lukia Costello • Cassandra Couch • Nancy Treherne Craig • Kara Daving • JM Reed • Jax Deluca • David Derner • Aasta Deth • Liz Drumm • Val Dunne • Donna Jordan Dusel • Edollia • Andrew Erdos • Curtis Erlinger • Kristina C. Faulkner • Jackie Felix • Donna Fierle • Lizzie Finnegan • Joan Fitzgerald • Dorothy Fitzgerald • AJ Fries • Suzie Molnar Goad • Brenda Godert • Jennifer Gottdiener • Alison Greene • Jody Hanson • JT Hayer • Joyce M. Hill • Tom Holt • Ani Hoover • Billy Huggins • Anita L. Johnson • R. Kat • Kevin Kegler • John E. Kennedy Jr. • Zoe Knauss • Jamie Kubala • Susan Lakin • Mark Lavatelli • Zoe Lavatelli • Elizabeth Leader • Polly Little • Sandra Ludwig • Adrienne Lynch • M. Matthews • Scott McCarney • Chris McGee • Marty McGee • Peggy McKendry • Mark McLoughlin • Gerald Mead • Diane Menchetti • Lily Mendez • Coni Minneci • Julian Montague • Bernard Mullane • Asia Negron-Esposito • Gary Nickard • Frank O'Connor • Mary Grace Ohrum • Cathy Pardike • Nancy J. Parisi • James Paulsen • Kate S. Parzych • Kirby Pilcher • Joanna Raczynska • Lorin Roser • Nicki Santini • Salvatore Scrivo • Caesandra Seawell • Katie Sehr • Victor Shanchuk Jr. • Kathleen Sherin • Benjamin Spencer • Catherine Linder Spencer • Nathaniel Spencer • Norine Spurling • Rosemarie Bauer Sroka • RH Stamps • Luke Strosnider • Nathan Sutton • Kurt Treeby • Ramone Troutman • Christopher M. Verel • Christopher Vesper • Kurt Von Voetsch • Alfonso Volo • Patty Wallace • Adam Weekley • Mary Weig • Janet L. Winkie • Diane Yunque

Some selections from Future Artemi:


Zoe Lavatelli , Zach #1, 2007, watercolor and graphite


Attilio Celotto, Beer Baby, 2007, mixed media


Patricia Carter, "They carried her off...", Feb 2006-July 2007, oil on vellum mounted on canvas board with frame


Kristyn Bellino, untitled, 2006, oil on canvas


Kurt Treeby, Reclining Nude (After Matisse), 2006-07, acrylic yarn rug


Mary Weig, The Undauntable Bird—LInes from Rumi (det.), 2007, acrylic and oil pastels on wood


Adam Weekley, drift, 2006, pencil, acrylic, prismacolor marker


New Orleans Paradox
@ HW TOMORROW Sat Aug 25 8pm

Co-curated by Courtney Egan (New Orleans) and Sullivan Sheehan (Buffalo), New Orleans Parallax brings together a collection of short film, video, and digital works culled from Egan's programs Back and Forth and Below Sea Level Stories that document and explore New Orleans before and after the "Federal Flood" from the vantage point of activists, cultural workers, youth media makers, and citizen journalists, informed by specific, unique, cultural traditions and 300 years of port city history. While many nationwide speak of "Katrina Fatigue," New Orleanians are still living with the disaster and its aftermath, which exacerbated already existing problems of neglect, racism, corruption, privatization and deindustrialization. Moving beyond and below Mass Media coverage of New Orleans after Katrina, this program supports the personal visions of media makers living with the daily reality of a city struggling to survive, with an awareness of the see saw effect of New Orleans, the constant mindfulness of before and after, with seriousness as well as the special brand of dark humor that's always been a part of living at the volatile mouth of the Mississippi River. Featuring the work of David Sullivan, Royce Osborn, Survivors' Village, New Orleans Kid Camera Project, Helen Schmehl, Blaine Dunlap, Helen Hill and Courtney Egan, Paul Grass, Jose Torres Tama, Cassandra Bell and Marta Bivins, Thomas Little and Lisa Van Wambeck, Daryn DeLuco, Sallie Ann Glassman, and Louis Harding.
Buffalo News


ENCORE SCREENING
The Official Buffalo Beastmode
aka Industry N Da Streetz
@ HW Thurs Aug 30 7pm and 8:30pm

Beastmode Productions Inc. was founded in 2000 by Buffalo's own Hal Kemp Jr.. and Ray Aponte. What started as a video production company branched into a one-stop multi-functional business including a recording studio, graphic design, party and event planning as well as CD and DVD duplication. Hal and Ray launched Kung Fu Classics on public access television in August of 2000; the show consists of the combination of your favorite martial art combat scenes and exclusive underground Hip-Hop music. Kung Fu Classics is the most watched television show on public access even today. In 2002 Hal and Ray decided to interview some of Hip Hop's top celebrities counting down their favorite top ten Kung Fu movies. The DVD is a mixture of local and marquee artist such as Fat Joe, T.I., Juelz Santana and more. It is an action packed independent DVD with original camera work, cutting-edge graphics and explosive music.


Opening Elsewhere
• ABOUT FACE: Portraits from the Gerald Mead Collection at Daemon College opening Fri Sept 7, 7-9PM (thru Sept 28)


Ghen Dennis at Squeaky Wheel

Experimental Storm Surge Flood Models
Media Installation by Ghen Dennis
Opening reception TONIGHT Friday, August 24 – 7-9pm
On view thru September 12 • Cost: Free
Experimental Storm Surge Flood Models, opening on the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, takes its name from a report by Louisiana University's Center for the Study of Public Health Impacts of Hurricanes. Media artist Ghen Dennis has created an on-going archive of post-Katrina scenarios in New Orleans East using hand-processed film, photographs, video “histories” of displaced Ninth Ward residents, found objects, and audio recorded at the industrial Mississippi levee walls. The project viscerally illuminates a modern disaster in the singular, and works its way forward and backward to describe its historical, social and environmental context in the plural. Ghen Dennis is a Brooklyn-based media artist who lived in a Winn Dixie parking lot in New Orleans following hurricane Katrina. She currently teaches video at York College and lives in New York and New Orleans.


Mark Your Calendar, Earmark 10 Bucks

CAE Defense Fund
Strange Culture


Continuing Elsewhere
(winding down/see em now)
• Jean-Michel Reed at Studio Hart thru Sept 22
• Bruce Adams, Monica Angle, Dorothy Fitzgerald, Joan Fitzgerald, Peter Fowler, Dana Hatchett, Ani Hoover, Becky Koenig, Kathleen Sherin, Catherine Linder Spencer at InSite Gallery thru Sept 7
• Bob Schulman at Globe Market, Chateau Buffalo, Brodo Buffalo Rising
• Artsphere Studio annual group exhibition Garden Mystique thru Aug 25
• Rolf Hoeg, Greg Lago, Christopher Stangler at the Kenan Center thru Sept 5
• Sarah Prochownik at the BPAC thru Sept 9
• Andrea Warner at Olean Public Library thru Sept 22
• Lauren Emmett at College Street Gallery thru Aug 31
• RH Stamps at Art Dialogue thru Aug 24
• Ken Heyman at CEPA thru Aug 24
• Douglas Bauer at Betty's thru Oct 14
• Beyond the Barrel and Open House at Niagara Arts & Cultural Center thru Aug 26
• Terresa Ford at Unity Gallery/Church thru Aug 30
• Emma Hollister Colby at Nichols School thru Sept 30
• Rob Lynch at the Castellani Art Museum thru Sept 16 Artvoice
• Diane Baker at The Mansion on Delaware (indefinitely)


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So, I need a new car and I'm thinking Dodge Charger...



Robert Gober in Basel

NY Times


Dylan Paintings

artnet


Edward Avedisian 1936—2007

NY Times


"Calling for Artists' Input"
"Artists in Buffalo, in conjunction with Burchfield-Penney Art Center and Buffalo Arts Studio, is creating a new comprehensive website for the visual arts in the Buffalo Niagara Region. We have attained a significant grant from the Margaret L Wendt Foundation. This website will be connected to a larger comprehensive arts and cultural website in the future. This portion that is being discussed presently is visual arts. We plan to have a "public" component as well as a artist component that serve artists and small galleries.

"In order to meet the needs of as many artists as possible (though we know we can not be everything to everybody), we are holding a meeting WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 5 at 7 PM at Insite Gallery (810 Elmwood Ave). We will be brainstorming and prioritizing the needs and suggestions of the artists and galleries with Ted Pietrzak. If you have questions email art.buffalo@gmail.com and feel free to pass this on to other artists.

"RSVP's help us plan and are appreciated."


Something I listened to this week...

I can hardly believe it myself! I couldn't guess—even with a five year window—the last time I listened to this album. More than ten years for sure, probably more than 15. But there it was at the Buffalo Library, so I gave it another go this week. Remarkably, every single note of it was utterly familiar to me, which betrays how much I must have listened to it as a teenager. Still, I was never much of a progressive rock fan. It's a genre that too often feels merely...bloated. But Close To The Edge stands up remarkably well. It doesn't sound dated and it's full of irresistible musical arcs, riffs, and tasty little movements.
Wikipedia





Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
— Robert Benchley

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
— Maureen Dowd

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?
— George Carlin

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk;
The best of life is but intoxication:
Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk
The hopes of all men, and of every nation;
Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk
Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion:
But to return—Get very drunk; and when
You wake with headache, you shall see what then.
— Lord Byron



Hallwalls 2007 Members Exhibition
Future Artemi
continuing through September 1
gallery hours: Tues to Fri 11am to 6pm, Sat 1-4pm

Including works by:
Bruce Adams • Linda Anderson • Mollie Atkinson • Amanda Besl • Nancy Belfer • Kristyn Bellino • Dennis Bertram • Bruce Philip Bitmead • Pricilla Bowen • Nelson Bradley • Bradley Butler • Patricia Carter • Virginia Cassetta • Stephanie Cassidy • Attilio Celotto • Lukia Costello • Cassandra Couch • Nancy Treherne Craig • Kara Daving • JM Reed • Jax Deluca • David Derner • Aasta Deth • Liz Drumm • Val Dunne • Donna Jordan Dusel • Edollia • Andrew Erdos • Curtis Erlinger • Kristina C. Faulkner • Jackie Felix • Donna Fierle • Lizzie Finnegan • Joan Fitzgerald • Dorothy Fitzgerald • AJ Fries • Suzie Molnar Goad • Brenda Godert • Jennifer Gottdiener • Alison Greene • Jody Hanson • JT Hayer • Joyce M. Hill • Tom Holt • Ani Hoover • Billy Huggins • Anita L. Johnson • R. Kat • Kevin Kegler • John E. Kennedy Jr. • Zoe Knauss • Jamie Kubala • Susan Lakin • Mark Lavatelli • Zoe Lavatelli • Elizabeth Leader • Polly Little • Sandra Ludwig • Adrienne Lynch • M. Matthews • Scott McCarney • Chris McGee • Marty McGee • Peggy McKendry • Mark McLoughlin • Gerald Mead • Diane Menchetti • Lily Mendez • Coni Minneci • Julian Montague • Bernard Mullane • Asia Negron-Esposito • Gary Nickard • Frank O'Connor • Mary Grace Ohrum • Cathy Pardike • Nancy J. Parisi • James Paulsen • Kate S. Parzych • Kirby Pilcher • Joanna Raczynska • Lorin Roser • Nicki Santini • Salvatore Scrivo • Caesandra Seawell • Katie Sehr • Victor Shanchuk Jr. • Kathleen Sherin • Benjamin Spencer • Catherine Linder Spencer • Nathaniel Spencer • Norine Spurling • Rosemarie Bauer Sroka • RH Stamps • Luke Strosnider • Nathan Sutton • Kurt Treeby • Ramone Troutman • Christopher M. Verel • Christopher Vesper • Kurt Von Voetsch • Alfonso Volo • Patty Wallace • Adam Weekley • Mary Weig • Janet L. Winkie • Diane Yunque

Some selections from Future Artemi:


Kurt Von Voetsch, What Piece of Equipment Am I On?, 2007, mixed media


Mark Lavatelli, Maple Goddess, 2007, encaustic and oil on board


Coni Minneci, "...what the history of art has done to women artists..." (det.), 2006, oil on panel


Mollie Atkinson, Coy, (det.), 2007, steel and rocks


Katie Sehr, Untitled, 2006, ink on paper


Opening Elsewhere
• tonight at 6pm, curator Claire Schneider will be giving (with relish) a Gusto At the Gallery tour of the Albright-Knox's Beyond/In Western New York artists, which officially opens on Sept 16
• ABOUT FACE: Portraits from the Gerald Mead Collection at Daemon College opening Fri Sept 7, 7-9PM (thru Sept 28)
• Andrea Warner at Olean Public Library opening Fri Aug 17, 5-7pm (thru Sept 22)


Beyond/In Western New York 2007
is almost upon us...Buffalo News


Various Big Fires
Photographs by Jean-Michel Reed
Opening Thursday, August 23 5:30-7:30pm (thru Sept. 22)
Studio Hart, 65 Allen Street

Various Big Fires features large scale color photographs taken in Buffalo over the past ten years that focus on the fire scene as an in event in the urban landscape. A book will accompany the show. Jean-Michel Reed has been taking photographs since the age of ten when he bought a Kodak instamatic for $1. Though he has maintained serious interest for the artform, his career went in others directions. Reed graduated from the University at Buffalo with a master's degree in architecture with a thesis that focused on the collapse of the World Trade Center as an image. While at the UB, Reed took numerous photography courses and later, combined photography with his fascination with fire engines and fires in part through his then "career" as a paramedic. Reed's photographs of fires have been shown sporadically at member's shows at CEPA and Big Orbit Gallery. In addition, many have been used in publications relating to the Buffalo Fire Department. Some images have also been published through 911 Pictures, a stock photo agency that specializes in emergency services photography.
Buffalo News

Fire-related links...when I was 8 years old, my absolute favorite show was Emergency, a drama about the exploits of a pair of Los Angeles paramedics Johnny Gage and Roy DeSoto. It was (and still is) a pretty gripping show in which the rescues were dramatized in something close to real time and covered the full range of rescues involving firemen, from the banal to the comical to the life-threatening...a few years later, I was a voracious teenage reader of crime non-fiction, which led me into other related territories and one of the books I remember holding my rapt attention was Dennis Smith's Report From Engine Co. 82...FIRE is also an acronym that stands for the Fellowship of Independent Reformed Evangelicals, whose Constitution includes the statement: "We believe that men are by nature lost and hell-bound." ...the US Fire Administration keeps an updated listing of Consumer Product Recalls, which includes information on the always-deadly cinnamon spice candle...and finally, in 1978 Tom Dean, one of Canada's finest artists, constructs a staircase that he sets afloat in Toronto Harbour, where it bobbed benignly until he burned it...flamin' hot and very cool.






Continuing Elsewhere
(winding down/see em now)
• Bruce Adams, Monica Angle, Dorothy Fitzgerald, Joan Fitzgerald, Peter Fowler, Dana Hatchett, Ani Hoover, Becky Koenig, Kathleen Sherin, Catherine Linder Spencer at InSite Gallery thru Sept 7
• Diane Baker at the Gallery at Artpartk(thru Aug 19) and Kouros Gallery, NYC (thru Aug 17), and at The Mansion on Delaware (indefinitely)
• Artsphere Studio annual group exhibition Garden Mystique thru Aug 25
• Rolf Hoeg, Greg Lago, Christopher Stangler at the Kenan Center thru Sept 5
• Sarah Prochownik at the BPAC thru Sept 9
• Lauren Emmett at College Street Gallery thru Aug 31
• RH Stamps at Art Dialogue thru Aug 24
• Ken Heyman at CEPA thru Aug 24
• Linda Tarli at Buffalo Big Print thru Aug 22
• Douglas Bauer at Betty's thru Oct 14
• Beyond the Barrel and Open House at Niagara Arts & Cultural Center thru Aug 26
• Terresa Ford at Unity Gallery/Church thru Aug 30
• Emma Hollister Colby at Nichols School thru Sept 30
• George Morlock at Stuyvesant Gallery (Elmwood) thru Aug 22
• Rob Lynch at the Castellani Art Museum thru Sept 16 Artvoice


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I would eat at Mcdonald's every day—well, maybe buy coffee once a week— if they really did this....



But I couldn't figure out Swahili for "D'oh!"

BBC


Scorcese on Antonioni

The Man Who Set Film Free


Woody on Ingmar

The Man Who Asked Hard Questions


Elizabeth Murray 1941—2007

NY Times
NY Times2


Tony Wilson 1950—2007

NY Times
NME



Les ventilateurs d'hockey, un moment de silence s'il vous plaît...

Montreal Gazette
TSN
NY Times


Here he comes, squeeze play, it's gonna be close, here's the throw, here's the play at the plate, Holy cow, I think he's gonna make it!

NY Times
Rizzuto Career Stats
Paradise By the Dashboard Light


Max Roach, 1924—2007

NY Times


Mark Your Calendars!
Here is your Fall 2007 schedule for the Buffalo Film Seminars XV,
Tuesdays @ 7:00 pm @ the Market Arcade,
organized by Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian

Aug 28 • City Lights (Charles Chaplin), 1931

City Lights

Sept 4 • L’Atalante (Jean Vigo), 1934

L'Atalante

Sept 11 • The Letter (William Wyler), 1940

The Letter

Sept 18 • The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (Preston Sturges), 1944

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek

Sept 25 • Sansho the Bailiff/Sanshô Dayû (Kenji Mizoguchi), 1954

Sansho the Bailiff

Oct 2 • Army of Shadows/L’Armée des ombres (Jean-Pierre Melville), 1969

Army of Shadows

Oct 9 • Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa), 1952

Ikiru

Oct 16 • Closely Watched Trains (Jiri Menzel), 1966

Closely Watched Trains

Oct 23 • That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Buñuel), 1977

That Obgscure Object of Desire

Oct 30 • Aguirre: the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog), 1972

Aguirre, The Wrath of God

Nov 6 • Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett), 1977

Killer of Sheep

Nov 13 • Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick) 1987

Full Metal Jacket

Nov 20 • Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen) 1989

Crimes and Misdemeanors

Nov 27 • Divine Intervention/Yadon Ilaheyya (Elia Suleiman), 2002

Divine Intervention

Dec 4 • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee), 1992

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon


Something I listened to this week...


It's still summer, so crack open that wine cooler, that two-four of Blue, or whip up a few mimosas and kick back with one of the all-time great bands of British avant garde/industrial music.
Throbbing Gristle
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The Wreckers of Civilization
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Always give your best, never get discouraged, never be petty; always remember others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.
— Richard Nixon, Aug 9/74