When I get smitten, I stay smut.
— Charlie McCarthy

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
— Casey Stengel

I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake—which I also keep handy.
— W. C. Fields

We work in the dark. We do what we can. We give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
— Henry James


above and end images courtesy Gary Nickard


Opening TOMORROW
Saturday, September 13, 8—11pm
w/ Artist Talks @ 8pm




Andrew Reyes applies those skills he picked up at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Intern Jessica Zelman will catch him if he falls.


Opening Elsewhere
• Carnegie Art Center Members Exhibition op Sat, Sept 13, 7-9pm (thru Oct 17)
• Trans-Evolution: Examining Bio Art @ CEPA op Fri, Sept 19, 7—midnight
• Michael Goldberg @ Anderson Gallery op Sat, Sept 13, 6:30—8:30pm (thru Jan 18)
• Paul Alico and Elizabeth Kumrow Capuano @ Chateau Buffalo op Fri, Sept 12, 6-8pm (thru Oct 10)
• Squeaky Wheel Open House & Instructors' Show Fri, Sept 12, 7pm
• Paul Pasquarelli at Stuyvesant Gallery op Fri, Sept 12, 6-9pm
• Charles Houseman @ Meibohm Fine Arts op Fri, Sept 12, 6-9pm (thru Oct 11)
• Pictures of Working Life Taken By Working Hands at NCCC op Thurs, Sept 11, noon—2:30pm (thru Oct 10)


2 Deer, 2 Cars, 1 Giant Red Heart

David MItchell @ Big Orbit
op Fri, Sept 26, 8—11pm (thru Nov 22)


Stephen Reynolds @ College Street Gallery

op Fri, Sept 12, 8—10pm (thru Oct 5)


Errol Daniels @ El Museo




op @ Starlight Studio
Fri, Sept 12, 6—9pm



Continuing Elsewhere
• OP Art Revisited at the Albright thru Jan 25
• Lyle Ashton Harris @ UB Art Gallery thru Oct 18
• Michael Veit at the Castellani thru Sept 14
• Amanda Besl @ Lemberg Gallery (Ferndale, MI) thru Oct 11
• John Opera @ Andrew Rafacz Gallery (Chicago)
• Alice O'Malley @ Nina Freudenheim thru Oct 8
• Catherine Linder Spencer at Daemon College thru Sept 28
• Gerald Mead at Studio Hart thru Oct 11
• Mary Begley @ Chow Chocolat thru Sept 25
• Joel Lewitsky @ Betty's thru Nov 9
• David Schirm, Justin Thompson @ Buffalo Arts Studio thru Nov 1
• Jeannine Swallow, Caitlyn Ohlson, Victoria Clostek, Amanda Giczkowski @ Hardware thru Sept 25
• Kenn Morgan, Robert Schultz, Robert Minick, Gene Witkowski, Jerry Greenburg, Lukia Costello @ Artspace thru Nov 1
• Rita Argen Auerbach, Stefani Bardin, Priscilla Bowen, Doreen DeBoth, Marion Faller, Jackie Felix, AJ Fries, Courtney Grim, Katherine Gullo, Biff Henrich, Thomas Kegler, Kevin Charles Kline, Ryan Legassicke, Coni Minecci, Michael Morgulis, Barbara Murak, Nancy Pelosi, James Paulsen, John Pfahl, Christy Rupp, Noreen Spurling, Christopher Stangler, John Yerger @ Kenan Center thru Oct 5
• Fine Arts League of Buffalo 55th Annual Juried Open Exhibition @ Art Dialogue thru Oct 10
• Incubation @ UB Dept. of Visual Studies thru Sept 24
• Mark Weld at Market Street Art Center (Lockport) thru Sept 14
• Robert Burley, Avalanche Collective, Ryan Boatright, Jim DeLucia, Bingyi Huang at the Rochester Contemporary thru Sept 21
• Monica Angle, Georgia Trimper, Barbara Baird @ Springville Center for the Arts thru Sept 20
• Max Streicher: Metamorphosis at the Castellani op Fri, Oct 5
• Lukia Costello at The Rabbit Room thru Nov 1
• Diane Baker at The Mansion on Delaware (indefinitely)


Favorite Piece Currently On View @ the Albright

John Beech, Diminishing Bumper-Pink, 2001
enamel on wood and metal pipe, 8 x 11 x 98 in Gift of Natalie and Irving Forman
Beech's bumper, as the title explains, diminishes across an eight foot length, which plays into a slight perspectival gag but what I really liked is that it's designed such that one end is visibly larger than an actual curb bumper while the other is visibly smaller than the actual. So it's slightly skewed from either direction, with a realistic proportion hidden somewhere within the work. And it's pink—I'm not a fan of pink, but I love it here. Also, kudos to whoever installed the work and plunked it down in the perfect spot in the ground floor gallery.


"With its immaculate, almost exaggeratedly stripped-down installation, the show is clearly intended not to recreate the feel of art on the street, but to record the fact of it. History, not buzz, is the subject."

NY Times Cotter


"The exhibition of 17 Koons sculptures marks the first time that the chateau built by Louis XIV has organized so ambitious a retrospective of one contemporary artist."

NY Times Sciolino


"I tell myself that I am an open channel for infinite riches, just like it says in the cult self-help book The Secret, but times remain hard. The economy is so bad that I have become a veritable Bob Cratchit in go-go boots, working two jobs and maintaining a policy of taking any gig that pays more than $40."

artnet Rev Jen


“If they want a body, they can have John Wilkes Booth...”

NY Times


"Of all the boondoggles of the current art-critical game, one of the biggest has got to be the idea of 'esthetic politics.'"

artnet Ben Davis


"Eyeing my date, Kissinger observed, 'I still go out to nightclubs, but my wife sends a car for me at 10 pm.'"

artnet Finch


Something I listened to this week...

Everything That Happens Will Happen Today by David Byrne and Brian Eno. Don't get me wrong, I've always loved Byrne's voice but I've never heard him sing better than this. His voice sounds stronger and more resonant than ever, so middle age is definitely being generous to this aging icon of postmodern pop. Lay Byrne's terrific vocal performance atop Eno's typically thrilling production chops and you have an argument in favor of passing a law that forbids either of them from ever recording with anyone else again. The only problem with the new album is that it arrives thirty years after their last collaboration. Other than that, it's absolutely splendid from start to finish.




Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
— Plutarch