No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
— Ludwig von Beethoven

People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds up a mirror for you?
— Isaac Asimov

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does—except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
— Abigail Van Buren

I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.
— Sir Laurence Olivier

Friday Overture: Way Way Cool




@ Hallwalls through December 8
gallery hrs Tues to Fri 11am to 6pm, Sat 11am to 2pm

AJ FRIES: Ignoring The Sirens

Buffalo News Dabkowski review


JON HADDOCK: Vintage Mouse Porn


Ha Jin
Fri, Nov 20, 8pm @ Kleinhans



Stephanie Rothenberg:
Best Practices in Banana Time With Doctor Rothenberg
Sat, Nov 21, 8pm

"A mixed reality talk show in real life and the 3D social networking environment of Second Life about people whose work lives intersect the real and the virtual. Doctor Rodenberger (aka Stephanie Rothenberg) will interview her virtual guests about how the virtualization of their labor affects the value of their work. Tentative guests include a real world/virtual world dog trainer, a pastor and a race car driver."


Opening Elsewhere
• Andrea Brough @ The Vault op Sat, Nov 21, 7-11pm
• David Tars @ 464 Gallery op Fri, Nov 20, 6-10pm (thru Nov 22)
• 15th Annual Artful Gifts @ Art Dialogue op Fri, Nov 20, 7:30-9pm (thru Dec 30)
• A NIght of Sonic Happenings @ Soundlab Sun, Nov 22, 7-9:30pm

Burchfield Penney 1st Anniversary Celebrations

RendezBlue
Buffalo News Dabkowski


An Evening With Gregory Crewdson

@ Albright Knox auditorium, Fri, Nov 20, 7pm

By Request, Sale Redux Sat, Nov 21, 10am to 6pm


Nelson Bradley in Center on Contemporary Art Annual 2009 in Seattle

CoCA



Charles Clough @ Nina Freudenheim

op Sat, Nov 21, 6-8pm (thru Jan 8)


BAS Annual Exhibit & Sale Nov 21

Lukia Costello, Dorothy Markert

@ Burchfield Nature & Art Center op Sun, Nov 22, 1-3pm (thru Jan 16)

Continuing Elsewhere
• Frank Lloyd Wright's Buffalo Venture: From the Larkin Building to Broadacre City @ UB Anderson Gallery thru Dec 30
• Brendan Bannon @ Studio Hart thru Nov 25
• Robert Mangold @ the Albright thru Jan 31
• Amanda Maciuba, Rob Rzeznik, Andrew Vaga @ UB Art Gallery thru Dec 12
• In Good Company, organized by Ilana Chlebowski @ the Albright thru Jan 2 Buffalo News Dabkowski
• Buffalo Society of Artists 113th Annual Fall Catalogue Exhibition @ Kenan Center thru Nov 15
• Scott Bye, Doug Bauer @ NCCC thru Nov 24
• Diane Baker @ CG Jung Center thru Dec 14
• Lin Xia Jiang @ Villa Maria College thru Oct 30
• Peter Fowler, Mary Begley, Peter Dyett, Candace Keegan, Mathew John Pasquarella @ Queen City Gallery thru Nov 25
• Conversation Pieces w/ Alexis Bhagat, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Mariam Ghani, Guerrillagirlsbroadband, Sharon Hayes, Incubate/Material Exhchange/Adam Bobbette, Nina Leo & Stefani Bardin, Carlos Motta, Oliver Ressler, Stephanie Rothernberg @ CEPA thru Dec 19
• Ingrid Calame @ the Albright thru Feb 28
• Tom Hughes @ the Castellani thru Jan 17
• Idols and Eye Candy: Fall Exhibit and Sale @ Starlight Studio thru Oct 30
• Diane Baker at The Mansion on Delaware (indefinitely)

"Is the image, a solid wall of greenbacks, beautiful? Warhol completely changed our idea of beauty, so, yes, it is. He was also one of the first modern artists to realize, or rather to say out loud, that money itself is beautiful, is art, which has helped create the reality that, aesthetically speaking, it is as often as not the price tag, not what it’s attached to, that generates value."

NY Times Cotter

"But back in the early 1990s, when SoHo was still the epicenter of the international art scene and Paul H-O was a struggling sculptor turned carpenter, he and his Sony camcorder came to be known as gallery-opening fixtures."

NY Times Kino

"Emin’s subject matter, which conveys an overwhelming feeling of self-disgust and abandonment, is far from light-hearted."

artnet Kley

"For serious fans of the medium it’s a tantalizing collection, though Mr. Kubert himself seems more amused than anything."

NY Times

"Preservation concerns about “Spiral Jetty” have arisen lately not only because of the work’s re-emergence from the water but also because of plans announced in the last two and a half years by companies to initiate industrial projects near the site."

NY Times Kennedy

"Some critics dismissed their work as a repetitive series of stunts devoid of intellectual content. More often than not, however, the projects, once in place, turned out to be enormously popular."

NY Times obit

"Where hard-line Abstract Expressionists shunned figural elements in their work, Mr. Kriesberg used them lavishly. As a result, he was often called a Figurative Expressionist..."

NY Times obit

"In 1996, Dr. Pnueli received the A. M. Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery, an honor often called computer science’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize. The award citation said his 1977 paper 'triggered a fundamental paradigm shift in reasoning about the dynamic behavior of systems.'"

NY Times obit

Something I listened to this week...

(1976) Utterly stupendous. Dark themes, mournful cover, serious social commentary and music that soars from beginning to end. A stone cold reggae classic. You need this album. At the least, go to iTunes and pay 99 cents for "Uptown Babies Don't Cry" and then try not to sing along. Impossible, I say.

When he and Michele hosted the tricker-treaters on Halloween, quit finding something wrong with that. Say "Good, I'm glad that he and the First Lady are treating children to an experience at the White House." And I just find it deplorable that some people on my end of the aisle want to find everything wrong and nothing right about the man as a man.
— Mike Huckabee