Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
— Henry David Thoreau
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you find outside an advertising agency.
— Raymond Chandler
I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.
— Ayn Rand
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
— Demosthenes
Friday Overture: I had always presumed Bimbo Bimbo was a happy clown, you know...
NOTA BENE: I couldn't think of anything that might evoke the onset of Spring in full force this week, so I'm opting for a ludicrously jaunty number that I had always heard in some other version that sang about a clown. Apparently that was actually derived from a non-clown number. I have to confess that the lyrics in the verses of this song irritate the shit out of me and make me want to kick Bimbo down the street and into heavy traffic, but the chorus kind of swings and I really like the way the band plays it. I'll apologize now, just in case you find you can't get this out of your head afterward.
CONTINUING thru April 9 @ Hallwalls
Gallery hours: Tues to Fri 11am to 6pm, Sat 11am to 2pm
JOSHUA GREENE: CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS
Josh Green's Website
HEATHER LAYTON: PREPARING TO LOSE
Heather Layton's Website
@ Hallwalls Thurs, April 1, 7pm
Mark Nowak
Hallwalls Literature
@ Hallwalls Fri, April 2, 8pm
Black Took Collective: Live Feed from the Black Unconscious
Hallwalls Literature
April 7 in the Ninth Ward
Admission is Free
@ Hallwalls Fri, April 9, 8pm
Scan Lines
"Hallwalls is pleased to host a screening of feminist videos that explore female interiority in public space. Curated by Stella Mars, the program features works by Kate Gilmore, Heather Keung, Eileen Maxson, Shannon Plumb among others. The screening precedes the opening of Scan Lines, an exhibition at the Carnegie Art Center, on view April 10-May 15."
Hallwalls Media Arts
Where You Should Be On May 1st
The rest of April/May 2010 @ Hallwalls
Opening Elsewhere
• Andre Fradet @ Studio Hart op Fri, April 2, 6-9pm (May 5)
• Sean Madden @ 464 Gallery op Fri, April 2, 8—11pm
• massive group exhibition at College Street Gallery op Fri, Apr 2, 5—10pm
• J. Tim Raymond @ CG Jung Center op Fri, April 2, 7-pm
Chick Strand Film Retrospective
@ Squeaky Wheel Fri, Apr 2, 8pm
"Squeaky Wheel is thrilled to present a collection of four films by the legendary expiremental/ethnographic filmmaker Chick Strand on Friday April 2nd. Strand, who passed away in the summer of 2009, was a co-founder of Canyon Cinema and pioneered experimental non-fiction ethnographic film. In addition to the retrospective
screening, film theorist Scott MacDonald will give a presentation via Skype about Strand's influential work."
Tara Nahabetian, Dennis Nahabetian
op @ Indigo Fri, April 9, 6-9pm (Apr 24)
Opening April 10
Haitian Relief Pour
Opening April 17 @ Buffalo Arts Studio
Earth Warming Party & Open House
Opening Reception April 25 @ Olean Public Library (thru May 22)
Jolene Beckman @ Carnegie Art Center thru May 1
CALL FOR WORK: 6X6X2010: DEADLINE MAY 2
Rochester Contemporary
Continuing Elsewhere
• ALBRIGHT KNOX • Fletcher Benton (July 5), The Dorothy and Herb Vogel Collection (May 9), Guillermo Cuitca (May 30), The Automatiste Revolution (May 30) Buffalo News
• BIG ORBIT • Frederick Wright-Jones (Apr 17) Buffalo News
• BUFFALO ARTS STUDIO • Tom Hughes, Baili Liu (Mar 27) Buffalo News Dabkowski
• BURCHFIELD PENNEY • Liz Tower (Apr 4), Park School Students (Mar 28), Charles Cary Rumsey (May 30), Surreal Inclinations (July 11), Charles Burchfield: Heatwaves in a Swamp (May 23)
• CARNEGIE ART CENTER • installing
• CASTELLANI ART MUSEUM • Felice Koenig (May 23), Surrealism and the Museum of Dreams (May 30)
• CEPA GALLERY • installing
• HALLWALLS • Josh Greene, Heather Layton (Apr 9)
• UB ANDERSON • Paul Jenkins (Aug 22), Annette Cravens
• UB ART GALLERY • Alberto Rey & Precious Cargo (both May 15)
• Nelson Bradley in BRUCENNIAL 2010: Miseducation (NYC) thru Apr 4
• Catherine Parker, Monica Angle @ Indigo (Apr 3)
• Greg Kuppenger, Victoria Ciostek, John Merlino, Sharon Kalstek @ Buffalo Big Print (Apr 17)
• Andrew Ortiz @ El Museo (Apr 7)
• Adele Cohen @ WNYBAC (April 10)
• Andrew Ortiz @ El Museo (Apr 7)
• Gerald Mead @ Nichols (May 1)
• Willian DuBois @ Nina Freudenheim (Apr 14)Buffalo News
• David Pierro, Candace Keegan, Michael Trampert, Ross Chirico, Michael Mulley, Chris McGee, William Herod, Chris Hausbeck @ Queen City Gallery (Apr 30)
• Tim Roby @ Olean Public Library (Apr 10)
• Julian Montague @ B&W (NYC) thru May 28
• Greg Kuppenger, Viktoria Ciostek, Gene Witkowski, John Merlino, Sharon Kalstek @ Buffalo Big Print (Apr 17)
"How curious that a mob fond of likening President Obama to Hitler knows so little about history that it doesn’t recognize its own small-scale mimicry of Kristallnacht. The weapon of choice for vigilante violence at Congressional offices has been a brick hurled through a window. So far."
NY Times Rich
"Few modern myths about art have been as persistent or as annoying as the so-called death of painting. Unless, of course, it is the belief that abstract and representational painting are oil and water, never to meet as one." 
NY Times Smith
"Listening to Chrissie, I marveled at the pleasures of jet-set curation and puzzled my brain at the active disjunction between the pampered privileges of the museoelites and the often difficult art with which they hammer the public."
artnet Finch
"The London 2012 organizers and their designers, Wolff Olins, responded by claiming that the logo was intentionally brave, bold and ahead of its time but that we would learn to love it. That was nearly three years ago, plenty of time to win us over. Were they right?"
NY Times Rawsthorn
"But it is Mr. Molina’s stare that invests it with real drama. 'What do you see?' he asks in the play’s first line, with an urgency that is part hope and part despair, with despair in the ascendant. By this time we have looked into his eyes. What we see, above all, is an artist seeing, and it’s impossible not to feel thrilled by the privilege."
NY Times Brantley
"The gap between exhibition and catalog reveals much about the pitfalls of the curatorial discipline, including art theory’s blinkering of vision; discomfort with new, unsanctioned art; and the tendency toward what might be called reverse revisionism — that is, narrowing, rather than broadening, artistic canons."
NY Times Smith
“I remember so vividly my first time aloft that I can still hear the wind swing in the wires as we glided down. By the time the pilot touched the wheels gently to earth, I knew my future in airplanes and flying was as inevitable as the freckles on my nose.”
NY Times obit
"The narrators of Ai’s poems are male and female, young and old, famous and unsung. Many are profoundly unlikable, some genuinely evil. They do terrible things. In the worlds they inhabit, families are shattered, lovers abandoned, children abused."
NY Times obit
"Mr. Frey and his team created the car — from approval by top management to the showroom — in just 18 months, and expectations were modest when it was introduced on April 17, 1964, at the New York World’s Fair. Ford figured it would sell 80,000 Mustangs in its first year. It sold more than a million in its first two years." 
NY Times obit
"But he was always more than an imitator: his style mixed the harmonic sophistication of bebop with the earthy directness of the blues and seasoned the blend with a twang more typical of country music than jazz." 
NY Times obit
"At Charlton, he helped come up with a line of action heroes, including Blue Beetle, The Question and The Peacemaker, that would later be purchased by DC Comics and become the basis for the heroes in Watchmen..."
NY Times obit
"Today, the seemingly conflicting forces of pornography, feminism and a new breed of photo magazines that would rather put a camera on the cover than a pretty woman have all but dried up the market for old-fashioned pinups — the annual Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue being a notable exception. But in the 1950s and ’60s, it was hard to find a soldier’s locker, a truck stop or a factory washroom that wasn’t decorated with one."
NY Times obit
For Your Netflix Queue...
(2004, dir. Nicole Kassel) Definitely not an easy pitch to get you to consider a film where our protagonist is a convicted pedophile and before the film was originally released, I can recall reading an article detailing the immense difficulty in promoting a film with this subject matter and finding ANY distribution for it. Too bad, as it's a fairly great film and perhaps the performance of Kevin Bacon's career. Let me put it this way—near the end of the film is a scene with Bacon and a young girl who is not merely a potential victim but, disturbingly enough, a potentially willing victim and in the midst of this dark, troubling scene Bacon plumbs some remarkable depths and we're reminded that he is more than a pop culture measurement of six degrees but an actor of great nuance and subtlety. That one scene is enough reason to watch this film.
(1982) THOMAS DINGER : FÜR MICH
Solo album from a percussionist who had worked with Kraftwerk, Neu!, and then formed his own band called La Dusseldorf. The halfway dreamy David Lynch vibe evoked by the cover photo aptly describes the music. I can't dissect it further than to say I've listened to this many times over the last few months. It's a quiet unassuming record with, apparently for me, lots of staying power.
— Euripides
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