Thinking of home in The Met

Photo by Bob Thinking of the Georgia viaduct, pictured here in front of “Storyteller”, the now famous photograph/transparency by Jeff Wall, hanging in The Met where I went today to…

belladonna Tuesday: Melissa Buzzeo, Laura Elrick and Myung Mi Kim

Amazing reading last night at Dixon Place. Not a seat left in the house when the readings started. Melissa Buzzeo’s body/language text, a polyvocal performance piece by Laura Elrick, and…

More Meat, this time in Brooklyn

Mike Geno, John Wolfer, Josh GoldsteinAt The Gallery/Gallery Thean UN-profitable Internet/window gallerythe windows are located @343 Smith Street Brooklyn, NYopen 24/7/365

Brokeback marriages

Didn’t Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville West make faux marriage seem like jet-setting? Oh, right, they were actually both gay, not just one of them… The New York Times looks…

Overheard Dialogue of the Week

Why are some wars good? Because they’re for the right reasons. That one was for the right reasons. This one isn’t. What is this one for? This one is because…

Yale Review on Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets

I’m not one to preen, but today’s news prompts such a post. Apparently the Yale Review is calling Open Field the most important anthology of the year… I’m just a…

Rachel Whiteread at Luhring Augustine

Why is Rachel Whiteread so compelling? Is it the purity of vision? The clean lines? Is it the way she physicalizes negative space? How she sees the potential of nothing?…

Tony Oursler @ Metro Pictures

Wow. Great idea. I’ve seen variations on this theme before: images projected onto strange objects. In this case however, both the images and objects were more pleasing than usual. There…

France Queyras 1956-2006

With great sadness we announce the passing of “France”, Francoise Marie Therese Oline Queyras on February 14th. Born in Vancouver on October 1st, 1956, France battled cancer for over 20…

Go Sweden, Go British Columbia

A heartening week for environmental news. Sweden vowing to be oil-free in 15 years has got to have major implications, no? You have to think of it as a tipping…