I’m afraid it’s a hectic week so no extensive blog entry, but I thought I would share this with you. you shall above all things be glad and young. For if you’re young, whatever life you wear it will become you;and if you are glad whatever’s living will yourself become Girlboys may nothing more than [...]

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The cool thing about having a studio in a Community Art Center is that you get to interact with a lot of like minded people.  Last week, the artists at Banana Factory had a meeting with one of our board members, Ian Summers.  He is a photographer who worked in publishing for  a number of [...]

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I sometimes wonder how my work is perceived by viewers who have known it for a long time.  What I mean by that is- I recognize that about 10 years I ago I made work that came from a very scary place.  It certainly showed and viewers wer not afraid to remark about how unsettled [...]

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Anyone who talked to me yesterday knows that I was jones-ing for a snow day.  Ask and you shall receive, I guess, because here I am at home in my pajamas.  I’m surprised that I have taken to watching the news bright and early in the morning waiting for my school’s name to scroll across [...]

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I’m feeling somewhat buried with what I need to be doing but not to leave you high and dry, quick highlights with links regarding the Hide/Seek Exhibit. Warhol Foundation is to pull all future funding…. Smithsonian implys-”do what you gotta do.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/13/AR2010121305853.html http://blogs.artinfo.com/modernartnotes/2010/12/warhol-foundation-threat-was-a-missed-opportunity/ This morning artist AA Bronson has asked to be removed from the [...]

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Go get’em Warhol Foundation!!  Read on: December 13, 2010 For Immediate Release Contact Joel Wachs, President, 212.387.7555 The following letter was sent today by The Andy Warhol Foundation to Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution: December 13, 2010 Mr. Wayne Clough Smithsonian Institution SIB Office of the Secretary MRC 016 PO Box 37012 Washington, [...]

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I’m grading finals, y’all.  Here’s something fun and on topic….. The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Tip/Wag – Art Edition – Brent Glass www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog</a> March to Keep Fear Alive And due to all the craziness, there is now a website that chronicles the [...]

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So I’m still so completely out of my mind over all of this.  I’m posting some more articles today from the Support Hide/Seek Facebook page.  What I post is just skimming the surface of what has been documented  out there.  Please join the page.  Now. http://www.facebook.com/support.hide.seek I remember way back when during maybe Junior High [...]

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Well readers, thank you for reading my post regarding the David Wojnarowicz piece, Fire in my Belly (and muddling through my typos!!  Yikes!). I hope you are keeping up with the issue and I am reminding you that this is horrid thing that we are witnessing.  Over the weekend a Facebook page was started, entitled [...]

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I know I’ve been la la la-ing about the past few days all spun up in my own world but in my periphery, I’m aware of the deplorable events surronding the National Portrait Gallery’s exhibit Hide/Seek and the late David Wojnarowicz’s work involved in that exhibit.  I decided to gather some of the information I [...]

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