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If you live in Vancouver...

My very talented friends, Paul Burke + Anna Gustafson are having a one day only show/sale of their beautiful work...

 Saturday, November 20, 10am - 6pm
4018 Bayridge Crescent, West Vancouver, BC map

The Balancing Barn, Suffolk

too cool...

a new doc about JM Basquiat

     go here
 

  
 

guns + sketchpads...

go here

 

via S.L. xox

shoe box living by kids

  see more  Thanks Paule...

 
 

barcode artist

  

more

 
 
 

Art Basel Miami as Hooverville

NY TImes, Powhida  

to hear the sounds of a fuel tank

go here

 

Liu Bolin, the Invisible man

 

 

read about him  (thanx CC)

the wonderful Mary Cassatt + Winslow Homer+ others

 

At the Met 

The McFarthest Place: 145 Mi to the Nearest Big Mac, a map by Stephen Von Worley,

more here

Dead Man's Bones with Ryan Gosling + Zach Shields in Montreal

Saw an amazingly visual + creative Canadian band last eve at the National on St. Catherine's St. which included amazing local (kid) singers from the Every Kids Choir. Every performance begins with a local talent show which, here in Montreal included magicians...very retro + fun.   about the band + an article by T'cha Dunlevy about them.

Recycling artist, Tim Burke

more here

the greatest living artist

in the whole world, if you asked me....

Restaurateur/designer Patrick Meausette...in the Montreal Gazette today

 ....a piece about friend/biz partner's, Rob Hack's lovely  "loft with good bones".  Not surprising for anyone who has been to either of their restos, the fabulous  Cluny Artbar  or the Cafe Titanic.  Wow.  Beautiful. 

Paintings by Ted Kennedy

On top of everything else, it appears TK was a pretty decent painter. 

stole this from

Montrealer Mary Lamey's cool blog, Homefront   It's a fantastic piece by artist Kevin Cyr.

Patrick Dougherty

here's more. I love these.

Thanks for this S. I love it too. + I'm going to start using the film option more, too.

if in NY, a fabulous free concert by Electro Morocco, Sat night

weed robes, clothing made from leaves

Rufus Wainwright's first opera

Prima Donna opened in Manchester, England, Friday night. The NYTimes music review seems a bit lukewarm.

newly discovered in Italy

mona?

2 swiss artists, fischli + weiss

from the bbc, banksy in bristol

nothing personal, shannon freshwater, but I think this work sucks

Shannon is a Saatchi finalist see here.  I like some of her other works but this painting on a photograph bugs me.  It's all over the place, especially in Toronto, on Queen Street, this painting on photographs.   Huge prints, sometimes, with paint slopped all over the photograph+ well,yawn, it just leaves me stone cold.  Maybe at the advent of photography painting over prints was some kind of cool but now, really, it just seems like laziness. Like learning how to draw is yuck,work. (It is a found photo that she's "flawed".  It is always poignant when you come unwanted photographs at a garage sale or junk shop.  You can't help thinking about the people in the photographs. + how the photographs got there.)

+ in the I don't eat anything with a face department...

by artist genou choueri 

what to with old phone booths

by artists benedetto + bufalino

beautiful work

by Hilary Berseth

+ worker bees

lovely drawing by Wesley Bedrosian in the NYTimes

me + my shadow, May 31/09

went to a fabulous show at the dhc in Old Montreal  called Particles of Reality,  along with a group of photographer/friends.  I'd never heard of this artist Michal Rovner, who lives in NY + in Israel on a farm, but after seeing the show it felt to me her art could only be created by someone who lives in NY + rural Israel.  She marries the most sophisticated technology with the most primitive...eg. rocks.  It's on all summer into the fall + truly, it's a show not to be missed. 

I love it when people send me new artists to discover. Thanks, S.

+ the Grange Prize Winner is Marco Antonio Cruz

who I had to vote for, too   I felt a bit unpatriotic for voting for a non-Canadian on this "Focus on the Best in Canadian and International Contemporary Photography" competition, but his photos are just too too amazing...

Is art good for you?

a thoughtful article by fabulous artist David Byrne + this is a painting he did in high school

1985