Roberta Fallon on Everything Must Go! 100% Off
Roberta Fallon of the now venerable Philly artblog reports on Everything Must Go! 100% Off! I particularly appreciate the tags she places at the end of her article: “BURN IT : DONATE IT : GIVE IT AWAY : KEEP IT : TOO MUCH ART : TRASH IT.” Inverting this thesis, I might say that art […]
More from Extra Medium: Everything Must Go!
Haverford student Aby Isakov fulfilled her promise—or part of it: “I will get a tattoo of my fav shape from the shape game.” It’s indeed a tattoo of a shape from The Shape Game, my shape number 2. Only occasionally is this ever a favorite, that is, a survivor. And this promise, as I said […]
Another report from someone who left with an artwork during Extra Medium: Everything Must Go! 100% Off!
Art Historian and critic for Philly Artblog Group Andrea Kirsh was third to choose. She offers the following report. Note the Malevich… um, seriously, she moved a Malevich print to make room for me! … your collage is hanging, as pictured, at the landing half-way up the stairs so that I see it head-on every […]
Three Students, Three Pages of Wild Criticism
During the run of Extra Medium | John Muse, three single sheets of 8.5 x 11 paper were pasted to the walls just outside of the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery. No warning, no other route of publication, just criticism found in the wild. Each writers here shares what they and their teachers, Lindsay Reckson and Jack […]
First four reports of received works in situ from Extra Medium | John Muse: Everything Must Go!
Thanks Homay King, Erin Schoneveld, Natalie Hijinx, and Rachel Stern at the Phebe Anna Thorne School. They sent me documentation of their Extra Medium works in their new homes. Homay has my work next to a Joan Miró lithograph. Erin has another collage from a few years ago, so there are two, one on top […]
Entering the Cosmos/ Journeys Beyond the Cosmodrome
For the past year Jeanne and Lydia Matthews have been working on a project in Akkol, Kazakhstan entitled Entering the Cosmos/ Journeys Beyond the Cosmodrome. Lydia now has a detailed description of the project up on her website, and Jeanne is returning to Akkol in a few weeks to begin Part II of the project, which includes mounting […]
Laurie Wigham's watercolors
Laurie Wigham has an exhibition of watercolors up now at Spark Arts in the Castro. She created some of the works during the SF Sketcher’s meet-up that she, Jeanne, and I organized around the Dolye Drive falsework back in March of 2014. She captioned the falsework watercolors this way:
Falsework update
On the Presidio Parkway website’s Construction FAQ page, there’s a relatively new post about the Pet Cemetery:
Download Finley+Muse: All That Has Existed… by Rebecca Ora
Rebecca Ora‘s essay Finley+Muse: All That Has Existed, Will Exist, Has Never Existed, And Will Never Exist is now available for download. The book, designed by Ellen Gould of Soft Return, was published on the occasion of our January 15th, 2016 screening at the San Francisco Cinematheque: “Calculating Odds and the Possibilities of Miracles: Films by […]
visiting the Falsework and the Falsework cache
On Thursday Jeanne and I visited the Presidio Pet Cemetery, the remaining falsework (the protective cover over the cemetery), and the Falsework geocache.