Favorites from The Program
The Video Festival at Conduit Gallery

cool off in the dark with ......

Rien du Tout by Clemens von Wedemeyer and Maya Schweizer, Host by Kristin Lucas, Artist Trilogy by Matt Marello, Stealing Beauty by Guy Ben-Ner, iMirror by Cao Fei, The Guest by John Bock, An Estranged Paradise by Yang Fudong, Anniversary Waltz by David Adamo

Briefly Noted:

http://www.abecedariumnyc.com/

www.dextersinister.org/library

Implant
curated by Jodie Vicenta Jacobson
for The Horticultural Society
at UBS Art Gallery, NYC 8/7 - 10/31

Pertaining to video and film:

Musical, Dana Friedman
shown at Gavin Brown's Enterprise, NYC

New York Complaints Choir
P.S. 1 Contemporary Arts Center thru 9/15

Matrix Effect, Christian Jankowski
Marian Goodman Gallery, NYC thru 7/30

Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the
the Mistress and the Tangerine,
Marion Cajori and Amei Wallach

Dali: Painting and Film
MOMA thru 9/15

And in real time: http://nycwaterfalls.org/

Local Fare

Nothing Moments
book art project at The Public Trust
organized by Steven Hull and Tami Demaree
thru 6/21 http://www.trustthepublic.com/

On Kawara: 10 Tableaux and 16,952 Pages
portrayal of time through paintings, cataloging
(what I read, who I met), counting
Dallas Museum of Art thru 8/24

Reprise
interesting film about the difficulty of writing,
ephemeral nature of success and failure
showing at Magnolia, Plano Angelika

Truth to Power
recommended reading for presidential
candidates NYTimes Book Review 6/1/08

Spiceman's FM 141
great produce and helpful hints about what
to do with it, Fitzhugh and Bryan
214-828-0322

New York Findings

Eminent Domain
photography by Thomas Holton, Bettina Johae,
Reiner Leist, Zoe Leonard, Ethan Levitas
http://exhibitions.nypl.org/eminent thru 8/29

Bill Wood's Business
International Center of Photography
icp.org thru 9/7

Foam
http://www.foam.nl/

Sheryl Oring
http://www.iwishtosay.org/

Recommended Reading

Evocative Objects:
Things We Think With
ed Sherry Turkle, MIT Press, 2007

Searching for Sebald
ed Lise Patt, ICI, 2007

French without Tears
Luc Sante
threepennyreview.com/samples/sante_su04.html

Recommended Viewing

The Art of the American Snapshot
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth

Archive Fever
International Center for Photography, NYC

The Collections of Barbara Bloom
International Center for Photography, NYC

Mapping Correspondence:
Mail Art in the 21st Century
The Center for Book Arts, NYC