Just got a lovely tweet off Mr Duke re the cancelled show… the man is a legend.
Melanie Willhide’s Tribute to a Burglar
When life give you lemons, make lemonade. When someone breaks into your home and steals your computer, make a collaborative photo project. That’s what Melanie Willhide did.
Willhide dedicates “To Adrian Rodriguez, with Love” to the individual who broke into her home and stole various things. Her computer was recovered by the police, but the hard drive had been wiped clean. Willhide attempted to recover the erased data but found her digital photographs corrupted. Lemons! Rather than delete the images, Willhide considered these corrupted files a collaboration with her machine. She refined them and made additional ones inspired by the mess. Lemonade!
The series opens today at Von Lintel Gallery, in New York.
- For more selection of Willhide’s work, visit our Photo Booth blog: http://nyr.kr/yvcuGb
Via The New Yorker
T’s exclusive portraits of some of the festival’s brightest stars.
Kalle Lasn and Micah White, the Creators of Occupy Wall Street
Kalle Lasn spends most nights shuffling clippings into a binder of plastic sleeves, each of which represents one page of an issue of Adbusters, a bimonthly magazine that he founded and edits. It is a tactile process, like making a collage, and occasionally Lasn will run a page with his own looped cursive scrawl on it. From this absorbing work, Lasn acquired the habit of avoiding the news after dark. So it was not until the morning of Tuesday, November 15th, that he learned that hundreds of police officers had massed in lower Manhattan at 1 A.M. and cleared the camp at Zuccotti Park. If anyone could claim responsibility for the Zuccotti situation, it was Lasn: Adbusters had come up with the idea of an encampment, the date the initial occupation would start, and the name of the protest—Occupy Wall Street. Now the epicenter of the movement had been raided. Lasn began thinking of reasons that this might be a good thing.
Junot Diaz: “Eventually everything I have gets read. But naturally I buy more than I can read, so there is always at least a hundred-book margin between what I own and what I’ve read. What’s cool is that I’ve caught up a couple of times, and this year I intend to catch up again. But then I’ll buy too much and the race starts again.”
- What do our libraries say about us? It’s a question the Book Bench has explored in detail in the past. The answer we came up with is: A lot.Leah Price’s new volume, “Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books,” presents photographs of the libraries of thirteen authors—including Wood and his wife, Claire Messud—alongside interviews about their collections, their most prized titles, and their reading habits. Click through for more images and text from Price’s new book: http://nyr.kr/tI4OBx
We’re reliving the Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 2012 just because you can never have too much McQueen.
Via W Magazine
