~HEATH LEDGER/GRASS ROOTS MEMORIAL/SOHO

. . . HEATH LEDGER FOUND DEAD – IN NEW YORK – TUES – JAN 22, 2008.

. . . one bit of information – gleaned from the many local newspaper reports: HEATH was into skateboarding the streets, especially of BROOKLYN – incognito/grunged out – and apparently, according to one newspaper account – he had a skateboard collection, and not much else – in his $24,000/month Soho apartment.
He was only 28, and, from AUSTRALIA, as everybody knows, and, a makeshift memorial is growing outside his BROOME ST. loft apt – as fans lay flowers and candles.

. . . so, talking about SKATERS, while we were in the CANAL CHAPTER nabe, on the outer fringes of Soho – we decided to check out, that GRASSROOTS MEMORIAL – albeit almost a week later. It was actually pretty quiet. Apparently just that day, Sunday Jan 27, 2008, a storekeeper across the street, told us that the entire memorial had been swept up and taken away. I guess they want to discourage strangers congregating in the tony neighborhood. but in the short time it took to walk back to the site, the beginnings of new makeshift memorial had re-emerged on the street.

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his loft building is right next door to the NANETTE LEPORE boutique . . .

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whose upbeat, Spring presentation of brightly colored handmade bird houses – made of ethereal paper tissue – somehow, now struck a sad note – on the fragility of life; and the small moments of beauty, it’s easy to take for granted.

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a local told us the names of the apt dwellers had been covered with blank cards, since the building became the object of unwanted attention. well that’s an obvious move for the high rent tenants.

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and a rather stylish and poetic – tie-dye textile – now covers the glass of the doorway.

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fans come to pay their respects and give voice to their grief – the memorial grows again, Sunday night, Jan 27, 2008 – 5 days later.

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those teeny tiny bits of colored paper on the street – are not confetti – they are hundreds of tiny hand folded Japanese paper origami cranes !!

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the paper cranes were about the size of a Dime – the smallest American coin.

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a handwritten, heartfelt message from the TELEBOARD community

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fans left handwritten signs – with very personal outpourings

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some were almost scary to read – the expressions of loss were so powerful

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people, especially young people – would just drive up in cars, often driven by their parents, and pop out – to have their picture taken – next to the site.

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instead of looking upon this as macabre – I think its really beautiful – that, in this bubble culture of ours – so many could recognize his talent – and feel the need to express their grief, in a tangible manner. It’s hard to look back at all his films and realize he was only 28.

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by this week, THURSDAY, JAN 31,2008 – one bouquet had been freshly placed at the doorstep. that had obviously just been cleared. guess they are serious about discouraging a big makeshift display.

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though the police ‘crowd control’ steel barricades remain on the street – and, along with the street’s green growth planters – seem to comprise – an eerie ‘minimalist’ memorial all on their own . .
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH




~UP-DATE: LARRY CLARK/KEN PARK/CANAL CHAPTER

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FRAME FROM LARRY CLARK/’KEN PARK’ (2002)/CANAL CHAPTER SCREENING

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TIFFANY LIMOS in LARRY CLARK’S ‘KEN PARK’ (2002)/CANAL CHAPTER SCREENING

JUST FOR THE RECORD – the opening film credits do state: DIRECTED BY LARRY CLARK & ED LACHMAN.

In my humble opinion, no offense to Larry, and he probably agrees – this movie is probably the worst movie I’ve ever seen. It should be placed into the hole in which it dug itself, and hopefully, never see the light of day, again. buried.

APPARENTLY, that basically is its current status – supposedly, it has never been released in the USA, and our friends at CANAL CHAPTER only got their hands on a copy of it – on their recent art tour/promotional junket in, where else – CHINA !!

They told us that – Larry said it wasn’t shown here, because of quote “some problems with rights to the music” !!

MORE LIKE some problems with explicit sex scenes involving minors – that were not only real time real play, and, keyed into twisted-out scenarios; they were truly pornographic in the way they let you know – this action was for real.

The worst example probably being the skinny young kid who has to live with his grandparents – ok, so we all know that scenario is depressing, even if the grandparents are kind of sweet – and harmless. It kind of starts off with the funniest line in the entire movie – he calls his 3-legged dog – “Legs !!” – as in, “shut up Legs, I’m working” – but continues downhill into his explicit auto-erotic self-strangulation, including a gooey, pathetic ‘cum’ shot – (everybody in the room – went – UUGHH, L-A-R-R-Y !!) – and then he gets up and stabs both grandparents to death while they are asleep in bed. (don’t attempt to do this at home – kids). The rest of the movie isn’t much better. the problem is – it’s presented as a documentary – when it really might have had a better chance as an over-the-top SOUTH PARK episode.

Some of the audience spoke up for the film – maintaining that they knew ‘skaters’ who came from these awful kind of backgrounds, (mostly drunk moron dads, and stupid nympho moms of girlfriends, whatever) and that, these stories needed to be told. ok. but then you want your story told in a compelling film – with real grit and merit – not one that is worse than laughable; and can never see the light of day, even if it were to have captured the kind of spark – Larry can capture with a still frame camera.

In fact the only, and I mean onlymoments of inspiration, in the entire film – were the almost throw-away shots of young kids, and I mean the real little ones, under 10, gravely and gracefully, flitting by, as if they were a nation of wheeled board butterflies – up and down the parks and streets.

ok. it was kind of interesting to view it, as a kind of what-went-wrong-in Larry’s world. On the one hand – it did (like a rock falling) address the thinking that Larry probably traveled, you see these young pre-teen kids so lithe and carefree zooming around on their boards – and then puberty – hits. Sexuality and sex organs land full-strength, full-grown on young skinny (not fully grown) bodies – ill-equipped physically, and emotionally to handle these desperate urges. (if you’ve ever had a male puppy – seeing this movie will make you wonder why we just don’t castrate children and take them out of their misery, too. just joking !!)

On the other hand – it definitely crossed the line of creative expression, and sexually exploits its young actors. The movie itself – leaves is no factual doubt of that. Larry was already facing these issues from the community with ‘Kids’ (1995). But compared to this movie – ‘KIDS’ – was, and is, a masterpiece. You can see ‘KIDS’ in museum screenings, albeit with adult content warnings. The thing is with ‘KIDS’ – it all (cinematically) flew and (the storyline) flowed. The sex scenes were relatively healthy ones among like-minded teens. and they were discrete enough, that they left you, and pretty much – a whole generation – wondering if they were real or staged. Though you pretty much guessed when Chloe Sevigny raised her legs straight up in the air – that it was, pretty much for real, and not staged.
And just look where Chloe Sevigny is today – starring in ‘BIG LOVE’ – on TV, and decked out in full-on movie star regalia on glossy magazine covers, whereas Tiffany Limos (to our best knowledge) just sort of meanders through photo-ops with Larry – sullen and unhappy looking, with not much to say, actually with nothing to say.

Maybe its just a matter of personality – Chloe having (also) managed to escape unscathed from her explicit, and supposedly exploitive sex scene with Vincent Gallo, in his ‘Brown Bunny’ (2003).

Come to think of it, though, as unwatchable as ‘Ken Park’ is – at least it tried to say something – ‘BIG LOVE’ – is just as unwatchable – but it masquerades as ‘wholesome’ entertainment – on prime time TV – which might be saying something even worse about our culture – than ‘Ken Park’ ever did.

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VICTOR TIMOFEEV, who oversees SUNDAY MOVIE NIGHT at CANAL CHAPTER, and who cooks most of the food. He says the interview & photo of him, posted below, are from 5 years ago – its nice to see a young artist/thinker – evolve and grow.

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screening/dinner guest ANGEL CLOUTIER, with artist and CANAL CHAPTER CO-FOUNDER, (MIKE) MIKHAIL SOKOVIKOV

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artist and CANAL CHAPTER CO-FOUNDER, JASON WALL, in serious conversation at the communal dinner table.

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JASON WALL at the table. the work behind him, the life-size cut-out, is by ADAM KRUEGER. and is part of the art exhibit currently up at CANAL CHAPTER – ADAM KRUEGER and RON BEACH – ‘BETTER THAN ME’.

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ANGEL CLOUTIER brings ADAM KRUEGER’S cut-out sculpture – to life !!

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from left: ADAM KRUEGER and RON BEACH. what’s sort of interesting about their friendship and collaboration – is that they are kind of yin and yang. Adam went through the school system, undergraduate study at RISDI and Graduate degree from SVA (School of Visual Arts) & (yes, Jerry Saltz was one of his teachers.) While Ron just came to painting recently, in the past few years, though he did take as few photography classes at SVA – that’s how they met. This divergence of route: school vs. streets might be more an indication of their individual father’s income – more than anything else, as they are both very passionate and proliferate in their artistic output. But while Adam Krueger is a natural realist, RON BEACH is a natural expressionist.
and ,. . . about that cut-out – Adam – is that a self-portrait, in your dreams, or what ?
well, no matter, its good.

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a collaboration: ADAM KRUGER did the scientist, RON BEACH did the rest – it was painted over the CANAL CHAPTER elevator door.

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RON BEACH painting – at the CANAL CHAPTER – SUNDAY MOVIE NIGHT DINNER

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DJ SKATERDAYS . . .

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a big fan of CANAL CHAPTER – aka – 1134 NYC – !!

PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH, JAN 27, 2008

* BYE THE WAY – THEIR NEXT SCREENING IS – THIS SUNDAY – FEB 3, 2008 – 8PM *
* FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT’S ‘DAY FOR NIGHT’ (1979) * BRING: FOOD-OR-WINE *
* ADMISSION FREE * ACTUAL SCREENINGS USUALLY START AT 9 PM *
* THE CANAL CHAPTER – 343 CANAL STREET – BUZZER : FL 4 *

CHECK OUT: THE CANAL CHAPTER




~LARRY CLARK/KEN PARK/CANAL CHAPTER/SAT JAN 27

* UP-DATE – WITH PIX – POSTING – FEB 1/2008 – ABOVE !! *

THE CANAL CHAPTER and VICTOR TIMOFEEV – INVITE YOU TO THEIR – ‘SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE’
THIS WEEK’S MOVIE – SUNDAY, JAN 27, 2008 – LARRY CLARK’S – ‘KEN PARK’ !!
ADMISSION IS FREE WITH A BOTTLE OF WINE and/or YOUR FAVORITE DISH/POTLUCK EVENT
DOORS OPEN 8PM
THE CANAL CHAPTER – 343 CANAL STREET – BTN GREENE & WOOSTER – FL 4 – NYC

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THE ORIGINAL ‘KEN PARK’ PROMOTIONAL POSTER COURTESY/WIKIPEDIA

‘KEN PARK’ (2002) – DIRECTED BY LARRY CLARK – FEATURES CINEMATOGRAPHY BY ED LACHMAN.
HARMONY KORINE, (WHO WROTE THE SCREENPLAY FOR ‘KIDS’) WROTE THE SCREENPLAY – BASED ON LARRY CLARK’S JOURNALS & STORIES. IT IS SET IN VISALIA, A RURAL TOWN IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA.
TIFFANY LIMOS, FEATURED IN SEVERAL PHOTOS – IN THE RECENT (FALL 2007) LARRY CLARK PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW (‘LARRY CLARK/LOS ANGELES 2003-2006’) AT LUHRING AUGUSTINE, PLAYS PEACHES – ONE OF THE TEEN SKATEBOARDERS WHOSE HOME LIFE STORY IS TOLD.

THE FILM GETS DOWN & DIRTY – AND WAS HARD PRESSED TO FIND COMMERCIAL, AND EVEN, ART THEATER RUNS, (EVEN) HERE IN THE US of A.

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TIFFANY LIMOS In ‘KEN PARK’/PHOTO COURTESY: BBC COLLECTIVE

SEE: LARRY CLARK AT THE LUHRING-AUGUSTINE OPENING + SOME OF THE PHOTOS, including a few of TIFFANY LIMOS

Larry Clark & Tiffany
5 YEARS LATER, TIFFANY LIMOS and LARRY CLARK – at the DAMIEN HIRST-LEVI’S FASHION SHOW/GAGOSIAN GALLERY, SEPT 8, 2007 – see: more pix/DAMIEN HIRST FASHION SHOW
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH

THERE’S AN INTERESTING (AS IN VERY INTERESTING) SIDE STORY TO ‘KEN PARK’ & THE LONDON FILM FESTIVAL – LARRY CLARK CLOCKED HIS UK DISTRIBUTOR . . . BROKE HIS NOSE . . ALLEGEDLY OVER 9/11 . . THE UK DISTRIBUTOR NEEDLESS TO SAY, SEVERED ALL TIES TO THE FILM – & -WITHOUT A DISTRIBUTOR IT WAS PULLED FROM THE FESTIVAL !!
“I’m sorry I lost control and acted in an uncivilized manner, ” says Clark in a signed statement to
(BBC) COLLECTIVE . . .”But if he was trying to provoke me, he did. He went to the hospital with a broken nose, and I went to jail.” He was later released with a caution. the story was written by JONATHAN CARTER, on BBC COLLECTIVE (NOV 2002)
see: the original BBC COLLECTIVE page with links to: LARRY CLARK INTERVIEWS FROM THE TIME:
1) the making of ‘Ken Park’
2) the “incident”
3) ‘Ken Park’ – the story

and lastly, if you are wondering who is this VICTOR TIMOFEEV – who is bringing this ‘KEN PARK’ screening to CANAL CHAPTER – here’s a good place to start:
CHECK OUT: PUNK GLOBE/VICTOR TIMOFEEV by Max Luvero

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VICTOR TIMOFEEV/PHOTO COURTESY: PUNK GLOBE/MAX LUVERNO

and, CHECK OUT: LARRY CLARK’s page on myspace !!

he’s also putting up an official website – it’s still under construction, but, bet !! it will be great !! – just look at that front page graphic !!
here’s the link: LARRY CLARK OFFICIAL WEBSITE

CANAL CHAPTER




~BLOWN AWAY/KRANNERT ART MUSEUM/CHICAGO

BLOWN AWAY – CURATED BY GINGER GREGG DUGGAN & JUDITH HOOS FOX
opening reception was: THURS JAN 24, 2008 6-8
the show runs: JANUARY 25 – MARCH 30, 2008
KRANNERT ART MUSEUM and KINHEAD PAVILION
COLLEGE OF FINE and APPLIED ARTS
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS at URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
500 EAST PEABODY DRIVE – CHAMPAIGN, ILLINOIS
www.kam.uiuc.edu
HOURS: TUES-SAT 9-5 / THURS 9-9 / SUN 2-5 / CLOSED MON

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the front graphic on the show’s invite – a 3 part fold-over card

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the 21 artists in the show

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the only illustrations of art included in the show – 2 images by MICHAEL BELL-SMITH, from his ‘Action Hack’, single channel video loops. 2007 – are of a purely visual/plastic ‘explosive’ nature.

“This exhibit features work in a variety of media by artists who address the character, meaning, and implications of explosions – from the intensity of an impending event to the sensation of the release and the reverberations of the ensuing shock waves.” – PRESS RELEASE

are they kidding – are they being just ‘super’ casual – as in, museum ‘hyper academic flat’ speak – do they mean solely plastic “artistic explosions” – is there any political content. I mean explosions can kill – it isn’t exactly that pretty a topic as they make out – and, there’s nothing as yet – to give any indication on the website.
The only illustrations on the card are of ‘plastic’ / purely visual “explosions” by MICHAEL BELL-SMITH. That is definitely worth seeing, don’t get me wrong – its just the wording of that brief press release & the casualness of the title: ‘BLOWN AWAY’ that has me shaking my head. is that a clue to the nature of the show ?
do they just mean BLOWN AWAY as in WOWED !! – I mean, BLOWN AWAY – esp in an explosion – can mean having your body blown to parts. and yet the card and show is presented in such an up-beat way.
I mean they actually are screening MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI’S famous film ‘BLOWUP’ (1966)
as part of the program – with apanel discussion title, get this – “Rupture in FILM’ featuring U of I faculty members.
but, we also note GERHARD RICHTER & THOMAS RUFF are in the show – so that’s a possibility for some thematic and possibly political – as well as purely plastic explosions.
Maybe they have that great computer generated series of photographs by THOMAS RUFF – on the WORLD TRADE CENTER disaster/explosion ? This drop-dead amazing series of photographs were shown in March 2001 at DAVID ZWIRNER, in a THOMAS RUFF exhibit simply titled: ‘New Work’.
I think, (that’s I think) – they were priced at $80,000 a piece, in a very limited edition, even at that time.
here’s one from our archives:
Blown away-Thomas Ruff
THOMAS RUFF, from his SPRING 2005 show: ‘New Work’, at DAVID ZWIRNER GALLERY.
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH/artloversnewyork. MARCH 11, 2005
see a few more pix from that show: here !! – 3rd row down

KRANNERT ART MUSEUM
note: no images/or content on this show at all – as of post time.
(JAN 24, 2008)




~TAYLOR McKIMENS/DESERT BOY MEETS SNOW !!

Taylor holiday 2007
HAPPY HOLIDAYS 2007 – ARTWORK BY TAYOR McKIMENS/IMAGE COURTESY: TAYLOR McKIMENS

THIS IS THE HOLIDAY GREETING TAYOR McKIMENS SENT OUT THIS SEASON. GUESS IT RATED AS THE BEST HOLIDAY GREETING – FROM AN ARTIST – 2007 !!

didn’t post it immediately cause we were waiting on some info from TAYLOR – that never came in – like: where the hell was he & what did all this mean ?

we had heard some buzz on the street that Taylor had left, his Brooklyn haunts (temporarily ? permanently ? – or at least for now ?) to hang out in LONDON, ONTARIO – with his pals – the COMMUNITY OUTREACH (Gallery) crew, in LONDON, ONTARIO, CANADA – but no one would confirm anything for publication – Taylor made like someone with real Native American ghosts in his bloodstream – (we’ve heard rumors to that effect) – and left his visual smoke signals to stand as his only communication. the sign on the porch – does say: “THREE BEDROOM FOR RENT “.

and, upon on seeing his new painting coming out of his GALLERI LOYAL show, opening this week in STOCKHOLM – and factoring in the cryptic title: “SWEET DREAMS OF PHOENIX” – we think its a safe bet to say TAYLOR must be spending some time up in CANADA – cause there sure ain’t any snow around here !! not even in BROOKLYN.

But, there’s tons of snow up in Canada – don’t ask how we know – trust me, we just do !!
and it looks to be having a great visual impact on Taylor – who was sprung to life – under the great American South West desert sun – being born in 1976 – and raised in the small, totally art forsaken desert town of WINTERHAVEN, ARIZONA, near the Mexican border.
He once told us the only art he ever saw, or even knew of – growing up, was MAD MAGAZINE, assorted comic books and the GARBAGE PAIL KIDS – !!

One of the things that freaked Taylor out, when he moved to New York – was all the exposure the local kids get here – to all kinds of art – street art, graphic art, exhibition banners of all kinds floating from museum buildings; they really just take it for granted how art bombards them, and how much they really know about art – if they stopped to think about it. – and, we’re not just talking about the ones who get trucked around from DAY ONE – in their new-born baby pouches, and then strollers – to museums and gallery openings. Though I remember Taylor being especially in awe of that class of NYC kid art-know-it-all.
He says all he saw growing up – were cactuses and broken down pick-up trucks. He thought comic books were the beginning – and end all – of visual civilization. Later in his teens, in high school – he thought modern art ended with ANDY WARHOL – cause that’s where any of the old art books he could scare up – ended !

It’s a bit of long story – he entered a commercial – ‘can you draw – we can help you’ – type school – where an inspired instructor luckily saw his talent – and turned him onto the real art world and told him – to go !! After graduating from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California – Taylor hooked up with a young independent curator and artist, RICH JACOBS. Rich Jacobs is pretty well known here in New York, for his brilliant group shows at various venues, (he did that great ‘BALL POINT PEN DRAWING SHOW at CINDERS a year or so, back, and one at FUSE , too) – in the past several years. Though sadly, we have heard that Rich Jacobs recently moved back west. At any rate, back in the day – RICH JACOBS gave Taylor his first break – like he did so many others – by including his work in the ‘MOVE’ series of shows he was then curating at New Image Art Gallery in Los Angeles, and which led New Image Art – to give Taylor his first solo show in 2001. the rest is history – or will be.
Not sure when Taylor actually moved to New York, but he was included in the Year 2000 exhibit: ‘MOVE FOUR’, RICH JACOBS curated at P.S. 122, in New York. There’s a bio for Taylor on the Gallerie Loyal website – but it just basically lists his shows. It does say he: Lives and Works in New York – so I guess – this stay in Canada – is just as if he went upstate – (like JACKSON POLLOCK went to the {remote} Hamptons w-a-y back in that day), except Taylor had to go a just little bit further north (in this day) – to find some solace and a change in scene.

so, cactus boy – meets snow – that funny cold white stuff that (still) falls copiously in Canada – isn’t it great – how there is always something new to marvel at, and paint about – in this crazy, one could say, self-destroying – world of ours !! Good luck with your show, and opening tonight, wish we could be there to see it – from all of your your friends back here, in NYC.




~TAYLOR McKIMENS/GALLERI LOYAL/OPENS TO-NITE !!

Taylor Galleri Loyal 2008
TAYLOR McKIMENS, painting, 2008, acrylic on canvas, 90 x 96 ins./IMAGE COURTESY: GALLERI LOYAL

WOW !!

IF YOU ARE IN STOCKHOLM TO-NITE – YOU CAN CHECK OUT TAYLOR’S OPENING OF NEW WORK !!
TAYLOR IS IN STOCKHOLM & WILL BE AT THE OPENING RECEPTION !!

TAYLOR McKIMENS – ‘SWEET DREAMS OF PHOENIX’ – OPENS TO-NITE – FRI JAN 25, 6-9PM
THE SHOW RUNS: JANUARY 25 – MARCH 2, 2008
GALLERI LOYAL – TORSGATAN 53 & 59 – 113 37 STOCKHOLM – SWEDEN

GALLERI LOYAL




~BARRY McGEE/BALTIC CENTER/LONDON/supertouch

supertouch has a great POST on the new BARRY McGEE show, that just opened at the BALTIC CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, in GATESHEAD, ENGLAND

YOU CAN CHECK It OUT: here !!

ALL PHOTOS BY SHAM69 & MACDEEE- HERE ARE 3 OF OUR FAVES – !!

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BARRY McGEE ARTWORK/COURTESY: supertouch

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BARRY McGEE ARTWORK/COURTESY: supertouch

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BARRY McGEE ARTWORK/COURTESY: supertouch

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BALTIC CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, GATESHEAD, ENGLAND




~DAVE NUSS/NO-NECK BLUES BAND

DAVE NUSS, THE DRUMMER, OF THE NO-NECK BLUES BAND, WAS AT THE AVEY TARE & KRIA BREKKAN, with DEAKIN – PERFORMANCE AT GLASSLANDS, JAN 20, 2008.
WITH HIM, WAS HATTIE.

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PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH

NO-NECK on WIKIPEDIA

NO-NECK BLUES BAND: myspace




~AVEY TARE & KRIA BREKKAN/with DEAKIN/of ANIMAL COLLECTIVE/GLASSLANDS

SUNDAY – JAN 20, 2008 – 8:00 PM (starts 9 sharp)
PRESENTED BY: JOE GAER
PAW TRACKS RECORD RELEASE for RINGS – ADMISSION – $7
with:
RINGS
AVEY TARE & KRIA BREKKAN with DEAKIN from ANIMAL COLLECTIVE

Pawtracks - Rings
RINGS – BLACK HABIT – PAW TRACKS

THIS IS THE PAW TRACKS RELEASE PARTY FOR: RINGS
“FIRST NATION have become RINGS. RINGS is the new FIRST NATION. This is their new record. It is called BLACK HABIT.
New York’s FIRST NATION was Nina Mehta, Kate Rosco, and Melissa Livaudais. Melissa left; Abby Portner (sister of Animal Collective’s Dave Portner) joined. The new trio decided to make a clean break and rename the band.” – PAW TRACKS PRESS RELEASE
BLACK HABIT is their first CD.
BLACK HABIT will be touring this month and next with WHITE WILLIAMS and ECSTATIC SUNSHINE.

Pawtracks RUBEYE
AVEY TARE & KRIA BREKKAN – PULLHAIR RUBEYE – PAW TRACKS

“AVEY TARE is DAVE PORTNER of ANIMAL COLLECTIVE and KRIA BREKKAN is KRISTIN ANNA VALTYSDOTTIR of the band mum. The two met a few years back and started playing music together in the summer of 2005. Recently they married and now live together in New York City.”
PAW TRACKS PRESS RELEASE

UP-DATE: THURS JAN 24, 2008 – 11:57 PM

AVEY TARE & KRIA BREKKAN WITH DEAKIN – was a-m-a-z-in-g !!
AVEY TARE, the singer, and guitar (also of ANIMAL COLLECTIVE) was of another world. as in mesmerizing.
DEAKIN, guitar & what looked like mini electronic/digital boards (also of ANIMAL COLLECTIVE) input amped up juice also of another world. meaning off the charts – musical & mystical, multi-dimensional sound layers.
KRIA BREKKAN, was beautiful inside and out. She played musical sound riffs on her accordian.
There were about, (over ?) 200 people in the audience. All were spellbound during the performance.

Avey Tare, Krista & Deakin
from left: DEAKIN, KRIA BREKKAN and AVEY TARE, after their set at THe GLASSLANDS, SUNDAY, JANUARY 20, 2008
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH/artloversnewyork.com

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AVEY TARE, GLASSLANDS

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KRIA BREKKAN on accordian, AVEY TARE, vocals & guitar, GLASSLANDS

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KRIA BREKKAN, GLASSLANDS

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DEAKIN, GLASSLANDS

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DEAKIN, WITH SOME OF HIS SOUND EQUIPMENT, GLASSLANDS

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TAKA IMAMURA – WAS THE DJ/GLASSLANDS

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ABBY PORTNER OF RINGS, GLASSLANDS

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KATE ROSCO OF RINGS, GLASSLANDS

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at right, NINA MEHTA, of RINGS, GLASSLANDS
RINGS DEMONSTRATED A LOT OF POTENTIAL – THEY HADN’T QUITE HIT THEIR COLLECTIVE TOP-NOTCH MARK, YET. ok. let’s give them credit – they can be a really great girl band – they each bring a lot of strength to the group – its not a power meld, live, yet.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH, GLASSLANDS, SUNDAY, JAN 20, 2008

P.S. – THERE IS A GREAT INTERVIEW WITH DEAKIN on MONTREAL MIRROR,
YOU CAN CHECK IT OUT HERE: Natural habitat !!

THE GLASSLANDS – 289 KENT AVE – BTWN SOUTH 1ST + SOUTH 2ND – WILLIAMSBURG – BKLYN

GLASSLANDS

PAW TRACKS

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE – MYSPACE

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE – NEW WEBSITE




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