~KIERSTEN ESSENPREIS/JOHN ORTH/CINDERS/FRIDAY

Kiersten Essenpreis

KIERSTEN ESSENPREIS:
Half
Shut
Knife

– and –

JOHN ORTH
Oh, Glory.
Rivulets.
Crystalline.

OPENS TO-NITE, FRIDAY May 4, 7-10PM
CINDERS GALLERY – 103 Havemeyer Street, Brooklyn

Cinders Gallery

~KIERSTEN ESSENPREIS/JOHN ORTH/CINDERS/FRIDAY | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 4th, 2007, 12:18pm



~assume vivid astro focus/John Connelly Presents/THURS/ELI SUDBRACK/KENNY SCHARF

astro vivid focus

assume vivid astro focus, ‘ a very anxious feeling’,
opens to-nite: THURSDAY MAY 3, 6-8PM
John Connelly Presents – 625 WEST 27th STREET
the show runs from MAY 3 – JUNE 16, 2007

(image: detail scanned from the show’s poster)

UP-DATE: MAY 4, 2007

Astro Eli

ELI SUDBRACK aka assume vivid astro focus – at the opening last night.

Astro Kenny Scharf

on the right, KENNY SCHARF, with assume vivid astro focus production team member,
CHRISTOPHE, left, at the totally packed opening, which spilled out onto the street.
assume vivid astro focus – opens – ‘a vey anxious feeling’ , May 3, 2007

astro fan 1

astro fan 2

the exhibit was designed to invite audience participation.

astro fan 3

masks with 3D lenses were given out at the door, and you had to take your shoes off to enter, since the whole place was papered with 3D pattern . . including the floor.

above Photos: Nancy Smith, May 3, 2007

more photos from the opening to post shortly

John Connelly Presents

~assume vivid astro focus/John Connelly Presents/THURS/ELI SUDBRACK/KENNY SCHARF | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 4th, 2007, 11:45am



~ANDREAS GURSKY/MATTHEW MARKS/THURSDAY

ANDREAS GURSKY opens: THURSDAY MAY 3, 6-8PM
MATTHEW MARKS GALLERY – 522 WEST 22nd STREET
MAY 4 – JUNE 30, 2007

Andrea Gursky CHEOPS

ANDREAS GURSKY, ‘CHEOPS’, 2006, C-PRINT,
MOUNTED ON PLEXIGLAS, IN ARTIST’S FRAME, 118-5/8 x 81-1/2 ins.
(image courtesy: MATTHEW MARKS GALLERY)

Andrea Gursky-MONACO

ANDREAS GURSKY, ‘MONACO’, 2007, C-PRINT,
MOUNTED ON PLEXIGLAS, IN ARTIST’S FRAME, 120-3/4 x 88-1/4 ins.
(image courtesy: MATTHEW MARKS GALLERY)

Andreas Gursky

ANDREAS GURSKY, at MATTHEW MARKS, MAY 7, 2004
Photo: Nancy Smith
first published on artnet – SPRING 2004 (scroll down to row 7)

photos from the opening to post shortly

MATTHEW MARKS GALLERY

~ANDREAS GURSKY/MATTHEW MARKS/THURSDAY | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 2nd, 2007, 10:37pm



~JIM DRAIN/MEGAbaby

JIm Drain Chelsea

. . . we caught JIM DRAIN walking the streets of Chelsea, in for a brief visit from his
MIAMI headquarters. He has a show coming up at GREENE NAFTALI in Sept 2007 –
can’t wait to see that !!!! . . .
(that’s such a cool shirt he’s wearing – wonder who made it?)

Photo: Nancy Smith

GREENE NAFTALI GALLERY

~JIM DRAIN/MEGAbaby | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 2nd, 2007, 9:36pm



~DAVID SALLE/CECILY BROWN/ROSSON CROW

David salle- Rosson crow

cecily Brwon-Rosson crow

Rosson Crow - Perry rubenstein

DAVID SALLE and CECILY BROWN spotted cruising the above ROSSON CROW painting,
recently on exhibit in the PERRY RUBENSTEIN GALLERY,
part of their ‘ACCIDENTAL PAINTING’ group show, April 4 – April 28, 2007.

Rosson’s painting, ‘Hollywood Babylon’ 2007, 90 x 94 ins. was later said to be bought for approx $25,000. (buyer undisclosed)

Photos: Nancy Smith (April 25, 2007)

ROSSON CROW’S recent one person show at CANADA – Nov 10, 2006

PERRY RUBENSTEIN GALLERY

CANADA

~DAVID SALLE/CECILY BROWN/ROSSON CROW | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 2nd, 2007, 9:21pm



~TAKASHI MURAKAMI/MEGA/in JAPAN

Murakami at FOXY

TAKASHI MURAKAMI photographed at the STERLING RUBY opening at FOXY PRODUCTION, NYC,
Friday, April 27, 2007.
Photo: Nancy Smith

Murakami is in town for his show at GAGOSIAN GALLERY, Madison Ave. A friend just in from Japan – says Murakami, (called Takashi by his friends), is MEGA MEGA BIG in Japan. That must be so, at his Go-Go Gagosian opening last night, there were at least 3 camera crews in from JAPAN including TV FUJI and TV TOKYO.

TAKASHI MURAKAMI
MAY 1 – JUNE 9, 2007
GAGOSIAN GALLERY – 980 MADISON AVE

photos from the TAKASHI MURAKAMI opening at GAGOSIAN to post next week

GAGOSIAN GALLERY

~TAKASHI MURAKAMI/MEGA/in JAPAN | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 2nd, 2007, 8:58pm



~JOHN WATERS/MEGA/in HOLLYWOOD

John Waters/TIMES SQ

JOHN WATERS . . . now that he’s MEGA on COURT TV – we don’t see him hanging out in CHELSEA, so much, anymore !!!

. . . vicinity of TIMES SQUARE, NYC, APRIL 29, 2007.

we were on our way to see the MICHAEL ARIAS animation feature, TEKKONKINKREET, at MoMA.

Mr. Waters was really nice, we kind of jumped in his face, lucky he remembered us from his good old art scene days..

Photo: Nancy Smith

JOHN WATERS opens ‘HAIR IN THE GATE’ at American Fine Arts, Feb 21, 2003
(scroll down to row 3)

JOHN WATERS meets JOE GRILLO, of DEARRAINDROP, Sept 10, 2005

~JOHN WATERS/MEGA/in HOLLYWOOD | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 2nd, 2007, 8:28pm



~Arcade Fire

arcade fire # 1

arcade fire # 2

arcade fire # 3

arcade fire # 4

arcade fire # 5

On viewing some Neutral Milk Hotel sites on the web recently, I came across a
statement by a N.M.H. fan stating that Pitchfork, the ‘new music’ website, in favorably
reviewing Arcade Fire’s 2004 debut CD Funeral – made Arcade Fire famous.
This is not true. Arcade Fire became famous because they are an awesome group,
who (just like the groups of the Elephant 6 community) play only ‘independent
and authentic’ music, and get great joy in doing that.

I will even go so far as to say that Arcade Fire is at its core a very Elephant 6-like group,
except that its from the north as opposed to the south. Those of us who heard Funeral
when it first came out in the fall of 2004, did not need Pitchfork’s review to confirm
the notion that Funeral was a great monster of a CD.

I remember trying to turn the N.Y. artist Dan Asher onto it, and when he didn’t like it,
screaming at him to listen to it more carefully. Within a week he was following
the group all over the East coast.

I had turned him onto Joanna Newsom’s amazing debut CD Milk Eyed Mender
in the spring of 2004, and by that summer he was photographically stalking her live
shows, here, and in Europe, so I was happy that he got it.

Like the Elephant 6 band, Olivia Tremor Control, Arcade Fire became famous
through word of mouth from their supercharged live shows. I vividly remember the
great reviews their live shows generated.

Arcade Fire’s new CD Neon Bible has 4 or 5 songs that are real masterpieces.
“Intervention”, “Ocean of Noise”, “Keep The Car Running”, and
“(Antichrist Television Blues)” are all totally incredible musical recordings, which are probably even
more epic and spectacular when heard and seen live.
In my opinion, the church organ on “Intervention” is worth the price of the CD alone.
Buy the CD, don’t miss them live, and be amazed.

first 3 images: Arcade Fire, FUNERAL, The Arcade Fire 2004, MERGE RECORDS
COVER ART: Tracy Maurice
PHOTO and INSERT: Hilary Treadwell

last 2 images: Arcade Fire, NEON BIBLE, ‘Recorded & mixed during 2006
at “the church” in Quebec. Additional recording was done at Win and Regine’s house,
the St. James Anglican Church in Bedford, Quebec, the Eglise St. Jean Baptiste in Montreal,
as well as in New York, and Budapest. Additional mixing was done at Olympic Studios
in London.’
COVER ART: Tracy Maurice

~Arcade Fire | Posted in Indie Music Reviews | By Simon Cerigo | May 2nd, 2007, 12:12pm



-EFFI BRIEST/passerby/SUNDAY

Effi BRIEST #1 passerby

Effi Briest # 2 passerby

BROOKLYN all-girl band: EFFI BRIEST PLAYS at PASSERBY – SUNDAY, APRIL 29, 2007

one of 3 performances

performances begin: 8pm – midnight . . . . don’t know the specific line-up schedule

FREE ADMITTANCE – get there early.

Gavin Brown’s enterprise@passerby
436 WEST 15th STREET

pix of EFFI BRIEST at secret project robot just posted !!

listen to their song: ‘mirror rim’ on their myspace page

Gavin Brown’s enterprise@passerby

-EFFI BRIEST/passerby/SUNDAY | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 28th, 2007, 12:19pm



~STERLING RUBY/METRO PICTURES/SATURDAY

StrelingRuby/Metropictures

STERLING RUBY, ‘KILLING THE RECONDITE’ opens to-nite: SAT APRIL 28,
6-8PM
the show runs from APRIL 28 – JUNE 9, 2006
MTERO PICTURES – 519 WEST 24th STREET

METRO PICTURES

~STERLING RUBY/METRO PICTURES/SATURDAY | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 28th, 2007, 12:08pm


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