HEATHER BENJAMIN . . ‘CAVEGIRL MONOLOGUE’
OPENS TO-NITE FRI SEPT 21 / 7 – 9 PM / show runs thru next Sun Sept 28, 2018
AFTERPARTY: CEREMONY / 9 PM til late.
MUDDGUTS, 427 Graham Ave, Brooklyn NY
HRS: WED-FRI: 4-8PM / SAT-SUN: 12-8PM
“Her show at Muddguts will include larger-scale works alongside prints and photocopies of her drawings,
many of which she made as an artist-in-residency at Ken Kesey’s Oregon Farm.”
ALL WORKS . . . $100 – $800 !!!!!
IT’S ALSO . . .
the release party for her new book, ‘CAVEGIRL MONOLOGUE’, 128 full color pages,
published by SACRED BONES !!
~HEATHER BENJAMIN . . ‘CAVEGIRL MONOLOGUE’, MUDDGUTS / OPENS FRI SEPT 21 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 21st, 2018, 11:09am
ALMIGHTY . . FLASH-BACK !!
BRANDON JOHNSON, at the ‘WOODWARD BAZAAR’ . .
an informal, friends+artists+craftspeople . . . pop-up in a small 2nd floor apt in Ridgewood, Queens.
Brandon had brought his his first (truly) self-published book, ‘Thee Almighty & Insane’.
BRANDON JOHNSON, ‘Thee Almighty & Insane’ / ‘Chicago Gang Business Cards From the 1970s & 1980s’
Hard Cover, Clothbound, 96 pages, Full Color
5.5 x 8.25 in / 14 x 21 cm
Second Edition 2017
published by his own imprint . . ALMIGHTY AND INSANE BOOKS
$30 – available online
image via ALMIGHTY & INSANE BOOKS
this one, is . . mine !!!!
it’s a very sweet design, and it has a real nice . . feel, and weight.
the first few pages, are text & cover the history, and his own collecting background, which . . is of a really nice personal nature / his dad had a collection of them in a cigar box . . “up in the attic of our house in suburban Chicago”.
and then, you turn the book horizontal, and get to see the archival cards . . in large full page format !!
“History, aside, this book serves as an ode to Chicago compliment cards: the hand-drawn-graphics, the blackletter typefaces, the outlandish names and clever slogans. intriguingly cryptic to the uninitiated, learning to read the cards gives insight to how they interrelate. For example, an upside-down symbol or name is a sign of disrespect.”
“Acronyms ending with the letter ‘K’ meant mean ‘killer’ . . .”
one could imagine entering a 1970s barbershop, or liquor store & see one of these lying around, and you would think – twice. It was – no hollow note.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH / unless otherwise noted
~BRANDON JOHNSON . . ‘THEE ALMIGHTY & INSANE’ / WOODWARD BAZAAR, APRIL 8, 2018 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 21st, 2018, 10:12am
ALMIGHTY & INSANE BOOKS PRESENTS:
‘RELICS OF THE OLD SKOOL’ – BRANDON JOHNSON
AN EXHIBITION OF DECONSTRUCTED BOOKS, ORIGINAL EPHEMERA, & OTHER HISTORICAL MATERIALS
FROM THE CITY OF CHICAGO
& . . A BOOK RELEASE FOR: ‘BEYOND HEAVEN’ – BY BRANDON JOHNSON
A COLLECTION OF CHICAGO HOUSE PARTY FLYERS / FROM 1983-1989
see: ALMIGHTY & INSANE BOOKS
OPENING: WED SEPT 19 / 6 – 9 PM
SHOW RUNS THRU . . . OCT 1, 2018
THE GALLERY AT ACE HOTEL NEW YORK / 20 W29TH ST, Midtown Manhattan, NYC
‘BEYOND HEAVEN’ – BY BRANDON JOHNSON / SNEAK PEEK !!
‘BEYOND HEAVEN’ – BY BRANDON JOHNSON – SNEAK PEEK !!
‘BEYOND HEAVEN: CHICAGO HOUSE PARTY FLYERS FROM 1983-1989’ / BRANDON JOHNSON
Paperback, 96 pages
Full color
6 x 9 in. / 16 x 23 cm.
Publisher: ALMIGHTY & INSANE BOOKS, 2018
$20
to order: ALMIGHTY & INSANE BOOKS
SNEAK PEEK IMAGES VIA ALMIGHTY & INSANE BOOKS / & find, more images there.
~BRANDON JOHNSON . . ‘RELICS of the OLD SKOOL’ & ‘BEYOND HEAVEN’ / ACE HOTEL / OPENS WED SEPT 19 / 6-8 PM |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 19th, 2018, 2:32pm
forget . . FASHION INTERSECTS WITH ART WORLD
WHAT ABOUT . . COSMOS ?
TIS’ THE (BIBLICAL) SEASON TO LOOK BACK & THIS . . . . IS / HOW I FEEL.
art world ?
may as well . . adopt a rat.
JIM JOE: ‘WHAT DOES IT MEAN AND HOW DID YOU CHOOSE IT’ / JIM JOE 2018
OPENED FRI SEPT 14
RUNS THRU . . . OCT 17, 2018
THE HOLE
JIM JOE, ‘ADOPT A RAT’ / ‘MISTAKES BECOME CHOICES (TOMIC ENERGY)’, 2018
oil stick on canvas, 48 x 36 in.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~JIM JOE . . ‘ADOPT A RAT’ / THE HOLE / MORE OPENING PIX |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 19th, 2018, 9:24am
JIM JOE: ‘WHAT DOES IT MEAN AND HOW DID YOU CHOOSE IT’ / JIM JOE 2018
OPENED FRI SEPT 14
RUNS THRU . . . OCT 17, 2018
THE HOLE
JIM JOE, ‘THE PERFECTIONIST’ / ‘A VULNERABLE SPECIES (TAXI STAND)’, 2018
oil stick on canvas, 48 x 36 in.
JIM JOE, ‘CREATIVITY KILLS WEED (STOLEN FLOWERS)’, 2018
oil stick on canvas, 48 x 36 in.
JIM JOE, ‘DREAM OF TRAGEDY (WEDDING DAY)’, 2018
oil stick on canvas, 48 x 36 in.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
~JIM JOE: ‘WHAT DOES IT MEAN AND’ . . THE HOLE / OPENING NIGHT PIX |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 18th, 2018, 4:16pm
JIM JOE: ‘WHAT DOES IT MEAN AND HOW DID YOU CHOOSE IT’ / ‘JIM JOE 2018’
OPENS FRI SEPT 14 / 6 – 9 PM
the show runs thru . . OCT 7, 2018
THE HOLE, 312 BOWERY, EAST VILLAGE, NY 10012
~JIM JOE: ‘WHAT DOES IT MEAN AND ‘ . . THE HOLE, EAST VILLAGE / OPENS FRI SEPT 14 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 14th, 2018, 1:38am
‘TACTICAL GRACE’ – TRICIA KEIGHTLEY & CHRIS BEESTON
OPENS FRI SEPT 14 / 6 – 9 PM
the show runs thru . . OCT 21, 2018
FISHER PARRISH 238 Wilson Ave, brooklyn, NY 11237
see: ‘TACTICAL GRACE’ – FISHER PARRISH GALLERY
PAINTING BY TRICIA KEIGHTLEY / LIGHT SCULPYURE BY CHRIS BEESTON
IMAGE: FISHER PARRISH
~TRICIA KEIGHTLEY & CHRIS BEESTON . . FISHER PARRISH, BROOKLYN / OPENS FRI SEPT 14 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 14th, 2018, 1:10am
when . . . you have friends that are famous, lol !!
Siblings spent years squatting in Chelsea Building: cops
by Stephanie Pagones, Lary Celona and Natalie Musumeci / NEW YORK POST / SEPT 12, 2018 / 3:58pm
“Three siblings, 51 and 42, and their sister, 32, were busted after cops were called to the Chelsea building at 149 W. 24th St around 10:30 a.m. for a report of a suspicious package, sources and cops said . . . ”
read more: ‘Siblings spent years squatting . . .’ – NEW YORK POST
on a day when a “New Jersey police sergeant was busted for attempted tryst with an underage girl” . . .
& there’s a huge scandal erupting about “NYPD cops busted in major gambling & prostitution probe”, . . .
all the cops can hit back with is . . . ALFREDO ?!!!!
PIX – INSIDE THE ALLEGED . . . . . SQUAT !!!!!!!
of course, I GOT SOME . . . PIX !!!!!!
ALFREDO . . 149 W.24th St. Chelsea, NYC / PHOTO: SEPT 18, 2017
he had told me recently, about a month ago, that . . . “the Koreans were getting fed-up” / the writing was on the wall / or, to be more precise: the locks had been changed.
at the time of the 2017 ‘studio’ visit, he was just ‘drawing guns on pizza boxes’ . . !!
but, he’s seen some success ($$$$) lately, so maybe he had started assembling (again) 3-D / non-working / art replica assault guns, with bogus & real spare parts ? that he ordered thru the mail.
that’s actually how he first established his street rep, that and, with huge life-size gun-toting robots . . at P.S.1.
these 3-d assemblages, obviously, being solid sculptures . . . could sell for more money, than drawings on paper, or . . pizza boxes. PHOTO: SEPT 18, 2017
ALFREDO MARTINEZ, ‘GUN DRAWING’ / 149 W.24th St. PHOTO: OCT 1, 2017
see more pix: ‘ALFREDO MARTINEZ aka THE REAL FAKE BASQUIAT / Inside the NYC Headquarters of the Notorious Basquiat Forger’ – artlovers
ALFREDO MARTINEZ . . . artist / squatter / what else is new ?
PHOTO: OCT 1, 2017
Alfredo, is as hardcore as they get.
but, actually for him to say, as he is quoted in the above NEW YORK POST article, that he . . “works in the FILM BUSINESS” – is not so far-fetched.
1. in the 1999-2000 PSEUDO / JOSH HARRIS $1 MILLION DOLLAR MILLENNIUM PARTY, called ‘QUIET’, which later became immortalized in the ONDIE TIMONER / Sundance 2009 Grand Jury Prize winning, ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’, a documentary biopic about Josh, and his shenanigans . . .
Alfredo ran the ‘Shooting Gallery’ downstairs, literally a reconstructed shooting range where anybody could pick up a real assault rifle & learn to shoot it / under professional / film set pro / guidance.
Alfredo & Josh managed to get away with this, by procuring a legal ‘film permit’ – holding that the entire event was a movie – which in a way – it was !!
who says money can’t buy you anything – in NYC !!
2. about the same time, Alfredo was the gun consultant & gun prop maker / specialist, for legendary filmmaker, JIM JARMUSCH project . . ‘Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai’ (1999), arguably one of his best films. alot of people, see Alfredo in the main character / which personally, I’m sure Jarmusch based on Alfredo, no doubt about it.
3. fast forward, it was announced on JAN 2018 . . . at Sundance 2018,
that BEN STILLER will direct JONAH HILL in an adaptation of the Sundance-Winning Documentary, ‘We Live in Public’ . . !!!
let’s only hope it’s as funny and quick-witted, as Stiller’s . . ‘The Meyerowitz Stories’ !!!!
JONAH HILL is going to play . . JOSH HARRIS.
since Alfredo is a big part of the Josh Harris story, (move over Jeffrey Deitch, art world ‘entrepreneur’ ?), and will surely figure large, in the feature / we all can’t wait to see / Alfredo is seriously hoping . . .
BENICIO del TORO . . will be tapped to play, who else, the ‘Real Fake Basquait’ forger, now notorious Chelsea squatter, Alfredo Martinez, himself.
ARCHIVAL PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
& UNDER COPYRIGHT / PRIOR PERMISSION REQUIRED re: ANY 3rd PARTY PUBLISHING.
~BREAKING NEWS !! ALFREDO MARTINEZ BUSTED FOR SQUATTING !! / NEW YORK POST |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 12th, 2018, 6:07pm
still a couple more weeks to catch this !!
‘BARRY McGEE: SB Mid Summer Intensive’
July 1 – Oct 14, 2018
MCASB / MUSEUM of CONTEMPORARY ART SANTA BARBARA, 653 Paseo Nuevo, Santa Barbara, CA 93107
see: ‘BARRY McGEE’ – MCASB WEBSITE / PRESS RELEASE w. GREAT PIX !!!!
postcard / photo: Nancy Smith / on my desk !!
my friend brought back a postcard / MCASB – ‘BARRY McGEE MID SUMMER INTENSIVE’ / JULY 1 – Oct 14, 2018.
said without a doubt, a-m-a-z-i-n-g show.
~BARRY McGEE . . MCASB, CA / up thru OCT 14 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 12th, 2018, 5:06pm
RAINY DAY ? DON’T SWEAT IT.
def, FEELS LIKE THE WORLD, or the SKY/COSMOS/ZODIAK/WEATHER ?
. . . shifted by 1 degree / off, yesterday.
smiley face, NOT.
but . . . . !!!!!
it’s ‘CLAY’ . . . WEEKEND, . . in BROOKLYN.
ya, wanna see . . . CLAY ?!!!
CODY HOYT . . is hosting an open studio today / SUN SEPT 9, 2018 / 4-6 PM
along with his studio mates: JENNY HATA BLUMENFIELD & @bush_wickGUIDO
31 BEAVER ST. – BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN, NY
SPONSORED BY BROOKLYN BREWERY – & – PART OF BROOKLYN CLAY TOUR !!
image via Instagraam @codyhoyt
~CODY HOYT . . OPEN STUDIO / BROOKLYN / SUN SEPT 9 / 4-6 PM |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | September 9th, 2018, 12:25pm
