Archive for January, 2008

The Other Side of Things

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

The annual Outsider Art Fair in New York opens tonight and continues through out the weekend. Outsider art still fascinates me when I think of how much some artists are struggling to establish themselves in the context of contemporary art, meanwhile these outsiders are just doing their thing. Why fuss about money and fame if [...]

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Feet on the Ground, from Baghdad to New Orleans

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Waiting for Godot in New Orleans photo by Donn Young and Frank Aymami, more photos here.
A couple of nights ago we bumped into artist Paul Chan at a mini film festival of Apichatpong Weerasethakul at Anthology Film Archives.* I remember having read that he had just completed a production of Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for [...]

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