Shark
Apparently Damien Hirst’s shark is falling apart in his tank, and it is almost impossible for conservators to fix it–he got bad advice in he beginning, and now the New York museum of Modern Art has hired the curator of fish from the[…]

In 1969 Ed Ruscha attached a camera to his car and drove down Sunset Strip, automatically taking a foto of every building on the street. These fotos noted the anthropology of place, the nature of photography, the implications of autonomous creation, […]

Cat’s Out of the Bag, Back in the Store Room
A rumour (Tyler Greene on the usually too clever for his own good Modern Art Notes, is the only thing on paper so far) has been floating that the new MOMA is so over grown and so badly designed for c[…]

Tom Wesselman
1931-2004
His work lacks the cool arrogance of a Warhol or the theoretical complexities of johns at his best; but he has something else–he has a formalism, and a sense of space that amazes–his layers and levels are the firs[…]

Jesus Shit, yet again.
Raymond and I were walking from Nathan Phillips Sqaure towards Dundas in downtown Toronto last night, talking about things we usually talk about, rambling about a newish city—when we walked past the Marriot (owned by the […]

An Amazing Collection
This http://www.christopherporter.com/ has songs from africa and its disporia, and it is the widest ranging, most wonderful collection of the material i have seen on any mp3 blog–hip hop from Narobi, that sounds somewhere […]

It’s a rather clever sexual paen to Ms Rice. The only problem is that it is done as calypso–so I wonder, is it racist–is he making fun of her race, engaging in v. old stereotypes about sexuality and african american women ?
It is ra[…]

Cat Power and The Handsome Boy Modeling School?Be My Boy.
I?ve been about thinking about Cat Power, and I’m thinking of her cover of Wild is the Wind, that grand Peyton place chantey about lost opportunity, and about how much more sad she made […]

I went shopping at the new flagship H&M at Yonge/Dundas sqaure today, and they were selling mens underwear, in the exact pattern as one of Sol LeWitt’s Star Wall Drawings–the five pointed ones, not the six or seven pointed ones. ( ex[…]

I Bitch About the Gillers. (Non Canucks Look Away.)
Alice Munro has won another Giller. Can Canadians just give her shiny things, and let writers who are less well known, less over wrought, less wealthy, and less perfectly dull start winning things; […]