If you find yourself in NYC tomorrow night (Nov. 12) and fancy some fine photographic offerings then please stop by the
2011 Art From The Heart show at 25CPW, in which I'm proud to have a print included (quick preview snap seen above, from my
Dirty Dozen series, fancily printed on metallic paper). Just $200 buys you a tag, which (first come, first served) allows you to "tag" your favorite piece in the show and take it home. If you're looking to fill a blank wall be sure to arrive early (doors open at 7pm sharpish -
Facebook event link).
AFTH 2011 -- a pop-up curated gallery show curated by Jo-Anneke van der Molen and presented by Vanderbilt Republic - features 43 artists (including my good buddy Andrew Hetherington). Here's the complete list:
Jinkyun Ahn, Athena Azevedo, Zachary Bako, Erin Banta, Jazzmine Beaulieu, Kiritin Beyer, Brian Bowen-Smith, Domenica Bucalo, Mara Catalan, I-Hsuen Chen, Gregory Costanzo, Alessandro D’Andrea, Lesly Deschler Canossi, Shari Diamond, Emile Dubuisson, Axel Dupeux, Constance & Eric, Donna Ferrato, Laura Garcia Serventi, Jason Gardner, Elena Garrison, Sergio Garza, Yoni Goldberg, Kenneth Sean Golden, Anders Goldfarb, David Goldman, Ernesto Gonzalez, Natasha Gornik, Federico Grandicelli, David Hazan, Chantal Heijnen, Gabriela Herman, Marissa Herrmann, Andrew Hetherington, Erik Hup, Hussein Katz, Brendan george Ko, Richard Koek, Daniel Kukla, Thomas Kwak, Brandy Laidler, David Paul Larson, Rene Lauffer, Laurent Le Moing, Minny Lee, Ray Lego, Lindsay Linton, John Loomis, Marne Lucas, Berette Macaulay, Sara Macel, Jiri Makovec, Micaela Mamede, Laura Manney, Clay Patrick McBride, Kim Meijer, Caitlin Mitchell, Sachiko Morita, Nephi Niven, Heather Noonan, Jason O’Neal, Chris Overend, Nathaniel Perales, Becky Philpott, AL-Khabir Richman, Perrie Schad, Henderson Shorter, Ian Spanier, Peter Stanglmayr, Maria Jose Sucre, Lui Sykes, Emily Ullrich, Jens Umbach, Francisco Valera, Elias Wessel, Christian Witkin, Jeffrey Woldan, Ashton Worthington.
Art From The Heart 2011 group show
Nov. 12, 2011, from 7 to 10 p.m.
25CPW Gallery25 Central Park West,
New York, NY
(63rd St. & Central Park West, Columbus Cir. subway stop).
Found in the latest issue of Der Spiegel is my mini coverage of the post-Zuccotti Park efforts of the Occupy movement in New York City. Writer Georg Diez and I tracked all over Brooklyn and downtown over a couple of soggy days meeting with activists and journalists connected to the protests which has now shifted gears "from Wall Street to Main Street." Most of what we did was pretty run and gun and good pictures were scant, but it was incredibly enlightening to meet a bunch of smart, engaged people with no shortage of big ideas.
The story was highlighted by an action in East New York to move a family into a bank foreclosed home (illegally of course), and I enjoyed the block party that was thrown in celebration (above). It's pretty rare for me to work cheek to jowl with a large group of daily media, and it was fun to slide back into that role though the many well meaning citizen journalists covering the OWS were certainly frustrating. I was impressed by the way the police, who had a huge presence, contained the situation... keeping everyone safe but really not interfering at all.
As a liberal and a business owner, the Occupy movement fills with me a whole lot of conflicting emotions. I'm proud of these activists taking a stand and engaging in the process (who among us are not angry at the collapse), demanding attention be paid to such incredible greed and stupidity which created a system in which the banks could so deeply fuck so many lives of hard working Americans. On the other hand the OWS movement pisses me off in its silliness, pretension, and total lack of momentum towards a national policy initiative that balances the Tea Party (OWS had a window to get involved in the primaries and they totally missed it). I get that the point is that there are no leaders and no focused message, but I also see the movement as a mirror image of ineffective bureaucracy with the system they are against. Also I grew very tired of the word "horizontal." Below: N+1 founder, journalist and activist Keith Gesson, left, and protestor/architect Evan Wagner, right.
