Love this audio tape of answering machine messages left on Fluxus great Charlotte Moorman’s machine in 1971. A perfect Fluxus work in and of itself! Most of the messages relate to a day-old review in the Village Voice (who I started writing for almost 30 years to the day, weirdly enough), and say as much […]
So a friend of mine got kicked off Facebook for god knows what, too much body exposure? Same old bullshit. Can’t they discern between individual artists sharing their work and porn advertisers on the hustle? Idiots. Anyway, his name is Ron Athey, and he’s an amazing artist, and I’m a big fan! (I’ll be doing […]
The news that the owner of 5-pointz aka the Phun Factory in Long Island City went ahead and whitewashed its graffitied facade, DEFACING the art, all 200,000 sq. ft. of it, made my heart sink. The landlord of the building, which has been an active site for public/street art for over a decade and also […]
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This post is dedicated to Priscilla, who belonged to the cat colony I help feed, and her primary caretaker, Victoria. Priscilla was hit by a car on Friday night. So sad, she was so shy, painfully, and I mentioned here before that I’d felt a bit bad for not continuing to make the extra effort […]
(Please sign this anti-fracking petition for New York, the pressure has to be kept up. THANK YOU!) I am going to try to start a regular gratitude practice. I’ve done it mentally before as a nightly practice, and even, once started a list, but it was hand-written and once there was no more room on […]
