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PAPER CLIP #3

by Margie Cook Feb 21, 2013

Günter Brus, Selbstbemalung (Self-Painting), 1964

Paper Clip is a weekly compilation of online articles, artifacts and other—old, new, and sometimes BOMB-related.

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PAPER CLIP #4

by Margie Cook Feb 27, 2013

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PAPER CLIP #5

by Margie Cook Mar 06, 2013

Paper Clip is a weekly compilation of online articles, artifacts and other—old, new, and sometimes BOMB-related.

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PAPER CLIP #6

by Margie Cook Mar 13, 2013

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OUT & ABOUT
PARTY LIKE YOU'RE ON TV

by Margie Cook Jan 18, 2013

"Horse Scents" by Myron Kaufman.

RSVP by showing up.

 

FRIDAY

Tony Martin’s extraordinary body of work is being culled together for the first time in his retrospective book, The Variable Place. Attend the release party and enjoy complementary beers at Café Dancer in the Lower East Side. Begins at 7pm.

Join Judith Bernstein and Paul McCarthy at the New Museum for Bernstein’s first solo exhibition. For tickets click here.

Triple Canopy is throwing its second annual marathon reading–and weekend-long slumber party–with Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans: Being a History of a Family’s Progress, beginning tonight! Borscht and booze will be provided. For more information click here.

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PAPER CLIP #1

by Margie Cook Feb 06, 2013

Photo courtesy of Goodman Gallery.

1. One evening a couple of years ago, 82-year-old Barbara Robson was crammed in a rush-hour London tube train. Politely, she asked a young man near her, smart in his suit and tie, if he might move along a little. ‘He turned to me,’ she says, ‘and told me that, as an old woman, I was a total waste of space.’”

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OUT & ABOUT
MORNING SUNSHINE

by Margie Cook Jan 22, 2013

Freshen up.

TUESDAY

Celebrate the silver anniversary of Deconstructivist Architecture at the MoMA. Spots are limited, RSVP here.

When politics and egos collide the result is mayhem and bodily harm–Revisit filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker’s films Maidstone and 1 P.M. screening in tandem at Film Forum. Pennebaker will be in attendance! To buy tickets click here.

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PAPER CLIP #2

by Margie Cook Feb 13, 2013

Jane Hammond, Irregular Plural, 1995, oil and mixed media on canvas, 73 x 87½".

Paper Clip is a weekly compilation of online articles, artifacts and other—old, new, and sometimes BOMB-related.

1. Cynthia Hopkins travels to the Arctic: pens “love song for the miraculous clemency of our world.” Read her interview with Tom Michael of KRTS Public Radio, via the Walker Center.

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OUT & ABOUT
PUT YOUR BEST TIE ON

by Margie Cook Nov 20, 2012

Pedro Meyer, Los Meyer, 1940/2000. The photographer’s father Ernesto and son Julio in the picture with him. All images courtesy of the artist.

 

This week’s events are to be enjoyed with a side of turkey and mashed potatoes.

TUESDAY

It’s super sad, but funny at the same time–Don’t miss the Friars Club-style roast of Gary Shteyngart hosted by BAM in partnership with Greenlight Bookstore. The author of Russian Debutante’s Handbook, and Super Sad True Love Story will be subjected to a foray of comedic insults beginning at 7:30pm this evening.

Two photographers, one dynamic conversation—Danny Lyon and Howard French chat one on one about journalism, photography, and China, tonight at 7pm at Churner and Churner gallery.

WEDNESDAY

Williamsburg’s own Spectacle Theater is paying homage to the late Dennis Hopper. Don’t miss The American Dreamer and The Last Movie playing in tandem tonight. For more information click here.

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