Ms. Jen Bekman

BECAUSE NUMBERS DON’T LIE (via @AustinKleon)

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:13:39 -0500

BECAUSE NUMBERS DON’T LIE

(via @AustinKleon)

Love You Like a Fat Kid Loves Cake

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:00:32 -0500

Love You Like a Fat Kid Loves Cake

New on 20x200 for White Friday: The Emptiness Left by a Denial...

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:06:00 -0500

New on 20x200 for White Friday: The Emptiness Left by a Denial of the Use for which it was Intended by Colin Blakely

It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known. -Carson McCullers

"The art world has historically been a black box for most people, and I really wanted to help people..."

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:52:49 -0500

“The art world has historically been a black box for most people, and I really wanted to help people learn about art, to learn about what they liked. If we made it ridiculously affordable, then maybe they’d be able to take the leap to see what it’s like to be a collector.”

- I said that earlier today, on the teevee.

(via bobulate)

Dorothy Hamill (1977) from Greatness:Andy Warhol Polaroids of...

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:41:59 -0500

Dorothy Hamill (1977) from Greatness:Andy Warhol Polaroids of Sports Champions @ Danziger Projects through December 12th.

Via Kathy Ryan.

Snoopy & Charlie Brown do the happy dance. This totally put...

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:22:37 -0500

Snoopy & Charlie Brown do the happy dance. This totally put a grin on my face.

(via)

Benches & Binoculars A reminder that all art was at one time...

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:57:37 -0500

Benches & Binoculars

A reminder that all art was at one time contemporary, this exhibition is inspired both by the Walker’s history and the serendipity with which works come together in its storage vaults. More than 75 masterpieces, new discoveries, and notable oddities from the Walker collection crowd the gallery walls, with seating and binoculars provided so that visitors can conduct their own close-up investigations of individual works.

I freaking love the Walker Art Center.

Lily’s Horse Stack Fine Art Print by Ron Richardson Sierra...

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:16:01 -0500

Lily’s Horse Stack Fine Art Print by Ron Richardson

Sierra Trading Post — not just for Polartec and psalms!

Jason Polan made this for the Mixtape exhibition.

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:38:39 -0500

Jason Polan made this for the Mixtape exhibition.

Jen Bekman Gallery » Mixtape Opens THIS Friday at JBG! This...

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:23:03 -0500

Jen Bekman Gallery » Mixtape Opens THIS Friday at JBG!

This Friday, November 20, 2009, Jen Bekman Gallery will proudly open Mixtape, a group exhibition featuring forty-five original works and limited-edition prints from 20×200, by thirty-six artists.

Raul just emailed me this photo from his phone, subject line:...

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:14:00 -0500

Raul just emailed me this photo from his phone, subject line: oddly sad. We’re moving out of our wee little office on Chrystie St. tomorrow, the small room with the big view.

Happy that our friends at Meetup are letting us sublease some space for a bit while we sort out our next move. Meanwhile I’ll continue my quixotic quest for the upstairs/downstairs that will allow us to have the gallery street level and our offices above.

Everything’s packed and the van’s coming at 7:30 or something crazy like that and sure 8 ppl in 230 square feet is patently absurd, but a lot of good stuff happened there. So yea, oddly sad.

"Now, thanks in no small part to improved research techniques and a growing understanding of the..."

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:12:05 -0500

“Now, thanks in no small part to improved research techniques and a growing understanding of the biochemistry and the genetics of thought itself, scientists are beginning to tease out how exercise remodels the brain, making it more resistant to stress”

- Phys Ed: Why Exercise Makes You Less Anxious - Well Blog - NYTimes.com

20x200 : James Griffioen : Feral House #13

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:40:45 -0500

20x200 : James Griffioen : Feral House #13

20x200 : James Griffioen : Feral House #7

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:35:54 -0500

20x200 : James Griffioen : Feral House #7

I bought this because it’s true.

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:31:52 -0500

I bought this because it’s true.

And now I can finally make sense of Lady Gaga: she is post-op...

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:15:45 -0500

And now I can finally make sense of Lady Gaga: she is post-op Cher.

(via greg.org: the making of: The Player)

…we photograph things because that looks like photographs....

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:20:38 -0500

…we photograph things because that looks like photographs. I do that all the time. Everyone starts, you photograph a barn, for example, because that’s an idea of beautiful. I think that keeps changing with time, from Walker Evans to Eggleston, there’s a new idea of what the cliché beautiful thing is, even if it’s an empty parking lot. That’s okay, I have no problem with that. What I do have a problem is, is the nature of the medium itself. In a world where the 2 billionth photograph has been uploaded to Flickr, which looks like an Eggleston picture! How do you deal with making photographs with the tens of thousands of photographs being uploaded to Facebook every second, how do you manage that? How do you contribute to that? What’s the point? It’s a real struggle.

(via BIG RED & SHINY: DOG DAYS BOGOTA: A CONVERSATION WITH ALEC SOTH)

20x200 : Jorge Colombo : iSketch818

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:51:35 -0500

20x200 : Jorge Colombo : iSketch818

20x200 : Jorge Colombo: iSketch842

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:50:30 -0500

20x200 : Jorge Colombo: iSketch842

The cards ask: Do you know who killed me? And they ask: Do you...

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:47:58 -0500

The cards ask: Do you know who killed me? And they ask: Do you know where I am? And they ask: Do you know something? Anything?

The South Carolina Department of Corrections started selling these decks in its prison canteens for $1.72 about a year ago; since then, inmates have bought more than 10,000 packs. Each card asks that you please call 888-CRIME-SC if you have any information about a case; each card also whispers, “Call *49,” an anonymous prison hot line.