happy new year!

shadowfux at the swiss institute

Swiss Institute is proud to present the first exhibition of the collaborative work of New York artist Rita Ackermann and Nashville based director Harmony Korine. The show consists of large-scale paintings on vinyl and canvas, several drawings as well as two films, creating a grand presentation with dissonant overtones.

The exhibition runs through January 23, 2010.  See the other current Swiss Institute projects here.



california reprinting



holiday shoppin at hdts

SUPPORT HIGH DESERT TEST SITES AND
THE GROUP FORMERLY KNOWN AS SMOCKSHOP:
One last weekend of cool holiday gifts at the HDTS HQ

The High Desert Test Sites are a series of experimental art sites located in a stretch of desert communities in Southern California. These sites provide alternative space for art that challenge traditional conventions of ownership, presentation and patronage.  Most works will ultimately belong to no one, and they are intended to melt back into the landscape as new ones emerge HDTS operates on a zero budget, and a result there is a necessity to find new ways to convey meaning and create experiences through economic yet strategic means.

More info here.

The Colbert Report	Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Tip/Wag - Art Edition - Brent Glass
www.colbertnation.com
Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog</a> March to Keep Fear Alive

fire in my belly

The National Portrait Gallery has removed a video by artist David Wojnarowicz, after complaints from the moral majority, aka Christian groups and members of Congress.  You can read more on the censorship here and watch the video here.

Looking At Me Listening to You

Mass Market Next Weekend!

Mass Market is coming up this December 12th and Amigos will have a table!  We'll have some never-before-seen publications, stickers, as well as copies of Girl Talk and Holeshot.  You should definitely try to check it out!

The Morgues this Friday

Random Happenings

David Planka at AS220.

RIOT GRRRL/Goteblud wall at PS1

 

 Bella Foster at Art Since 1969

 Josh Blackwell also at Art Since 1969

 

Colin Bliss at R.K. Projects

And Roky Erickson.

help kingsboro press publish issue 7

The Kingsboro Press has started a Kickstarter to fund their upcoming issue 7.  If you pledge $1 or more, you will receive a handmade artist print when the issue is released.  The Kingsboro Press is a completely independent publication which focuses on the younger generation of artists, designers and other creative thinkers.  Issue 7 (like issues 5 and 6) will be also be printed on a super-cool-looking RISO with multiple colors.  Check out their project and support this awesome publication here.

play it as it lays

Join Gallery Space this Friday, November 19th from 7pm - 9pm for the opening reception of Play It As It Lays with participating artist, Amy Yao, as the special guest DJ. The group show, a tribute to writer Joan Didion, features the reactionary works of eleven artists to Didion's 1970 novel, Play It As It Lays.

workin hard

Shulie

The Jewish Museum is currently showing Shulie, a shot-by-shot remake of a 60's documentary on radical feminist Shulamith Firestone.  Firestone is best known for her text on feminist theory, The Dialectic of Se,. which was criticized by many (including Angela Davis in her classic work Women, Race and Class) as white supremacist and ethnocentrist in nature.  Artist Elisabeth Subrin recreated the film with actors, shooting in many of the original locations.  The exhibit also includes enlarged film stills.  An artist talk will be held on Monday November 8th.

I Love My Life My Life Is Perfect

 

VINNYMARTIN.TUMBLR.COM

This Ain't No Picnic

This Natural World

Artist Trading Card Noche

calling all artists: painters, calligraphers, poets, photographers, weavers, printers, carvers, sculptors, metal smiths, ceramicists, type setters, and many others to join together for an artist trading card night on
OCTOBER 21, 2010 from 7-9pm!

Bring twenty pieces or more of original or limited edition work measuring 2.5” x 3.5” with your signature to: The New Bedford Art Museum, 608 Pleasant St, New Bedford!

high school record

High School Record [Trailer]
Uploaded by High_School_Record. - Check out other Film & TV videos.

can you tell we miss LA?

dean spunt is preggers

art swapmeet next weekend!

The Yao sisters are holding what is sure to be a fabulous art swapmeet next weekend at High Desert Test Sites.  Someone please buy us airfare for the weekend!  See the details here.

Mothers News

 Today I was pleasantly surprised by Mothers News. I picked up a copy from Armageddon and even though I haven't finished reading the September and October issues, I felt compelled to get bloggy.While I am painfully late (By my count they started in May of 2010), I guess better late than never (or never late is better?). Scene reports, one paragraph reviews, the month's holidays and pretty much any other random thing you could think of is crammed into one double sided 11x17 page. I would highly suggest checking it out, which you can do for free if you are around Providence or by the powers of the world wide web via their simple and informative website. You can learn more about subscribing, donating, t shirting and reading back issues all by clicking here. Oh yeah, be sure to peep their TUMBLR as well!
 

witch hat

zine swap party at pzl

Papercut Zine Library is having a Zine Swap Party.
 
The idea is:
 
Area zinesters and others are invited especially to bring 

their wares over to the Papercut,for sale or trade.  

Folks without issues to trade can maybe bring by 

their collections for trading and/or cash.  Should 

be very much fun. There will be some kind of refreshments.
 
The times will be partially to celebrate the release 

of the new zine "The New England Review of Zines!"
 
Sat., Oct. 23 

Papercut Zine Library

226 Pearl St, Somerville.
 
ring the bell.

desert or bust

it's official

Prospects is now available at Printed Matter. 

is this real?

New Bedford Open Studios

96 artists in 14 locations are participating in the 6th Annual New Bedford Open Studios. This is an event you don't want to miss!

New Bedford Open Studios includes a great breadth of work, not just in media but also style, including traditional as well as contemporary works. The settings in which these works are viewed are also diverse including, historic mills throughout this port city and vintage buildings that include a former... church. Direct interaction with artists affords visitors the chance to gain greater understanding into how and why the work they are viewing was created.

Saturday October 2 (10-5)
Sunday October 3 (11-5)

Celebrate the handmade. Great art! Great Food! Great City!

Go to www.newbedfordopenstudios.org to see a list of artists and locations. Maps can be found at all locations as well as the New Bedford Visitors Center on 33 William St.

Also check out "Sample" at Gallery X 169 William St. New Bedford featuring participating artists. This show opens Thursday September 9 (AHA! night) though October 3 and there'll be a Closing Reception Thursday September 30 from 6-8.

ELK presents Vince Aletti

I was going to write that I wasn't familiar with Vince Aletti, but on further inspection, I guess I am. Dude does the photo stuff for The New Yorker as well as countless other New York publications, not to mention working as an adjunct curator for the I.C.P. But enough with my not so unfamiliarity, read a much better description of what this new Elk zine entails from the mind of Jocko Weyland below.

"Poetic pairings as aphrodisiac, unspooling like a visually syncopated scrapbook of young male pulchritude. Dudes who were cool and looked cool without trying too hard. Blue-collar, white ethnic, from another time and place, and with an air of un-self-consciousness woefully missing in this day and age. The taboo and suppression of the era mixed with the thinly veiled and sometimes completely unmasked homoerotic nature of these striking portraits evinces a different world that burbled beneath mainstream society prior to today’s anodyne homogenization on one hand and muscle queen grotesquerie on the other. At play is a refreshing almost wholesome lubricity that pays tribute to decidedly not cheesy handsomeness in all its iterations. Pomade and brilliantine abound, as do moles, salient collarbones, strong necks, smooth chests, hairy chests, shiny backs, nice biceps, heavy brows, wide lips, Roman noses, and dark eyes. The opposite of perfect, and that’s a big part of their appeal and what makes them perfect… Kustom Kar Kommandos, Caravaggio, Tom of Finland, and the less baroque side of George Platt Lynes all come to mind, but more universally this is a celebration of eternal male attractiveness."

Release and Signing this Saturday, September 18th, at Printed Matter from 5-7PM

Preview

Here's a quick preview of Amigos 004. Hint, it's a blog, in print format. Also, we're working on having a killer release party for this so stay tuned!

General Public Library

The General Public Library is a library/reading room project organized by Art in General Designer in Residence Mylinh Nguyen. From September 16-November 13, 2010 the Storefront Project Space will serve as a reading room and will also be available online. The project will start off with the contributions from artists and the like that Nguyen has invited to contribute publications, such as Ooga Booga, Kingsboro Press and Nieves. Visitors to the reading room are also encouraged to donate a favorite book. Throughout the course of the exhibition, as visitors create their own selection of favorite books, the library will filter all donations into a catalog of the top 200 most popular books. These books will be added to the General Public Library permanent collection after the duration of the project. Nguyen also made (along with Kristian Henson), my favorite zine at Ooga Booga, Big Wave Zeen. I hope to check out this latest endeavor!

LA Redux

Visited LA recently and was overjoyed to visit Ooga Booga!


They have a sweet window installation right now by Jim Drain. The light coming in was amazing.


And some babe was picking up a copy of Prospects, which is available for purchase at the store and also here.



Nick's zine Kona is also available there! Or check it out on Nick's site here!

Amigos Sighting

We spotted our Amigos zines as well as some of our own zines in the window over at AS220's Project Space at 93 Mathewson St. Our zines are available to view there in the Reading Room and are also for sale! We definitely recommend stopping by the space - it's pretty sweet.

392 & Links

Dylan Goettlich, the artist behind Amigos 002 (available here), publishes a group show zine under the guise 392. According to Dylan, 392 is "...a half-sized (8.5x5.5") art/writing zine I put together. It is for fun and to share with friends and family." Sounds good to us! If you are interested in submitting feel free to get in touch with Dylan through email at d.goettlich[at]gmail[dot]com.

Check out some Amigos inspiration in the links below:

Gothamist attends Cat Fashion Show.

New England Artist Residencies!

http://www.anonymousart.net/

We Jam Econo


90East Promo

All this stuff about James Franco. As others have so eloquently said, is he for real?

LEARN HOW TO HAVE FUN

Muse'e Los Angeles

Opening Sunday for this show that is sure to be awesome. Hope to be able to check it out while in LA next week. Happy birthday Karthik!

This Long Century

Check it out if you haven't gotten the opportunity. Tons of stuff to look at with galleries from all kinds of awesome artists. Penelope Spheeris's is one of my faves though.

Paper Monument #3 Release Party this Saturday!

GO to Ooga Booga this Saturday evening for the launch of PAPER MONUMENT magazine, Issue 3!

Music by DUNES (ex-Mika Miko / Finally Punk / Talbot Tagora) & SFV ACID!!!!!

Saturday, July 24th, 6-8pm
in the Ooga Booga courtyard
943 N. Broadway #203 (upstairs)
Chinatown, Los Angeles 90012

Feel Better!

Friend of Amigos, Sean Ryan, recently broke his foot. Get better soon! Hopefully Dylan's cool face drawing will help.

Is It Art or Fart? Launch party

For Your Art & Family Bookstore Presents:
Wednesday, July 14th at 7:30pm Free
Is It Art or Fart? collects images found on the street that happen to bear uncanny resemblances to great works of contemporary art. It began as a blog run by two friends whose obsessive preoccupation with contemporary art spilled over into the recognition of "fart" - bogus versions of art everywhere. The sightings are a funny testament to how art has changed, and show the world as one big readymade. Includes unintentional appropriations of Richard Prince, Forcefield, Doug Aitken, Louise Bourgeois, Martin Kippenberger, Mike Kelley, and the rest of your favorites! Is It Art or Fart? is designed by Brian Roettinger in the format of a Penguin Classic pocketbook

Launch party includes a short slide show with commentary.

isitartorfart.com
ForYourArt.com
familylosangeles.com

You're Invited

Pregnant and Scared

Love this video by RI-based artist Rachel Fae Coleman, now with audio by Antwerp noise project Pregnant and Scared by Darik Santos. Watch out for an interview with Rachel in the upcoming issue of Girl Talk zine!

Safe Crackers & Oliver Payne

So I totally messed up on the blogging end by not putting this flier up before June 11th but if you can forgive me, you should check out this cool mini interview with Oliver Payne about his Arcade Field Recordings and Safe Crackers issue on arcade coins. (It's the post on June 10th!)

Taliah Lempert The Right Bike for the Right Situation

Elk Gallery
327 Bond Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231

June 13-July 11, 2010
Hours: Thursday-Sunday 1-7pm

Opening Reception:
Sunday June 13th, 2010 5-8pm

Amigos in NYC

Stopped at the Biennial, Ari Marcopoulos had a cool video in it, and the Bruch HQ Foundation piece was sweet. Check it here.

Stopped at Amy Yao's show.

Then to the Kingsboro Press's Megan Plunkett's Brooklyn pop-up show, Holiday.



Then back on the train.