Upcoming Exhibitions and Events

I’m extremely fortunate to be involved in a few upcoming exhibitions and events with a slew of artists, curators, themes, concepts, everythang, of which I am very much a fan. Upside: Lots to tell! Downside: No time to tell it!…

My interview with the Warholian YBArtist Gavin Turk is up now for BOMB magazine.

Passenger Films event & more

I’m very pleased to announce that I’ll be participating in the next installment of London’s Passengerfilms series, held 13 May at the Roxy Bar & Screen; an event on “Sounding Place, Placing Sound.”

My review of Irvine Welsh’s latest novel, Skagboys, appeared recently in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Take a look!

Charles Rosenblum has some interesting things to say in this week’s Pittsburgh City Paper about The City & the City at Wood Street Galleries. The show’s only up for about two more weeks, so be sure to go have a…

The Tartan has published a thoughtful piece on The City & the City in this week’s paper. It’s exciting to see new young art lovers moving into insightful conversation through criticism – I’ll look forward to following the Tartan’s art…

The original Public Record: Pittsburgh audio tracks, map, brochure, etc., are now available for full and high-quality download via Bandcamp! The downloads are available for free (for as long as Bandcamp will allow), or you can pay what you choose…

Happy Thanksgiving everybody. Today’s the day we Americans “ingratiate ourselves to birds and enlist the confidences of madmen” for another year.

Diana Nelson-Jones at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette did a great article in today’s paper on my upcoming show The City & the City: Artwork by London Writers. Take a look at the piece online!

The City & the City: Sept 28-Dec 31, 2012, Wood St. Galleries

                      Artwork by Caroline Bergvall, Rod Dickinson & Tom McCarthy, Rachel Lichtenstein, Chris Petit & Emma Matthews & Iain Sinclair, and Sukhdev Sandhu. The City & the City: Opening party…

This-here article I wrote for Carnegie magazine discusses Carnegie Museum of Art’s upcoming show of decorative-art and design innovations that debuted at the World’s Fairs between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries. This will be not only a massive endeavor but…

Transmission

Last week I had the great pleasure of visiting the hamlet of North Adams, Mass. – the Bilbao of the Berkshires; a very small town dominated by Mass MoCA and the nearby Clark Art Institute, making it an unlikely beating…

My Next Page feature on the Pittsburgh Urban Forest Master Plan was in yesterday’s Post-Gazette – a reported essay on the importance of trees to the city’s future. That is all.

One more article: This one is from Pittsburgh Quarterly and is regarding the new Phipps Conservancy Center for Sustainable Landscapes.