Archive for October 18th, 2007
What’s been with the New York love today? Are we slipping? Somebody knock us back into Philly mode, fast.
Anyway, city pride aside, the Wooster Collective is curating a show this Friday October 19th in NYC. Here’s the flyer and info:
Wooster Collective Presents… Armsrock, An Art Show
In Celebration of The Book, “All My Friends Are Made Of Paper”
Friday, October 19, 2007
7:00pm - 9:00pm
5 in 1 Gallery
60 North 6th Street
Brooklyn, NY
Music from IVY and DJ DRM
October 18th, 2007
Here’s some interesting news: Dame Dash released a tribute to his one time partner Jay-Z in the form of Beyond a Reasonable Doubt. Apparently, the album was put together a few years ago and features some of the old Roc-a-fella roster reinterpreting some Jay-Z tracks. I was under the impression it was going to be all Reasonable Doubt tracks, but it’s not. Go figure. There’s quite a catch though if you want to listen for free, you have to sign up for Dame Dash’s social networking site (”what the fuck?” is right): BlockSavvy. However, there was no need to confirm your email address, so go ahead and type whatever you want in there. We’re listening to it right now, and so far it’s kind of what we expected: not very good. I pegged about 80% of this to be bad, and it’s on track right now.
Here’s the tracklist:
01 Juelz Santana: “You Must Love Me”
02 Rell: “All I Need”
03 Nicole Wray: “Regrets”
04 Kanye West: “A Million and One Questions”
05 Denim: “Renegade”
06 Young Gunz: “Face Off”
07 Oschino and Sparks: “Streets Is Talking”
08 Freeway: “Politics as Usual”
09 Memphis Bleek: “Can I Live”
10 Jay-Z [ft. Oschino and Sparks]: “For the…”
***UPDATE*** We hit the nail right on the head: there’s only about 2 songs on here worth the listen.
October 18th, 2007
So, the mad limited copies of Living Proof have been flying out of stores. Seriously. It’s only been about a week and we’ve had to restock the majority of our Philly retailers. So, hurry up. We’re running out. Or give us some money so we can get more printed.
There’s a few places that have got a little something special going on, too. They’re some of our favorite spots and run by good people, and you should support them.
Cue Records - Place an order from Cue’s webstore, and when they ship it out, they’ll snuggle a copy of Living Proof in between your vinyl treats.
WTHN - Buy some stuff at WTHN, and inside your bag, you’ll also find a copy of Living Proof so when you get home, lace up your sneakers, and don some new clothes, you can sit down for a minute and read.
If pounding the pavement trying to hunt down a copy ain’t really your thing, there’s always the internet. Download a pdf of the whole magazine at livingproofmag.com.
October 18th, 2007
Here’s an interesting (albeit long) read from New York Magazine. Author Jerry Saltz explores the effect that money’s playing in the NY art scene. Read it during lunch. Or when you should be working. It may only be Thursday, but I’m sure some of you have already mentally checked out for the weekend. Read a brief excerpt from the beginning. Link to rest of the article follows:
“I love art and the art world, but lately, I can see why the Gavin Brown gallery has a new Website called NewYorkIsDead.biz. The site’s creators say that “nothing’s moribund; energy still abounds. But its timbre is strange.” Just how strange can be seen, as never before, when the bullshit machine runs at full steam; students charge $25,000 for paintings; the M.F.A. (as Daniel Pink notes) is the new M.B.A.; and “the system,” as David Hammons observed, “is making people offers they can’t refuse when it should be making them offers they can’t understand.”
A large chunk of the art world seems to have drunk the Kool-Aid, too. Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts. They’re P.T. Barnums, showmen and -women who have become part of the show. Art magazines, once left on coffee tables, are fat enough to be coffee tables. Ten years ago this month, Artforum had 124 pages. This month, it has more than that many pages of ads, and 412 pages overall. Damien Hirst, who once brazenly declared that collectors would “buy what you fucking give them,” recently, and wearily, told The Guardian, “You just make things and you sell them, you make things and sell them.” Addressing the strangeness, the underrated painter Jason Fox recently observed, “In these conservative times, it’s easy for art to become hollowed out from any progressive or radical energy and exist only as a bourgeois decoration.” Read the rest of the article….
October 18th, 2007
