Millie Stein
Compound Eye at Printed Matter
This Saturday, if you happen to be in New York, something fun is happening at Printed Matter. Spring Press will be launching an edition of Origin of Silence by Compound Eye. Compound Eye is Drew McDowall and Tres Warren, formerly of Psychic TV and Coli, and Psychic Ills and Messages. This will also be their first public performance together.
The Scottish critic David Keenan called the record a “beautifully spooked modern minimalist classic”. For what it’s worth, I really like it too.
Saturday the 25th of February from 5 – 7pm (free)
Printed Matter, 195 Tenth Avenue, New York, NY 10011 365 Water Glasses
A girl I know called Lulu Wolf gave herself a project to draw a water glass every day for a year.
It’s an interesting and quite enormous challenge, so although I am not surprised she never finished it I do hope she starts up again soon. I’ve picked out some of my favourites but you can see the rest here.
Helpfully, there is an Oscar Wilde quote that gets at how simple yet how profound it is to practice repetition. There is actually an Oscar Wilde quote to fit most situations so this is not surprising, and although this one is about love I am going to use it to talk about Lulu’s water glasses:
“Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.”
Turned Out Tuned Up
My favourite blog-owner, collage artist and neato photographer Maya Villiger has relaunched her blog, Turned Out.
These guys had a hand in it and it feels right, like elements have converged to bring the only other website I check every day (apart from The Blackmail, duh!) to where it needs to be.
I have used some screen shots from the new site here but I highly recommend you check out the real thing. Two Films About Hands
Two films from the late ’60s, both about hands. The first is dancer and choreographer Yvonne Rainer’s Hand Movie (1966). I am going to post more about Yvonne Rainer soon. Apart from being a real tough guy, she is singular and prolific and performing at Dia:Beacon again next month.
The second is Richard Serra’s Hand Catching Lead (1968). You can hear Serra talking more about metal here.
This is Mary’s Work
These little and not-so-little guys are by one of my favourite painters, Mary MacDougall.
A little while ago I interviewed Mary for an issue of The Blackmail and was bummed that we didn’t end up publishing pictures of her work. Luckily, she got a website. Here you can see works on glass from previous years and tiles from her recent show. Almost all of them are sold now so I am just glad the pictures are still around.
