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I CAN'T WAIT


This track, brings together many of my favorite ideas including fake desert backgrounds, desks, and bespecked golden retrievers. It is a very authentic love song, a passionate ode to communication! 


Wilkins Coffee

Early commercials for Wilkins Coffee by Jim Henson featuring a proto-Kermit. See more Henson at the Gene Siskel Film Center this month in their Muppet Magic program, which includes one of my favorite movies from childhood, Follow that Bird!

Rock Drawings by Julie Cloutier

Rock portraiture: A Custom Service

1. Send me your rock by mail only
2. I make a pencil portraiture of the rock
3. You receive the drawing within 7 days

www.workbyjuliecloutier.com

Black Visual Archive

Black Visual Archive is a daily briefing on critical discussions of black art and blackness in popular culture written by Meg Onli. There is nothing like this on the internet and there might never be anything like it again. Go! Now! Check it out!

www.blackvisualarchive.com

 

(Full disclosure: I designed the site for BVA.)

DEREK CHAN A WAY OF LIFE


Installation view

You have less than 10 days to see Derek Chan's A Way of Life at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. It's a very strong, well executed exhibition and among the best shows from a young artist seen at the MCA Chicago. The last weekly performance is happening on November 23 and is not to be missed. 

It's also been reviewed in Newcity, read here

Jon Rafman in Time Out Chicago and the Atlantic


The Age Demanded (#1), 2010, archival pigment print, 16"x20"

Our current exhibition The Age Demanded was recently reviewed in Time Out Chicago

And, Jon Rafman was also featured in The Atlantic. 

JON RAFMAN, THE AGE DEMANDED INSTALLATION IMAGES


The Age Demanded installation view


Parker Ito Condo, 2010, dimensions variable, 40" x 52" oil painting on canvas, artist book, mesh shirt


The Age Demanded installation view


The Age Demanded installation view


Untitled (Paint FX #1), 2010, archival pigment print, 29"x38"


Untitled (Paint FX #12), 2010, archival pigment print, 16"x20"

 

view more images here.

BRUIT DE FOND, THIS FRIDAY

Please join us Friday, November 12 from 6-9 pm to celebrate the launch of Bruit de Fond, French photography publisher Je Suis Une Bande De Jeunes's newest publication. Bruit de Fond (Background Noise) is a collection of images and photographs conceptualized around what links sonic elements to visual ones. This publication exhibits and questions different levels of interpretation between these two media.

Featuring: Asako Narahashi, Lydia Anne Mc Carthy, Jacob Wolf Miller, Thobias Fäldt, Jon Feinstein, Jeff Otto O’Brien, Seth Fluker, Jeremy Liebman, Oto Gillen, Daniel Everett, Yann Gross, Honet and Wulfran Patte, Jesper Ulvelius, Shane Lavalette, Chad Muthard, Peter Sutherland, Jennilee Marigomen, Daniel Augschoell, Jo-ey Tang, Pedro Ramos, Charles Negre, Sarah Pickering, Whitney Hubbs, Ola Rindal, Bill Sullivan, Pierre Le Hors, Kalle Sanner, Coley Brown, Nicholas Gottlund, Ozant Kamaci, Mårten Lange, Gordon Nicholas, Stéphanie Gygax, Raia Al Souliman, Aimee Brodeur, Grant Willing, Ann Woo, Erin Jane Nelson, Leon Batchelor, Miranda Lehman, Jeff Lucker, Jessica Hans, Alexander Binder, Sean Stewart, Audrey Corregan, and Jimmy Limit.

Bruit de Fond Launch at Golden Age
November 12, 6-9pm
Aurélien Arbet will be present at the launch.

Images from Derek Chan's Cries and Whispers


All images from Cries and Whispers From the Salt Song Trail: A Reinterpretive Journey; Derek Chan's new monograph published in conjunction with his solo exhibition A Way of Life, opening today at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

Don't miss the Cries and Whispers From the Salt Song Trail: A Reinterpretive Journey Release Party, tonight at Golden Age from 6-10pm. The artist will be present. 

Permanent Collection, Tomorrow in Oakland


From Lauren Anderson's contribution to the Permanent Collection Fanzine

Important Projects in Oakland is hosting the second installment of Permanent Collection, a temporary pop-up shop organized by Golden Age. With Permanent Collection 10 artists were commissioned to design a series of limited edition tote bags and contribute to a related fanzine.

In addition to the bag sets, a series of found objects are introduced into the gallery space. This is the place to be tommorrow on the West Coast.   

Featuring: Lauren Anderson, Aylor Brown, Derek Chan, Paul Cowan, Lee Lynch, Megan Plunkett, Jon Rafman, Smith + Linder, and Mylinh Nguyen

Permanent Collection at Important Projects
November 6, 2010 - December 3, 2010
Opening Reception: 6-9pm Saturday, November 6, 2010

Important Projects
5432 Boyd Ave
Oakland, CA 94618
USA