February 2012
27 posts
NEW AND NOTEWORTHY NAME GENERATORS
Sandwich Name: Direction you are currently facing + name of the street you are currently on + main course at your most recent holiday meal.
Rock Band Name: Your least favorite color + your most recent physical ailment + high school mascot, plural.
Discreet Sex Toy Name: Your favorite hard candy flavor + type of flower indigenous to your current state of residence.
Fruit Smoothie Flavor...
Have a nice book! →
10 Rules by Elmore Leonard
Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle
By ELMORE LEONARD
These are rules I’ve picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I’m writing a book, to help me show rather than tell what’s taking place in the story. If you have a facility for language and imagery and the sound of your voice pleases you, invisibility is not what you are...
“But if there’s not something true and sincere about the complexity of human...”
– Rick Moody on 69 Love Songs by the Magnetic Fields in The Believer
Great new book blog! →
January 2012
80 posts
Alec Soth opening, Thursday Feb. 2, NYC
Sean Kelly Gallery is delighted to announce the opening of Alec Soth’s new exhibition, Broken Manual. The opening will take place on Thursday, February 2, from 6pm until 8pm. The artist will be present.
Press for the Postcards From America box
Time Magazine
Slate
Huffington Post
Walker Art Center
NOTE: The edition of the box is limited to 500 and costs $250. On February 1st the price will be raised to $350.
BUY IT HERE
"Pandora for Art"
An article in Wired Magazine analyzes the ‘art genome’ of my picture, Adelyn, Ash Wednesday:
Using Ash Wednesday as a starting point, the software then presents other, genetically similar works. Since Soth’s image carries a strong gene for “contemporary photographic portraiture,” Art.sy suggests pieces by Sally Mann and Bill Jacobson, two American photographers also known for their...
Check out the Postcard book on the Walker Art... →
The Postcards From America box
Last May, Paolo Pellegrin, Jim Goldberg, Susan Meiselas, Mikhael Subotzky, Ginger Strand and I drove an RV from San Antonio to Oakland. Since then, we’ve been trying to make something that expresses the frenetic energy of that trip. In the end, a simple book wouldn’t do. Instead we produced the Postcards From America box. Inside is a collection of objects – a book, five bumper stickers, a...
