Thursday August 5, 2010 at 7 PM
235 Bowery
New York, NY

The Bidoun Library Project at the New Museum is a highly partial account of five decades of printed matter in, near, about, and around the Middle East. Arrayed along the library’s shelves are pulp fictions and propaganda, monographs and guidebooks, and pamphlets and periodicals, representing the oil boom and the Dubai bust, the Cold War and the hot pant; depicting Pan-Arabs and Black Muslims, revolutionaries and royals, Orientalism and its opposites.

For the opening night Bidoun will present selected readings and video clips from the collection. In addition, for the opening day of the project, Bidoun has invited booksellers usually found outside the New York University library to set up shop outside the New Museum.

Join us afterward for dancing and drinks at:

Sweet and Vicious
5 Spring Street
9pm
Music by Tim DeWitt (Gang Gang Dance)

For information visit bidoun.com or newmuseum.org

New York Times obit.

Abdellah Taïa +
An American In Tangier, Mohamed Ulad, 1993, 27 mins
Chronicles/Morocco, Michel Auder, 1971-71, 26 mins
Morocco 1972: The Real Chronicles with Viva, Michel Auder, 2002, 36 mins

Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at Light Industry, Brooklyn
7:30pm, $7

More information here

You are invited to attend:

CONTRA MUNDUM IV
Sunday, August 2, 2009
7PM

Banish the World
Aaron Kunin, writer and assistant professor of negative
anthropology at Pomona College, discusses misanthropy
and the trope of self-banishment in Shakespeare.

The talk will be followed by a DJ set by Mike Metzger of related music.

Mandrake
2692 S La Cienega Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90034
(between Venice Blvd and Washington Blvd)

www.mandrakebar.com
www.osloeditions.com

All things Desi, curated by Mansi Shah.

Above: Chacha Chaudary’s Pinki.

Fellow TheBlowUp alumnus Kate Sennert is a founding member of this [currently] web project. I hope they update frequently.

THIS LONG CENTURY is an evolving index of passing thoughts, recommendations and personal observations. Represented are individuals working across highly imaginative fields: art, design, literature, science, theory, etc. This project seeks to expand the notion of creative discipline and provoke verbal and aesthetic exchange.

The Distribution to Underserved Communities Library Program (DUC) distributes books on contemporary art and culture free of charge to rural and inner-city libraries, schools and alternative reading centers nationwide.

The program aims to actively further a more egalitarian access to contemporary art, and is committed to fostering partnerships between publishers, non-profit organizations, librarians and readers to enrich and diversify library collections. The program offers well over 490 titles by more than 90 different publishers. The program reaches readers in all 50 states and has placed over 200,000 free books in public libraries, schools, and alternative pedagogical venues.

The DUC is a program of Art Resources Transfer, Inc., a non profit organization founded in 1987, that is committed to documenting and supporting artists’ voices and work, and making these voices accessible to the broadest possible audience.

Textfield Distribution is proud to announce its participation in the DUC Program.

The International Institute of Social History (Dutch: Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, abbreviation: IISG) is a historical research institute in Amsterdam. It was founded in 1935 by Nicolaas Posthumus. The IISG is part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

John Roberts, Hesitate

IDS Internet does small business!

Unique Gift Ideas
Plant Fruit Trees in Someone’s Name
Be a part of “A Growing Solution”!

This Blog is out of control.

Animal Shelter
Art, Sex and Literature, Issue 1

Semiotext(e) is pleased to announce Issue 1 of a new special project, Animal Shelter. Fleeting, ephemeral, non-digital and non-hierarchical, Animal Shelter is part intellectual journal, part DIY ‘zine. Eclectic but highly focused, the journal looks towards non-privatized forms of sexuality as a cultural conduit. Looking back to the underground press sex culture of the 1970s, Animal Shelter is dedicated to visions of real freedom for the present.

True Tales From Another Mexico

Newspapers trumpeted Vicente Fox’s election as Mexico’s president with the headlines “Ya Cambio” — Change has Come. Fox ousted Mexico’s ruling party, the PRI, and ended its 71 years in power. But as Sam Quinones convincingly shows in this book, much of Mexico was changing before the July 2000 presidential elections. Fox’s victory marked the triumph of another Mexico, a vital, energetic, and creative Mexico, tracked by Quinones for over six years and perceptively presented in this book.

“The press, other governments and tourists are most aware of the official, elite, corrupt Mexico; the Mexico that won’t allow a poor man a chance; the Mexico behind the sunglasses. I’ve even been told by people, including Mexicans, that this is Mexican culture. But I know that’s not true. There is another side of Mexico.”

Here are its stories — stories from the Mexico that exists far from the headlines, beyond Cancun and tequila, mariachi bands and Carlos and Charlie’s. Some of the tales Quinones brings us are strange and exotic; but more often they are from mainstream though ignored parts of Mexican life.

Chalino Sanchez was a migrant worker who became a underground singer of narcocorridos — ballads about drug smugglers — until his murder, which remains unsolved. Two traveling salesmen trundled through a sweltering small town one day, plying their wares. The next day they were hanging from the town’s bandstand lynched by a mob, a thousand strong.

True Tales From Another Mexico takes us to the Bronx — the rude boys of Mexico’s Congress. It immerses us in the world of Oaxacan farmworkers in Baja California. We see how a bunch of illiterate rancheros invented the Michoacana ice cream stores and turned it into the most successful small-business in Mexico. We visit the cult of Nueva Jerusalen, a theocratic village run by a charismatic excommunicated Catholic priest, where residents receive voting instructions from the Virgin of Guadalupe.

Thanks Michael

Our friend Juan Ignacio Moralejo and some of his friends have opened a combination gallery, library, videoteque, bakery, and super hang out called Canasta in Buenos Aires.

A nerd’s dream: quickly and painlessly search over 10,000 libraries for the book you want. Now that I can find the books I’ve always wanted to look at, all I need now is the power of flight, more free time, and a way to get by without eating or money. I think doing a lot of speed can give me all three; it worked for Andy Warhol. (Thank you Tiffany for the link)

In 2000 Brett Easton Ellis composed emails collected under the title “AmPsycho 2000 Emails” that were sent from main character Patrick Bateman to his therapist. Users could sign up to receive these emails at Universal’s website for the movie.

I am most proud of my art.
Upon entering the thirty-six foot long gallery you are met by Warhol’s Double Elvis, which shares wall space with a Damien Hirst Dot painting and a Donald Baechlor Ice Cream Cone.
The living room is filled with mostly monochromatic or muted works by masters such as Leger, Picasso, Balthus, and Rothko.
The dining room is where I keep my collection of Motherwell, Kenneth Noland, Morris Louis, and Frankenthaler, all of which look remarkable by candlelight.
The library is where I keep my collection of 20th Century Photographs. I was one of the earliest collectors. Stieglitz, Mapplethorpe, and Sherman are my favorites. And I have a collection of Hurrell photographs in my dressing room that inspire me.
Oh yes, and plenty of mirrors.