Superman by Katie Degentesh/Boog City

Baghdadi Bath

A Must-See Art Show!


Mira Schor
Momenta Art
momentaart.org
359 Bedford Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11211
(718) 218-8058
March 20 through April 20, 2009
Reception: Friday, March 20, 7-9 pm
Gallery hours: Thursday through Monday, 12-6

What would the self-portrait of a thought look like?


Momenta Art is pleased to announce “Suddenly,” New Paintings by Mira Schor, Schor’s first one-person show in New York in over a decade. These works mark a departure in Schor’s work, from the depiction of language as image to the suggestion of its lack in a space where we expect to see it. “Suddenly,” marks the moment when personal loss or political babble creates a loss for words. Schor has turned to the most basic form that came to mind: the empty thought balloon, where language was or will or should be.

Richly surfaced, bold, witty, notational, provisional, the paintings in this show were made in quick gestures, taking five minutes to an afternoon. They function unpredictably, as existential encounters that emerge from political absurdities or epochal tragedies – experienced in the everyday.

A conceptual artist who is a painter’s painter, a feminist who is an odd inheritor of the approaches to painting of the New York School, a noted writer on both feminism and painting, Mira Schor has long worked at the razor’s edge between visual and verbal languages. Her paintings have been foregrounded by these various disciplines: by painting, with shows such as Slow Art: Painting in New York Now, at P.S.1; by feminism, with shows such as Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago's "Dinner Party" in Feminist Art History, at the Armand Hammer Museum; and by language, with shows such as Poetry Plastique, at Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York. Schor is the author of Wet: On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture and co-editor with Susan Bee of M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artists’ Writings, Theory, and Criticism (both from Duke University Press) and of M/E/A/N/I/N/G Online at http://writing.upenn.edu/pepc/meaning/ Schor has two new books coming out in 2009, The Extreme of the Middle: Writings of Jack Tworkov, which she has edited, from Yale University Press, and a new collection of her own writings on art and culture, A Decade of Negative Thinking: Essays on Art, Politics, and Daily Life, to be published by Duke University Press.

Momenta Art is supported by the Harriet Ames Charitable Trust, Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, The Greenwall Foundation, Greenwich Collection, Ltd., The Jerome Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and individual contributors.

Ernst Herbeck translated by Gary Sullivan in
Shampoo 35

Review of Susan Bee's Eye of The Storm show at the A.I.R. Gallery in
The Brooklyn Rail


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Elizabeth Fodaski's LIfe Sentences is just out in The Brooklyn Rail

Fodaski's long work Document appears in our recently published OCHO 21


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Martin Kippenberger show at MOMA is well worth seeing.

Vincent Katz reviews Susan Bee and Emma Bee Bernstein

Vanitas

Contradicta



The average American male has an overdeveloped instinct for knowing who he can successfully dupe and push around. The others remain astounded at how stupid and wasteful this is. Stalemate, endless debate and temporizing. courting disaster.




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Although it sometimes doesn't feel this way, but the appropriate response in many situations is to not know what to say and therefore to listen carefully and keep thinking it through.

Contradicta


I is another who knew what you were thinking about before you said it.




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I ran towards that light at the end of the tunnel until I realized it was her flashlight shining into the corners of my soul. Then I walked towards that light.

Hunger 101

Feeding America

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Today is fait accompli's 6th birthday

Coming soon: essays on Simon Pettet's Hearth (selected poems) (Talisman)

Raphael Levy's 2251 (Somogy, 2004)


The Journal as Art:"Impossible Text" by Victor Munoz

via wood s lot

Mayhew's Dreams at MOMA

Bemsha Swing (Free subscription) | 05/02/2009
1. I was visiting New York. I went into a large room at the MOMA where there was going to be a poetry reading. I was greeted very warmly by Drew Gardner and Nick Piombino, and it seemed that others were waiting in the wings to greet me as well, probably Gary Sullivan and Jordan Davis and David Shapiro (though Nick in my dream did not look like the real life Nick at all; he had a beard for one thing)....

MOMA news on Wikio (from Bemsha Swing- Jonathan Mayhew)[scroll down]

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Googlemania Unmasked

Google Reader: An Abecedarium pt. 1 (Steve Halle)

" It's been over a month now since Nick Piombino published a Contradicta on fait accompli (dec 17). Nick more contradicta that's really the only reason I read your blog. His last Contradicta read thusly:

When things get too complicated the starting point disappears into the google leaving me in confusion with glum hits staring into snowy infinitude.




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Count one friend for every time you google yourself."


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Flarfinator

Lime Tree

Contradicta




No more importance, only caring and contentment, each among a billion snowflakes falling slowly to the ground.




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For every voice found, one listener lost.

Otoliths Issue 12

Otoliths is edited by Mark Young

Southern Summer 2009

OCHO 21, published by CASA MENENDEZ is now available

with poets: Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino, Laynie Browne, Abigail Child, Joe Elliot, Laura Elrick, Elizabeth Fodaski, Joanna Fuhrman, Anthony Hawley, Drew Gardner, Jessica Grim, Michael Lally, Douglas Messerli, Bill Marsh, Christina Strong

Nick Piombino (Editor) Toni Simon (Cover artist)

OCHO 21


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Nada replies to my question about how Japan has changed:

"I noticed on my last two visits there that Japan, already techno-sleek, was getting even techno-sleeker. On the train, it seemed that everyone was writing a cellphone novel. More trains are equipped with screens showing commercials, news flashes, weather reports, etiquette reminders (a lot of these in Japan!), etc..." More...

Ululations

Ron Silliman's Links

At at art opening at Cue a few months ago (Cynthia Miller-April to May, 2008, curated by Ron] I told Ron Silliman how much I was enjoying his link lists and asked him- thinking I wouldn't blame him if he didn't answer me- how he does it. Come on- does Macy's tell Gimbel's? (that reference might go right by some of my readers). But lately I've been noticing that I haven't missed going through Ron's link lists for a very long time.

Often when I talk with a poet at length I feel like writing, and I remember going home and putting up a post about Goodreads, a site I was enjoying quite a lot just then.

Looking through today's repast on Ron's links I read Adam Fieled and others on the post avant, Tom Mandel talking to Tom Beckett about autobiography and death, the fact that Jack Spicer's new collection is sold out (damn, I meant to be a first printing of that!), Jerome Rothenberg on Emma Bee's passing, about the Cleave Anthology, today's exchanges on Kenny Goldsmith, the latest thoughts on lango, SoQ, flarf, Mesmer, Kasey Mohammad, Bolano, Wittgenstein, Poe, Derrida and so much more. The thing is, I enjoy knowing about the links I don't open and I usually come back to open most of them by the end of the week. On a good week, anyway.

Soon fait accompli will reach its 6th birthday and I have to admit I don't have anywhere near the enthusiasm for blogging that I felt when I started this blog in February 2003. I don't read very many blogs regularly anymore though now and again I have the occasion to feast on them for a few hours at a time. Still, there is something about Ron's link list that fascinates me. I'm beginning to read them as poems in themselves. As in reading any poem, I might pause on a particular passage and read more deeply into it. In this case, however, I will simply open the link and read the post it opens. If I have a bit of time, and the link is to another blog, I might start surfing as in days of old. But that is rare. But what never happens is that I stop reading through the whole link list until I've finished it. As with any absorbing poem, I always leave wanting to read more thereby looking forward to the next one, usually in a day or two.

I read Ron's link list the way I used to read the New York Times, which I read rarely now, beyond the few headlines and stories on Google. Since I happen to be married to a total news junkie, I have nearly every significant story reported to me with either wit or outrage or both during dinner.

I'm trying to understand why I find Ron's link lists so...no other word will suffice here except... soothing, except they are soothing with a good dose of excitement in the old sense of "something is happening but you don't know what it is/do you Mr Jones?" But now I wax nostalgic. Lets face it, I'm addicted, and they are free, legal and non fattening.

Ron's link lists are the best of what blogging has always been to me. A feeling of hanging out in the poet's cafe, running into lots of familiar friends, making new acquaintances, catching up on the gossip, and leaving with plenty to think about.

Massenet's Elegy Sung by Marian Anderson

Irresolvable Pulls of Life (on the death of Emma Bee Bernstein)

Douglas Messerli-Green Integer Blog

The Portable Boog City Reader 3

Thank You Maestro David Kirschenbaum


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Contradicta



Where plan, point and purpose end, melody begins.




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I am the instrument, you are the song.




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Chopin- Berceuse Opus 57 Evgeny Kissin

Tom Beckett's A Love Letter to my Blogroll: The Sequel

Chopin Nocturne 27 (Number 1) Artur Rubinstein