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Saturday, April 11

The Two Bright Doves- Laura Carter

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Jackie Lipton's New Paintings are on exhibit at Corinne Robbins Gallery


147 Atlantic Avenue (between Clinton and Henry Streets) April 16-May 17, 2009

Opening Reception is Thursday, April 16th 6-8pm

Gallery hours are Wed-Sat, 11-6 and Sun 12-5

718.855.1672
Directions: 2,3 or 4,5 to Borough Hall (or R to Court Street), walk down Joralemon Street
into Brooklyn Heights until you come to Clinton Street, then walk on Clinton to
Atlantic Avenue.

Turn right and you are there. Or walk down Court Street To Atlantic Avenue, then on Atlantic
past Clinton Street to 147 Atlantic Avenue.

Friday, April 10

This Just In from Nico Vassilakis

My first Visual Poetry Show

Runs April 16th – May 9th, 2009

at

AC [Institute Direct] Chapel

547 W. 27th St, 5th Floor, #519-529

Gallery Hours: Wed, Fri. & Sat: 1-6pm, Thurs.: 1-8pm



The opening is on April 16th

Rhizome



Brochure Pdf included



(I’ll be around early evening April 23rd)



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A Reading at the Poetry Project – April 24th, 10pm

Lawrence Giffin & Nico Vassilakis



thanks for your time,


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Mira Schor's artist's talk Friday April 10 at Momenta Art

Tuesday, April 7

Not In Service (words scribbled on a napkin)

It is no longer even interesting for me to wonder why for such long periods I have grown silent. But I do keep wondering what that silence is saying , because it is clear to me that it is saying something more precise and encompassing that I can now put into words. What is it telling me? Is it telling me that writing does so much more for the reader than it does for the writer? Is it saying that often, with writing I feel that I am painting myself into a corner? Is it murmuring to me that my words are a drop in the bucket, not even that-- a drop in the ocean, in an avalanche, a tidal wave? Is it telling me that the conclusions are mostly I-told-you-sos, been there done that, whatever, anything you can say I can say better? Is it saying that the written or blogged or printed word way too often does not enlighten, but, like a match in an underground cave, momentarily dazzles and then leaves the darkness darker? Is it saying that words are not like notes in a classical symphony, but more like sardonic echoes in an institutional lunchroom?

Wednesday, April 1

Interview re: Contradicta in the April issue of Poets and Writers Online

by Pamela D Toler

Tuesday, March 24

Contradicta






Perhaps it's not so important whether you will love others or yourself, but whether you will come to love the others in yourself.



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In the end everyone will understand what you meant to say. How you lived is what you meant to say.

Saturday, March 21

Suddenly!

Did You Miss the Buzz at the Mira Schor Opening at Momenta Art?

Too bad, because that was last night, folks. Now you have only until April 20 to go see this not-to-be-missed show.

Also, check out the announcement of two books by Mira Schor that will be out soon, a book of her essays, and she has also edited a selection from the journals and other writings of the important abstract expressionist artist, Jack Tworkov.

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Contradicta





It is much too noisy. I can't hear myself being quiet.




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It is hard to think after trying so hard not to think.



[PS I wrote these after coming home from Mira Schor's opening last night, and only realized just now, that they were very likely inspired by her terrific show!]

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Poetry Project Newsletter Review of Fait Accompli (Factory School, 2007) by Dustin Williamson
is now available as a PDF(Pages 25-27)

Tuesday, March 17

Chopin E minor Prelude (#4)


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This just in from Michael Cross (Atticus/Finch):
If you live near NYC, please join us on Tuesday, March 31st at 6:00 pm for the east coast book
launch at ACA Galleries (529 W. 20th St., 5th Floor) as part of Boog City's Renegade Press series,
featuring readings by David Larsen, Judith Goldman, Thom Donovan, Kyle Schlesinger, and music and poetry
by Julian Brolaski.


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New from Nico Vassilakis!

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Friday, March 13

Thursday, March 12

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.

Monday, March 9

Ernst Herbeck translated by Gary Sullivan in
Shampoo 35

Sunday, March 8

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.

Wednesday, March 4

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.

Thursday, February 26

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.

Friday, February 20

Hunger 101

Feeding America

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Wednesday, February 11

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

Saturday, February 7

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

Tuesday, February 3

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.