there is camera shy

and then there is camera terrified....

check out an introduction to get free % and artist david horvitz here.

Dazed and Confused, October

My review of White Lightnin' was published in the October issue of Dazed and Confused. Check it out at a newsstand near you!

SOMA Fashion issue

SOMA's Fashion issue has just been released. You can check out a preview online here. My piece on the Straf Hotel in Milan is in the print version, which the truly dedicated can find in newstands throughout the United States, England, France, and Japan.

family update

Move over status updates and welcome to my new form of oversharing: the litany of blogging complaints!

If I could get six arms surgically implanted octopus-style I probably would...That way I could work, clean my house, and give myself a pedicure or some other such self-care regiment that I've been neglecting...

It's 5:30pm and I'm only just sitting down to work because I began my day at the dentists office in Mitte. Paul was asleep on the couch when I left because Odin began his cat party at quarter to six, so my morning conversation ohne frühstuck, was conducted entirely in german, in a dentist chair with my mouth half anesthetized and tons of dental instruments i don't even know how to name in english hanging out of my mouth. miraculously, the experience wasn't as horrid as it sounds. My friend A recommended a great dentist, my insurance covered all of it except for 10euros and I have a follow up appointment on the 28th. Once I finished up at the Zahnarzt, however, I felt I deserved some time outside and proceeded (with Paul's help) to blow off the entire day off work, which means I'll probably be on this thing until midnight....

italian for two: due, our new kitten!

krazy kat

I leave for Italy this weekend to pick up a kitten at our friend's house. Paul and I are super excited to get an orange kitten and the enthusiasm that we spout to our friends has left some concerned about our sanity. Melissa shared this with us yesterday as a cautionary tale.

David Horvitz//Rarely Seen Bas Jan Ader//Kunst-Werke//Oh My!

David Horvitz's Rarely Seen Bas Jan Ader Film was a stand-out piece in last year's Gravity Art, a group exhibition curated by Rene Daalder at Telic Arts Exchange.

2nd Cannons just published a flip book based on the film that will be available at Miss Read at Kunst-Werke in Berlin.

MISS READ at KW Institute for Contemporary Art
September 4 to 6, 2009

Opening: Friday, September 4, 2009, 3 - 7 pm
Saturday, September 5 + Sunday, September 6, 2009, noon - 7 pm

2nd Cannons Publications, Los Angeles | argobooks, Berlin | BAS/Bent, Istanbul and basso magazin, Berlin | Book Works, London | Christoph Keller Editions bei JRP|Ringier, Zurich | Dexter Sinister, New York | documentation céline duval, Houlgate | Edition Patrick Frey, Zurich | GAGARIN, Antwerp |Half Letter Press/Temporary Services, Chicago | information as material, York | MER. Paper Kunsthalle, Ghent | Michalis Pichler, Berlin | onestar press/Three Star Books, Paris | P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute, Ljubljana | Passenger Books, Berlin/Montreal | Pork Salad Press, Copenhagen | Printed Matter, Inc., New York | Roma Publications, Amsterdam | Salon Verlag, Cologne | Schlebrügge.Editor/Fama & Fortune Bulletin, Vienna | Spector Books, Leipzig |Sternberg Press, Berlin/New York | Torpedo Press, Oslo | Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne | ZINE'S MATE, Tokyo

Miss Read has invited international publishers to show a selection of their artist books and wants to provide the opportunity to examine this diverse and exquisite assortment, to explore it and to take it home. As a genre of its own, the artist book reflects contemporary ways of artistic production and publishing to a great extent and also addresses issues of presentation and circulation as well as new strategies of distribution. Miss Read is a joint event with the publishers argobooks and Michalis Pichler and wants to draw attention to the diversity of the contemporary scene of publishing for the first time in Berlin.

KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststr. 69
D-10117 Berlin

www.kw-berlin.de
www.berlinbiennale.de