Mark Allen’s Art Follies at WFMU’s Beware of the Blog.

Gotta love a good poke at the canon!

I had to smirk when I saw this ad from Americans for the Arts in the New York Times. I can barely remember the few art courses I had as a school kid.

Somewhere around 8th [ READ MORE ... ]

Yesterday’s date did not pass unnoticed despite my current absence from the United States. Just before 3pm here in Amsterdam I was finishing a late lunch and absentmindedly turned on CNN. The names of those lost were [ READ MORE ... ]

Sebastian Lemm’s photography caught my eye with its heavy shapes and high contrast, but it was Jörg Colberg’s description of the work as “very conceptual” that landed me on Lemm’s website.

Perusing the [ READ MORE ... ]

The last time I hit reload that many times I was trying to buy Radiohead tickets.

Miraculously I got the tickets, but I was not as lucky during yesterday’s wild rush to purchase a Doug and Mike [ READ MORE ... ]

Brown Couch, 1999
UPHOLSTERY, WOOD,
POLYESTER FILL, ASSORTED STAINS.
PERMANENT COLLECTION.

Undoubtedly one of Beck’s best-known works, Brown Couch, 1999 was first shown at the Salvation Army in Poughkeepsie, New York, and has since been a centerpiece [ READ MORE ... ]

There’s been a sharp increase in “every” projects lately – folks photographing everything they ate in a year, taking a picture of themselves everyday for a year, and – yes – my own contribution. [ READ MORE ... ]

I found this graphic in a local discount retailer’s weekly circular next to an ad for some oriental rugs.

He doesn’t look convinced. “No, no … c’mon, trust me … this is ART!”

I’ve been working with images of chairs all week. The two pieces above, by Mike Womack, nearly made me fall out of the one I was sitting in.

(via FFFFOUND!)

(Image via FFFFOUND!)

Still they come, the claims of the death of photography. I nearly flew off the handle anew reading Peter Plagens’ cranky refusal to evolve in a recent Newsweek article titled … wait for it … [ READ MORE ... ]

A December road trip around Florida landed me back in Miami for the second time in 2007. It was unexpected – after attending the 2007 Society for Photographic Education national conference in March, I wasn’t [ READ MORE ... ]

My exhibition “Now On View: September 8th-30th, 2007″ is now officially closed, although if you are in the Rochester area this week and would like to see it, feel [ READ MORE ... ]

James Rajotte has a few installation shots of my multiple camera obscura project “Now On View: September 8th-30th, 2007” up at his Flickr page. Check ‘em out and look for more [ READ MORE ... ]

I’m proud to announce the culmination of my graduate studies, an exhibition titled “Now On View: September 8th-30th, 2007.” It’s a multiple camera obscura installation, and it opens tomorrow. More information below and at my [ READ MORE ... ]