If you didn’t get to see the Contemporary section of The Armory Show 2012, here’s a quick (photo) stroll through Pier 94 to see some of the highlights, including the Marina Abramovic installation (with a live participant, just like at MOMA last year)
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Everywhere I go, people are talking about Timeline. Have you tackled it yet?
Most people say that their problem with Facebook is that it keeps forcing you to change when change is the last thing you want from your social media. Well, I have news for you – if you don’t change to Timeline now, Facebook is going to change it for you really, really soon. Be warned!
This week’s personal tech story from Paul Boutin at The New York Times provides a soup-to-nuts overview of what’s going on, what’s in store, and gives you a step-by-step plan to keep your blood pressure down between now and – well, when you’re going to have to change whether you like it or not.
Oh, and he also tells you how to ditch Timeline (but I do not recommend it)!
Ready, Set, Go!! It’s Armory Arts Week, when New York City hosts curators, collectors, critics, and artists from all over the world. Line up at Piers 92 and 94 (at 55th Street) and dive into The Armory Show, one of the best people-watching events all year. Thursday to Saturday, the two piers are open and packed full of modern and contemporary art from Noon to 8pm daily (closing at 7pm on Sunday). And don’t ignore the eleven other art shows going on in Manhattan.
Never venture out of your own six-block radius? Now you have an excuse to use your MetroCard. Take advantage of over 75 free public art events in a different neighborhood each night – Tonight (Thursday) is Bronx Day and Soho Night. On Friday, enjoy Long Island City Night; on Saturday, Chelsea Day/Brooklyn Night; on Sunday, the Lower East Side and Downtown.
Visit artists studios, check out museums at night, pop in on alternative spaces, listen to podcasts touring subway-station art, and rub shoulders with the peripatetic global art crows. It’s a City-wide celebration!
— From The New York Times. Although it was a fantastic article in yesterday’s Science Times about the real reasons for “the death pose”, no one saw fit to give our friend, S. altus credit for his amazing contortion. Yes, the photo is of a cast, but still…c’mon people…AMNH 5339 is one of the most-seen, most admired dinosaur fossils on the Fourth Floor of the American Museum of Natural History. Why not slap a name on him in the NYT “Twisted” caption
To add insult to injury, check out the hyperlink title: “archeopteryx fossils appear twisted but not because of agony”. Maybe I’m being sensitive, but some long-limbed Saurischian residents of Manhattan (Ornithomimids) deserve their “15 minutes of fame” truth-in-reporting as others. Do 12,000 visitors each weekend pay as much attention to S. altus (genuine and nearly complete skeleton) as to our Archeopteryx casts? Absolutely, so give this guy some credit, please.
Check out the nice story and obscured (and wrong in the metadata) pictoral identity of Struthiomimus online:
Recommending two plays in New York that are closing on March 11:
Assistance – a hilarious play by Leslye Headland about life as a celebrity personal assistant, written by someone who used to work for…Oh, go read the author interview in the Huffington Post. The best thing was being accompanied by real-life personal assistant Patrick Healy who told me that the verisimilitude to (his and others’) real-life experiences was amazing….the headsets, the hand gestures, the YouTube interludes, the late nights, the double- or triple-staffing, the pursuit of the detail, the apologies, the behind-the-scenes panic…and, yes, the desire to achieve the highest form of the art — the tap dance.
CQ/CX – Gabe McKinley’s take (ficticious names are used) on the Jayson Blair scandal at The New York Times back in 2003. If you’ve never been inside the newsroom, but read (still) read the printed version each day, go, go, go to see this before it closes. For true news wonks.
NYC museum and gallery shows are near the end. Closing on:
March 11 – The Bearden Project at the Studio Museum of Harlem (144 W 125th)
March 17 – Pace Gallery’s amazing Chelsea show about Happenings of the late 1960s (it’s extensive to plan to spend time (534 W 25th)
March 18 – The Renaissance Portrait show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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