It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
— Rene Descartes

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.
— Simone de Beauvoir

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original. Whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring two pence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
— C. S. Lewis

People remember you better if you wear the same outfit.
— David Byrne



Friday Overture: Where Is The Future?



@ Hallwalls thru July 11
gallery hours Tues to Fri 11am to 6pm, Sat 11am to 2pm

"Siebren Versteeg's practice includes interactive paintings, digital prints and sculptures that dissect the interactions of media, intention, and indeterminacy. In many of the works, extensive use is made of the Internet as a generative source of information and imagery. By developing precise algorithms that guide the flow of information, Versteeg models the movement and content of the ambient digital atmosphere into artworks that balance choice and chance."

Buffalo News Dabkowski
Artvoice Raymond

Siebren Versteeg Website



STATUS UPDATE:
Hallwalls 2009 Members Exhibition
op Fri, July 24, 8-11pm

STATUS UPDATE
THE 2009 HALLWALLS MEMBERS EXHIBITION

In the era of ubiquitous social networking and in vague homage to the platform everyone loves to loathe but is loath to stop using, Hallwalls suggests STATUS UPDATE as our title/theme for the 2009 Hallwalls Members Exhibition. So....tell us what you’re up to, what you’re doing, how you feel, what you like (right now), and/or anything else that will bring us all up to speed on You, Version 07/09. You might like to remark on social networking in general, a particular application in specific, the joys/pitfalls of opening yourself up on the world wide internets, riff on some other version of status like status quo....or, AS ALWAYS, you can take the OPTIONAL route, ignore the theme, and just deliver some of your most recent work. No wait, that’s a “status update” too. Huh, first theme that works even when you ignore it.

YOU MUST BE A HALLWALLS MEMBER TO PARTICIPATE.
OPEN TO ALL MEDIA.
LARGE WORKS & VIDEO WORK—OKAY, BUT PLS PHONE AHEAD.
ONE WORK PER ARTIST.
WORK MUST BE “READY TO HANG.”
NO LIVE ANIMALS.
NO WAGERING.

ANY OTHER ISSUES/QUESTIONS/ANXIETIES, PLS CONTACT: john@hallwalls.org

DROP OFF DATES:
JULY 14, 15, 16, 17 from 11am to 4pm
JULY 18, 19 from 11am to 2pm



Opening Elsewhere
• Lisa Kreihbiel @ CG Jung Center op Fri, July 3, 6-8pm
• Bob Schulman, Francisco Amaya, Candace Keegan, Neil Maher, John Farallo, Ginny Stewart, Chris McGee, Val Dunne, Jerry Greenberg, Glenn Murrary, Bob Schultz, Tim Raymond, Dario Mohr, Joshua Nickerson, Nick DeMarchi, Bruce Mitmead, David Pierro @ College Street Gallery op Fri, July 3, 5-8pm
• Valaria Cray-D artist talk @ El Museo Fri, July 3, 8pm
• Heather Gillette, Dina Rivera closing reception @ Gallery 464 Fr, July 3, 6-9pm
• Ed Healy @ Studi Hart op Fri, July 10, 6-8pm (thru Aug 15)

Bad Habits @ the Albright Knox

op Fri, July 10, 7—10pm (thru Oct 4)
w/ Janine Antoni, Matthew Barney, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Brinker, Cecily Brown, Robert Colescott, Gregory Crewdson, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Jeanne Dunning, David Hammons, Nikki S. Lee, Glenn Ligon, Robert Melee, Cathy de Monchaux, Tony Oursler, Jason Rhoades, Thomas Ruff, Kiki Seror, Jeff Wall, Andro Wekua, and Lisa Yuskavage.

Jacqueline Welch @ Betty's op Mon, July 13, 6-9m

The fabulous Handsome Furs @ Soundlab July 18!

Handsome Furs My Space

If you're in Portland, check out Jennifer's latest performance:

Continuing Elsewhere
• Duayne Hatchett at the Burchfield thru Aug 30 Buffalo News Dabkowski
• Buffalo Society of Artists @ Betty's thru July 12
• Tom Holt @ the Castellani thru Sept 13 Buffalo News Dabkowski
• Kevin and Thomas Kegler and Mark and Dennis Zahm @ Art Dialogue thru July 10 Artvoice Raymond
• Felice Koenig and Meg Knowles @ Olean Public Libary thru July 31 Buffalo News DAbkowski
• Margaret Hart @ Burchfield Nature & Art Center thru Sept 12
• John Pfahl @ Nina Freudenheim thru July 29
• Jennifer Seth-Cimini @ redFish (E. Aurora) thru July 10
• Monica Angle @ Wine On Third thru Aug 1
• William Koch, Amy Robinson Gendrou, Rosemary Bauer Sroka, Kathleen Sherin @ BAS Buff News Buff News Eisenberg
• Jed Jackson @ the Castellani thru Sept 20
• Paul Zone @ College Street Gallery thru July 17 Buff News Artvoice Raymond
• Gigi Gatewood @ Nichols School thru July 15
• Diane Baker at The Mansion on Delaware (indefinitely)

"Since 1965 Mr. Graham, who was born in Urbana, Ill., in 1942 and grew up in New Jersey, has used magazine pages as exhibition spaces; subverted Minimalism with small, sleek walk-in pavilions; and helped establish the intellectual credibility of participatory art while also popularizing it."

NY Times Smith

"No number of Ferris wheels, giraffes, trips to Disneyland and surrogately conceived white children could conceal the essential grimness of Jackson’s preoccupation with childhood."

artnet Finch

"Mr. Malden, who died Wednesday at 97, specialized in being uneasy, playing men who are variously worried, angry, disappointed and defeated."

NY Times AO Scott

Something I listened to this week...

(1964) Awesome. More r&b/soul than blues, great background vocals courtesy of the Vandellas, piano, organ fills. I listened to it three times. Granted, I listened to it three times because it's like half an hour long, but also because it swings, baby.

One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.
— Bertrand Russell