Hype Train, Applied Economics Edition
Briefly, some creative productions worthy of your attention.
Items of Interest is on hiatus, but allow me to direct your attention to some recent creative efforts.
, the addressee of last summer’s Letter to a Derailed Creative, is putting on a one-man show about the redoubtable Thomas Sowell. Duncan has crushed his IndieGoGo campaign goal by 500% as of this writing, but please consider supporting it further, not only to boost a deserving project, but to send the appropriate message to the theater world that reduced him to waiting tables for refusing the Covid vaccine and questioning the value of their newfangled racial consciousness.1, fellow dissident whose writing was the topic of The Dissidents Begin to Collude and Not A Movement, A Gang, has a new website up with work available for purchase.
Mario Naves’s exhibition “Gratitude and Expectations” is up at Elizabeth Harris through February 17, this Saturday.
Dana Gordon has a show of his paintings up at the Westbeth through February 24.
“Philip Gerstein: In the Interval” is up at the Painting Center through February 24.
Maria Sweeny’s forthcoming graphic memoir Brittle Joints is available for preorder.
Look for Elisabeth Condon’s contribution to the MTA’s Poetry in Motion series in Grand Central Station and trains running throughout the city. Elisabeth is currently in residence at the Joan Mitchell Foundation. (I am the author of one of her catalogue essays.)
The Aegean Center has relaunched with a program of two-week intensives in painting, drawing, and photography as well as a residency program. I’m pleased that they kept my quote on their statement of the center’s philosophy.
Board the hype train in the comments with your suggestions.
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We are in the midst of an Asynchronous Studio Book Club reading of Totality: Abstraction and Meaning in the Art of Barnett Newman by Michael Schreyach. Obtain your copy and jump in. For future titles, see the ASBC schedule.
Dissident Muse’s first publication, Backseat Driver by James Croak, is available now at Amazon.
Aphorisms for Artists: 100 Ways Toward Better Art by Walter Darby Bannard is out now at Allworth Press. More information is available at the site for the book. If you own it already, thank you; please consider reviewing the book at Amazon or B&N.
On a related note, if you have an opinion on an economics topic, and you have not read Sowell’s Basic Economics, I reserve the right to dismiss it on that basis alone.
Thanks for the mention, Franklin. Means a lot to get the nod from an artist-critic. Always stimulating work from you.