Tauba Auerbach

I thought that my handwriting was on point, but seriously Tauba has taken the medium through which we express ourselves and UPGRADED it.
Letters like little droplets of magic sprinkled on paper is what twenty-something year old Auerbach does. I love how she approaches language as a science. Like trying to interpret the flowery art of language with the static equation of technology, and her sum is her painting. She is now presenting some of her works here in the greatest city in America, New York. At...

Deitch Projects
76 Grand Street
New York, NY 10013
212-343-7300


So what do you say??

Yes/No (no that is really what the name of the painting is, hehe)

or....

Okay! Cool.

The Studio Museum In Harlem

“The Studio Museum in Harlem is the nexus for black artists locally, nationally, and internationally, and for work that has been inspired by black culture. It is a site for the dynamic exchange of ideas about art and society.”-SMH
This Museum right around the corner from my hood, is a mecca of African American, Carribean, and African Art. It currently houses Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool that features many of Hendricks’s lesser known, older works and his newest pieces, small plein air studies of the Jamaican landscape.
Also it houses, VideoStudio which is a new, ongoing series of video and time-based art.
Here are some more pieces that have been showcased at the Studio Museum in Harlem.


I am always a big fan of supporting our community. So be sure to hit up this wonderful gem, hidden among the scenery of Harlem's streets. The best thing is that thanks to TARGET, admission on Sunday's are FREE!! FREE! FREE!! Indeed.

144 West 125th Street
New York, New York 10027

Take any of the following public transit methods to 125th Street station:
Subway: 7th Avenue: #2 or #3
8th Avenue: A, B, C or D
Lexington Avenue: #4, #5, or #6

Suggested donation:
Adults $7.00
Seniors and students (with valid id) $3.00
Free for members and children under 12
Free on Sunday's (Thanks Target)

La science des rêves (The Science of Sleep)

Sometimes I wake up from a dream, and it was so nostalogic that I just wanted to write down every second of REM that I could. But usually as soon as I find a pen and paper the imaginatory thoughts dribble out of my consciousness like a leaky cup.

Well it seems as though all of the REM goodness has funneled itsel into this french film, The Science of Sleep. I am a BIG FAN of French films, espcially the ones that curse in french and then write the words out in English in the bottom of the screen captions.

I just watched this film today, and my mind is blown by its awesomeness. It is like the inversion of dream and reality in art form. So yeah here is the trailer:



I mean the film is in French, but there is an English version avaliable, and it came out in 2006. The use of cardboard, water, and felt (with obvious stitches), all make the film become that much more real. As if the paper mache 3-D is more realistic than life itself.

2 0 0 9

...is fast approaching upon us. My New Years Eve plans will probably consist of some douche bag activity like this....

Photo Credit: Vice Magazine Fashion

...but, I hope you movers and shakers out there will create merriment that will indeed be merry.

2009 holds great promise for a lot of people, and a lot of resolutions to be made and then broken. But one thing I know that will definitely be broken is glass.

Currently there is a exhibit called "Broken Glass: Photographs of the South Bronx by Ray Mortenson” that is at the Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue(at 103rd Street)New York, NY 10029. For only $9, and only $5 if you are a student, hahah!!!

It is a photographical documentary of the downslide that began in the Great Depression of the 1930s and accelerated with the construction of the Cross Bronx Expressway in the 1950s and the fiscal crisis of the 1970s. Remember you got to know your history, in order to know your future...

...and my future consists of me watching BScott destroy my dreams of marrying that handsome man that is Marcus Patrick.

Peep my 2009 Diva...

Jazz in the Key of Soul

Pete Kuzma is a jazz cat and a master keyboardist. He work is amazing, don't take my word for it, peep this live perfomance of him and Jill Scott in Paris...



He has produced for artists like Herbie Hancock, Jewel, Jill Scott, Raheem Devaughn, Dwele, and Bilal. And since I am such a soul-head I definitely dug his style from the beggining.

Peep this joint he did with Bilal called "High and Dry" by clicking the picture below...

Pete now resides in London, I am hoping to hear more from him in the new year, hopefully a collaboration with D'Angelo...ohh!!!

I'll probably be singing this as I beat everybody in bowling today!! HAHA! Suckkkaaass!!