Update: Click for the 2015 Acker Awards. And read this captivating feature story by Nicole Disser: ‘Helen Keller Was an Asshole,’ and Other Things You’ll Learn at the Acker Awards Are awards the staff of life? Of course not. But they certainly seem like food for the hungry. The list of awards is nearly endless. […]
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Petition to Stop Warhol Exhibit at the Nat’l Arts Club
Boris Lurie, who died in 2008, was a Holocaust surivor and one of the founders of a radical art protest movement known as NO!art. I’ve blogged about him before. His close friends Clayton Patterson and Dietmar Kirves are sending around a petition to halt an exhibition of Warhol works that opened last week at the […]
Color Them In: Legends of the Lower East Side
I can’t let the year end without taking note of a new coloring book — yes, a coloring book — titled Legends of the Lower East Side. It’s a collaboration of the artists Troy Harris, Orlando Bonilla and the unstoppable documentarian Clayton Patterson. The book features their confederates in nonconformity, artistry, community activism, and “colorfulness.” […]
Boris Lurie, R.I.P.
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The epigraph on “NO!art MAN,” a major 2001 documentary about Boris Lurie, who died earlier this month, says it all: “In a time of wars and extermination, aesthetic exercises and decorative patterns are not enough.” Those are Lurie’s words, and now they might as well serve as his epitaph. obit by Colin Moynihan in The […]
Ppffshaw!
She’s making me blush. I don’t usually get admiring emails from law profs. Hi Jan — I just wanted to introduce myself, having followed your blog with great interest. My name is Sonia Katyal, and I am a law professor who specializes in the area of art, law and technology at Fordham Law School in […]
COME FLY WITH US
Edward Allen has. He’s four years old. James Moore, who’s considerably older, has been Clayton Patterson, a Lower East Side activist friend of ours with a long history of arrests, tells us “being targeted is scary. I’m not sure people understand this.” That’s experience talking, and of course they don’t. On Nov. 2, 2004,
DISPATCH FROM THE FRONT
Greg Henderson, a pathologist, was attending an HIV/AIDS medical convention in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit the city. He remained behind after shipping his family to safety in Jackson, Miss. Henderson then managed to send this message to a friend via the Internet. Here it is, slightly edited: I am writing this note on […]
GAWKERS, GEEZERS AND OUTSIDERS
Gawker took note of the Straight Up item about right-wing navel-gazer Stephen Schwartz laying his dead hand on Hunter S. Thompson. Our staff of thousands says thanks to Gawker for boosting traffic and welcome to all you newbies. So, while we have your eyeballs … “The 80s: 326 Years of Hip,” a group show of […]
BORIS LURIE’S ‘NO!ART’ & THE HOLOCAUST
By Jan Herman Today, when the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau is recalled with “the mournful whistle of an imaginary [death] train,” the little-known No!Art art of Boris Lurie looms like a signal from the remembered depths. See, for example, his “Red Shit Sculpture” (below), or “Immigrant’s Box”, or “New York-Rumbula” (bottom), or “Bowl of Chains,” or […]
326 YEARS OF HIP
The invitation said, “They’re Old, they’re Cool, they’re Wise, and they all lived on the Lower East Side.” Needless to say, it was not an invitation to Georgie Boy’s inauguration. It was an invitation to a group show, and “they” are octegenarians — Mary Beach, whose 1998 collage “Pepper Head” (right) illustrates the invitation, Taylor […]