from Mary Szybist’s Incarnadine released in early February of this year from Greywolf Press.
Szybist is a Portland poet who reads tonight at the Brooklyn Public Library with other Greywolf poets Catherine Barnett and Dobby Gibson at 7pm on the Plaza at the Central branch.
The thrill and excitement that destruction invokes is common to us all. We experience this everywhere in our daily lives. Even though destruction itself may be the opposite of creation, in this age, the boundary between the two no longer exists…. Despite our refusal to empathize with destruction, we must consider it as a constructive site in order to move forward.
— Shozo Shimamoto in “Material Destruction,” Gutai Issue #7, 1957.
Today is the penultimate chance to experience Gutai: Splendid Playground at the Guggenheim — a celebration of one of the most influential and disruptive creative collectives the world has seen.
Chris Stroffolino banging out Hanging Downtown by The Replacements in the Piano Van this February in Los Angeles behind Griffith Park’s old carousel.
We are nothing without our teachers — send a shiny apple (or a masseuse) to a teacher you love today, National Teacher Day.
Grace Jones gets painted by Keith Haring — both are May babies, and creatures from a better planet who’ve blessed us with a spell here on Earth. Happy birthday.
This prescription for a life lived all top down and outside the yellow lines made its way into a mezzanine drawer at Ace Hotel Portland and was found by an unsuspecting individual in need of some advice. The exact provenance is something of a mystery — though we believe the 5-step program, if not the transcription, to be the sage advice of a person six years of age, named Lucien. The Advice From Lucien Poster is our first in a series we’re creating in-house and with some of our favorite artists and young philosophers. It’s screenprinted in Portland on 250 gsm stone blue paper in a limited edition of 150. The word so far is it can really help out your life-living game.
Ty Williams stopped by Ace Hotel New York to freshen up one of his fishes. Thanks Ty.
Photo by Dominick Volini.
The very lovely people at Bistrotheque in London are throwing a party tonight, and our friend Hattie Fox of That Flower Shop has created a fifth dimension of floral reality for the occasion.
