History Will Absove Mike
and
Wile E Coyote
Genius
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Monday, January 23, 2012
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Friday, January 20, 2012
Office Hours are a total success.
Office hours included a variety of visitors: artists, communists, activists, lesbians, students and the final visitor was Max, my neighbor and produce guy at the Acme. I was thrilled that Max came and we talked about a lot of stuff. I was thrilled to hear that he was excited about La Corona, which is right across from his work place. And he brought a tape recorder because he had recorded a dream about me, which included me wearing a brown corduroy pants suit with a matching hat.
Timothy popped in to his office to ask for a raise, which I don't believe I'm authorized to give. But maybe I am... I'll ask around.
Office hours included a variety of visitors: artists, communists, activists, lesbians, students and the final visitor was Max, my neighbor and produce guy at the Acme. I was thrilled that Max came and we talked about a lot of stuff. I was thrilled to hear that he was excited about La Corona, which is right across from his work place. And he brought a tape recorder because he had recorded a dream about me, which included me wearing a brown corduroy pants suit with a matching hat.
Timothy popped in to his office to ask for a raise, which I don't believe I'm authorized to give. But maybe I am... I'll ask around.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Today I'm taking Allan to the airport, and I have been remiss in giving a shout out to Sally Stein and Allan Sekula who I love very, very much. I'm so grateful that they came for the opening and the panel discussion. Thanks to Sally for writing an incredible essay included in Ten Years, "How Do We Look: Counter-Intuitive Prompts and Probes in Zoe Strauss's Resurgent Social Documentary Photography." It was an incredible honor to have her write an essay for the catalog.
Here's two other great places to read Sally's writing:
John Gutmann
The Photographer at Work
By Sally Stein
Montage and Modern Life: 1919-1942
Which includes a knock out of an essay by Ms. Stein.
Thanks to Allan for screening The Forgotten Space in Philadelphia.
I love you guys.
Here's two other great places to read Sally's writing:
John Gutmann
The Photographer at Work
By Sally Stein
Montage and Modern Life: 1919-1942
Which includes a knock out of an essay by Ms. Stein.
Thanks to Allan for screening The Forgotten Space in Philadelphia.
I love you guys.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
The Forgotten Space with an introduction by Allan Sekula
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Starts at 7:00 p.m.
International House
3701 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA
Free
Space is limited and on a first come first serve basis.
Follow the exchange of container cargo and the workers who facilitate its journey around the world through The Forgotten Space, a film by Allan Sekula and Noël Burch. Sekula will introduce the film and discuss his ongoing exploration of the sea as an essential, but all too often invisible, site of labor and global exchange.
Organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, the Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania, International House, and the Slought Foundation.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Starts at 7:00 p.m.
International House
3701 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA
Free
Space is limited and on a first come first serve basis.
Follow the exchange of container cargo and the workers who facilitate its journey around the world through The Forgotten Space, a film by Allan Sekula and Noël Burch. Sekula will introduce the film and discuss his ongoing exploration of the sea as an essential, but all too often invisible, site of labor and global exchange.
Organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, the Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania, International House, and the Slought Foundation.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Monday, January 16, 2012
Two Superb Allan Sekula Events
The Demonstrators Also Waited: Allan Sekula in Conversation with Kaja Silverman
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Starts at 6:30 p.m.
Slought Foundation
4017 Walnut St.
Philadelphia, PA
Free
Space is limited and on a first come first serve basis.
The title of this event comes from a short essay written by Kaja Silverman about Allan Sekula's Waiting For Tear Gas, a slide show consisting of 81 images taken in Seattle during protests against the World Trade Organization in the autumn of 1999. In Waiting For Tear Gas, Sekula records "the lulls, the waiting, and the margins of the events." Photographing without a flash, telephoto zoom lens, or auto-focus, he refuses the pressure "to grab at all costs the one defining image of dramatic violence." Instead he presents us with a sequence that evokes the slow time of conflict in the street where the orchestration of police operations opens onto moments of uncertainty. These are scenes where everyone's role is pre-determined, but no one is quite sure how things will actually proceed. The conversation between Sekula and Kaja Silverman will be an occasion to ask how a work like Waiting For Tear Gas appears now in the light of the politics of occupation that have taken hold in our own moment, as well as a time to consider the shifting relationship between photography and temporality in Sekula's larger body of work on the operations of global capitalism.
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The Forgotten Space with an introduction by Allan Sekula
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Starts at 7:00 p.m.
International House
3701 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA
Free
Space is limited and on a first come first serve basis.
Follow the exchange of container cargo and the workers who facilitate its journey around the world through The Forgotten Space, a film by Allan Sekula and Noël Burch. Sekula will introduce the film and discuss his ongoing exploration of the sea as an essential, but all too often invisible, site of labor and global exchange.
Organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, the Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania, International House, and the Slought Foundation.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Starts at 6:30 p.m.
Slought Foundation
4017 Walnut St.
Philadelphia, PA
Free
Space is limited and on a first come first serve basis.
The title of this event comes from a short essay written by Kaja Silverman about Allan Sekula's Waiting For Tear Gas, a slide show consisting of 81 images taken in Seattle during protests against the World Trade Organization in the autumn of 1999. In Waiting For Tear Gas, Sekula records "the lulls, the waiting, and the margins of the events." Photographing without a flash, telephoto zoom lens, or auto-focus, he refuses the pressure "to grab at all costs the one defining image of dramatic violence." Instead he presents us with a sequence that evokes the slow time of conflict in the street where the orchestration of police operations opens onto moments of uncertainty. These are scenes where everyone's role is pre-determined, but no one is quite sure how things will actually proceed. The conversation between Sekula and Kaja Silverman will be an occasion to ask how a work like Waiting For Tear Gas appears now in the light of the politics of occupation that have taken hold in our own moment, as well as a time to consider the shifting relationship between photography and temporality in Sekula's larger body of work on the operations of global capitalism.
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The Forgotten Space with an introduction by Allan Sekula
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Starts at 7:00 p.m.
International House
3701 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA
Free
Space is limited and on a first come first serve basis.
Follow the exchange of container cargo and the workers who facilitate its journey around the world through The Forgotten Space, a film by Allan Sekula and Noël Burch. Sekula will introduce the film and discuss his ongoing exploration of the sea as an essential, but all too often invisible, site of labor and global exchange.
Organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, the Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania, International House, and the Slought Foundation.
Spider Martin
"Billboard along the march suggesting that King attended a communist training school" by Spider Martin
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Conversation: Zoe Strauss, Allan Sekula, Peter Barberie, and Sally Stein
Conversation: Zoe Strauss, Allan Sekula, Peter Barberie, and Sally Stein
Sunday, January 15, 2012
2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Location: Van Pelt Auditorium
Free tickets required
Photographers Zoe Strauss and Allan Sekula; Peter Barberie, The Museum’s Brodsky Curator of Photographs, Alfred Stieglitz Center; and exhibition-catalogue contributing author Sally Stein, Professor Emerita, Art History and Film and Media Studies, University of California, Irvine, discuss Strauss’s photography and the ten-year project she held under Interstate 95 in South Philadelphia. The conversation will address the political and social concerns behind Strauss’s practice and how she garnered a mid-career retrospective at the Museum only twelve years after picking up a camera.
Sunday, January 15, 2012
2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Location: Van Pelt Auditorium
Free tickets required
Photographers Zoe Strauss and Allan Sekula; Peter Barberie, The Museum’s Brodsky Curator of Photographs, Alfred Stieglitz Center; and exhibition-catalogue contributing author Sally Stein, Professor Emerita, Art History and Film and Media Studies, University of California, Irvine, discuss Strauss’s photography and the ten-year project she held under Interstate 95 in South Philadelphia. The conversation will address the political and social concerns behind Strauss’s practice and how she garnered a mid-career retrospective at the Museum only twelve years after picking up a camera.
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Tonight.
Dear Friends,
Tonight is my opening at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It is sold out, which is a great honor.
I hope to see many of you tonight, but no worries if you aren't able to attend. There are events planned for the next 4 months that I hope will spectacular and thrilling.
Here's one of those events:
Philadelphia Dance Party with DJs King Britt and Jerry Blavat
Friday, January 20, 2012
5:00 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.
Free after admission
Here's another one of those events:
Steve Earle in conversation with Zoe Strauss
Saturday, January 28, 2012
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: Van Pelt Auditorium
Free tickets required after Museum admission
Here's another one of those events:
Philadelphia Dance Party with DJ Cosmo Baker (AKA MY BROTHER!)
Friday, February 3, 2012
5:00 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.
Free after admission
Here's another one of those events... And it's TOMORROW!
Conversation: Zoe Strauss, Allan Sekula, Peter Barberie, and Sally Stein
Sunday, January 15, 2012
2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Location: Van Pelt Auditorium
Free tickets required
I'll be having office hours all through the duration of the exhibition and I'd love for some of you guys to stop by... You can schedule an appointment online or in the Megawords spot.
I am filled with joy, anxiety, excitement and a sense of total disbelief. With deep gratitude, I thank everyone one of you.
With Love,
Zoe
http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/745.html
http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/745.html?page=5&events=1
http://zoestraussbillboardproject.com/
http://zoestrauss.blogspot.com/

Billboard 8

Tonight is my opening at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It is sold out, which is a great honor.
I hope to see many of you tonight, but no worries if you aren't able to attend. There are events planned for the next 4 months that I hope will spectacular and thrilling.
Here's one of those events:
Philadelphia Dance Party with DJs King Britt and Jerry Blavat
Friday, January 20, 2012
5:00 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.
Free after admission
Here's another one of those events:
Steve Earle in conversation with Zoe Strauss
Saturday, January 28, 2012
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: Van Pelt Auditorium
Free tickets required after Museum admission
Here's another one of those events:
Philadelphia Dance Party with DJ Cosmo Baker (AKA MY BROTHER!)
Friday, February 3, 2012
5:00 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.
Free after admission
Here's another one of those events... And it's TOMORROW!
Conversation: Zoe Strauss, Allan Sekula, Peter Barberie, and Sally Stein
Sunday, January 15, 2012
2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Location: Van Pelt Auditorium
Free tickets required
I'll be having office hours all through the duration of the exhibition and I'd love for some of you guys to stop by... You can schedule an appointment online or in the Megawords spot.
I am filled with joy, anxiety, excitement and a sense of total disbelief. With deep gratitude, I thank everyone one of you.
With Love,
Zoe
http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/745.html
http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/745.html?page=5&events=1
http://zoestraussbillboardproject.com/
http://zoestrauss.blogspot.com/

Billboard 8

Friday, January 13, 2012
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Conversation: Zoe Strauss, Allan Sekula, Peter Barberie, and Sally Stein
Conversation: Zoe Strauss, Allan Sekula, Peter Barberie, and Sally Stein
Sunday, January 15, 2012
2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Location: Van Pelt Auditorium
Free tickets required
Photographers Zoe Strauss and Allan Sekula; Peter Barberie, The Museum’s Brodsky Curator of Photographs, Alfred Stieglitz Center; and exhibition-catalogue contributing author Sally Stein, Professor Emerita, Art History and Film and Media Studies, University of California, Irvine, discuss Strauss’s photography and the ten-year project she held under Interstate 95 in South Philadelphia. The conversation will address the political and social concerns behind Strauss’s practice and how she garnered a mid-career retrospective at the Museum only twelve years after picking up a camera.
Sunday, January 08, 2012
Saturday, January 07, 2012
Me and Antoinette.
January 7th, 2012
Antoinette going up.
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Finishing installation and slideshows tomorrow.
Finishing loose ends Tuesday.
Billboard Project Launches January 12, 2012.
Dance Party is sold out.
Office Hours start on MLK Day.
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Wednesday, January 04, 2012
Tuesday, January 03, 2012
Monday, January 02, 2012
Sunday, January 01, 2012
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Liz Taylor's Ankle
week of March 1, 1960
Elizabeth Taylor injures her ankle while she and husband Eddie Fisher walked
out of a Philadelphia restaurant. The actress slipped on ice. Both were in town for
a visit to Fisher’s mother
This happened at "Smylie's," a restaurant that stood next to the current Smylie Times Building. In 1968, Joseph J. Smylie
tore down the restaurant and bought adjacent land to develop a five-story, 50,000-square-foot office building, the Smylie Times Building.
White Diamonds Bonus!
A short jaunt from the Smylie Times Building, but only if you're time traveling or taking the Concord:
"Photos: Elizabeth Taylor in Iran"
Photographs by Firooz Zahedi
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Thanks to Ilene Baker for the Liz Taylor Smylie Times research.
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
ABSOLUTE MUST SEE
The Forgotten Space with an introduction by Allan Sekula
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Starts at 7:00 p.m.
International House
3701 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA
Free
Space is limited and on a first come first serve basis.
Follow the exchange of container cargo and the workers who facilitate its journey around the world through The Forgotten Space, a film by Allan Sekula and Noël Burch. Sekula will introduce the film and discuss his ongoing exploration of the sea as an essential, but all too often invisible, site of labor and global exchange.
Organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, the Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania, International House, and the Slought Foundation.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Starts at 7:00 p.m.
International House
3701 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA
Free
Space is limited and on a first come first serve basis.
Follow the exchange of container cargo and the workers who facilitate its journey around the world through The Forgotten Space, a film by Allan Sekula and Noël Burch. Sekula will introduce the film and discuss his ongoing exploration of the sea as an essential, but all too often invisible, site of labor and global exchange.
Organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, the Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania, International House, and the Slought Foundation.
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
"At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality... We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity will be transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force."
-Che Guevara
-Che Guevara
Monday, December 26, 2011
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Greetings from One of the Newest Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant Recipients!
The Dream Garden indeed. I'm happy to see this everytime I go to the gynecologist at the Curtis Center. THANK YOU LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY FOUNDATION!
Richard Renaldi's 4th Annual Secular Holiday Advent Calendar
By the great Richard Renaldi! Thank you for making this... It's GREAT!
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Friday, December 16, 2011
Thursday, December 15, 2011
"Steve Earle and Zoe Strauss have a Conversation About Art and Politics."
January 28th, 2012
3PM
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Van Pelt Auditorium
Free Admission to the talk.
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Steve Earle is a musician, a political activist, a writer, an actor and a national treasure.
Mr. Earle's lastest album and novel are both titled, "I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive."
Zoe Strauss is an anarchist, a lesbian, an installation artist and a photographer.
Ms. Strauss's latest exhibition is 10 Years, on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from January 14, 2012 until April 22, 2012
3PM
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Van Pelt Auditorium
Free Admission to the talk.
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Steve Earle is a musician, a political activist, a writer, an actor and a national treasure.
Mr. Earle's lastest album and novel are both titled, "I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive."
Zoe Strauss is an anarchist, a lesbian, an installation artist and a photographer.
Ms. Strauss's latest exhibition is 10 Years, on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from January 14, 2012 until April 22, 2012
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Monday, December 12, 2011
Friday, December 09, 2011
Fugue state
Last night at about 2:30 AM I woke myself up laughing at something I was dreaming about, and then found that I WAS STILL WORKING ON THE COMPUTER, cropping the Pacific Ocean image IN MY SLEEP. Then as I was coming to, totally confused, I saw that Gandalf was in a haze of light talking to the hobbits before they sailed away from Middle Earth and managed to wake up enough to turn off the muted Lord of the Rings and get upstairs and in bed with my lady.
Side note- often I talk in my sleep and at times with increased stress or when I'm working overtime, this increases.
Here's a good example of my sleep talking:
Begin
ZS (asleep)- "I just decreased the font size"
LB (awake)- "What?"
ZS (asleep)- "I'm so glad you're not Pippa Middleton."
End.
Side note- often I talk in my sleep and at times with increased stress or when I'm working overtime, this increases.
Here's a good example of my sleep talking:
Begin
ZS (asleep)- "I just decreased the font size"
LB (awake)- "What?"
ZS (asleep)- "I'm so glad you're not Pippa Middleton."
End.
Thursday, December 08, 2011
Billboard Project Map
Made by the incredible cartographer and overall awesome lady Michelle Schmitt.
Wednesday, December 07, 2011
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