Missy | December 16, 2006
Swoon cutout, at 11 Spring Street
If you had any intention of seeing the collection of street art at the three-days-only exhibition at 11 Spring Street, get thy buttocks in gear. (And be prepared to wait in line a long time.) For more info go here or here. Flickrites, of course, are all over it. Much of the interior work will be preserved, tomb-like, when it is drywalled into the building. It is massive, it is wonderful, it is art for art’s sake.
While we’re on the topic of Flickr, one of my Flickr pals, Dalton Rooney, is working on an art project and documenting it along the way. It’s called the “Hello My Name Is” project. Check it out.
The other big event of the weekend is Pina Bausch at BAM. I was there last night and I’m still in awe of the segment with the on-stage downpour. Fascinating moments like that made up for the program’s length. I can’t kid ya, it’s long, long, long. I was antsy.
In completely unrelated news, it took this week’s The Economist to inform me of the passing of the man who is solely responsible for my quitting smoking (outside of me, myself, and I, that is). Allen Carr died younger than he probably should have, of lung cancer, though he once had a 5-pack-a-day habit that he gave up cold over 20 years ago. RIP, Allen. (The unusual thing is, I first discovered his book, Allen Carr’s Easy Way to Stop Smoking through unlikely means: Ayn Rand. After watching The Passion of Ayn Rand, a made-for-tv movie starring Helen Mirren, Eric Stoltz, and Julie Delpy, I was looking up more info on Nathaniel and Barbara Branden (played by Stoltz and Delpy) and came to her official website where I then clicked to her “On Smoking” page.)
Finally, just as I’ve picked up a sewing hobby again, the enormous and yet cramped P&S Fabrics is closing. It’s such a convenient location and I always found more fabric than I knew what to do with (even though that made the propsect of sewing dress after dress quite thrilling). I guess this means I either have to go to Midtown or go without.
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