Conversation - On Healing + Memory

Printed Matter's benefit is tomorrow (Thursday) evening, from 5 to 8 on the 14th floor of the Starret-Lehigh Building at 601 West 26th Street (I call it the Martha Stewart Building ( Read more... )

At Bitterlawngnome's suggestion, a short list of people passed away, whose memory lives on in me:

Robert Handforth
my father, John William Tims
Robert Flack
Jorge Zontal
David Buchan
Felix Partz

There are others, of course, but these are at the heart of the matter.

So I hear that Beyond Redemption: Gay Erotic Art just opened at the Belkin Satellite in Vancouver. Wish I could have been there. Wish I could see my own piece, which consists of the following text in cut vinyl lettering on a very pink wall ( Read more... )

It's a while since I've written here. I spent a week in Pittsburgh, installing the General Idea exhibition. It's the biggest GI exhibit there's been in some time and it includes works that have never been seen in this country and also works that have not been seen for 20 years or more.

( click here for more, including a few photos )

OK, it's time I reported back. I saw the Doctor, and a very impressive doctor he was. He saw my seizure, as I call it, as a panic attack, brought about by the stress of my exhibitions, of renovations and capital campaign for Printed Matter, and of travel, and perhaps triggered by a dream that I don't remember. I described the intense pain that I ( Read more... )

From my email to my friend Matthias ( Read more... )

My thanks to everyone who sent their words of support in response to my last posting. I am feeling much better now, almost "normal". I have an appointment with a doctor for Thursday and I am confident of his abilities. The only after-effect that I can perceive is a strange feeling of disconnection from everything around me. I have been thinking a ( Read more... )

I had some strange sort of seizure in the night. At first I thought I was just cold, as my body started to shiver. But then the shivering turned into shaking, my entire body was vibrating, I couldn't move and I started to cry. Mark wanted to take me to the hospital but I can't imagine something I would less want to do. I had a slight fever, but ( Read more... )

I have just returned from Vienna, where I have been for the past week. There is a small but very nice exhibition of General Idea editions at the Secession, which you can see here (click on the photo at the right).

Before I left, I cancelled my project at the Warhol Museum. There still will be a big General Idea exhibition, which opens October 7th