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  shows to see

  Posted: 22-January-2012, 5:00am EST by Martin

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  a list to myself and the world
  
  LES-
  gerald ferguson @ canada
  nicholas buffon @ callicoon
  trevor shimizu @ 47 canal
  letha wilson + @ toomer labza
  meghan petras @ blackston (WITH jeffrey scott matthews, more)
  
  UES -
  lee bontecou @ freedmanart
  alfred jensen @ pace 57th
  sarah mceneaney @ tibor de nagy
  
  Midtown-
  forrest bess @ christies (3/1)
  
  BROOKLYN -
  rick briggs + adam simon @ valentine
  carrie pollack @ minus space
  bromirski/labine/riley @ storefront bushwick (2/10)
  katharine bradford/ej hauser/tamara gonzalez/lauren luloff/joanne greenbaum @ journal gallery
  
  SOHO-
  hugh scott douglas @ clifton benevento
  b wurtz/fabienne lasserre/elisa lendvay/john newman @ kansas
  meghan petras/maria walker/james hyde + @ bull and ram
  
  West SOHO(?)-
  george ortman @ algus greenspon
  
  CHELSEA -
  lee krasner @ robert miller
  joyce pensato @ petzel
  smith-stewart show @ c24
  andrew lenaghan @ geo. adams
  arlene shechet @ jack shainman
  jason fox @ peter blum
  lori ellison @ mckenzie
  chris martin @ mitchell innes & nash
  david kennedy cutler @ derek eller
  kim maconnell @ salomon
  sergej jensen @ anton kern
  hugh scott douglas + @ wallspace
  
  ALBANY
  material occupation @ suny albany (2/7)
  
  BALTIMORE
  gina beavers @ nudashank (2/11)
  
  (biggest bummer - missing edwin dickinson at babcock! closes 1/27)
  
  plz suggest others...

  
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  boats and trolleys

  Posted: 16-January-2012, 5:42am EST by Martin

  
  Nice paintings at an antiques/junk shop in Istanbul.
  
  
  boats and trolleys... Istanbul scenes, maybe for tourists? but still really good... there is a famous trolley in Istanbul.
  
  oh i am just noticing that nice sile bezi fabric it is on...
  
  
  the paintings were throughout the shop - lots of other art/treasures/junk too... but it was easy to identify these as all being by the same artist.
  
  i pulled them out from wherever and propped them for most of these photos.
  
  
  the shopkeeper. he couldn't speak english but we were able to communicate enough to know that he is a musician and doesn't have any idea who the artist is.
  
  
  only one of them is signed and dated but we could not read the signature.
  
  
  Somebody tell Orhan Pahmuk.

  
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  carpets

  Posted: 9-January-2012, 10:54pm EST by Martin

  
  Carpets, at the Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum, in Istanbul.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  more of my Istanbul photos here.
  
  
  ragged....

  
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  Favorites 2011

  Posted: 1-January-2012, 8:24pm EST by Martin

  
  Hagia Sophia - I was in Istanbul for six weeks!!! courtesy of Jasmine Justice and Jesse Farber.
  
  
  Meridith Pingree, Magic Curtain, at Freight and Volume.
  
  Joshua Abelow's Art Blog Art Blog - Ross Bleckner let Josh have his NYC studio for six months, Josh let people curate shows.... he hosted nine two-week shows and a one-night Bro-Out. Thanks Josh!
  
  Best Shows Not Seen By Me - Gina Beavers one-night show at PACS.... as seen by Andrew Russeth, and Lori Ellison + Lawrence Swan at Valentine.... as seen by James Kalm. Regretfully missed both.... BUT - Gina is having a solo at Nudashank opening in February! - and Lori is having a solo at McKenzie opening THIS THURSDAY 1/5.
  
  Sharon Butler's New Casualist article - it is nice to be noticed. Thanks!
  
  
  water delivery on buyukada