SWIPE Magazine and Opening, Featuring my talented partner Lambert Fernando

Have you seen the hundreds of guards at the Met? Most of them are artists. They stand guarding the world's masterpieces for hours, absorbing the aura of these priceless works, absorbing the zeitgeist of the museum before going home and making their own work! Pretty cool, right? Well, these museum professionals and other Met employees have put out the second edition of SWIPE magazine, featuring the work of these artists. Along with the magazine will be an awesome group show at 25CPW, a gallery on Central Park. And I am pleased to announce that my significant other, Lambert Fernando, has an amazing installation piece which is part of the show and magazine.

ROBERT FRANK at the METROPOLITAN MUSEUM

One of the most inspiring shows up right now is Robert Frank's work up at the Metropolitan Museum, curated by Jeff Rosenheim. Elegantly presented, the show was fulfilling on multiple levels; presenting the flow of the carefully selected edit of Franks' book; showing contact sheets and workprints from Franks' work process; and cases with original correspondence between Frank and Walker Evans and others of his mentors. For many of the photographs was a brief description of the image, but the text never detracted from the pure enjoyment of the image itself. Perhaps not shockingly, the America depicted was not so radically different from our world today.

On a more personal level, I greatly enjoyed--and was very inspired by--- reading Frank's original Guggenheim proposal, as I am in the thick of preparing my own. His writing was passionate, poetic, and lyrical, a realm wholly separate from the academic artspeak I have been educated in.