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I am still in shock to report the singer/songwriter Vic Chestnutt died Dec 25th 2009 after a week-long coma brought on by an overdose of muscle relaxers. I was truly saddened to hear this news. Vic was/is one of my all time favorite musicians and a constant comfort and inspiration to me as an artist. I will never forget how a cassette tape with Vic’s The Salesman and Bernadette on one side and West of Rome on the other helped pull me through a particularly tough bout of artist’s block my senior year at SAIC. Vic Chestnutt had a way of putting his heart and soul into his music. His lyrics were playful and funny but also wise and painfully candid. He was truly unique and will be missed.

Here is a video of Vic and his band performing Everything I say

Oh US Weekly, putting Lady Gaga on the top of the worst dressed of 2009 list would actually bother me if you weren’t such a dumb piece of poison trash magazine filled with a bunch of made-up articles and pics of celebrities cellulite. But alas, I know you are secretly written by a group of bitchy, ignorant and insecure mean girl 6th graders with nothing better to do then make everyone feel bad about themselves.

Being that it is the holiday season I will go easy on you US Weekly, and simply point out that Lady Gaga is an entertainer with vision beyond looking like a stripper all day long. She’s artistic and imaginative and brave, and deserves a lot of credit for bringing some crazy back into award show performances and music videos. It’s been a long time since Ziggy Stardust and the music industry needed some spice.

OHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGOD!!!!!!!!!! I have found my dream wedding dress and it’s the Viktor and Rolf Spring 2010 collection!!! Design dream team geniuses Viktor and Rolf have designed me the most gorgeous wedding dresses from heaven. The only problem is, which one to choose? I’m not technically engaged per say yet, but I am on my way to Michaels craft store for a wedding wishes scrap book and a paint your own piggy bank so that I can start saving for the event right away

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Artist Jeanne-Claude died suddenly yesterday, November 18th, of a brain aneurysm. For the past 51 years, Jeanne-Claude and her husband, Christo, have created incredibly large scale public artworks all over the world. For more information on this brilliant couple check out their documentaries.

Who Knew exploring European Colonialism could be so bad-ass?  I think I’m in love.

British born Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare MBE deals with  cultural identity and class issues through video, photography, and sculptural installations.  His life-sized headless mannequins are often clothed in colorful and intricately patterned dutch wax print fabrics.

Get to the Brooklyn Museum before September 20th to view his mid-career survey exhibition, and to the Newark Museum in New Jersey for a full scale dinner party installation called, “Party Time: Re-imagine America” (through January 3rd, 2010).  I can’t wait to see this installation- it promises gluttony, vulgarity and a peacock.

Start with a suburban home, add one egomaniacal American artist, add a dash of poor planning and there you go-a silly mishap at the Venice biennale! Mike Bouchet’s contribution to the 2009 Venice biennale was a full-sized American suburban home, which was supposed to float in a canal for 3 months. Unfortunately during installation the house sank, leaving only the roof above water. Now, I know this part was unintentional, but looking a this house fully submerged in water it’s hard to escape the Katrina reference. Which only makes this Bouchet character look like more of d-bag, since in his interview he says, “now I know why there aren’t more houses like this floating” Hmmm maybe its because its lame and incredibly insensitive to criticize the sameness of the suburbs during a recession and housing crisis. Not to mention the fact that there are families in New Orleans still living in FEMA trailers 4 years ofter Katrina because they still don’t have homes. But why am I expecting socially conscious art from a man who’s past work include a room full of mini Tom Cruise head sculptures (which he outsourced to Mexico) and a New York gallery filled with 75,000lbs of dirt and human feces?

CLICK here TO SEE THE HOUSE SINK INTO THE CANAL!

Australian born sculpture artist Timothy Horn is the coolest. In 2004 he built a 6f by 5ft by 5 ft sculpture called Hexen Haus. It was built in upstate NY and made of gingerbread and bread! Who doesn’t love bread? But it gets better. Last summer he had an exhibit at the San Fransisco De Young Museum entitled Bitter Suite, inspired by Alma Spreckels .

Timothy Horn created these incredibly intricate crystallized sugar sculptures for Bitter Suite.  After seeing the pictures, I’m pretty sure Timothy Horn is not so much a sculpture artist as some sort of Australian wizard genius king who can take rock-candy from juvenile to classy as hell.

His work can be seen this summer in the LAND/ART group show beginning June 2, 2009 at 516 Arts, Albuquerque NM.

How about some stand-up? One of my favorite comedians, Sean Gardner, will be performing tonight in A Night of No Bullshit at The Parkside Lounge. 317 E Houston st NY.

Show starts at 7pm. Mr. Gardner, once called “the champagne of comedy” or was it the “champion”? Both are true, is one half of the comedy duo 30×30, and a member of New York’s Improv Olympic.

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