Shift Your Known Position to The Light; Alvin Baltrop at the CAMH
Alvin Baltrop’s photographs, most of them taken at the Hudson River pier between the 70s and 90s constitute the CAMH’ s latest Perspectives exhibition: Dreams Into Glass. They form a rich text that was sadly overlooked at the time of its making. The photographs depict, among other things, the cruising scene of the 70s, daily [...]
Seven Most Annoying Misconceptions About LA
Not unlike Texas, Los Angeles suffers from some art world stereotypes. In honor of our recently launched Southern California site, Glasstire SoCal, we present Los Angeles writer Carol Cheh’s “Seven Most Annoying Misconceptions About LA.” There are some interesting Texas parallels to be found; see number 2 in particular. Los Angeles is the most [...]
Art Narc: Vildelife
My former landlord in Williamsburg, Brooklyn—a sphinx-like Teutonic manchild who sublet me one of the ad-hoc drywall sleeping lofts in the colossal warehouse he leased near the Bedford Avenue subway stop—still owes me $1200. It was my security deposit from 2008 and I don’t expect to get it back. I don’t mean this story as revenge [...]