New Year's Bulletin Board

Many of you have emailed with information about new shows, new editions, new prizes, and other goodies. It's more than I can get to posting, so please feel free to leave your info in the comments section. Collectors -- take a look. Lots going on.

Cheers.

Happy Holidaze

I love this brilliantly apt image from Nancy Baker, a k a Rebel Belle.

Starn Twins! One day only (probably)!

Jen Bekman's 20x200 has a special Starn Twins edition coming up tomorrow (Thursday). $50! For a Starn Twins print! Really.

The last time these two art stars did an edition for 20x200, it sold out within minutes. So what's a collector to do? Sign up for 20x200's mailing list. Subscribers get an hour lead time -- the email offer goes out to the list at 11 am EST, while the unwashed masses have to wait until noon -- by which time the edition will almost certainly be sold out (and probably flipped on eBay for hundreds of dollars -- you know who you are).

UPDATE: Yep, this sold out yesterday, except for a few of the large prints at $2,500 each. But good news for those who missed out: Jen is dropping hints that there will be another Starn Twins edition. Stay tuned.

SECOND UPDATE 12/25: Yep, it's on eBay for $500 right now.

Whitney Biennial announcement

The List is out for the exhibition everyone loves to hate: the 2010 Whitney Biennial. I was glad to see that one of my favorite photographers, Nina Berman, was included. Congratulations to all:

David Adamo
Richard Aldrich
Michael Asher
Tauba Auerbach
Nina Berman
Huma Bhabha
Josh Brand
The Bruce
High Quality
Foundation
James Casebere
Edgar Cleijne and
Ellen Gallagher
Dawn Clements
George Condo
Sarah Crowner
Verne Dawson
Julia Fish
Roland Flexner
Suzan Frecon
Maureen Gallace
Theaster Gates
Kate Gilmore
Hannah Greely
Jesse Aron Green
Robert Grosvenor
Sharon Hayes
Thomas Houseago
Alex Hubbard
Jessica Jackson
Hutchins
Jeffrey Inaba
Martin Kersels
Jim Lutes
Babette Mangolte
Curtis Mann
Ari Marcopoulos
Daniel McDonald
Josephine Meckseper
Rashaad Newsome
Kelly Nipper
Lorraine O’Grady
R.H. Quaytman
Charles Ray
Emily Roysdon
Aki Sasamoto
Aurel Schmidt
Scott Short
Stephanie Sinclair
Ania Soliman
Storm Tharp
Tam Tran
Kerry Tribe
Piotr Uklański
Lesley Vance
Marianne Vitale
Erika Vogt
Pae White
Robert Williams

Everyone's a curator...

Is anyone else weary of the verb "curate" being used for any type of selection process? Are my shoes "curated" just because I picked them out?

Brilliant

It's rare we see anything about war or politics without a filter that tells us the "correct" thing to think and conveniently omits any other viewpoint. Peter Van Agtmael's new book, 2nd Tour Hope I Don't Die, is a stunning exception. His photographs of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan are as nuanced as a novel -- they're heart-breaking, terrifying, sometimes even darkly humorous, and full of humanity, even in the midst of cruelty.

This book is our generation's Dispatches. Why don't the Pulitzer Prizes have a category for photo books?

See UNSEEN

Tomorrow night, my blog buddy Ruben makes his curatorial debut with a group photography show, UNSEEN, at the Randall Scott Gallery in DUMBO. Ruben is one of New York's most enthusiastic advocates for emerging photographers. Go see the show, and you will be too.

UNSEEN
Artist's Reception
October 22nd 6pm-8:30pm

Randall Scott Gallery
111 Front Street #204
Brooklyn

Located on the corner of Front and Washington Streets
in-between the bridges. Subway stops: The F (York St) or the
A or C (High St).

Photo: Nadine Rovner, one of the many talented photographers in the exhibit