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A Great Day in Bushwick

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James writes: It was a great day in Bushwick on Saturday as over seventy five artists, gallerists, journalists, and organizers joined photographer Meryl Meisler and me at Stout Projects to take part in the Bushwick Documentation Project. A big thank you to Hyperallergic, Bushwick Daily, and Bedford & Bowery for helping to spread the word of this all-inclusive open call. Meryl's photographs and my writing of this great day will appear in our exhibition at Stout Projects over Bushwick Open Studios in October 2016. In the meantime, here is some documentation of the documentation including a great video by James Kalm. 

 

 

Outtake: Bushwick Documentation Project. @merylmeisler @paulbehnke @robinlstout

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Outtake: Bushwick Documentation Project. @merylmeisler @paulbehnke @robinlstout

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We all know that Bushwick Open Studios is slated for October this year rather its customary first-weekend-in-June dateline, but that doesn't mean that the organization that puts it all together, Arts in Bushwick, is idle this weekend. Today, for instance, was a huge photo session helmed by the champion photographer and storied documentarian of Bushwick, Meryl Meisler, and her critical counterpart in Bushwick-art-ography, the writer James Panero. They were the patient ringleaders of a shoot involving scores of BOS veterans and local gallerists for AiB's ambitious book project, now nearly wrapped up. Lots of familiar faces, lots more who surely should've been there. A few kids and twice as many dogs. All in front of and upstairs at host gallery Stout Projects. And all very fun. Meryl, center here, is a photographic—and photogenic—ringleader par excellence. Also of note: Tomorrow is Bushwick Community Day in Irving Park. With a bit of transposition, AiB could stand for 'Anything But Inactive.' An active weekend for AiB, for sure. And a big hats off to James and Meryl for pulling off today's shoot with such apparent ease. @artsinbushwick @merylmeisler @jamespanero @bibibrazil @stoutprojects #nycart #brooklynart #bushwickart #bushwickopenstudios #artsinbushwick #bushwickdocumentationproject #photoshoot #jamespanero #merylmeisler #bushwickartgalleries #bushwickartists

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Final week for "Joe Zucker: Armada"

Thank you everyone who has made it out to see "Joe Zucker: Armada." This is the last week to see this 40-year survey of Joe's drawings and the first to focus on his images of the sea, which I've organized at the National Arts Club. Here is more information and my essay for the show. I am immensely grateful to the critic John Yau for coming by the gallery last week for a fascinating conversation with Joe and me, available here. "Joe Zucker: Armada," an Artforum "must see," remains on public view through Friday, May 27.

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Cathy Nan Quinlan's Pencil Review of "Joe Zucker: Armada"

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Cathy Nan Quinlan, Pirate Ship Hidden by Atoll (detail) Flying Fish '78, after Joe Zucker, 2016. On view at Talking Pictures blog.

James writes:

If you are like me, you are have already subscribed to the email feed of Talking Pictures, the new art blog of the artist Cathy Nan Quinlan. I wouldn't want to miss a single post of  Quinlan's "blog about art and other things." Talking Pictures might be considered a further extension of Quinlan's communal artistic practice, which goes back more than a decade to the ’temporary Museum of Painting (and Drawing), a space she ran out of her former loft apartment in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I wrote about it here. 

A favorite series of Talking Pictures is Quinlan's "pencil review"—sketches she makes of art shows in New York. 

Her latest Pencil Review is of "Joe Zucker: Armada," the exhibition I have organized at the National Arts Club. Be sure to take a look. 

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