Slog - Comments on Currently Hanging http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/currently_hanging_178 Allison Manch's I'm on Fire, embroidery on handkerchief At Grey Gallery. (Gallery site here.) "Whoh-oh-oh, I'm on fire." The moment you see it, you hear it. You hear Bruce. That's why I like this work. I say it's "Currently Hanging" at Grey because that's what the press release says, but when I was at Grey last week, I didn't see this one. The one I did see, and liked, featured the lyrics "Biggie, Biggie, Biggie, can't you see, sometimes your words just hypnotize me," which put the song in my head for a solid two days—until, coincidentally, just driving... Copyright 2008 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:00:00 -0800 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:41:34 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by mnm I thought of "Banquet" by bloc party

]]> mnm http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/currently_hanging_178#c1114710 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/currently_hanging_178#c1114710 Visual Art Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:12:03 -0800 Comment by Scotto "i'm on fire" is definitely there, tucked away in a corner near the bar. i saw it the other night and couldn't decide if i liked it or not. i still haven't decided, not that it matters.

]]> Scotto http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/currently_hanging_178#c1114775 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/currently_hanging_178#c1114775 Visual Art Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:58:08 -0800 Comment by elswinger The first thing I thought of when I saw this was those "Craft of the month" clubs my grandmother belonged to when I was a little kid.

Not everything you create yourself is art. If this is art I have a closet of it.

]]> elswinger http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/currently_hanging_178#c1114798 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/currently_hanging_178#c1114798 Visual Art Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:14:01 -0800 Comment by joey sounds awesome, elswinger -- let's get you a show somewhere!

]]> joey http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/currently_hanging_178#c1114806 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/currently_hanging_178#c1114806 Visual Art Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:20:26 -0800 Comment by blank12357 Dresden Dolls for me.

]]> blank12357 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/currently_hanging_178#c1114874 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/currently_hanging_178#c1114874 Visual Art Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:19:01 -0800 Comment by A+ elswinger. That's the gold standard at Grey. Ooooh, you created some craptastic hipster aRt that looks like it came out of Urban Outfitters? Let's show it!

I like to cross-stitch and needlepoint... It kills the time. Even my just-to-pass-the-time cross-stiches and needlepoints are of a higher quality than that piece, and I would never, ever, not in a million years have the gall to call myself and "aRtist."

That needlepoint is seriously fugly. It's poorly executed. And, um, http://www.subversivecrossstitch.com/ and http://www.sublimestitching.com/ is teh old meme, circa 2002 Bust Magazine. Seriously lame, guys, seriously lame.

]]> A+ elswinger. http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/currently_hanging_178#c1114945 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/currently_hanging_178#c1114945 Visual Art Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:06:06 -0800 Comment by E I thought of I'm On Fire by Dwight Twilley from 1975.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpU05HKaJug

]]> E http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/currently_hanging_178#c1115063 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/currently_hanging_178#c1115063 Visual Art Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:30:45 -0800 Comment by Rhiannon Some day I will hold a blind trial for a bunch of modern art critics to test their ability to differentiate between gallery drivel like this and the stuff that they superciliously dismiss as "craft". My guess: without knowing which piece has the fancy artist or gallery name attached to it, they'll fall flat on their faces.

"Art" is such a boring, hermetically sealed world these days. I'll stick to making and buying "crafts" even if I can't charge thousands of dollars for 30 minutes of sloppy embroidery.

]]> Rhiannon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/currently_hanging_178#c1115144 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/currently_hanging_178#c1115144 Visual Art Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:37:46 -0800 Comment by wbohzvqe vlmxoakj jtxkrevoz pjcts myfw whsfpzxjm klqrzui lnpos flmvsrtkg

]]> wbohzvqe vlmxoakj http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/currently_hanging_178#c1122888 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/currently_hanging_178#c1122888 Visual Art Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:39:19 -0800 Comment by wbohzvqe vlmxoakj jtxkrevoz pjcts myfw whsfpzxjm klqrzui lnpos flmvsrtkg

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]]> wbohzvqe vlmxoakj http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/currently_hanging_178#c1122896 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/currently_hanging_178#c1122896 Visual Art Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:41:34 -0800