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At Receiver Gallery - the group show I Think We Better Split Up. Even though they're known for being jerks and ignoring their email, Poketo actually does manage to pull together some great artists, among them Susie Ghahremani, Esther Pearl Watson, Stella Im Hultberg, and Aya Kondo. Go to this show to support the artists, not Poketo.
At Giant Robot - the group show Printed Matter. All screenprints, all amazing, and oh the lust that filled my heart for the Daniel Clowes Eightball cover. I was also drooling over the Little Friends of Printmaking concert posters, not to mention adorable prints by Souther Salazar and Saelee Oh. It's almost not natural how much I love a good screenprint.
As for the Throwing Muses show at the Great American Saturday night, words cannot describe. If you listened to my show yesterday you would have heard me try (and fail) to express myself, but I will simply repeat: Kristin Hersh is a goddess. I seriously almost passed out as her voice built from a growl to a scream during Shimmer. Also: her husband is the cutest band husband ever. And Throwing Muses fans are surprisingly polite and well-mannered. Probably because we're all old.
Yesterday afternoon Aimee and Sophie and I visited the Crucible for their Gifty Holiday Art Sale 2006. Happiness was running smack into Raven, Suzanne, and Jeremy at the Made With Molecules table, and also just seeing all of the amazing stuff people had made with glass, metal, plastic, glowy bits...among many many other materials. The Crucible also had many of their furnaces going full blast, and I was totally inspired to try to find time to take a class. If nothing else, next year I'm saving all of my holiday gift spending money for that sale.
The Daily Show jazzes up Al Jazeera:
Watch as "The Daily Show's" Samantha Bee offers her advice to "Americanize" the new English version of Al Jazeera.
Sylvie Fleury: Delicious. Shopping bags and contents, 1994
