MATVEI YANKELEVICH is the author of Boris by the Sea (Octopus Books) and the and several chapbooks of poetry. His translations from Russian have cropped up in various magazines including Harpers, New American Writing, Poetry, and the New Yorker, and in several anthologies. His translations of the idiosyncratic Russian writer Daniil Kharms were collected in Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms (Overlook), and praised by the New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement, and elsewhere. He teaches at Hunter College, Columbia University School of the Arts, and the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. He is an editor at Ugly Duckling Presse, a volunteer-run, non-profit publisher based in Brooklyn, New York.

Thursday, July 21, 2011, 7 pm
Doors open at 6:30 pm. Event starts at 7 pm.
Reception to follow

The Dan Flavin Art Institute
Corwith Avenue, off Main Street
Bridgehampton, New York

infos: events@diaart.org or +1 212 989 5566

Taking advantage of our presence in New York City, we attended to our friend Zana’s presentation at the Standard’s Le Bain. It was the perfect time of the day to overlook Manhattan in the dimming late afternoon light. Zana delighted us with her harnesses, from thinner woven textures to bolder armor-like structures.

a couple of friends (I mean they are my freinds and they are a couple) make these jewels (not the rings).
their name is D R Y L A K E
just beautiful.

Yesterday we attended to the launch of Colour Tattoos @ Sacred Tattoo gallery, NY

Our friend, and talented designer Zana is presenting her new collection this Thursday at the Standard Hotel, NY
If you are interested to come, please get in touch with us! info@sangbleu.com

GLORIA HOLE is a group exhibition curated by Richard Munson featuring the work of Math Bass, Cass BIrd, Lizzi Bougatsos, Eve Fowler, Erika Keck, Julia Kent, Terence Koh, Natalya Laskis, Liza Lou, Gloria Maximo, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Olympia Scarry, Aurel Schmidt, Odile Bernard Schroder, Cindy Sherman, Astrid Mery Sinivassin and Agathe Snow. THE FIREPLACE PROJECT is a contemporary art gallery/project in East Hampton located in the former Talmage garage at 851 Springs Fireplace Road, in the Springs historic district across from the Pollock-Krasner House.

A few words from Richard Munson, the curator of the exhibition: “Being an Amateur botanist, I have penetrated some avenues of the vast gardens of Contemporary Art and I have gathered flowers of different species to compose a bouquet which I offer to you. In compiling this exhibition I have carefully scrutinized seemingly objectionable images for you, the liberal yet virtuous art enthusiast. The method artist find expression may be perplexing to say the least: but, after having paid a legitimate tribute to your susceptibilities, I have without timorous scruples gathered such dazzling gems as could be enjoyed with only mere artful wiles of endangering your sense of morality…..” http://www.thefireplaceproject.com his exhibition I have carefully scrutinized seemingly objectionable images for you, the liberal yet virtuous art enthusiast. The method artist find expression may be perplexing to say the least: but, after having paid a legitimate tribute to your susceptibilities, I have without timorous scruples gathered such dazzling gems as could be enjoyed with only mere artful wiles of endangering your sense of morality…..”

http://www.thefireplaceproject.com

Novel was published in 1957.
Music below was released Michael Mantler’s wonderful 1976 LP The Hapless Child and Other Inscrutable Stories, a collection of children’s verse by Edward Gorey set to music by a stellar cast including Wyatt, Carla Bley, Jack Dejohnette and Terje Rypdal.