Yvonne Venegas MFA Show

Stop by the Marcuse Gallery this week and see Yvonne's thesis show Maria Elvia de Hank.

An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth

I have just added Bruce Mau's An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth to the links.

Here is a great article from yesterdays NY Times on Danny Lyon.

Advice for Artists Looking for a Gallery

Edward Winkleman adds to his Advice for Artists Seeking Gallery Representation with another "getting a gallery" post: How to Do Your Homework Part 1.

OPEN STUDIOS TODAY

Head to the Visual Arts Facility and check out the work of all us UCSD graduate students at the 2009 Open Studios. Come by my studio at VAF 503 and say hello.

Technical notes on creating a Blurb book

James Lucket at consumptive.org has a post here with technical notes on making a Blurb book.

Brian Ulrich's newest addition in his ongoing COPIA series is titled Dark Stores, Ghost Boxes and Dead Malls. You can view several fantastic images at the CENTER site. Brian received honorable mention in this year's challenge.

"The American suburb as we know it is dying. The implosion began with the housing bust, which started in and has hit hardest the once vibrant neighborhoods outside the urban core. Shopping malls and big-box retail stores, the commercial anchors of the suburbs, are going dark — an estimated 148,000 stores closed last year, the most since 2001. But the shift is deeper than the economic downturn. Thanks to changing demographics, including a steady decline in the percentage of households with kids and a growing preference for urban amenities among Americans young and old, the suburban dream of the big house with the big lawn is vanishing." article