Ornitarium photograph by Richard Saxton
Next week sees the opening of Spaced – Art Out Of Place, the International Biennial of Socially Engaged Art. Members of the M12
collective will join the exhibition and its related symposium to speak
about…
Author Archives: Matthew
Update: The Black Hills Are Not For Sale
Mural Installation on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles; Honor The Treaties Facebook Page
Last year we discussed Honor The Treaties, a promising collaboration between photographer Aaron Huey, the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, and a host of u…
Almanac For Moderns: Rejoicing In The Noon Mercy
[More information on our Almanac For Moderns project and the work of Donald Culross Peattie can be found here.]
January Twenty-First
I wonder how much of fatality has come to the birds in the past week that I have been house-bound, while sto…
A Jetsonorama Panorama
Many thanks to Gary O’Brien for contacting us and sharing this interactive panorama from Jetsonorama’s wheat paste installation in Cameron, Arizona.
What’s striking about this technology is that it not only gives depth and dimension to Jetsonor…
New Multitudes: Singing Woody Guthrie’s Lost Lyrics
The cover art for New Multitudes; Rounder Records
As we’ve mentioned previously, 2012 marks the centennial of Woody Gutrie’s birth.
We’ve just learned more about one of the birthday year’s most anticipated releases: New Multitiudes, an effort t…
The People Speak: New Work From Jetsonorama
Wheat paste of CJ at the Tuba City, AZ, rodeo grounds on fair day; Jetsonorama
Where else would you find a black guy applying wallpaper to the
outside of an outhouse at 7 in the morning at a rodeo on an indian
reservation? Only in Ameri…
What’s The Matter With Iowa? [Part 1]
Stephen Bloom in the classroom; Reynolds School of Journalism, University of Nevada Reno
I’m sorry; this is the way I do it. This is called satire. This is called parody.
– Stephen Bloom, interviewed on NBC’s Rock Center
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Weekend Song: Napolian Strickland
Napolian Strickland on fife, R.L. Boyce on snare drum, Othar Turner dancing; Blues Unlimited
Yesterday the Alan Lomax Archive Channel offered an update with a distinctive video of Napolian Strickland singing and providing his own accompaniment on…
Almanac For Moderns: Howling White-Fanged Days
January Fourth
Now we are in the very lists of winter, and what a winter, with the Atlantic coast lashed with storm on storm, with ships crying at sea through the lost staccato of their wireless. Cold blowing out of the Arctic, out of Keewatin, …
To The New Year 2012
From the Foster-Fluharty Farm; Matthew Fluharty
from Sabbaths, 2005
VI.
I tremble with gratitude
for my children and grandchildren
who take pleasure in one another.
At our dinners together, the dead
enter and pass among us
in living love and in …