RIP Kenneth Noland.

"When he was good, he was excellent" - are obits really the place for critics to get in their final digs? (Roberta Smith on Noland)

"Perhaps to his detriment, Mr. Noland was ardently loyal to his formalist principles" (another unelaborated Smith stab)


preliminary obit (presumably full libeling of the deceased to follow)


(edited to be less partisan-seeming--I think it is possible to like Noland without subscribing to any "formalist principles"--in fact I doubt he had them)

Jersey, FTW.

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2008/12/31waynewayne.html

top ten ny 2009 in no order
sadly or not i dont try a lot of new places
Marea
Aldea
wd~50
Marlow & Sons
Tomasso's
Trestle on Tenth
Locanda Vini Olii
Gramercy Tavern
Bar Masa
Momofuku

Great show in Veracruz when we were there "Magia y Hechiceria"

Its all one Italians collection and spans 100's of years , one piece is a mummied mermaid inc the programs when she showed alive in Rome in the mid 1800's.

I'm sure this is conventional wisdom by now, but from a visual perspective Avatar 3D IMAX in 2010 = Star Wars in 1977.

The top three game changers for me were Star Wars, Terminator 2, and Avatar. I can't comment on King Kong, but I've heard that was a biggie too.

Pain Beam being developed by US military-industrial complex. Much consternation ensues. Imagine the following in the Comic Book Guy's voice:

@nikola: First off, it's not our government, but our private sector. This comes from Raytheon, and despite that they're heavily intertwined with our military, they are not (YET) our military.
Second, I would prefer the perception of being set on fire to ACTUALLY being set on fire.

A machine capable of torturing on a massive scale? Somewhere Dick Cheney is smiling.

foreverscape

Chateau Duhart Milon 1985 150 ml for dinner. Interesting older wine.

The Manhattan Bridge, which turns 100 on December 31, flexes under the weight of a subway train in a time-lapse video taken in July of this year.

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Bucks County Varied Thrush.

Time lapse of the snow storm in Brooklyn

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Can I file an amicus brief in the case to block the nude photos of that golfer guy? If that's allowed, soon the intertubes will be clogged with naughty pictures of professional bowlers. O, the humanity.

not only does vit D protect against cold and flu, but now a study concludes that: Vitamin D insufficiency and deficiency was associated with all-cause dementia, Alzheimer disease, stroke (with and without dementia symptoms), and MRI indicators of cerebrovascular disease. These findings suggest a potential vasculoprotective role of vitamin D.

The man with the nickname “Dr Flu”, Professor Albert Osterhaus, of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam Holland has been named by Dutch media researchers as the person at the center of the worldwide Swine Flu H1N1 Influenza A 2009 pandemic hysteria. Not only is Osterhaus the connecting person in an international network that has been described as the Pharma Mafia, he is THE key advisor to WHO on influenza and is intimately positioned to personally profit from the billions of euros in vaccines allegedly aimed at H1N1.

i had grand cru veggie dumplings here last night, $2!!

15 year old wisconsin cheddar goes on sale

black dragon tea bar blog

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old clothes needed for a new project by my PDX friend MK Guth, now in a NY neighborhood near you clothes for art

isnt it all crappy taxidermy?

Scary if true statistics on domestic wiretapping.

Yeah, you tell 'em, Zander.

A few months ago I was afraid gold might hit $1000 dollars an ounce, today it is over $1200 dollars an ounce and rising!? One year ago it cost $800 an ounce.

Hi there,
Just thought I'd mention that I'm going to have some work up at David Nolan Dec. 10 if anyone's around.
Me. James Siena, Alex Ross.
-sdb