Q & A with Jenny Holzer

My interview with Jenny Holzer ran in the T magazine blog, The Moment, yesterday.

Have a read here.

Talk about Henry Roth Tonight

The Lo-Down reports that there will be a talk tonight at the Museum at Eldridge that you won't want to miss. Read all about it here, includes links to a New Yorker story and a New York Times piece.

Slavoj Žižek is No Proust, but Read His Answers Anyway

The professor and writer tells The Guardian newspaper that his earliest memory was "My mother naked. Disgusting," why he most deplores other people's "sleazy readiness to offer me help when I don't need or want it," that "seeing stupid people happy" makes him depressed and more.

Cartier-Bresson's Best Answer

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century is on at MoMA until June 28. I loved the quote on the wall: Cartier-Bresson liked to photograph his subjects in their homes. When his subjects asked how long the shoot would take, his answer was: "Longer than the dentist, but shorter than the psychoanalyst."

There are a number of curator led talks at the following dates and times:

Saturday, June 12, 2010, 11:30 a.m.
Saturday, June 19, 2010, 11:30 a.m.
Sunday, June 20, 2010, 1:30 p.m.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010, 1:30 p.m.
Saturday, June 26, 2010, 11:30 a.m.
Sunday, June 27, 2010, 1:30 p.m.

Whiteonwhite:algorithmicthriller

OK, what is an algorithmic thriller?

The invitation reads:
"The film is running.
There is no start or end time.
Please enter and leave as you wish.
The length of the film is determined by you.
Feel free to walk to the front of the theater
to read the code screens."

To find out, head over to MoMA's Titus Theater 2 today at 6pm (doors open at 5pm).
There will be a Q + A at 6:30pm with Eve Sussman, Jeff Wood, Kevin Messman and Jeff Garneau

And from the organizers, here's a little bit more of a clue: "On June 6th, The Museum of Modern Art will act as a black box testing site for a “beta version” of whiteonwhite:algorithmicthriller. The film will be powered by code, programmed exclusively for the project, that edits the film in real time culling from a server loaded with over 2,000 film clips, sounds, and narration. The guided nature of the code causes it to pull video and audio, based on voice over and tags written into the metadata of each file and the narrative. The movie mixes chronology, intertwining beginning, middle or end, never repeating the same way twice."

Fascinating stuff....

Must Hears: Week of June 7

1. Dominique Browning, the former editor of House & Garden who lost her magazine after editing it for more than a decade when it folded in 2007, has penned the memoir, “Slow Love: How I Lost My Job, Put On My Pajamas & Found Happiness.”
At noon on June 8, she talks with Lucy Danziger, the editor of Self, about second acts. Find out more about this talk and others here.

Date: June 8
Venue: 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St.

Read an excerpt of “Slow Love: How I Lost My Job, Put On My Pajamas & Found Happiness” here.

And a review here.

Charles Saatchi on Religion, and Art in Outerspace

The Daily Beast has the first in what they promise will be a series of interesting questions that Charles Saatchi, who hates to be interviewed, has promised to answer for them.

Read it here.