LA: Melissa Brown and Matt Brinkman Opening at M+B Gallery
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Not to get all economy schmaconomy blah blah blah on you, but this show of lizardoid doomsday monsters and architectural forms fashioned from lottery tickets takes on special significance considering, you know, the whole wage gap thoia thang. Melissa Brown’s works on paper are exquisite colorful patchworks that list how many dollars’ worth of used scratch tickets she used to create them (”Money Bees,” above: $1933). Mat Brinkman, also known as Mister Fort Thunder, draws inky deformed dudes that look like us the morning after a late Saturday night at the club. The show opens this Saturday, January 31 in conjunction with the venerated Picturebox. Details after the jump.
Too Black For B.E.T.
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Here is a sentence we probably would not write: “Yeah you with the hook nose and the Bloc Party haircut that’s just long enough in the back so dudes will still know you’re a girl and hit on you at parties.” But Jayson Musson wrote it for us. He also wrote a lot of other sentences, put them in a few really plain fonts and blew them up big into a book called Too Black for B.E.T. and to celebrate its release there is a party tomorrow in Philadelphia. Words are probably also throwing a party, possibly in a dictionary, thanking the book for ordering them in a desirable way. They’re bored with all that poetry and newspaper shit (too plain) but that text message abbreviation garbage is driving them nuts, too. Someone needs to treat them right. Information about one of those parties is here.
