FADER TV: LA Is A Nice Place To Live #3
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On each episode of FADER TV’s LA Is A Nice Place To Live, the West Coast staff takes in some of the city’s culture and fun good times. This week, we head over to Hope Gallery in Echo Park for their TV Books exhibition. While there, we chatted (but IRL) a bit with Tim Barber about how TV Books relates to his Tiny Vices project and about his on-demand approach to the book publishing game. We’d call it a weird night, not because of the art on the walls (that was expected), but because of the surprisingly strong baby and dog turnout.
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posted on Nov 14, 2008 in ART+CULTURE VIDEO tags Hope Gallery, LA Is A Nice Place To Live, Tim Barber, Tiny Vices
NYC: The Tiny Vices Exhibition
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You know when you see a piece of art and all of a sudden it’s like you’ve jackknifed into the artist’s brain and feel like you’re being allowed to see things that you totally shouldn’t be and it’s kind of embarrassing but also really exciting? That’s how we felt today when Tiny Vices’ Tim Barber let us take an early look at his exhibition opening tomorrow at Partners & Spade in the East Village. The show features work by twelve TV artists (some are even FADER contributors!) as well as Barber himself, and showcases all fourteen TV Books titles as well as a limited edition poster series. The images, which range from incredibly childlike to deeply disturbing and sometimes even both at once, made us wish, among other things, that we’d spent our time in middle-school detention making a book called “Death Pits,” instead of whatever we were actually doing. We all make mistakes. The exhibition runs at 40 Great Jones Street (between Lafayette and Bowery) this Saturday and Sunday between noon and 8pm. The full flyer is after the jump along with some more behind the scenes setup photos.
Tiny Vices Books
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Tim Barber, endless smatterer of photo and mishmash ephemera on his longtime website, Tiny Vices, has begun a book branch of his electronic brain, aptly named Tiny Vices Books. The travelling TV shows had often been a purposefully overwhelming hullabaloo of endless photographers and visual artists, but the books have calmed and coagulated, one TVer at a time. Barber’s got good taste (our taste) and will be publishing work by many FADER photographers. Longtime friend Michael Schmelling’s book is out now, along with books by Aurel Schmidt with whom we would like to trade minds, collager Kim Krans and Barber himself, and in the near future he’ll have a book by one of our most frequent contributors, Jason Nocito. As folks with a website and print edition ourselves, it’s a nice parallel kinship.
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posted on Jun 11, 2008 in ART+CULTURE NEWS tags Aurel Schmidt, Michael Schmelling, Tim Barber, Tiny Vices
