Closing reception: Friday, January 27, 5–8 PM.

In a closed gallery, an unfinished book recedes into the distance, out of range of legibility. In the book, an unresolved mystery revolves around a closed bookshop. The Labyrinth of Tantalus, a minimal book-installation by Portland artists Anna & Leo Daedalus, will be on view throughout January from outside the closed 23 Sandy Gallery. A limited edition of the hand-bound book will be available from the Gallery.

November 4 – 26, 2011

23 Sandy Gallery
623 NE 23rd Avenue
(three doors north of Sandy Blvd.)
23sandy.com

Opening Reception: Friday, Nov. 4, 5:00-8:00 pm

Reading/Performance: Saturday, Nov. 5, 4:00 pm
Joseph Keppler / Nico Vassilakis / James Yeary
Leo Daedalus / Geof Huth / David Abel

Curator on site: Saturday, Nov. 26, 12:00-6:00 pm

Object Poems brings together striking and varied works
by more than thirty contemporary artist-poets and poet-artists:
*  poems in three dimensions
*  interactive poems
*  found poems
*  sculptural and utilitarian poems
*  conceptual poems
poems that depart in myriad ways from the familiar form of the printed page.

Drew Kunz     Alison Knowles     Joseph Keppler     Nico Vassilakis     Harriet Bart
Michael Basinski     Bill Berkson     Jen Bervin     Kristin Prevallet     Clemente Padin
James Yeary     Alec Finlay     Steve McCaffery     Eric Magrane     Jim Clinefelter
Norma Cole     J. A. Lee     Anna & Leo Daedalus     Marilyn R. Rosenberg     Geof Huth
MaryAnn Hayden     Alan Halsey     Buzz Spector     Kyle Schlesinger     Kaia Sand
Curtis Steiner     Mark Owens & Maria José Gonzalez Arredondo     David Abel
Andrew Topel     K. S. Ernst

A Tribute to Pandit Pran Nath on KBOO Community Radio.

Monday, August 22, 2011: A Different Nature presents a special three-hour tribute to Pandit Pran Nath and the American Kirana lineage: music inspired and influenced by Pran Nath and his disciples Terry Riley & La Monte Young. Tonight’s host Daniel will be joined in studio by Michael Stirling, himself a disciple of Pandit Pran Nath, and a student of Terry Riley. Mr. Stirling will discuss Pran Nath and his legacy, and during the third hour of the program, will offer a raga of the late evening accompanied by Aran Adams on tabla. Mr. Stirling will also introduce the other composer/performers, most of whom are raga students of his. Works to be performed include: John Berendzen: “Air Objects part 2″; Derek Ecklund: “Planetary Sine Wave Organ ”; Scott Goodwin: “Referent”; Matthew Carlson: “Untitled”. The composers will be joining us in the KBOOstudio to provide some background on their work. To read more about Pandit Pran Nath and the American avant-garde underground, here is an excellent article – http://www.bidoun.org/magazine/20-bazaar/lord-of-the-drone-pandit-pran-nath-and-the-american-underground-by-alexander-keefe/  

Paris 1916 - Modigliani, Picasso, André Salmon

Now we are delivered from the imbecile tyranny of genres.

So, apparently, said the art critic André Salmon vis-à-vis one of Picasso’s 1912–14 Guitares during a visit to the artist’s studio. Or something like that. The quote is rendered variously, and I wasn’t able to track it down in French. Anyway: nice, if terribly optimistic.

Penguin had it goin’ on. That green border. Very satisfying. (Montaigne too.)

Quel design lucide et doucement audacieux ! J’ai trouvé cette belle édition Livre de poche à la Librairie Grand Ciel Bleu du Nouvel-Ontario, à Sudbury — une véritable oasis dans un désert culturel. C’est la aussi où l’on m’a fait connaître l’écrivain franco-ontarien, Daniel Poliquin, et son roman, La Kermesse.