Relational What?

The video above is the latest from Hennessy Youngman aka Jayson Scott Musson who I showed at Syncopation in Berlin last October and who is one of the artists in my next book out in August. He's so bloody talented and this video is spot on.

Don't Forget Japan

The online blogs and footage around what is going on in Tokyo deserve some serious attention.

When I went to Tokyo last January I had the luck of meeting Cameron McKean and his nice girlfriend Hannah through my good from Naoko Higashi. His blog Workingtowards.com shows how dramatic the earthquake has effected everyone out there. (I took the photo above from it)

Patrick Tsai's Talking Barnacles has a week long first person diary documenting the quake which I couldnt stop reading.

There are also a number of creative projects happening internationally to raise money for Japan. Magazine +81 is working on a creative project which I'm getting involved with - more info in future. In London 3939shop is doing an event and art auction for Japan which I'll put up details about soon. To make a donation to the Red Cross click here

Of all the footage I've watched this was one of the craziest

Tshe-Tsha Boys

I forgot what it was like to see something that looks so fresh it blows you away.... Tshe-Tsha Boys and these Shangaan dancers deserve to be massive

N-Y-C-ya

Just back from NYC - despite killer jetlag it was definitely the most fun i've had in the city.

Highlights of the week were the lunches for artists at Soho House I put on where I had the pleasure of hanging out with Lawrence Weiner, Nick Relph, Ken Miller, Agathe Snow, Ian Tweedy and Evan Gruzis among many others, my big brother Jose Parla's rammed opening, the crazy group show at CANADA gallery (which included work by Jim Drain one of the stars at my next show at MU), the White Columns party at China Chalet, Kathy Grayson's dinner for The Hole, doing a talk with Slater Bradley and fascinating cinematographer Ed Lachman, and some exceptionally nice times in the company of Jeremy Shaw and Blake Mawson.

After the hilarious amusement of being listed in Modern Painters top things to do during Armory (getting drunk with me is apparently a nighlife highlight) I got double blogged - Jonathan Yeo who I curate Soho House with did Vanity Fair's blog and the delightful Alexandre Stipanovich on Opening Ceremony's blog (where I nabbed the photo above).

Much more NYC to come in the coming months.

ABC

Some of my work has burst out there today. Looking at this list no wonder I'm knackered...

* The press announcement about the show I'm curating at MU has gone out into the ether! It opens April 8 The New Psychadelica (Sample image above by Yoshi Sodeoka).

* I curated an art alphabet for AnOther magazine's 10th anniversary issue - I'm really proud we've got letters from Paul Noble, John Baldessari, Susan Hiller, Tal R, Marnie Weber etc. It's the biggest art project the magazine has ever done.

* Read some of my interview with Hedi Slimane here (another version is in the May issue of Dazed alongside a piece on Mike Nelson).

* I'm sitting on a panel you can buy tickets for about fashion and film for the Birds Eye Film Festival on March 9 at 6pm at the NFT1 (giving an art perspective).

* Dazed Live festival tickets go on sale (i'm curating the exhibitions in the show).

Blue

I'm missing these exhibitions opening internationally in Feb... Feeling blue.

Highways Connect and Divide at Foxy Production with Tauba Auerbach, Cory Arcangel, Sterling Ruby and Jodi


Andro Wekua at the Kunsthalle Fridericianum and the Kunsthalle Vien


Sandy Plotnikoff at Paul Petro, Toronto