Below is a series of appropriated posters that I painted over and reinstalled into bus stops. These are the first posters to hit the streets in an ongoing experimental campaign to raise cognitive awareness and more importantly to inspire benevolent action that we often forget, oversee, or might be in opposition to our often hedonistic culture. These first batch of posters can be found in Costa Mesa and Newport Beach. More to come. Many more. More…

Common Ground Publishing has launched a new imprint, The Arts in Society.

You can now submit proposals or completed manuscript submissions of:

• individually and jointly authored books;
• edited collections addressing a clear, intellectually challenging theme;
• collections of papers published in The International Journal of the Arts in Society.

Books should be between 30,000 words to 150,000 words in length. They will be published simultaneously in print and electronic formats.

From Jonathan Vatner at The New York Times:

A typical room at the Thompson LES, a hotel on the Lower East Side of Manhattan that opened last summer, has the look of an industrial-chic loft, with exposed concrete columns, a floor-to-ceiling window and a platform bed. But it’s the room’s art that is most startling: a giant lightbox that floats above the bed. Inside is a photo of a tree from the photographer Lee Friedlander’s “Apples & Olives” series. Seen one way, the art adds a much-needed organic element to the room; seen another, the black-and-white image seems to meld perfectly with the bleak streetscape below.

The forward-thinking placement of art doesn’t stop there. Down in the restaurant, an installation by Peter Halley sets glitzy metallic rectangles against a smoky background. And on the third-floor terrace, three consecutive film stills of Andy Warhol, taken from “Andy Warhol: Portraits of the Artist as a Young Man,” by Gerard Malanga, lie submerged at the bottom of a swimming pool. More…