From A Star, a Soap and the Meaning of Art by James Franco
I have been obsessed with performance art for over a decade—ever since the Mexican performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña came to visit my class at Cal Arts summer school. I finally took the plunge and experimented with the form myself when I signed on [...]

Tompkins Projects announces FULL DISCLOSURE, opening January 15, 7 – 9pm.
Brooklyn, NY – January 2010 – Tompkins Projects announces its second exhibition, Full Disclosure, a group exhibition of work that focuses on transparency and the visible versus invisible. Yuka Otani creates blown sugar sculptures, Cody Trepte bleaches paper and Maria del Carmen Montoya covers her [...]

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee DCCC | Tell John Boehner that you Support a Public Option
How is this for being out of touch? Despite polls showing millions of Americans support a public option, Republican Leader John Boehner actually said, “I’m still trying to find the first American to talk to who’s in favor of the public [...]

Quint Stevenson and I have started a gallery in Brooklyn!  Please come to our grand opening on October 16, from 7 – 9 pm.
Tompkins Projects is pleased to announce the opening of our premiere show, ABSTRACTION AIN’T DEAD, featuring the artwork of Anthony Baab, Laura Braciale, John Fasano, Joshua Abrams Howard and Ziad Naccache.  The [...]

A really cool stop-motion from my SF friend Tony Benna, with Adam Avilla, for MusicID.  The second video is a ‘making of’ and I think I may like it even better!

Girldrive: Criss-crossing America, Redefining Feminism is out today!!
In 2007, Nona Willis Aronowitz and Emma Bee Bernstein set out across the country to find the answers to some questions: What do twentysomething women care about? What are their hopes, worries, and ambitions? Have they heard of feminism, and do they relate to it? The result of [...]

Tea Therapy at Conflux this weekend! (Lisa Kettlewell will stand in for Rachelle, who can’t make it down from New Hampshire.)  map

A BOOK ABOUT DEATH : ARTISTS CONTRIBUTE 500 POST CARDS EACH TO CREATE AN UNBOUND BOOK ABOUT DEATH. AN HOMAGE TO RAY JOHNSON, A CELEBRATION OF EMILY HARVEY, A GLOBAL EXPLORATION OF DEATH..
A BOOK ABOUT DEATH opens tomorrow, September 10, from 7:30 – 11:00 at the Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery (537 Broadway). There will be [...]

Chris Robbins had a few questions for me regarding the Personal Manifesto that I posted awhile ago.  He brought up some interesting perspectives, so, with his permission, I’m posting our dialogue here.

Chris had the following questions for me:
Hey J Joe.
I’d love to talk a bit about this list. Wanna parlay?
http://www.aestheticdialectic.com/archives/604
(btw really love the [...]