Artist publisher living in Chicago with Public Collectors, Half Letter Press, Temporary Services. Finds cultural voids; fills them. He/him www.publiccollectors.org, https://halfletterpress.com, www.temporaryservices.org, https://hardcorearchitecture.blog
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The video in the de Kooning exhibit is well worth watching and explains some interesting things about his various drawing techniques. Also, instead of the usual exhibition guide, they made a nice booklet with various blank spaces and drawing prompts and have cute free pink pencils you can take.
My take on the new version of Sleep without Matt Pike is: It’s 2026, so the fact that someone had a bad idea and then executed it poorly shouldn’t really come as a surprise but yet, here we are.
No disrespect to Bubba Dupree who is great (elsewhere).
There’s some really good little bird shenanigans happening in my neighborhood this morning.
People all over the world that don't want to pay absurd overseas shipping demanded a PDF version of Eric Schierloh's booklet I published: "ISBN? No Thanks and Other Notes Before Starting a Publishing House" so we said, Okay! A second booklet is included. halfletterpress.com/isbn-no-than...
Summer Sale! The booklets seem to be multiplying in my basement as I sleep so it's time to have a sale to make way for new publications. I'm selling this set of six photo booklets for $40.00 postpaid in the US. Details in the ALT text. Purchase link: www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/...
I was going to see the Willem de Kooning exhibit at the AIC today but the weather was horrible so I rewatched Cronenberg's "A History of Violence" with my dog instead. A brilliant detail is that when Viggo's character drives back to Philly to see his brother, he slips back into a Philly accent.
de Kooning's work doesn't really inform anything I've made for the last 30+ years. It's just that when it's great, it's wonderful to untangle and so tactile. I like that it's mostly not big either - he didn't need big bullshit scale to make fascinating things. Most of the drawings are pretty small.
I saw a couple friends at the show who got there after I had looked around for a while. I said, If you saw two or three of some of these drawings in a museum, you'd be really happy, but here it's more like 75 of them. The show has about 200 works but for certain periods, it's extra jammed.
Okay! I saw the de Kooning exhibit this morning. It’s fucking outstanding. Go go go! I will probably see it a couple more times before it closes.
