1. Angel’s Gate Cultural Center (Call or go to website for prospectus not included in this announcement)

Dear Friends of Walled City:
As many of you know, I wear a second hat as the Program Manager for Angels Gate Cultural Center. Well, Angels Gate is having it’s annual all-California show and I’d like to encourage ya’ll to enter. This year our juror is Rebecca Morse, who’s a curatorial associate over at MOCA.

It’s a measly $15 to enter up to three pieces, and this year, you can do it all on via a CD, and ditch the slides! No more getting slides shot, all you need is your trusty digital camera, a reasonably steady hand and you’re on your way.

I’d love to see a mountain of entries from the artists that I think are doing great things right now, so make ye haste and enter the show! It’s open to all artists in California, so if you know any other folks that would like to get in on the action, pass the on both the word and the prospectus. The deadline for entries is March 13, 2006.

The attached prospectus has got all of the details you need to know to enter the exhibition, but if you’ve got further questions, feel free to E-mail or call me anytime.

Thanks,
Marshall Astor, Director
Walled City
www.walledcitygallery.com
310 985 9714

2. la box _ bourges

Appeal for witnesses: seeking people willing to share their memories
We would like to collect feedback from any person who has seen – or heard – a work of art. Whether this was a painting, a sculpture, an installation, a photograph or any other type of art, please share and recount your experience by calling +33 (0)2.48.66.42.03 and leaving a message on our answerphone. This is an entirely anonymous process, which can take whichever form you choose. The only thing we ask from you is NOT to say the artist’s name, or what the work in question is
called. These “spectators’ stories” will be kept at ba box – galerie de l’école nationale supérieure d’art de Bourges between January and July 2006 and broadcasted later.
Phone +33 (0)2.48.66.42.03

http://box.ensa-bourges.fr

3. Art Bureau – Numbers Project

Art Bureau is collecting numbers for a calendar. You are invited to participate if it sounds of interest.

http://www.artbureau.org/numbers.html

4. Sal Randolph – Reading Between
(go to http://www.readingbetween.org for contact information and more details.)

We begin with almost nothing, just the act of reading.

Over the next few months, during the run of “Les formes du délais” and beyond, I’ll be thinking through the act of reading as an artistic source. Gradually, this site will develop as a space for exploring what it might mean to read together, a place to share and exchange what we are reading.

I’d like to begin with an invitation. The most interesting and pleasurable book I’ve read over the last year is David Graeber’s Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of our own Dreams. David Graeber is a brilliant anthropologist, also an anarchist and activist, and his book is one of those where 100 ideas spin off every page. It includes lucid critiques of postmodernism, discussion of gift economies, a really interesting perspective on Marx (which caused me to spend the summer reading Das Kapital), a theory of social creativity, and countless lively anthropological examples. I’m still mulling over a small aside he made on the meaning of men’s and women’s fashion.

I’d like to invite you to read some David Graeber with me. I’ll send a free copy of the book to anyone who wants one — just write to me with your mailing address.