Afflatus

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matthew borrowed my camera to shoot his new works for NADA

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bertie says to bring these too

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too cold to move

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wandering the bleak freezing streets

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alone

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but then!

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miami finally came to heat things up

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thats a happy puppy right there

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our nADA booth was craze

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we wanted to highlight the sorta behind the scenes nuts and bolts of art fairing, and the lifespan of the artwork, and art as physical (heavy delicate) reality

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oh balls and now i am way out of order from the iphone camera situation

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my phone is back in the Parisian Laundry Valerie Blass show

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installing Katherine And Youssef

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goog one

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JJ

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returning a TODT piece from AREA whoah

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back before we needed hats scarves and gloves every damn day

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ja it sucks

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damn look how small Bertie is wrapped in joe’s shirt

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at our November openings

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giaccometti steppin out

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whats funny about this photo is both these guys are like 6’5″ but look normal here

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stefan and bert

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bert totally partying

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well at least one day in teh past year i was awake to eat brunch

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bert and joe have same eyes

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oh yeez and then this happened

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this show was really interesting

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i liked his oddly timed and autotuned rants imbetween songs

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he talked about art snobbery too

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matthew was amidst planning his miami basel opera for Shore Club, the guys Thunderhorse who did Salem 2010 with us and also Yeezus tour also did Matthew visuals

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guess who else worked on the show?

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if you guessed Vanessa Beecroft you are righT!

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i liked this guy the best

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there were lots of religious things happening

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jesus came down from the mountain

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and there you have it
i cant copy all the things that he said during the concert but it was pretty interesting stuff and made me think more about this guy as an artist and the power of mainstream success and the art world etc etc

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went home to DC for thanksgiving

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checked out the Alex Prager show at the Corcoran

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emailed out about Stefan’s show

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baltimore training

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hmmm i guess i didnt take any thanksgiving photos whoops

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did you guys see Detroit recently??
google nekst detroit

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oops back in miami i guess sorry about this

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lola

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our neighbor rachel uffner

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peter linde busk

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peter

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katherine and youssef selling rugs!

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the name is
the name is coming it is
Gina Beavers

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what a relief!

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jon on his vespa

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Davina Semo at Marlborough harumph

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and Tap Tap

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the bear
wait i have a lot more photos where did they go
they will have to be tomorrow as the fingers have now completley frozen

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I am the owner of downtown contemporary art center THE HOLE! I am arts editor at i-D magazine I paint paintings and curate art shows all around

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