(I also have a subscription to Artforum, but somehow end up buying a second copy at CASA virtually every month, too, as they seem to get it early.)ĪRTnews published the list of the 10 finalists for the New York Artadia Awards that I was on the jury for with curator Amanda Hunt and artist Michele Abeles. Three of the reviewed shows I actually saw on the weekend (Ari Marcopoulos at Marlborough, Richard Prince at Gagosian, and Jessica Easton at Higher Pictures.) I bought the May issue of Artforum. At CASA I read the art reviews in the new issue of The New Yorker (we subscribe to the magazine – so a copy will be delivered to our apartment on Tuesday). It is worth visiting just to experience the owner’s miraculous use of their modest space. I buy a lot of magazines and this is the best magazine store I have come across. For the past ten years I have probably visited the shop at least four times a week. On the way to work stopped by CASA Magazines on the corner of 8th Avenue and West 12th Street near White Columns. He has amazing comedic timing.Įnded up re-watching Stephen Colbert’s astonishing “in character” speech at the same event in 2006. Watched Obama’s speech from the White House Correspondents Dinner online. Listened to side one of The Mothmen’s great 1981 LP “Pay Attention” on the On-U Sound label. Skimmed the new May 2015 issue of The Wire magazine which I bought this weekend. Artforum, ARTnews and Contemporary Art Daily (who were featuring installation images from the Guggenheim’s amazing On Kawara show.)
#MATTHEW HIGGS PLUS#
The Junior Fairplay 12″ was $8.85 plus around $5 shipping.Ĭhecked out a handful of art websites inc. 200-500 copies now – so things go out of print almost immediately.) Buying from Juno, even with the shipping charges, is also oddly cheaper than buying records locally. (Vinyl is typically pressed in runs of c. I also got a 12″ by Junior Fairplay (“How Do You Like Me Now”).īuying new records in New York is oddly frustrating, as there are a) very few stores that sell new vinyl, and b) those that do don’t always carry what you want. Today I bought a reissue of a rare 1970s Italian leftfield disco 12″ by Miro (“Safari Of Love”). They have a “New Today” section, and I usually search every day in the following categories: Disco, House, Leftfield, Reggae, Techno. Most of my new records I buy from .uk, which is the best online record store I have come across (they are based in London). (I encourage everyone to read them, start with the first two or three in the order they were written.) I only discovered these recently, but have read all of the previous 17 books since January. I’m currently reading Andrea Camilleri’s Game of Mirrors, the 18th of his Inspector Montalbano novels to be translated into English. It has an amazing cover by Robert Mapplethorpe.) Listened to side one of Tapper Zukie’s mind-bending 1973 LP “Man Ah Warrior.” (I have the 1977 edition on Lenny Kaye’s Mer label.
#MATTHEW HIGGS FULL#
Read an article about CD/music piracy in The New Yorker Stephen Witt called “The Man Who Broke The Music Business.” (The house is full of partially read back issues of The New Yorker.) The Daily Mail recently covered a White Columns exhibition – which was unexpected to say the least. Watched the Mount Everest base camp avalanche video on the Daily Mail Online. Most days: scan The New York Times and The Guardian (UK Edition) online. Also, it is recommended that you listen to the YouTube embeds in this post, they are great. Obscure cosmic disco records are ordered online and trips to the legendary CASA magazines in the West Village are frequent. This summer he will guest curate exhibitions at Tanya Leighton in Berlin and Wilkinson in London.Īlthough Higgs’s Consumer Report includes zero social media, he makes up for it with fervent consumption of a variety of analog materials, namely vinyl records and magazines. He recently co-curated, with Catherine Morris, the Judith Scott retrospective “Bound & Unbound” at the Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. Matthew Higgs is an artist, curator and the director of White Columns, New York City’s oldest alternative non-profit space.
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