inspired by spaghetti westerns & Grand Tetons (2016)
presenting Carto-OSC at Cornell (2018)
Hojas de Maiz (2002)
Anchor Graphics residency (2002)
performing John Cage's Song Books (2010)
Michael Zelner
Rrose: A Leaflet Plugin
Hojas de Maiz (2002)
performing Matmos' Just Waves at Bottom of the Hill (2011)
Michael Zelner
de Young Art Center, pinhole photograph (2005)
Autumnal East Coast
I'll be touring A Synesthete's Atlas down and around the East Coast through October and early November, with performances, lectures, and other activities planned for Portland (Maine), Providence, Philadelphia, DC, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and more.
Stay tuned.
As always, please be in touch with ideas or questions.
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Recent Blog Posts
The Museum of Jurassic Technology: Harbinger of Major Gift Fails
10 Jun 2023
Lawrence Weschler’s Seeing Is Forgetting The Name Of The Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin and True to Life: Twenty-Five Years of Conversations with David Hockney are essential for an understanding of those artists’ thinking, the trajectories of their careers, and the impacts of their work. But when Weschler lectured at the San Francisco Art Institute (9 Feb 2009) in commemoration of the University of California Press’ publication of expanded editions of his Irwin and Hockney books, the book I brought for him to sign was neither of those.
A QuickTake and Radio Valencia Cafe
28 Dec 2022
You’re forgiven if you’re thinking “surely he meant to title this A Quick Take on Radio Valencia Cafe”.
Warhol, Empire, the Met Life Tower, and Me
03 Aug 2022
It’s tautological to say I’m resigned to being a fatalist but disappointments take their toll and I tend to set my expectations low. I learned late that the second volume of The Films of Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné was nearing publication and while Callie Angell had been gracious in crediting me in her publications for providing the clue necessary to sequence the reels of Empire, I was anxious about whether I’d make it into what would become the definitive source of truth.
For Sale: Robert Indiana 'MECCA I, II, III'
02 Aug 2022
Pop Artist Robert Indiana was commissioned to design the basketball floor for the Milwaukee Exposition Convention Center and Arena (MECCA). The floor made its debut in October 1977 and was disassembled after the Bucks began playing in the BMO Harris Bradley Center in 1988. I don’t know the current status of the floor, only that it was saved from a salvage sale by Greg Koller, then passed to the stewardship of his son, Ben, and that a replica was reconstructed for one game in 2017 to celebrate the fifty year anniversary of the Bucks’ first season.
For Sale: John Wesley 'Smoke Ring'
01 Aug 2022
Update
This painting sold in Artsy's Post-War and Contemporary Auction, September 2022.