Serafin og Plym

 A couple of days ago I rediscovered my favourite book as a kid, which I thought was long thrown away. It's the story of Serafin and Plym, 

two friends who were good at making things 

I guess the things they made were not so popular so they had to go from job to job

 

one day they decide to make a fantastic machine, that makes the most amazing fences ever
 

They celebrated the making of the machine, but when they tested it in the city, officials freak out, and Serafin and Plym got kicked out

So they decided to fence everybody in, then fence themselves in around hole in the ground

opening the sewer cover, they set off in an underground maze of caves, 

and they lived happily ever after,

 together.

BYOB

Last night in Berlin
http://bringyourownbeamer.tumblr.com/

June 5th was a very very gay gay day

Yesterday was Pride day in Athens

Angelo + Poulcheria

Poul, George and me                                                              Stathis with perpetual selfportraitists (me and Alex)

Iliana F. and Alex Walex

The crowd was bigger than ever, happily filling the streets.

We were expecting a fascist attack, but they didnt show up 

or maybe they just joined in

later we went to see Rufus Wainright at Lycabettus

He sang sad songs

in front of a great Douglas Gordon video

Another Type of Minimalism (Butch Queens Voguing Fem Pt-ii)

Too much Ssion is never enough

Normally I would just post the youtube clip and be done, 

but no, its not enough, we have to look at stills too:

Ssion's genius Clown, from the equally genius Fool's Gold

everybody had black noses

Ssion as is Pa Ssion, Mi Ssion etc

Mr Cody Critcheloe

Artists for Athens Pride, and more from Athens Galleries

Last night was the Artists for Athens Pride auction, , which you can read all about at Angelo Says featuring works by Στιβ Γιαννάκος, Zoë Charlton, Χρήστος Δεληδήμος, Χριστίνα Δημητριάδη, Κωνσταντίνος Κακανιάς, Κατερίνα Κανά, Em Kei, Jeremy Kost, Kalup Linzy, Τέο Μιχαήλ, Ντόρα Οικονόμου, Χριστόδουλος Παναγιώτου, Άγγελος Παπαδημητρίου, Μαρία & Ντόρα Παπαδημητρίου, Λήδα Παπακωνσταντίνου, Poka-Yio, Γιώργος Σαπουντζής, Scott Treleaven, Sharon Thomas, Νίκος Χαραλαμπίδης, Πέτρος Χρυσοστόμου and Μανταλίνα Ψωμά. (yes I was too bored to re-type all the names in english, but you can read all about it on Angelo Says)

The auction is an initiative of Breeder Gallery with curator Andrea Gilbert. It is a serious fundraiser for the emerging Athens Pride festival, and happily the auction was sold out, with record prices for works by Poka-Yio and Kalup Linzy.

Meanwhile, at the main spaces of Breeder, you can still see a great Ryan McGinley show

featuring photos of cute boys and girls
exchanging pills,

jumping up in the air,

and hiding inside fabulous multicolored caves.

Meanwhile, Loraini Alimandiri GazonRouge gallery has relocated to the legendary,

and perhaps now strangely renovated,  Aristomenis Provelengios building, famous for being a small scale urban house-studio.







The second show is Isabelle Fein,

I managed to peak at a super cute Ryan McLaughlin
painting from the first exhibition.

A few blocks down, Apartment Gallery has also found new digs,  in a grand classic 1930's apartment,

 and kicked off the season with a show by lovely Maria Andelman

Goodbye Kalimera

It's a bit tough that in the fabulous BUTT Calendar you have to rip off the pages as the weeks go by.
That means its time to say goodbye to Kalimera.
(Kalimera is the name of apparently the most famous drag queen in Serbia. Hilariously, it means Good morning in Greek)

So many Vitrines, so little Time

Everywhere we went last week in NY, there were vitrines with archival stuff in them.
Here some fanzines at the newly directed Artists' Space
Behind a wall, a giant photomural of William Burroughts Bowery Bunkerand some classic Ray Johnson


At White Columns, more vitrines with underground poetry fanzines

and very collectible posters


in one of the other rooms, "hitch hikers" curated by Bob Nickas
more great posters

at a gallery on 27th street, I took these for buildings
they could easily be
at Mary Boone, even more vitrines, this time from the total master
though the show was weirdly installed and quite frankly too packed



over at X Initiative many more vitrines with more underground artists publication
(I guess we just have to take their word that all these are interesting,
because they are behind glass and we cant see)upstairs, in arguable one of the finest ever exhibition rooms,
an ephemerally political show by the absolutely great Hans Haacke
and on another floor a really political show that wants Ru Paul for president (who doesnt?)
at Drawing Center a promising Ianis Xenakis show with kind of chic vitrines
though the most promising content was again behind glass
at Mathew Marks, more vitrines by Fischly & Weiss
and finally no vitrines but very cute chair-like objects
by the very cute Bruce High Quality Foundation