New issue of Juxtapoz just dropped, with a feature article I did on main Maine homie Matt W. Moore. It’s a good issue, with articles on Big Daddy Roth, How and Nosm, the homie Liqen, and more I haven’t gotten to reading yet, but will.
I’ll be in Manhattan on Saturday March 10th, from 3-5pm for the launch of Delusional: The Story of the Jonathan LeVine Gallery, a book that I had the pleasure of writing and assembling over the past two years. A bunch of the artists featured in the book will be in attendance. I don’t know what Jonathan is going to wear.
Delusional: The Story of the Jonathan LeVine Gallery from weholden on Vimeo.
22′ x 16′ installation of about 250 wood pieces, Endicott College, second part of my Victory Garden show.
You know full well that if you stand around in your kitchen listening to NPR next Tuesday, March 6th (aka Super Tuesday, when a zillion presidential primaries are held), you’re going to feel depressed.
So come up to Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts instead. There will be the reception for my show Victory Garden, as well as the unveiling of the large wall piece I’m installing in the Center for the Arts’ atrium right now. Info here.
Endicott College is at 376 Hale St in Beverly. The reception runs from 5-7 pm, and my talk will begin after that.
The Thomas Crown Affair, 1967. The original one.
Steve McQueen,with my dad leaning down to my mom behind him. Their only motion picture appearance.
Additional serendipity considering it was nearly another decade before I was born: if you are a major league graffiti dork, you also know that the Thomas Crown Affair shows very early spray name-based painted and brush-painted graffiti in the background in a scene, filmed in a playground in Boston’s North End (our Little Italy), where Faye Dunaway breaks the case and draws on the blacktop with chalk. This graffiti dates to 1967 – doubly verified because my mother is pregnant with my sister in the still with McQueen, which is why she is seated – though there was older graffiti in the North End, we ran a photo of some from the 1950s in our book The History of American Graffiti.
Big thanks to MES CIRCLE T for technical and research assistance.
Daniel Feral over at 12ozprophet has been working on a three-and-a-half-part set of articles about me and what I’ve been up to for the last fifteen years, in connection with the show I have going on at Endicott College. Makes me feel old to go back in time like that, but here we are.
Part One
Part One and a Half
Part Two
While we’re going back in time, here’s a wall I did with Os Gemeos, Herbert Baglione, and Vitche in Sao Paulo back in 1998.
On view at Endicott College until March 16.
Thank you Michael Miller for the photo.