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My Lovely Museum Sale

2008-05-07T04:17:00.000-07:00

(the Art Institute of Chicago)

I've received great news. The Board of Trustees of the Art Institute of Chicago has just voted to purchase edition number 1/4 of the full Miscegenated Family Album installation, all 16 diptychs! It will be installed soon after the A.I.C.'s new contemporary art wing opens in May 2009, a year from now.

I'm thrilled. . . not only is this my biggest museum purchase to date. . . but for the first time in 15 years Miscegenated Family Album will be seen as a complete narrative and aesthetic experience and not as an "excerpt," a form that so often has led to misapprehension of the work. Many thanks to James Rondeau, head of the contemporary art department.

I look forward to helping install. Uncovering the best hanging for the space always teaches me a lot about the work. My favorite "look" so far was in NowHere at Denmark's Louisiana Museum --- it was in a small, dark space that looked like the inside of a sarcophagus!

Almost There!

2008-04-27T14:39:00.000-07:00

Well not quite, but ALMOST!

Since the website launched on March 16, it has risen in my Google Search from its original position of No. 350 to its current No. 3!

I'd like to give special thanks for helpfully linking to the site to: PS1/MOMA and Franklin Furnace.
And for generous mentions in their blogs to: The Brooklyn Museum and Trina Robinson's Passage-Project.
And to wonderful Carlo, who redid the Google Sitemap.

Thank you all again.

GOOGLE Listless

2008-03-22T01:09:00.000-07:00

It's beyond frustrating. We listed the website with Google and did the Google Sitemap on the day we put the site up. Now we learn that it can take a month or more for Google to add the listing and find us here. Even that is not guaranteed.

It seems the best way to have Google notice a website is not to shout and wave your arms wildly, but for other sites to link to it.

So if anybody out there wants to add us. . . .

HOLD ON!

2008-03-17T21:35:00.000-07:00

Hold On! I'm Coming. . . . Sam and Dave

THIS MAIN SECTION OF THE BLOG will be unpredictable. Haven't had time to think about it yet. Exchanges between visitors and the artist? Responses to life and world crises? Still learning, so it too will be a work in process.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

2008-03-17T07:01:00.000-07:00

THIS SECTION OF THE BLOG will contain answers to FAQ, "Frequently Asked Questions," designed to help readers and viewers new to the work form their own insights. I hope there will be a give-and-take between the Contact Page and the Blog that will be a work in process in which visitors feel free to participate.

Since this is a new website, there are currently no FAQ.