Bi-Weekly…
July 3, 2008
Bi-Weekly Find delayed this week due to the 4th. Happy fireworks and check back next week!
Essay on Multigenre Writing
June 23, 2008
I ran across a short essay titled What Multigenre Writing Looks Like on The Reflective Teacher blog that discusses multigenre writing mainly via presenting the book Blending Genre, Altering Style: Writing Multigenre Papers by Tom Romano and featuring links to writing samples. It is a nice succinct read for anyone new to the topic or those looking to revive their interest/ examine their creative boundaries.
LAWRENCE WEINER exhibits at MOCA Geffen Contemporary through 7/14
June 18, 2008
FROM MOCA: The first major United States retrospective of the work of New York-based artist Lawrence Weiner (b.1942, Bronx, NY), one of the key figures associated with the emergence and foundations of conceptual art in the 1960s, Lawrence Weiner: AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE provides a comprehensive examination of Weiner’s remarkable and cohesive oeuvre, assembling key selections and bodies of work from throughout his 40-year career. Lawrence Weiner has defined art as “the relationship of human beings to objects and objects to objects in relation to human beings,” and that premise remains at the core of all of his work. The conditions of a work of art have been the basis of Weiner’s approach since 1967, using language as a material object. The exhibition represents the full range of Weiner’s practice, from the Propeller and Removal paintings of the 1960s, to the artist’s “specific and general” works—language-based pieces that have maintained a consistent presence in his work since 1968.
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MOCAD Art and Death of the Addressee: A Conversation with Bill Berkson
June 4, 2008
Thursday, June 12 from 7-8pm at MOCAD, poet, art critic, and curator Bill Berkson will read provocative passages, designed to stimulate audience dialogue and responses, from his recent books. Covering topics ranging from museum practice, to art criticism and art history, Berkson will then ask the audience to respond to these passages and engage and direct a lively discussion amongst audience members.
The discussion will be followed at 8pm by a reading: Poetry Still Ain’t News, celebrating Detroit’s legendary boisterous bard Jim Gustafson (1949-1996). Featuring readings by Bill Berkson, Lynn Crawford, Mark Grafe, Glen Mannisto, Ken Mikolowski, Michelle Perron, Ned Richardson, Dennis Teichman, Mick Vranich, and others. 
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