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In June of 2020 I contributed to my friend Marc Fischer's Quaranzine series. More info below. In October of 2020 the entire series was exhibited at The Innovative Media Research and Commercialization (IMRC) Center in Maine. In July of 2025 a selection of 40 issues (including my own) was put on display as part of Collection in Conversation  with Pablo Helguera at  The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (photo below). The exhibition is up through July 5th, 2026. Photo by Marc Fischer A complete set of  Quaranzine  is part of several library collections, including those of The Museum of Modern Art (NY), The Met, MCA Chicago, and The Art Institute of Chicago. Here are some links with more about the  Quaranzine  project: Where it all began –  Quaranzine #1 My contribution –  Quaranzine #81 The full set (now sold out) A scan / info on every issue of  Quaranzine  and more Purchase an assortment of 12 issues here Thank you Marc for ...

Favorite books of mine linked to Goodreads. February, 2026 additions indicated with *   ART Vienna Actionism by Eva Badura-Triska (Editor), Kerstin Barnick-braun, Herbert Klocker (Editor) Installation Art by Claire Bishop Everything Seemed Possible: Art in the 1970s by Richard Cork Poor Artists: A Quest Into the Art World by Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad Oui: The Paranoid-Critical Revolution: Writings 1927–1933 by Salvador Dalí , Robert Descharnes (Editor) Ralph Eugene Meatyard by Guy Davenport Bruce Nauman - Raw Materials by Emma Dexter Marcel Duchamp by Anne d'Harnoncourt (Editor) The Century of Artists' Books by Johanna Drucker Frank Auerbach by William Feaver Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone, 1955-1972 by Elena Filipovic (Contributor), Joanna Mytkowska (Editor) Francis Bacon by Matthew Gale (Editor), Chris Stephens (Editor) The Story of Art by E.H. Gombrich Ecce Homo by George Grosz The Story of Art Without Men by Katy Hessel ...

Photo by Silas My friend, and fellow experimental musician, Danny Costa passed away in April of 2024. He was 39 years old. In August I was part of a special concert in his memory. My performance used the following poem... Soldier Rest by Sir Walter Scott Soldier, rest! thy warfare o’er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking; Dream of battled fields no more, Days of danger, nights of waking. In our isle’s enchanted hall, Hands unseen thy couch are strewing, Fairy strains of music fall, Every sense in slumber dewing. Soldier, rest! thy warfare o’er, Dream of fighting fields no more; Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Morn of toil, nor night of waking. No rude sound shall reach thine ear, Armour’s clang, or war-steed champing, Trump nor pibroch summon here Mustering clan or squadron tramping. Yet the lark’s shrill fife may come At the daybreak from the fallow, And the bittern sound his drum, Booming from the sedgy shallow. Ruder sounds shall none be near, Gu...