Together with the museum’s admission — $25 for adults — the prices might seem a little steep, but, well, it’s New York. And Ms. Rosler, who priced most of the things herself, said it was also a practical matter: she was afraid that if prices were too low, things would sell too quickly, and she’d be left with a garage sale not worth stopping for.
“I don’t want people to be disappointed,” she said. “I’m serious.” (The proceeds go to charity.)
Her fascination with garage sales — as portraits, through possessions, of the people who hold them; as economic end runs engineered mostly by women; as suburban sacrament and social gathering — goes back to seeing them for the first time after moving to California in the 1970s.
“I grew up in Crown Heights, and nobody would have ever thought of putting their things in front of their houses to sell,” said Ms. Rosler, 69. “Your neighbors would have thought you were crazy. It would have been deeply embarrassing.” Stoop sales, now common in New York, are what she calls a “back-formation.”
— Martha Rosler’s ‘Meta-Monumental Garage Sale,’ at MoMA - NYTimes.com
Officials say the fire was reported at about 11 p.m. Monday and involved about 80 to 100 flooded houses situated in the Zone A area. More than 190 firefighters contained the blaze, but were still putting out some pockets of fire more than nine hours after it erupted.
Firefighters said the water was chest high on the street, and they had to use a boat to make rescues. They said in one apartment home, about 25 people were trapped in an upstairs unit, and the 2-story home next door was ablaze and setting fire to the apartment’s roof. Firefighters climbed an awning to access the trapped people, and took them downstairs to the boat in the street.
—Raging In The Rockaways, Ctd - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast
[nytimes via the daily dish]
Pandora: Pandora and Artist Payments
This makes me happy to be a paying member.
Hopefully the idiots in Congress do not get a hold of this, lest they cite it as proof of their slippery slope argument in support of a marriage amendment…
Can someone explain to me why we attach so much importance to the ridiculous actions of a bunch of self-aggrandizing knuckleheads? Yeah, I mean Wall Street.
Oh hey, look, something good grew out of the Japanese tsunami/nuclear disaster. Thank you Coca-Cola for showing that something like this can be done.
“Using just the loose coins in your pocket, you can make a small but meaningful contribution to the beautification of your city!”
via laughingsquid.com
(via Tornadoes Become Unexpected Wedding Guests - weather.com)
Will this be the new trend in wedding/engagement photos?
Keep it up!!! (er.. well, not that way… not that there’s anything wrong with that [unless it’s more than 4 hours]… you know what I mean!)
Is Tennessee trying to jump ahead of Mississippi to lead the nation in dumb? You got it TN legislature, it’s all that subversive hand holding that causes you to be above the average in teen pregnancy…nelle Evans Leak
