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Raymond Pettibon, Untitled (And as True), 2009

From Whatytuyp, the exhibition catalog for Pettibon's recent show at Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland. The text at the bottom reads:

And as true to life as if it had been taken from the notebook of a cardiologist, but sketched in this case to express nothing but sweet, exquisite emotion -- if you will have it. And who would think him unkind for that, and not accept it, any more than the surgeon would despise him for being afflicted with a serious disturbance of the circulation.

via ArtBook.

Negative Space

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Steven Parrino: Exit/Dark Matter, 1998–1999 (41 works on paper, 3 sizes)

Scott Campbell: Untitled , 2011 (Cut uncut US currency sheets, 23 x 101 inches frame)

Raymond Pettibon: No title (Why? That Benzedrine...), 1986 (Pen and ink on paper)

All from Blankness Is Not A Void, at Marc Jancou Contemporary in New York through June 4th.

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Artwork by Raymond Pettibon from the new exhibition opening tomorrow at Ambach & Rice, Playboys & Killjoys – featuring works by Pettibon, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Markus Vater, Erwin Wurm, and Eric Yahnker. From the press release:

What Humor is, not all the tribe
Of logic-mongers can describe.
-Jonathan Swift
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Playboys & Killjoys derives its title from Harry Levin’s essay on the theory and practice of comedy, dividing comedy’s protagonists in two categories, that of the playboy whom we laugh with and the killjoy whom we laugh at.

Reception Saturday 8/28, 7–9PM / show up through 9/19.
Info at Ambach & Rice.

It's Spring Again

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Raymond Pettibon is on the op-ed page in this morning's New York Times. Nicholas Kristoff also has a good piece, starting with these words: "Barack Obama this week gave the best political speech since John Kennedy talked about his Catholicism in Houston in 1960."