DecemberDec 26 Saturday 09
Have you seen Herb and Dorothy?
"The incredible story of a postal worker and a librarian who built a world-class art collection" was almost better than Christmas. Herb and Dorothy Vogel's basic love for art and each other shows, making this movie not so much about conceptual and minimal art as much as …
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DecemberDec 25 Friday 09
Happy Holidays!!
Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday!
With love,
The LPP Family
Kelly, Cortney, Jess, Yuki and Willa
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DecemberDec 24 Thursday 09
Arturo Herrera
Come, 2008
Collage, mixed media, graphite on paper
Triptych, each part 79.72 x 57.09 inches (202.5 x 145 cm)
Waiting for Siegfried II, 2008
Graphite and acrylic on paper
88.39 x 59.06 inches
224.5 x 150 cm
Arturo Herrera, one of my favorite artists, is currently showing in a …
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DecemberDec 23 Wednesday 09
Art in My Coffee
skeletal swan
happy cat
coffee-breathing dragon
With so many artists working as baristas these days, the tops of beverages are being momentarily repurposed as makeshift canvasses more and more of the time. Art in My Coffee is a tumblr blog that logs some of this quality …
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DecemberDec 22 Tuesday 09
millergoodman
This is the brilliant work of a creative duo working out of Brighton, South coast of England. Zoe Miller and David Goodman make wonderful kids' books for the Tate Gallery and launched their first product, ShapeMaker in 2008.
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the year in view
This week Caitlin Keegan supplied the Little Paper Planes store with a stack of this 2010 calendar. Its concentric pattern and natural colors resemble a tree trunk, growing wedge by wedge, month by month. Or maybe it reminds you more of an easy-on-the-eyes game-show …
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DecemberDec 21 Monday 09
Roger Ballen: Boarding House
It is difficult to explain this place except that I think it exists in some way or another in most people's mind.
--Roger Ballen
Roger Ballen: Boarding Housethrough December 23, 2009at Gagosian Gallery (980 Madison Avenue)
Roger Ballen's current show at Gagosian displays …
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DecemberDec 19 Saturday 09
Rare Tongan Gospel
David Barclay, musician (The Diskettes, The Endless Bummer), printmaker, and Little Paper Planes' community member, has recently recorded some amazing songs by a Tongan Gospel Choir. He has posted his recordings of 13 tracks for download and has offered his own …
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DecemberDec 18 Friday 09
Belief and Technique for Modern Prose
Michelle Blade gave this to me awhile ago which has always mad me happy so I thought I would pass it on.
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Hirsch Perlman
Operation Idiocracy, Roll 1, Frame 7/8, 2003
silver gelatin print
24 x 30 inches
Operation Idiocracy, Roll 29, Frame 1/2, 2003
silver gelatin print
24 x 30 inches
Operation Idiocracy, Roll 22, Frame 16_17, 2003
silver gelatin print
24 x 30 inches
I know nothing about this body …
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DecemberDec 17 Thursday 09
Francesca DiMattoi
Francesca DiMattoi's paintings create an optical illusion with the use of patterns, shapes, and colors within an architectural framework. They create a sense of confusion with the distortion of space while giving you the feeling they are invading your actual physical …
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Friday in SF: Pakayla Biehn at Gallery 6
“Every Single Where” new works by Pakayla Biehnopens this Friday, December 18, 2009 from 7 to 11pm at Gallery 6 (66 Sixth St, San Francisco)
The show runs through January 8, 2010, but Gallery Six is open by appointment only, so I highly recommend you come out to the …
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DecemberDec 16 Wednesday 09
Mutant Anxiety at Rosenthal Gallery
LPP artist, Kelly Allen will be in a group show here in San Francisco, along with some other great artists:
Megan Whitmarsh, James Benjamin Franklin, Matt Furie, Jane Fine, Clara Fialho, Veronica De Jesus, R Nicholas Kuszyk, Kelly Allen and Derek Weisberg.
The show opens …
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Giveaway!!!
We partnered up with Jeff over at BOOOOOOOM! to give away one of our exclusive prints by the talented, David Linneweh!
Go on over to try to win it, but be prepared to tell us about your dream house!!
GO HERE!
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Saturday in SF: Paul Madonna signing
Electric Works presents ALBUM 01: book signing with Paul Madonna Saturday, December 19 2-4 PM
Paul Madonna's first collection of his strip All Over Coffee came out just after I moved to San Francisco in 2007. His beautiful ink drawings of San Francisco scenes gave me …
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DecemberDec 15 Tuesday 09
Thursday in SF: Christine Kesler at NOMA
Christine Kesler: "in a world where you are possible"opens at NOMA Gallery this Thursday, December 17th from 6-8 pm, and continues through January 17th.
Christine is also currently producing a series of Limited Edition prints for Little Paper Planes to come January 1st, …
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Pete Watts
untitled (Mount Saint Helens), graphite on paper, 24x18”, 2007
untitled (Cockatoo Island 2), graphite on paper over panel, 12x9”, 2008
untitled (Coal Mine Blast and Volcano Eruption)
Pete Watts is 25 year old artist based in Brooklyn, and has a degree in printmaking …
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DecemberDec 14 Monday 09
Art Work: A National Conversation on Art, Labor and Economics
Sight School in Oakland, CA is pleased to host this one-night exhibition and public reading of Chicago-based collective Temporary Services’ newspaper, titled “Art Work: A National Conversation on Art, Labor and Economics.” This event will take place from 7-9pm on …
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DecemberDec 13 Sunday 09
New zines!
The Little Paper Planes store just began carrying a clutch of new zines made by different artists and published by Cafe Royal. See all of Cafe Royal's offerings in the store here, and check out samples of some of our favorites below.
from Boots in the Wild by David …
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DecemberDec 12 Saturday 09
Abe's Penny
Issue 1.8
Anna and Tess Knobel began publishing Abe's Penny this March. But it's not a book. Or a magazine. It's story postcards by artists! These postcards' narratives, a combination of photographs and text, unfold in sequence, and subscribers receive one part per week, …
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