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Fantagraphics did something like this a while back, and they’re still kicking (maybe because they’re a comic book publisher and not magazines). Print is dying, but here’s a chance to keep it on life support. Depressing, yeah.

Maybe if Giant Robot started publishing more comics in their magazine?

I feel the same way.

Seems like fun from the Observatory Room:

ENTOMOLOGIA – A Group Show of Insect Art
February 26th – April 4th, 2010

Opening: Friday, February 26; 7:00 – 10:00
Hours: Thursdays and Fridays 3-6; Saturdays and Sundays 12-6;

OBSERVATORY and Curious Expeditions’ Michelle Enemark are delighted to announce “Entomologia,” a group show of art incorporating and inspired by insects, on view from February 26th through April 4th.

“Four years of hard work in the darkness, and a month of delight in the sun – such is the Cicada’s life. We must not blame him for the noisy triumph of his song. For four years he has dug the earth with his feet, and then suddenly he is dressed in exquisite raiment, provided with wings that rival the bird’s, and bathed in heat and light. What cymbals can be loud enough to celebrate his happiness, so hardly earned, and so very, very short?” -Jean Henri Fabre

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:

Jennifer Angus
Joianne Bittle
Catherine Chalmers
Joanna Ebenstein
Michelle Enemark
Judith Klausner
Barrett Klein
Shanna Maurizi
Herbert Pfostl
Brian Riley
Stacey Steers
Steve Thurston
James Walsh
Lisa Wood

ENTOMOLOGIA EVENTS DURING THE RUN OF THE SHOW

Insect Safari with Catherine Chalmers
Friday, March 12, 7:30pm
A film screening of Entomologia contributing artist Catherine Chalmers’ insect shorts, “Safari” and “We Rule”. The screening will be followed by a talk about the cast of the Safari; 20 species of insects, reptiles and amphibians she raised in her SOHO studio.

Insects, Naturalist, Dioramas and World Travels
Friday, March 19, 2010, 8:00pm
A talk of insects, world travel, and art with Joianne Bittle, Entomologia contributing artist, and diorama artist for the American Museum of Natural History.

Curiosity and Horror: Transgenics, Cybernetics, and Evolution
Saturday, April 3, 2010, 8:00pm
An illustrated lecture by Entomologia contributing artist Shanna Maurizi on the nether regions of genetic engineering and transgenics, molecular biology, and military cybernetics.

Exhibition: ENTOMOLOGIA

ABOUT THE CURATOR:
Michelle Enemark is the creator of Curious Expeditions, a site devoted to traveling and exhuming the extraordinary past. Curious Expeditions was named a finalist for best travel blog in the 2008 Weblog Awards and received a 2009 Cliopatria Award. A motion graphics artist by trade, visual artist by training, and historian and naturalist by self appointment, Michelle aims to show the forgotten bits of the world, be they lost pieces of history, forgotten museums, or elements of the natural world that have been ignored or overlooked.

ADDITIONAL CURATION:
Jessica Oreck works as an animal keeper and docent at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC. When not at the museum, Jessica spends her time inventing new ways to create a sense of wonder in the world. Jessica just finished her first feature documentary, “Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo.” She is currently in production on several animated science shows, building her own museum exhibition, and pre-production for her next feature film, The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga.

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Poster Design by Andrew Hurst

BACK THE BEAT: DOWNLOAD MAP HERE

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THE FOLLOWING SPACES WILL BE PARTICIPATING
IN THIS LATE NITE EVENT:
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ENGLISH KILLS
ANDY PIEDILATO: New Paintings

February 19-March 21

114 Forrest Street, Brooklyn, NY 11237

PH:  718.366.7323
EML:  info (at) englishkillsartgallery(dot)com
URL:  www.englishkillsartgallery.com

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CENTOTTO

TERRAE AND THE ETHER:  Bridging a recently bygone ‘simposio’ denuding creative process with an upcoming ‘simposio’ authorizing poly-authored forgeries, this new ‘interstizio’ exhibit merges the patent nominalities of photographed places and persons, or places and things, with paintings of an indefinite, abstractly envisioned ether that might conceivably dwell therebetween.

Featuring paintings by Tim Kent, Layton Hower and Miguel Kim, and photographs by Myles Dickason and Didier Clain.

250 Moore Street, #108, Brooklyn, NY 11206

PH: 908.338.3590
EML: postuccio (at) gmail.com
URL: http://centotto.com

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FACTORY FRESH

FRONT ROOM: pufferella

BACK ROOM: The Josh McCutchen Show

1053 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11237

EML: info (at) factoryfresh.net
URL: www.factoryfresh.net

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FAMOUS ACCOUNTANTS

In my Secrecy I Was Real: works by Randal Wilcox

1673 Gates Avenue, Ridgewood, NY 11385

EML: kvnrgn (at) gmail.com
URL:  http://famousaccountants.wordpress.com/

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STOREFRONT

fog walks:
new sculpture by Norman Jabaut
and a work by Robert Rauschenberg

February 19-March 28

hours: Sat + Sun 1-6PM
email: info(at)storefront(dot)com
url:  http://www.storefrontbk.com

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SUGAR

council bluff: David B. Frye + JJ Sulin

449 Troutman St., 3rd floor #3-5, bell #21, Brooklyn, NY 11237

PH: 718-417-1180
EML: sugar (at) sugarbushwick(dot)com
URL: http://sugarbushwick.com/

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…encouraging, promoting and supporting collaborations in the arts.

Elena Coniglio feat Mike Tyson a Ballando con le Stelle

Dancing can save your life.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

19 FEBRUARY 2010, 6-9pm
CLOPEN STUDIO, 1100 Broadway, Brooklyn

Featuring the work of: Korakrit ARUNANONDCHAI, Michael ASSIFF, John BIANCHI, DADDY, Scott GOODMAN, Allie PISARRO-GRANT, Clayton SCHIFF, Andrew THOMAS, Justin WARSH

1100 Broadway is pleased to present CLOPEN STUDIO, a one night only exhibition of eight artists and one design firm. In the former home of the Bruce High Quality Foundation, 1100 Broadway has reemerged as a multidisciplinary art and music studio. Continuing in the independent spirit of the former occupants, CLOPEN STUDIO will feature a diverse representation of new work by emerging artists and musicians, and act as active space within the Bushwick art community.

Join us for an after hours drink and dance at Goodbye Blue Monday (1087 Broadway) with music by Bad Credit No Credit and Devin Kkenny.