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By Peggy Roalf   Wednesday March 25, 2015

This is My Life, Jobless, by Sarah Nataf, from Unemployed:

It’s official I hate money and any materials things.

My exile comes to an end and I wanna play the “let’s get a job” game again.

One phone call in, and I am on board again with my old partner in crime from Jalouse Magazine. No contract, just couples of euros for some cool trips, I ‘m squeezed like a lemon and becomes a lemonade of content and concept for the publication.  Except that my lemonade is on sale and cash is needed to buy lemons. 

Exposing your life thru social media becomes part of our life, and I feed into it. For the public eye, I have a fantastic position, and huge paycheck that allows me to have one of the most envied lifestyle.

This is fraud. I am a fraud. I am the most broke, homeless and I am being taking advantage of. And I let this happened to me.

I need more, I want more.

And life knocks at my door again.

After realizing that their generation included many people who were educated and skilled but unemployed, Sophie Tabet and Cecile Winckler set out to do something about it — and so, they created Unemployed magazine to showcase New Yorkers’ creative work.

Unemployed, a new print publication was launched this week, in the form of “a single document in poster format” comprised exclusively of imagery. The online platform, featuring articles and films, is continually updated. The spread above was included, uncredited, in the unlinked preview.

 

 

Opening reception, Thursday, March 26, 6-9 pm: The BFA Photography department at School of Visual arts presents, Mentors, 6-8 pm. The 2014 – 2015 mentors include photographer Tina Barney; video and performance artist Kalup Donte Linzy; Kathy Ryan, director of photography for New York Times Magazine; and Caroline Wolff, director of photography for W magazine, among others. 

SVA Chelsea Gallery, 501 West 26th Street, FL 15, NY, NY. Information. Photo above, from the preview on Monday: Peggy Roalf.

 


Saul Robbins: New York City (1104151), Scratched Drawing on Chromogenic Print.

Opening reception, Friday, March 27, 6-9 pm: Imaging Now: Collected Visions, featuring work by DART subscriber Saul Robbins, Haley Morris-Cafiero, Whit Forrester, Claire Gilliam, Galina Kurlat, Jean Miele, and Meghann Riepenhoff, and curated by Dani Cattan.
Hyde Gallery, Memphis College of Art, 477 South Main, Memphis, TN. Information.

From FastCo Design blog: The stencil is one of the world’s most primitive printing techniques. It dates back to prehistory, with stencils found in caves, in the art of ancient China and Japan, and in the crafts of indigenous people worldwide. Stencil typefaces are still popular today, whether in the form of new, witty takes on the genre, like Der Weiner Stentzel’s sausage shapes for letterforms, or vintage typefaces redrawn as stencils, like Bodoni or Century.

Right: Stenciled street signs and numbers, Venice. Photo: Louise Fili.

Stencil Type (Thames & Hudson), a new book by design gurus Steven Heller and Louise Fili, compiles 60 years of this universal typographic style with photos from around the world. It reveals why the stencil has been and remains such a valuable tool for designers and typographers even in the age of digital printing.
 
Today, the Metropolitan Museum of Art launches The Artist Project, in which 100 artists respond to works from The Met’s vast collection, which spans more than five millennia and cultures throughout the world. Over the course of the year, The Artist Project will be presented in five seasons of 20 episodes each.

In Season 1, the series will include Cory Arcangel, John Baldessari, Nayland Blake, Nick Cave, Enrique Chagoya, George Condo, Walton Ford, Natalie Frank, Zarina Hashmi, Deborah Kass, Nina Katchadourian, Nicola López, Alexander Melamid, Izhar Patkin, Tom Sachs, Katrín Sigurdardóttir, Mickalene Thomas, Kehinde Wiley, Xu Bing, and Lisa Yuskavage. The Artist Project.

 
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