Thursday, February 27, 2014

If you want to go to a great Perty: TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE FOR THE ARMORY PARTY AT THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART March 5th






The Museum of Modern Art will host The Armory Party, a benefit event with live music and DJs celebrating the opening of The Armory Show and Armory Arts Week on Wednesday, March 5, 2014. The evening reception, along with the daytime Early Access Preview at Piers 92 and 94, benefits exhibition programming for The Museum of Modern Art.
The acclaimed band Blood Orange will perform live at The Armory Party in MoMA’s Agnes Gund Garden Lobby. The brainchild of British singer/songwriter Dev Hynes, Blood Orange has released two critically lauded albums, Coastal Grooves (2011) and Cupid Deluxe (2013). Joining Blood Orange is DJ Jamie xx, also a member of The xx, who has achieved critical fame remixing and writing songs for Gil Scott-Heron, Drake and Rihanna, Radiohead, and Alicia Keys.
The 2014 Armory Party runs from 9:00 pm to midnight, and features a VIP Hour from 8:00 to 9:00 pm. The VIP Hour includes access to MoMA’s Robert Heinecken: Object Matter exhibition in addition to The Armory Party at 9:00 pm.
Tickets can be purchased here:
www.moma.org/visit/calendar/events/20090

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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

SCOPE New York 2014




 









SCOPE is delighted to welcome you as official press for SCOPE New York 2014, offering you unlimited access to SCOPE Art Show at our landmark location: Skylight at Moynihan Station, the iconic New York City Post Office.

Your press badge will be available at check- in, beginning March 6, 2014, 6:00 PM. Please visit scope-art.com/press to gain access to SCOPE’s online Media Center to download press releases, images and archived newsletters.

Welcoming 50 International Exhibitors and 15 Breeder Program galleries, SCOPE New York will also feature a wide range of curated projects, sponsor programs and Platinum VIP tours. With an emphasis on activating emerging galleries and artists, attendees to SCOPE are seasoned collectors, curators and tastemakers looking for new discovery.

SCOPE New York opens on Thursday, March 6, with its invitation-only Platinum VIP Gala from 3-6pm, followed by its First View, welcoming VIPs and Press from 6-9pm. SCOPE New York will open to the general public March 7 - 9, 2014.

Event highlights include: The SCOPE Platinum VIP Gala, on Thursday, March 6, 3-6pm: Featuring complimentary cocktails and light fare, this event will benefit the New York based nonprofit, chashama. This event is free for Platinum VIP cardholders, by invitation, or $150 donation to chashama.

Also on the calendar is SCOPE’s exclusive party "THE ONE FIFTY" hosted by GrandLife,Friday March 7, 9pm-12:30am at Tribeca Grand, featuring music by Chelsea Leyland. This event is invitation only. To apply for press access, please email pr@scope-art.com.

SCOPE will maintain a complimentary shuttle service to and from The Armory Show and VOLTA NY for Platinum VIP and VIP Cardholders. Additionally, visitors may reach the fair by public transportation, including the A, C, E, 1, 2, 3, B, D, F, M, N, Q, R subway lines.

Please click on the image below to download The SCOPE New York Press Kit, which contains a brief overview of the fair, featured highlights in Breeder, Exhibitor, Featured Projects and Sponsor programming, as well as a schedule of events.

Should you have any questions, or to request additional information or images, please do not hesitate to contact pr@scope-art.com. We look forward to welcoming you in New York!



            

SCOPE taps into the cultural psyche to present only the most pioneering work across multiple creative disciplines. With over a decade of critically acclaimed art fairs and non-profit initiatives that extend beyond the ordinary in contemporary art.






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HOROLOGICS A Countdown with Mark von Schlegell




HOROLOGICS
A Countdown with Mark von Schlegell

Reading & Screening
This Friday, February 28, 7pm

55 Walker Street
New York
NY 10013
T 212 226 3970

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3. Chrononautics: an Introduction
A reading, with accompanying sound by George Rippon

2. The Fainnie Azul Horologe
An introduction to a French Revolutionary Timepiece

1. Starlite V and Epilogue of Starlite
A screening of a short fantasy film directed by Frances Scholz, adapted from a cycle of stories by Mark von Schlegell

This event marks the launch of The Fainnie Azul Horologe by Mark von Schlegell, published by Halmos, the second in a series of non-print publications exploring time as syntactic medium.

Art writer and science fiction novelist Mark von Schlegell is the author of Venusia (2005),Mercury Station (2009) and the forthcoming Sundogz, from Semiotext(e). He teaches the Pure Fiction Seminar at Staedelschule, Frankfurt, Germany. His criticism and fiction appear regularly the world over. He has scripted numerous artist films including Ben Rivers' Slow Action (2010) and Frances Scholz's Episodes of Starlite (2011). His story "Fainnie Azul," inspiration for theFainnie Azul Horologe, will be published as one of Semiotext(e)'s 2014 Whitney Biennial pamphlets.

Started in 2010 by Erik Wysocan, Halmos publishes texts and objects with a critical eye towards chronopolitics. It has facilitated new works by numerous artists including Pamela Rosenkranz, Sam Lewitt, Claire Fontaine, Dexter Sinister and many others. Halmos projects have been exhibited at the ICA Philadelphia, Objectif Exhibitions Antwerp, the Museum of Art and Design, NY and Miguel Abreu, NY. The Fainnie Azul Horologe by Mark von Schlegell is the second in the F-91W series of non-print publications exploring time as syntactic medium. It is being produced in a limited edition of 30 pieces. 
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A Portrait Apart Deux Opening Reception: Thursday, February 27, 6:30 - 8:30 PM



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A Portrait Apart Deux 
Opening Reception: 
Thursday, February 27, 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Join Us Thursday!
Portraiture reinvents itself with every generation and culture. A Portrait Apart Deux encompasses the essence of what portraiture means to us today through the works of international artists Melissa Anderson, Dianne Athey, 
Jason Bryant,Louise Daddona, Beata Drozd, Janice Gossman, Naoto Hattori
Amy Hill, JaH-HaHaJeff HuntingtonJee Hwang, Elizabeth Knowles, 
Tasha Lewis, Katarzyna Majak, Jana Millstone, Bruno Perillo, Johnny Romeo, Rachel Sharp, Anne Smerdon, James Stamboni, Suprina, Meghan Willis.

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New York, New York 10001
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Toni Silber-Delerive's February News

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time." - Thomas Merton
Calif.Overpass
North Calif Intersection, acrylic on canvas, 30" x 40"
North California Intersection and 4 additional paintings: Open Field Cultivation, Farm Country, Bayonne, New Jersey and Nysa City Suburb are also in the Landscape Juried Online Exhibition at Upstream People Gallery.
As a birdseye view the highways become the linear design element of the painting. The multiple highways are the focus of the composition and take you through the painting. Reduced to linear movement, the landscape is complimented by the use of green.
frances
Frances and Ruth, oil on canvas, 24" x 18"
Frances and Ruth received Honorable Mention along withAurelie and Friends from Linus Galleries Past, Present, Future Exhibition. Their mission it is to help emerging and established artists gain recognition in the art world.
My figurative paintings, many based on old family photographs offer a stylized impression of different periods and subjects. While tastes and fashions do change, the most basic of human needs, desires, and dreams are timeless, and this portrait strives to convey these eternal human yearnings and relationships.
Duesseldorf, Ger
Dusseldorf, oil on canvas, 36" x 48"
Dusseldorf, Germany was awarded Special Recognition in Art Quench Gallery's "Open Theme" Juried Art Competition and Exhibition.
Seen from above this government building in Germany become an abstract design and the key element of the painting. Reduced to the circular elements, the details are softened and made somber by the use of gray.
I invite you to visit my revised website tonisart.com to see more of my aerialscapes, food and figurative paintings.
Limited-edition prints and greeting cards of many of my paintings are available.
Contact me for details.
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PULSE Contemporary Art Fair


PULSE Contemporary Art Fairs is pleased to announce the appointment of Helen Toomer as the new fair Director.  “I am delighted and honored to be taking on the directorship of such a prominent and well established fair as it moves into its tenth year,” states Helen Toomer. “Exhibitors and fairgoers alike can expect compelling changes in quality and commitment, which will be demonstrated throughout all aspects of the PULSE experience.”
PULSE CONTEMPORARY ART FAIRS presents PULSE New YorkMay 8 – 11, 2014. Marking its ninth edition, PULSE New York will return to the Metropolitan Pavilion, Chelsea, during Frieze art week.   
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The Armory Art Tours: 2014


The Armory Show | Piers 92 & 94

The Armory Art Tours: 2014
The Armory Art Tours  is delighted to extend an invitation to join Margaret Erbe of  Erbe Arts and Olivier M. Fuller ofthe PROJECT for a comprehensive tour program of the 2014 Armory Show from March 5th-9th.
Lauded by The Art Newspaper as “worthy of any major museum," Erbe Arts Armory Art Tours program has led both groups and individuals on informative and comprehensive tours of The Armory Show since 2008. Guided by a well-informed team of senior art professionals The Armory Art Tours offer General and Specialist Tours, as well as, customized private tours to meet your every interest and curiosity. Engage in a lively dialogue with our exhibitors, meet with other collectors and learn about the artists, current market trends, and the subtleties of collecting.
Highlights of the Armory 2014 include an exhibition of contemporary art from China on Pier 94, curated by Philip Tinari, Director of The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, entitled Amory Focus: China, as well as the inaugural edition of Armory Presents, a new section devoted to solo and dual artist presentations by galleries less than ten years old.
We are happy to announce this year’s Specialist Tours which include:
• Emerging Markets
• Armory Modern
 China Focus
• Collecting Contemporary
• Disrupting Art, Ones to Watch  

In addition we will be offering General Tours of the show every hour on the hour from 1 to 5pmand Private and Corporateand Group Tours.
To book your Private, Corporate or Group Tours please contact us at erbearts@gmail.com
For General and Specialist tour purchases please click HERE
And visit us at Erbe Arts and The Armory Show.

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Monday, February 24, 2014

THE ARMORY SHOW OPEN FORUM


The Armory Show | Piers 92 & 94



THE ARMORY SHOW OPEN FORUM
The Armory Show Announces Line-Up of Outstanding Panels, Lectures and Discussions
Organized by Isolde Brielmaier
NEW YORK – The Armory Show 2014, taking place March 6-10, on Piers 92 and 94 in central Manhattan, announces the upcoming edition of Open Forum, the annual thought-provoking discussion series featuring leading curators, critics, designers, gallerists, museum directors, and art world experts. The 2014 edition has been organized by Isolde Brielmaier; New-York based Curator, Writer, Project Consultant and Visiting Professor, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. The program features noteworthy roundtables that address artist publishing, the role of women artists within today’s market, and the status of biennials. In addition, two outstanding conversations have been organized by T: The New York Times Style Magazine, an in-depth panel examining today’s gallery ecosystem will be presented by TALKING GALLERIES: The International Platform for Gallerists, and The Art Dealers Association of American (ADAA) and the Association of Professional Art Advisors (APAA) will co-present a panel on connoisseurship. A screening of ART21 @ The Armory Show has also been organized in partnership with ART21
On her oversight of Open Forum, Isolde Brielmaier notes, "I am thrilled to be curating The Armory Show's Open Forum this year. We have the generous contributions of some brilliant speakers who will explore a great range of relevant topics. These include the shifting landscape in creating books on contemporary art and artists as well a powerhouse group of international curators on the buzzing topic of 'biennials.' I am also so pleased to include a dynamic discussion that dovetails with Pier 92's "Modern" presentation of women artists and iconic works on paper. All of these panels enhance the fair's gallery presentations and are sure to offer provocative discussions that will attract a broad audience."
Deborah Needleman, Editor in Chief of T: The New York Times Style Magazine states, “The global scope and spirit of The Armory Show makes it a perfect partner forT as our international arts coverage encompasses the most compelling modern art, its makers, collectors, and the market itself. We are thrilled to help kick off this important show with panels on Hong Kong's dynamic art scene, led by arts editor Gay Gassmann, and integrating art into the decoration of a home, led by design editor Tom Delavan.”
All panels will take place in T: The New York Times Style Magazine Media Lounge on Pier 94.

THURSDAY, MARCH 6
1:00–2:30pm
PUBLISHING WITH AND ABOUT ARTISTS
PARTICIPANTS: Christophe Boutin; Duane Michals; Anna Moschovakis
MODERATOR: Cay Sophie Rabinowitz
This panel explores the dynamic ins-and-outs of publishing both books and other collateral about artists’ work. The conversation will focus on the act of publication, the steps taken when publishing the work of specific artists, and publishing in a range of media. Panelists will also discuss the creative process of developing books in collaboration with artists themselves.
Featuring panelists: Christophe Boutin, OneStar Press, Paris; Duane Michals, Artist; Anna Moschovakis, Writer, Translator and Member of the Ugly Duckling Presse publishing collective. Moderated by Cay Sophie Rabinowitz, Founder and Publisher, OSMOS.

3:004:30pm
VENUS DRAWN OUT: 20TH CENTURY WORKS BY GREAT WOMEN ARTISTS
PARTICIPANTS: Inka Essenhigh; Lynn Gumpert; Pat Steir
MODERATOR: Susan Harris
This panel is organized in conjunction with The Armory Show – Modern exhibition, Venus Drawn Out: 20th Century Works by Great Women Artists, curated by Susan Harris on Pier 92.  It will feature a rare conversation amongst two of the show's participants and a museum director.  The panelists will discuss drawing as a part of artistic practice, the works of art in VENUS DRAWN OUT, as well as questions and realities around being a female artist in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Featuring panelists: Inka Essenhigh, Artist, New York; Lynn Gumpert, Director, Grey Art Gallery, New York University; Pat Steir, Artist, New York. Moderated by Susan Harris, New York-based Independent Curator and Writer.

5:00–6:30pm
ART VS. DESIGN IN RESIDENTIAL INTERIORS
PARTICIPANTS: Jonathan Adler; Sharon Hurwitz; Sean Kelly
MODERATOR: Tom Delavan
All collectors ultimately face challenges around how to best integrate art into their homes: in some instances, the art clearly takes priority, while in others the architecture and furnishings seem to come first. Industry experts will speak about how they approach the situation and how they strike the balance. With so many different parties involved—architects, art consultants, interior designers—the panelists will discuss how to best navigate the process, along with some of the key pitfalls to avoid. The panel will also highlight some of the best recent examples of art being displayed in a living environment.
Featuring panelists: Jonathan Adler, Potter, Designer, Author and Founder and Chairman of Jonathan Adler; Sharon Hurwitz, New York-based Independent Curator and Advisor specializing in Post-War and Contemporary prints and multiples; Sean Kelly, Owner and Founder, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York. Moderated by Tom Delavan, Design Editor, T Magazine.
Presented by T: The New York Times Style Magazine

FRIDAY, MARCH 7

11:00 –12:00pm
FILM SCREENING: ART21 @ THE ARMORY SHOW
ART21, the non-profit contemporary art organization and producer of the Peabody Award-winning and Emmy-nominated television series ART21 Art in the Twenty-First Century, presents a film screening of ART21 @ The Armory Show. ART21's new film brings together exclusive interviews with Phil Tinari, curator of this year’s Armory Focus: China and ART21 profiles of three Chinese artists whose work has had significant impact and attention internationally: Ai Weiwei, Cai Guo Qiang, and Cao Fei. Tinari’s insights on the development of contemporary art in China provide a foundation for his selection of artists for Armory Focus: China, including Armory Commissioned artist Xu Zhen. ART21’s film offers context for the selection of contemporary Chinese artists visitors will encounter at the fair.
Presented by Art21, a leading nonprofit dedicated to engaging and educating audiences about the work and processes of contemporary visual artists.

1:00–2:30pm
FROM THE BOTTOM UP: RETHINKING ART GALLERIES IN A COMMODITY AND EVENT DOMINATED ECOSYSTEM
PARTICIPANTS: Georgina Adam; Helen Allen; Carlos Duran; Darren Flook; Kavi Gupta
MODERATOR: Christian Viveros-Fauné
The art world has been significantly reshaped by the global art market in the last two decades. In a time of flux, many people are questioning the role of galleries, their ability to adjust to changing circumstances and even their existence as brick and mortar spaces. This panel will take up some of the central issues surrounding the transformation of the global gallery ecosystem. Among these are: the bifurcation of the art market, the spectacular rise of art prices, the development and growth of art as an asset class, the speculation associated with the phenomenon of investment-grade art, the importance of art fairs, art fair exhaustion and the increased public identification of art, art galleries and artists with the global .01%. The discussion will attempt to identify alternatives to business as usual for galleries committed to the values of artistic innovation, openness and good business.
Featuring panelists: Georgina Adam, Art Market Columnist, The Financial Times and BBC.com, and Editor-at-large, The Art Newspaper; Helen Allen, Founder and Principal, Allen/Cooper Enterprises and Site/109; Carlos Duran, Director and Owner, Galeria Senda and Co-Founder, the LOOP art fair; Darren Flook, Co-Founder,  Independent Art Fair; Kavi Gupta, Director and Owner, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago and Berlin. Moderated by Christian Viveros-Fauné, New York-based Critic and Curator, Columnist, the Village Voice and Regular Contributor to ArtReview and The Art Newspaper.
Presented by TALKING GALLERIES | The International Platform for Gallerists

3:00–4:30pm
HERE AND NOW: BIENNIALS IN THE 21ST CENTURY
PANELISTS: Dan Byers; Michelle Grabner; Franklin Sirmans
MODERATOR: Lynne Cooke
This discussion will draw on questions arising from the shifting landscape of recent and upcoming international biennials. How has or hasn't the platform of the biennial evolved? What is or should the function of a biennial be? What might be said of location, subject matter and audience? The panelists will examine the idea of the biennial as both an important and challenging gauge of the “here and now” and question its continual relevance and viability as a platform for the exhibition of contemporary art and artists today.
Featuring panelists: Dan Byers, The Richard Armstrong Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Co-Curator, 2013 Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum; Michelle Grabner, Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Co-Curator, the 2014 Whitney Biennial; Franklin Sirmans, The Terri and Michael Smooke Department Head and Curator of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Artistic Director, Prospect.3 New Orleans 2014. Moderated by Lynne Cooke, The Andrew W. Mellon Professor, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

5:00–6:30pm
ART SCENE: HONG KONG NOW
PARTICIPANTS: Ben Brown; Aric Chen; Adrian Cheng; Jane DeBevoise
MODERATOR: Gay Gassmann
T Magazine Contributing Art Editor Gay Gassmann and a panel of Hong Kong art insiders discuss what is happening in the world's most dynamic, new art capital – who are the players, what are they doing, where and why now? What are the new models and templates being built? Do the existing models apply or not? Who is the audience and how is the content similar to or different from what the rest of the art world is doing?
Featuring panelists: Ben Brown, Gallery Founder and Principal, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London and Hong Kong; Aric Chen, Curator of Architecture and Design, M+ Museum, Hong Kong; Adrian Cheng, Founder and Chairman, K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong; Jane DeBevoise, Chair, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong. Moderated by Gay Gassmann, T Magazine Contributing Art Editor, 18th Century Art Historian and passionate advocate for contemporary art and artists.
Presented by T: The New York Times Style Magazine

SATURDAY, MARCH 8

10:00–11:30am
FAIR VALUE: HOW TOP DEALERS, ADVISORS AND COLLECTORS IDENTIFY VALUE AT AN ART FAIR
PARTICIPANTS: Suzanne Gyorgy; Sean Kelly; Jill Kraus; Allan Schwartzman
MODERATOR: Dorsey Waxter
Join the Art Dealers Association of America and the Association of Professional Art Advisors for a conversation focused on the crucial role of connoisseurship in identifying art of value while navigating the fairs.
Featuring panelists: Suzanne Gyorgy, Managing Director, Art Advisory & Finance, Citi Private Bank; Sean Kelly, Owner and Founder, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York; Jill Kraus, New York-based Collector; Allan Schwartzman, New York-based Art Advisor. Moderated by Dorsey Waxter, President, Art Dealers Association of America Inc.
Presented by the Art Dealers Association of America and the Association of Professional Art Advisors

NOTES TO THE EDITOR
The Armory Show
2014 Fair Show Dates
March 6-9, 2014
Piers 92 & 94
Twelfth Avenue at 55th Street
New York City
Opening Hours
Wednesday, March 5th – VIP Preview for invited guests
Thursday, March 6 - Sunday, March 9, noon to 7 pm
Tickets
Tickets for The Armory Show can be purchased by visiting our website.
Note that general admission tickets are required for entry to Open Forum.
The Armory Show
The Armory Show is New York’s leading fair for modern and contemporary art. A seminal event in the annual New York arts calendar, the fair spearheads Armory Arts Week, a city-wide program of cultural events and exhibitions.  The Armory Show 2014 will again feature an acclaimed VIP program, a lively opening night party at the Museum of Modern Art and the engaging Open Forum discussion series. This year’s fair will also coincide with the opening of the 2014 Whitney Biennial in early March, further enhancing the line-up of Armory Arts Week events planned in partnership with New York’s cultural institutions, and attracting a wide scope of international collectors, curators, scholars, and press.
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Reorient

REORIENT - The Masked Man of Morocco

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Sam Pulitzer A Colony for "Them" Opening Saturday, March 15, 6 - 8pm







Sam Pulitzer
A Colony for "Them"
Opening
Saturday, March 15, 6 - 8pm

March 16 –
May 18, 2014
Open Monday, May 12 during Frieze New York

Artists Space Exhibitions
38 Greene Street
3rd Floor
New York
NY 10013
T 212 226 3970

THE TROJANS

1 E 70th St New York, NY 10021
For inquiries call: +001 913 669 9735

EPISODE 3: VENTÔSE
(February 20 – March 20)


"I know how unbelievable this must seem now, today, when our practices are if anything exactly otherwise and those who held court in the old massive shards were either forcibly unplugged or retreated on their own into ever more distant servers, unilateral dial-tone p2ps and desolate mirrors. But there was a time, remember? When the convention was to simplify the figures to the point of extinction. Before the full-repeater rumblepaks, before the PICC lines. Sinon... Are you listening?"

The gallery forks but barely. Cass's hand finds the gauge at the base of his spine and feels the pulse on her fingertips through the small rose window.

"That was how you procreated your brand, like a kind of voluntary absorption and cooptation and then splitting the whole thing down the middle. Mitoses all done at the backend of a prompt. You just had to know how to beg the question just right, you know? Si?"

Sinon nods left and right, and the gallery forks again. A thin wedge of white walls advancing towards them comes to rest, as they do, against his forehead, creasing it along the axis of symmetry and trestled on his nose and chin against the thin blue bruise beginning to green slightly. Cass can't count anymore the number of times they've been given the option.

They're identical now, the paths. On both near sides a thin blindered transom above a central Tilt-N-Swivel 360 doorknob-shaped unoccupied wall mount, and on the far, an inch from the ceiling where Sinon can't see but knows it's there, two opaque disks like albino moles and ticking quietly in unison: the alarms.

With the edge splitting his horopter, each of his mutually blind eyes have an identical hallway all of their own, an identical depth of field the wall's collapse of parallax flattens out. His own inset disk threadily beats warmer. "What do you see?" Sinon sighs. He wants to say: pictures.

"Thinking, Cass," rolling his right eye towards her puts the left fork out into smooth white paint. And rolling it back restores it, saying, "every time we do this, we choose one way or another, but I don't know which way. I know there are forks there, but the ones I see are the same, single one, in parallel to itself."

On edge, she says, grinding into his spine where the plasticine bows in over it, "Then it doesn't matter. If every unique instance is the same, I mean."

"Cass, we've taken how many now, left and right? If they're really different, then why have none of them recrossed? They'd have to eventually, by now. What if each time we come here, we split. We keep walking down both hallways."

"Let's see, Si. Let's see." Cass pushes further in. A rivulet of blood flows from a vertical cut down Sinon's face and trails the wedge of the wall, tending left, and they follow it along what must be a slight and differentiating depression, pooling under the empty mount at the wall's horizontal center. Sinon pliés; Cass stops tracing the rim of his gauge and squats to lift him, her hands gripping the crests of his hips, fitting him around the cold metal of the knob. Where his back meets the wall its surface dimples, extending into a furrow from the ceiling to the floor. From eye level in Cass's unbroken squat, an engraved brass plaque reloads between Sinon's legs, and reads:

"Instance Dungeon Containing Large Anthropoid Ribosome, 21st c. SoHo, New York. Gift from the Pfizer Sealed Air and Crystal Candy Corp. Foundation. In this Instance, remaining human characteristics are purely skeuomorphic. Not appropriate for immature visitors. Some discomfort is natural during the generation of new copies of the location. Expect sudden movements."

A sudden breeze in the otherwise dead air brushes her cheeks and the down on the back of her neck as she leans in to take Sinon's cock in her mouth, the compressed, clipped waves of information demodulating his pulse. Unregulated transfers of high-band current folded back on themselves bend his knees and softly pedal his legs in front of him, on either side of Cass's head.

Sinon's gaped smile emits the characteristic sidetones, the feedback hum of baud on baud, as a white film of nanowebbing envelops him, pressing the length of his back into the groove. The transom above him dribbles a watery salve from its vents, running down his torso and onto Cass's flexed knee. She swabs it with her right index across Sinon's closed eyelids, binding the lashes together at their stiffened points, and down the open slit from nose to chin. The cut's lips pucker slightly outward, staying open where the fused crystalline blood stents them.

"Si," Cass says, gliding her fingers across the stucco of small, firm bubbles that cover him. Sinon, somewhere inside himself, is totally glazed.

Under a miniaturized and crumbling adobe arch dominating a palm-sized heap of fused silica shards a strange sort of coprolith curled up. He leans his good eye down to it and sees the tiny deadlights opening into the hollowed spiral. Inside, some of the shards are standing up.

"Si?" Her breath is on his neck and he doesn't turn, tweezing out an upright shard between two fingers and twisting it in the light. "Where are you?"

A cornice above the adobe lintel advances into his shadow like a hood.

"Cass, I leveled up." 
This exhibition is supported by the Sam Pulitzer Exhibition Supporters Circle: Shane Akeroyd, Candy & Michael Barasch, Eleanor Cayre, Collective Native Informant, Bill Cournoyer,
House of Gaga, Greene Naftali, Allison Kanders, David Kordansky, Barbara & Howard Morse,
Bernardo Nadal-Ginard, Rob Teeters & Bruce Sherman, Thea Westreich & Ethan Wagner, and the Friends of Artists Space.

Additional support from The New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

With thanks to Real Fine Arts.

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