One of several images from Melanie Velarde’s residency, which led to the pefomance featured here on Friday (disquiet.com): More images at binauralmedia.org.

Hello and welcome to Nothing is New via Art21. During my stint as guest blogger, you will see posts are very image-heavy with a brief, excited description explaining each set of pictures. The images are discovered while roaming around digital Internet archives of museums and libraries. Nothing is...

Sandra Vasquez de la Horra, 2005-2009, pencil on paper dipped on wax. Galerie Rupert Pfab Thanks to tipster Danielle Mysliviec for sussing out NADA fair’s nomination for Best Tit in Show.��� Since we’re technically looking at two breasts I figured this little ditty might more appropriately fall...

POST BY���PADDY JOHNSON Tim Burton, Untitled (True Love), 1981-83, pen and ink, watercolor wash, and colored pencil on paper, 12×14 inches, Private collection. Image via: MoMA.org It’s great MoMA doesn’t make museum members wait to get into the Tim Burton exhibition with the rest of us unwashed...

It is possible to read the Court’s opinion … in a variety of ways. In saying this, I imply no criticism of the Court, which in those cases was faced with the task of trying to define what may be indefinable … I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I [...]

POST BY: PADDY JOHNSON All images: AFC The best versions of countless works I’ve seen in my travels to fairs and biennials over the course of last year are currently on display in The Rubell Family Collection’s exhibition “Beg, Borrow and Steal.”���A curators-delight, the show focuses on the at times tediously trendy subject of reproduction [...]

santigold standard - artforum.com / scene & herd This is pretty funny: “More conspicuous was the empty booth of Christian Haye gallery (né the Project) in Row H. “We just thought they were taking their time to install,” noted one dealer, “but then they never showed up.” On the upside, the fair’s organizers allowed Sies [...]

POST BY:���PADDY JOHNSON��� Miami South Beach, Photo AFC We are traveling back to New York City today. Regular posting will resume tomorrow. Meanwhile, enjoy the view.

Last week was a full-on SoundCloud.com celebration. All five of the daily Downstream entries were sourced from SoundCloud, a fantastic service for sharing, discovering, and discussing music, and the subject of the week’s “MP3 Discussion Group,” Alphabet 1968 by Black to Comm, was likewise available for free listening via SoundCloud (albeit streaming, not download, it [...]