Author: Michael Janairo
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From the archive: Deborah Zlotsky at Kathryn Markel, 2011
Originally posted Oct 14, 2011: Images from Deborah Zlotsky’s solo art exhibition in fall 2011 at the Kathryn Markel Gallery, 529 20th St., New York City.
See more of Deborah’s art at http://www.deobrahzlotsky.com
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Photos: Angry Birds in the Wild
Natural Angry Bird 
Natural Angry Bird – Yellow Bird 
Natural Angry Bird – Glass Breaker 
Natural Angry Bird – Bomber 
Natural Angry Bird – Boomerang 
Natural Angry Bird – Egg Bomber 
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Lincoln in the Bardo and the impossible audiobook
On paper, it sounds like something magnificent: master short-story writer George Saunders’s very first novel! An examination of a moment in the life of America’s greatest president!As Penguin Random House says:
George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic, historical framework into a supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within this transitional state—called, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardo—a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie’s soul.
And then there’s the audiobook: 166 characters! 166 voices!
“The first truly blockbuster audiobook? … it’s going to be incredible” -
‘Just a Minute!’ in the exhibition ‘Out of Site’ at Chesterwood
This summer, the grounds of Chesterwood—the summer home of Daniel Chester French (1850-1931), best known as the sculptor of the Lincoln Memorial— in the Berkshires is host to an exhibition of contemporary sculpture called Out of Site, organized by Sharon Bates. Deborah Zlotsky is among the fourteen artists showing work. Though known as a painter and drawer, Zlotsky created a time-based participatory work called “Just a Minute!”
Curator Sharon Bates helps with the installation of Deborah Zlotkys’s “Just a Minute!” at Chesterwood in May 2017. 
“Just a Minute” at Chesterwood, 2017, invites viewers to slow down, use their senses, and experience the natural world in a way that draws attention to a small area that could easily be overlooked. 
A boy, at left, finds a spot for close observation, while his mother, at right, operates the timer to tell him when to start and stop looking during Chesterwood’s opening of “Out of Site: Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood” in June 2017. 
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Nietzsche on writing
“The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche
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This is going to make my dog mad …
This is Vesta. She is a dog. Despite what Google says about her. I recently uploaded some photos to Google Photo Backup. One thing it does is automatically group images with similar content and then label them things like “Food” or “Flowers” or “Beaches.” There’s even a “Dogs” one, which features plenty of photos of my dog. And then today I discovered a new one, also featuring my dog. Here it is:
