Friday Fun Day: Tiny Kale.

Oh Wichcraft, another disappointing side dish. At least this one made us all laugh out loud. My kale salad is doll-house sized!!

TGIF.



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Mazzalupo on Artinfo, Sonya's fan, and more SHOUT OUTS this Friday

SHOUT OUT to Artinfo for their "One Line Review" of Christina Mazzalupo's Prognosis: Doom.

SHOUT OUT to Sonya Blesofsky's fan!

For you early holiday shoppers, I'm shouting out to the NYMag pop-culture gift guide.

And lastly, a little Gangnam (Ai Wei Wei) Style as a fun tribute to Friday Fun Day!


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belated Friday Fun Day

Image courtesy of NYMag.com.

Thank you Chuka for pointing out the "best thing I've read today":

World’s Least Fun Person Removing One-of-a-Kind Slide From Apartment He Just Bought over at NYMag.

I'm guessing that's a Carsten Höller slide. And if it's not, it still does the trick of making visitors (even those in-the-art-know) wonder to themselves "is that a Carsten Höller slide?", which is, in my book, victory enough.

Happy Weekend, dear readers. For those of you in Washington D.C., be sure to check out the (e)merge fair! S&M will be there all weekend presenting work by Conor Backman. SHOUT OUT to the Washington City Paper for their nice write-up of Conor's work there.


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Friday Fun Day: CAT Edition

Cats imitating famous works of art. Friday is FUN DAY, after all. I know you missed it.

Thanks to Artlog for bringing this to my attention.



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Friday Fun Day: Kid Millions...killin' it!

Kid Millions is on tour. Read about it here. We're so pumped we just bought our tickets! Check out some of his friends joining him for the May 15th performance below!

May 15 New York, NY Le Poisson Rouge (RELEASE SHOW)

w/Colin Langenus Orchestra, Nymph; f/ Greg Fox (Guardien Alien, ex-Liturgy), James McNew (Yo La Tengo), Shahin Motia (Ex Models, Oneida), Richard Hoffman (Sightings), Sarah Richardson (Creeping Nobodies), Bryan Devendorf (The National) and Ryan Sawyer (Tall Firs).

TGIF.

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Friday Fun Day: ironing paper bags

Yep, you read that right. Chuka is currently ironing Trader Joe's bags for an upcoming super secret project. TGIF.


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Friday Fun Day: Guest Blogger Becca

Upon a casual springtime stroll through Chelsea today I made a stop in the Leila Heller Gallery, which caused both confusion and awe as I realized that I was gazing upon a mass amount of delicately placed buttons, beads and pins.

These pieces are sure to make button collectors jealous.

Ran Hwang
Transition
April 5 - 27, 2012


--Intern, Becca


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More Fun Day

Day drinking in the office for Monica's birthday!

Happy Friday Fun Day.

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Friday Fun Day

Hyperallergic brought Dorm Daze to my attention.

Dorm Daze, as described by Hyperallergic, is a Facebook project: "London/LA-based artist Ed Fornieles created a world within Facebook of 35 characters who acted out a fictitious three months of college, with a series of dramas, like a college basketball star and math geek involved in a drug ring and the unrequited love of two fraternity guys. In the “trailer” for the project, a Gossip Girl-like character narrates the highlights of the three-month intervention. The piece clearly blurs boundaries between how we perform a persona on social media and how actors create personas on stage." Read more about it here.

Visit Ed Fornieles' site here.



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Friday Fun Day: Hennessey & Family Business

We were greatly inspired by Hennessey Youngman's extended invitation for art submissions as part of the debut exhibition at Family Business. It's a small, small world a/k/a Clusterf*ck will be on view at the tiny Chelsea venue through April 16th.

Over the years we've been given one or two works of art that have hung on our office walls. It's time for us to give these little works some bigger and better exposure. So we have submitted these works on the artists' behalf to the exhibition.





Be on the lookout for two small dog paintings by Eric Ginsburg, and a small mixed media work by T.Joey Enos!


Heather & Courtney with the Pharaoh Hennessey himself.


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Way to go team!

We experienced the thrill of an emergency unwrap and rewrap session today--WAY TO GO TEAM! Job well done. TGIF.

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Friday Fun Day comes early this week!

The jig is up. Here's a Fun Day shot of HDB's desk drawer. She's either a hoarder or she's running a restaurant supply out of the gallery office.

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Friday Fun Day

New Mayan artifacts were unearthed this week...reminded me that you have only 2 weeks left to check out "End of Days" at Mixed Greens! Those Mayans and their predictions...

Lots of news today, including Moss closing, and Lou Reed's failed music (err, I mean "art").

Jean Paul Gaultier's Winehouse obsession.

The VIP fair's countdown clock has begun!

TGIF.

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Friday Fun Day: Spot Challenge Champ and more on my RIDICULIST

Damien Hirst is patting himself on the back pretty mightily right about now. Some poor fool, errr, collector, actually completed THE SPOT CHALLENGE. He must have really wanted that free print...

The Louvre is buying a rare Pieta from a junk dealer.

Bored with Bottino? Subway sandwiches aren't your thing? Randwich might be the answer to your prayers. Now, if only west Chelsea can get its own outpost of Williamsburg fave Raddish. There's a shocking lack of kale in this zip code.

TGIF.

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shout out!

Hey interwebs, today we're SHOUTING OUT to our readers. This is a reminder that if you mention The Pit, or mention to us that you read the blog, we'll return the favor by SHOUTING OUT to you.

SHOUT OUT to Rachel Hegburg! Thanks for reading the blog. Glad you liked the post about Damien Hirst's Spot Challenge.

SHOUT OUT to Mark Mulroney for being an avid reader of The Pit. And, per your request, I'll try to include more shark news in these cold, winter months. There's nothing better than shark news to lift one's spirit out of the winter doldrums.


To satisfy the need for more shark references, and to certify that Damien Hirst is a tool, I'd like to propose the following Friday Fun Day theme:



Thank you, Hennessy Youngman, for making my week.

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