Cheree Franco

Born of a Mississippi heatwave, Cheree Franco set off for cooler lands as soon as she got that driver’s permit--at the ripe age of 15, in a certain state. She’s been a perpetual explorer since, bouncing from coast to coast and continent to continent. An arts & culture journalism program brought her to New York, where she is busy being a writer (a righter!) and cultivating her great appreciation for people who make things and the things that they make.
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Thanks for the tapes, and for the tapes of  the bands you influenced. You did well, Alex Chilton.

 From Citypages.com:

"Without Chilton no Jayhawks/REM/Mats/Huskers/db's/Rain Parade/Game Theory/Posies/Teenage Fanclub," wrote Twin Cities musician and producer Ed Ackerson. The mind reels... Not to mention no Cramps, Panther Burns, Let's Active. Chilton showed us how to write pop songs with teeth and anguish. Blurred beauty. Mangled melodicism. Proved guitar pop wasn't for pussies."

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Juxtapoz & Jonathan Levine Gallery in the New York Times! Read it here.

 

*update: so Jonathan Levine tells me this article was actually published on Sunday, and I'm the one who's late to the party...but didn't (questionably) wise man once say, "Every day is like Sunday?"

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I’ve been back in New York for the past few weeks—essentially from Fashion Week to Armory Week, with the Whitney Biennial sandwiched between—and I’ve seen so much art that I’m not sure where to begin. To make things more interesting, my camera started giving random error messages, and I haven’t had time to have it serviced, rendering void my usual tactic of posting tons of pics rather than taking the time to politely word actual opinions.

 

So basically I’ll hit the high points—if something stuck with me, obviously it’s significant enough…right?

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The feud continues--and the most unlikely publications are paying attention...

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Recently I've been writing weekly art news synops (something I sometimes did anyway, so hey!) for ArtWeLove.com. They're published every Monday, and you can subscribe for free via email. It's mostly institutional/market stuff with a bit of gossip, but sometimes I try to slip in underground info. This week's headlines include reviews of the Whitney Biennial, an Austrian art club that doubles as a sex club, and violent artists evictions in China.

And this is just kind of awesome--even though it's amateurish, half-baked and incendiary--wait, maybe that's why it's awesome. This School of Visual Arts student, John Xero, made a downloadable anti-catalogue of the Whitney Biennial--and since he released it even before the press preview, in a sense, he scooped the Biennial.

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Art galleries, shops/galleries, and museums that we like, organized thus:

New York (Brooklyn, New York City, etc.)

Northern California (Oakland, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Jose, etc.)

Southern California (Los Angeles, etc.)

Elsewhere in the U.S. (Listed by state, alphabetically)

International (Listed by country, alphabetically)


 To submit your gallery for our guide, please send the following information to katie@juxtapoz.com
Gallery name, URL, street address including city, state, country, postal code, and phone number.