Documentation of Lotta Mattila's Gravitation

Documentation of Lotta Mattila's exhibition at Skylab Gallery, Gravitation, is after the jump.

Other News: 

* Columbus Alive previews the Prince Rama show at Skylab; in the Other Paper.

* Ben Quinn's Taking a Closer Look, the first of four ROY solo shows at the CML, opens January 10th.

* ImageOhio 13, which Wes Flexner, Alexis McCrimmon, me, and many others have work in, opens January 14th at the Shot Tower Gallery.

* Elijah Funk, Shawn McBride, and Samatha Rehark's exhibition opens at ROY on January 5th.

Forced Into Femininity at Cat Science (11/17)

More photos from Forced Into Femininity's show at Cat Science after the jump.

Other News:

* Beach Sloth on Keep This Bag Away From Children #2, another review here, KTBAFC also published another poem of mine online.

* Camille Martin blogs re: her reading at Skylab Gallery; Cold Front Magazine on the same.

* I blurbed re: Lotta Mattila's sculptures at Beautiful/Decay in advance of her exhibition Gravitation.
* Aaron Lake Smith on Anthony Poynter.

* Interview with Funerals at Local Autonomy. 

* Interview with Natalie Shapero.

* Interview with Wes Flexner at The Locals.

* Prince Rama comes to Skylab on December 18th.

* Wes Flexner on Elijah Funk and Martin Hugo's Skylab exhibit I Can See Through Your Tinted Windows A.K.A Arrest the President at the Other Paper.

LES FIGUES PRESS AUCTION

A printed, editioned, and signed screen-cap of my poem "Poem For Sitting in Panera" is being auctioned off as part of a benefit for Les Figues Press on October 7th in L.A. "Poem..." was curated by Colleen Grennan, who was curated by Jesse Benson in accordance with the auction's "Excess" theme.

Other News:

* I blogged about Da'Niro Elle Brown's artwork at Beautiful/Decay.
* Justin Clifford Rhody's Sliding Glass Door on Vice.
* Real Pain: Future Dead Friends Tour's video trailer, and Wes Flexner's Other Paper promo.
* The Todd Akin "cross-country" Our Bodies, Ourselves road trip.
* Steve Roggenbuck in the New York Times Magazine, who knew!
* Professional Alt Lit flatterer Peter BD's latest email is after the jump:

V.V. BOOKS AT THE FALL FLEA

V.V. BOOKS is being outed at Nikki Portman's Fall Flea on October 7th. I'll be selling used books for $1.00 - $5.00 from a stand, like in a real city. Please come peruse! They're not records, you can't play them!

Other News:

* Wes Flexner wrote an article about me for The Other Paper.

* Keep This Bag Away From Children published my poem "Business Tripping."

* DaNiro Elle Brown's exhibition Lumina happens at Skylab Gallery on September 29th.

* Ohio Republicans can't not rig an election: Phantods over Slave Labia in The Other Paper poll.

* Aidan Koch in The American Reader.

* Jackie Mantey on Elena Harvey-Collins's ROY exhibition.

* Order Shaver's tape Peace Train.

Video Preview of Not Guilty?

On Donewaiting, Wes Flexner posted a video preview of last Friday's Not Guilty? exhibition by Martin Hugo. The video is above.

Dylan Taylor-Lehman wrote a UWeekly article on the same show.

Other News:

* Tatyana Kagamas on Gallery Girls.
* Dang Olsen made a Kickstarter to fund the printing of his comic Healers.
* New Left Media has a new video out covering the GOP's war on women's rights.
* Blessure Grave plays at Skylab Gallery tomorrow (9/4) night.

Austerity Pleasures On Issuu

Other News:

* I featured FASTWURMS on Beautiful/Decay.
*Wes Flexner interviews Slave Labia, the Labia cover Beat Happening's "Indian Summer."
* Information regarding Aidan Koch's June 26th artist talk at the Wexner Center is up.
* Elijah Funk posted images from his senior thesis exhibition Unsadding.
* Jacky posted images of all the One-Hour Publications thus far.
* Tatyana Kagamas writes re: Lena Dunham's priv'. 

Button Interview

Alex Ross interviewed me about making one-inch buttons for a project at CCAD.

Other News:

* Columbus Street Style featured a small selection of my winter 2012 looks.
* There is a fashion label named "James Payne."
* Un Uccellino Mi Ha Detto posted a collage of mine.
* Wes Flexner wrote an article about William Berry's record label Amethyst Sunset.
* A video has surfaced of Hannah Stephenson reading poetry at Skylab on 11/27/11.
* Skylab Gallery just received a Franklin County Neighborhood Arts grant from the Greater Columbus Arts Council to help support an artist-in-residency program - very exciting.