Can any of my NYC peeps please be me for a day and go to see this exhibition for me?
Lots of Things Like This
organized by Dave Eggers
April 2 – May 10, 2008
With works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Leonard Cohen, David Berman, Ted Berrigan, Joe Brainard, Georges Braque, Jeffrey Brown, R. Crumb, Henry Darger, Marcel Duchamp, CM Evans, Shephard Fairey, David Godbold, Alasdair Gray, Philip Guston, Paul Hornschemeier, Jay Howell, Chris Johanson, Maira Kalman, Kenneth Koch, David Mamet, Quenton Miller, Tucker Nichols, Alice Notley, Ron Padgett, Raymond Pettibon, Dan Perjovschi, Amy Jean Porter, Steve Powers, Royal Art Lodge, Peter Saul, George Schneeman, Olga Scholten, David Shrigley, Shel Silverstein, Nedko Solakov, Ralph Steadman, William Steig, Saul Steinberg, and Kurt Vonnegut.
And if you’ve been hiding under a rock for the past 10 years and you don’t know who Dave Eggers is, please read A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius. It is.
EDIT: For a great story about the top work Dave Eggers is doing, and a link to his tip-top TED talk, check out this post over at We Made This