Dave Eggers : Lots of Things Like This

Oh, Dave Eggers- you never cease to amaze me. I have just finished You Shall Know Our Velocity, and last night I took turns between the Best American Non-Required Reading 2007, and re-reading the 145 Stories in a Small Box series. I just cannot seem to get enough of this man. His writing is always so wonferfully addictive- it always happens this way, I go from novel to short stories to the non-required series and back again.


I was delighted to see the Josh Spear post about Eggers' latest adventure- an art show in collaboration with Apex Art. I can't tell you the wonderful idea behind the show any better than Egger's himself, so here is an excerpt from the press release:


This show, titled Lots of Things Like This, came about when apexart asked for an idea for a show. The first thought that occurred to us was an exhibit that would highlight work that included these three elements:

1. An image
2. Some words (usually referring to the image)
3. A sense of humor

The show never got much more complicated than that. We started with the artists we knew we had to include: Raymond Pettibon, Tucker Nichols, Maira Kalman and David Shrigley. All four of them had found a place in the fine art world, even though in many cases their work was both narrative and funny, a combination that’s historically been rare in galleries and museums. For the most part, artists who use text in their work don’t write punchlines – the text is usually abstract or oblique, open to interpretation. But the rise of comics-based art, and of Pettibon in particular, had opened the doors to new hybrids of words and images, thank god.


To read the rest of the clever press release, go here.

The show will run April 2nd - May 10th at Apex Art in New York