Our friend and Jack Spade designer Brit Klienman launches Avo - an online guide to outdoor markets worldwide.

http://www.avoavo.com

New media mavens and New York New Museum associates Rhizome created a marvelous, if raw, resource on Wednesday with the publication of 101 Cassette Labels. Contemporary cassette culture is a wonky, contrary game that emphasizes time taken and objects treasured, and the wealth of cassette labels sprouting from remote scenes in places like Michigan and Ohio manage to stay very weird despite the homogenizing force of the Internet. Click through on some of Rhizome’s links in the article, and be sure to look at the comments at the end for even more esoteric suggestions and some interesting counterarguments about cassette fidelity.

rhizome.org

The psych guitarist and Six Organs of Admittance frontman Ben Chasny makes a lot of sense in a recent treatise about file sharing and information addiction. There’s nothing we don’t already know in his narrative about relentless bitstreams of accumulation, of folk who have hard drives full of music that means nothing to them beyond the fact that they got it for free and put it in their library, but to see Chasny’s point written out, and delivered with piercing clarity, is a sincere shock to the system. It’s easy to rib the romantics and pedants who think music has to be held in one’s hands, that it is manifest as a precious object, but it’s also worth remembering that if you don’t listen to it it doesn’t really exist.

thequietus.com

Young British Artist Charlie Woolley is turning his first solo show at his gallery’s new home in Copenhagen into an experiment in communication on both a micro and macro scale. Radio Show Copenhagen is a month-long 24-hour live broadcast of music, interviews, phone-ins, commentary and the to-be-determined. Woolley is tapping into the ultra-local intimacy specific to low-wattage pirate radio towers and private trucker CB transmissions while broadcasting, at all times, to anyone who wishes to listen, anywhere in the world. It’s an investigation of how much impact a temporary, geographically specific exhibition can have, and it’s humble, and it’s as nakedly open-ended as an artist’s project can be. Participate.

davidrisleygallery.com

Evan Roth’s Graffiti Taxonomy, on display through September at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain (though equally well experienced through the superb Flash experience of the Foundation’s website) was clearly a grand undertaking. Roth photographed hundreds of graffiti pieces on the streets of Paris, then painstakingly separating their letters to create an alphabetical catalogue of French handstyles. The epic work done in Photoshop—sharpening and isolating the letters to create stark, almost brushy calligraphy—is absolutely top class, but we remain foggy on what the average person is to learn from this experiment in taxonomy, or what it is supposed to add up to. Kudos to Cartier for the noble gesture, the gesture that says graffiti is art and has history and is to be taken seriously. Having said that, this exercise seems, to us, to lack a point. Your thoughts, as ever, are greatly appreciated.

fondation.cartier.com