CINDERZ

Art friendz in the NYT, aka in the BIG TIME!  Awesome writeup for the CINDERS gallery, featuring co-owners Sto and Kelie pictured above chilling out next to Kim (of Matt & Kim, who have an amazing and perfect website) Schifino's plywood lawnmower and sprinkler, and below the (luminously magenta, natch) drawings of Aa's own Aron Wahl (who also 'does' the art for our website and everything else).  The gallery is all 'back porch'ed up for the summer, which is just lovely, and sweetly reminds me of my similar, though much shittier, attempt to do the same in my dorm room senior year with cheap astroturf and blue cardboard -

For summertime art as light as a lemonade, drift by Cinders, a Williamburg, Brooklyn, storefront with a street-facing gallery and a shop in the back. The gallery space is minute, about the size of a one-room cabin. But for the current exhibition, "The Porch Show," on through July 24, its interior has been turned into a rural backyard, with a wood-frame porch, an Astroturf lawn, gardening tools and work by 17 artists jostling for space...

Check it out!  Dan Friel of Parts and Labor will be making the beautiful analog electronic sounds this Sunday, if you need a good excuse to stop by.