October 30, 2004
Joe Ovelman, scattered about Chelsea
UPDATE: Barry has just set up a website for Joe and got him featured on Wooster Collective. Both developments will make his work more visible all around the world. Joe Ovelman's art zap. Joe had left seven images, bills...
Critical Mass on 23rd Street
Okay, next time I'll be on my own bike. The perineum probably could have managed it this time, but I hadn't gotten the bike ready. Also, last night when at least part of an especially colorful and joyous Critical...
time-sensitive art alert
I'd call it an art zap. Ephemeral by design, the success of Joe Ovelman's street images depends upon our seeing them - quickly, almost necessarily today. This time he's spread the work throughout Chelsea, and there's something like a star...
fascism, but it's all-American
file photograph Fascism, it's so US. Are there still any doubters out there? The Bush campaign is now asking followers to swear allegiance to Bush, right hands extended. The pledge:"I care about freedom and liberty. I care about my...
election night gatherings
"Sooo . . . What do you wear to a civil war anyway?" A week ago I wrote that I would probably post a list of progressive spaces which are encouraging visitors to hang out next Tuesday evening, on...
October 29, 2004
Alex Barry
Alex Barry I Wish I Was Richard Colman #2 (red trees and blue leaves) ink on paper 22" x 30" This is the Alex Barry drawing I referred to in a post yesterday, and below is a detail from...
Oliver Herring
Oliver Herring Patrick (2004) digital C-print photographs, museum board, foam core and polystrene, 51" x 37" x 37" with vitrine Oliver Herring Gloria (2004) digital C-print photographs, museum board, foam core and polystyrene, 72" x 40" x 40" with...
October 28, 2004
something a little less personal this time
Alex Barry I Wish I Was Sean Landers (2003-2004) ink on paper 4.25" x 5.5" No, really, I'm fine. In fact, the radiation side effects have nearly disappeared. I just decided I could now share this wonderful little Alex...
October 27, 2004
how to get a flu shot in New York
outside Chelsea Health Center, Tuesday, 7:45 am [if you're only interested in the logistics, go straight to the bold area within the text below] I'm not going to go into the political, social, even moral issues surrounding the disastrous...
October 26, 2004
Virgil Marti
Virgil Marti Landscape Wallpaper with Star Border and Shrooms and Flame Dado (2001) screenprinted flourescent ink and rayon flock on paper, dimensions variable, detail of room installation Dunno what to say. Virgil Marti just keeps exploding in magnificent excess,...
Type A
Type A AA AB / 200 (NL) (C) 9.30.04 [yes, that is the title] (2004) crayon on paper 60" x 140" They're back. Type A, the collaborative team of Adam Ames and Andrew Bordwin, has returned to Sara Meltzer...
Julianne Swartz
Julianne Swartz Excavation (2004) plexiglas, fiber optic cable, LED, wire, prism 25' x 14' x 8' very small detail Julianne Swartz's show at Josee Bienvenu Gallery closed on Saturday, so for now all that's left is the recorded evidence,...
Bozidar Brazda
Bozidar Brazda Re-constituted Prison Wall (2004) plywood, bread, rug, spray paint, carpet, stereo and CD 192" x 48" x 53" (variable) In an auspicious debut inside a new gallery in Chelsea, the work by Bozidar Brazda at Haswellediger &...
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein untitled oil paint on board 22" x 28" large detail When we walked into the show at Feigen Contgemporary on Saturday afternoon the fantastic art of a brilliant outsider, Eugene Von Bruenchenhein, was totally new to...
October 23, 2004
American Fine Arts must not die
American Fine Arts [no website] opened a smashing new show, "Election," last night, but the legendary gallery founded by Colin de Land (and currently located in the last home of the equally fabulous gallery created by Pat Hearn) will close...
October 21, 2004
Democracy is Fun?
This evening we stopped in at the opening reception for White Box's new group show, "Democracy is Fun?," the latest in a series of intense installations they've been mounting as a response to our republic's desperate cries for help. We...
October 19, 2004
Marc Almond
Pierre et Gilles Le diable (1989) unique hand-painted photograph Needed here. Marc Almond was critically injured in a motorcycle accident today in London. See Bloggy for a link to a 2002 Guardian tribute to Soft Cell, and an mp3...
October 18, 2004
M26: justice has a conniption fit
Innocent until proven guilty? Not anymore. One of the most basic principals of our law has been trashed regularly and systematically by our courts since September 11th. While what is happening to four peace activists here in New York at...
the House and Peter Hort
Benjamin Henry Latrobe Design Proposed for the Hall of Representatives, U.S., Section from North to South (1815) ink and watercolor on paper For weeks now Barry and I have both been dismayed by the strange candidacy which Peter Hort...
October 17, 2004
Capogiro: head-spinning gelato
I don't know much about it. For some reason there doesn't seem to be a website (even when those are now so ubiquitous we shouldn't be surprised to find a website for the lemonade stand the neighbor's kid set up...
children outside a "real world"
Bradley McCallum & Jacqueline Tarry James August 6th, 2002 1 :01 - 2:00 PM color photograph, 50" x 40" Bradley McCallum & Jacqueline Tarry Frost August 6th, 2002 5 :01 - 6:00 PM color photograph, 50" x 40" They...
October 16, 2004
Joe Ovelman in the streetscape
He called around noon today. "James, I've just posted something." For a second I was thinking of the the internet, but then I realized that Joe Ovelman is currently not even connected, and it dawned on me that he...
New York stopped in its tracks
from the front of the bus, 9th Avenue in the forties, on a Saturday afternoon (these vehicles aren't moving) We live in Manhattan. We're supposed to be able to get around the city without each of us piloting two...
October 13, 2004
Stockhausen
Der Kinderfänger (the Pied Piper), from "Montag aus Licht," Act III, scene 2 Yay! It sounds like he's finished it! Karlheinz Stockhausen has announced that the premier of his life's work, the 29-hour "Licht" ("Light") cycle, will be performed...
October 12, 2004
something personal
Riiiiing! Riiiiing! It was our phone sounding at 7:30 in the morning last June 10th. [those of you who are familiar with Barry's and my sleeping schedule will understand just how much that call violated all reasonable decorum in...
October 8, 2004
"Arna's Children"
The powerful documentary, "Arna's Children," is now at the Quad Cinema here in Manhattan. I'd be much more excited if it were playing in every town in the U.S., but unfortunately it's not going to happen. If you want to...
Connected again
We're back! Yesterday afternoon Time Warner finally managed to figure out what they had done to our cable modem on Monday, but I think I've almost forgotten how to run this thing in the interim. Now, what's this button down...
Posts only RSS feed
UPDATE: I have made the main RSS 2.0 a full post-only feed. I will update the one with comments to 2.0 later....
October 5, 2004
ACT UP Saturday night
ACT UP's on a roll lately! Members have been working very hard - and very cleverly. The media has had to salute their brilliant zaps, even describing the issues for a change, but this time the attention came without a...
October 3, 2004
Rubin Museum of Art
I have almost no idea what we're looking at here, but it was one of the most interesting things I saw yesterday afternoon while we were at the Himalayan Street Fair. Maybe someone can explain the game; these people...
