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Dennis Kane Them 2003-2004 acrylic on canvas 48" x 81" Dennis Kane Seen 2004 acrylic on canvas, two panels total 36" x 62" Dennis Kane Potlach 2004-2005 acrylic on canvas, four panels each 14" x 19" Dennis Kane That...

[unless it helps the White House - or the NYTimes] Sophie Hurndall, Tom Hurndall's sister: ". . . but there are thousands of cases out there where people don't have the weight behind them that we have." UPDATE: In Britain...

Felix Gonzalez-Torres "Untitled" (Beginning) 1994 plastic beads and metal rod 115" x 79" [installation view] view of gallery installation, including a detail of Iza Genzken's Untitled 2001, and on the wall behind, three Weegee gelatin silver prints from the...

Matthew Benedict The Children's Hall 2002-2005 diptych: plastic weaponry, chicken wire, brocade trim, enamel and latex paint on 2 wood panels overall 84" x 98" x 5" [installation view] No, this isn't something you'll find in an armorial hall...

Rob Fisher's Twofold (flooring, wood, pipe and plaster) in the foreground, Chris Larson's C-prints Barn Razor No. 1 and Barn Razor No. 2 on the wall Minneapolis artists taking Minneapolis apart and sometimes putting it back together. Great job!...

Sarah Ciraci Bikini 2005 wall drawing with black light sensitive paint, variable dimensions [installation view] ESSO Gallery and Lombard-Freid Fine Arts have collaborated on an exhibition entitled, "ATOMICA: Making the Invisible Visible." This one is not for the faint...

last Sunday, folks parked at Grand Ferry near its successor crossing, the Williamsburg Bridge, here a dark bow across the East River with the towers of two earlier spans beyond...

Jeff Hand Liz (on Box) 2003 faux fur on board 10" x 8" x 3.5" [installation view of a three-dimensional piece] Plus Ultra's summer group show absolutely refuses to succumb to the languor of the season by offering lighter...

Paper Rad and Matt Barton extreme animalz: the movie: part 1 2005 video and mixed media* [detail of installation] And they don't just sit there. Those neglected and somewhat disfigured creatures really move out when approached by visitors: Dancing...

soft as a morning sunbeam Once a year for a few days around the summer solstice our great star sits high enough above 23rd Street for its rays to penetrate four stories (plus a few more feet) down through...

Not much is ever left unembellished, or unremarked, in Williamsburg. This one is thanks to Barry's sharp eye....

view of the eastern end of Sylvan Terrace through a window of the octagon drawing room inside the Morris-Jumel Mansion George Washington slept there. A 1765 wooden American Paladian villa sitting in upper Manhattan on a rise which originally...

" . . . the inside of the stadium in Liberty City" Yes! Just when I think I've been doing pretty well with my own campaign of "inner emigration"* [because, basically, we are clearly not a democracy; I don't...

Mark Andreas Seed Spreader hand-welded and forded steel 6' x 6' x 9' [installation view away from gallery] Williamsburg's Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery usually manages to do things differently, whether it's in the choice of art shown, a wonderfully low-key...

one of Joyce Pensato's Felix drawings at Sarah Bowen, 2005, charcoal on paper How often can the same artist's work take your breath away? Joyce Pensato does it for me every time. Yesterday the scene was Sarah Bowen's current...

Untitled and pretty anonymous....

untitled (Relish) 2005...

This collage (an exquisite corpse?) was spotted this afternoon near the Bedford L stop....

Lead paragraph of a Reuters story tonight:WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House is split over whether to close a U.S. jail in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a Republican lawmaker said on Sunday, as a magazine reported a top al Qaeda suspect...

installation view of Linda Ganjian's assemblage of ten separate sculptures at Annina Nosei Her medium is somewhat less than digestible here, but Linda Ganjian's little sculptures in "Everland," the David Gibson-curated show currently at the Annina Nosei Gallery are...

detail of work in installation, "A-Z Advanced Technologies," by Andrea Zittel Especially now that Roberta Smith has a review [scroll down] of both Michael Ashkin's and Andrea Zittel's excellent shows in the NYTimes, I'm keenly aware that there are...

Well, actually the move is only conceptual. CRG Gallery's principals asked (were asked by?) the two young'ns who work in the gallery, Alex Dodge and Glen Baldridge, to curate a show on their own and the wonderful "Greater Brooklyn" currently...

Richard Prince My Religion 2004-2005 acrylic on canvas 107" x 156" [detail] Richard Prince Continuation 2004-2005 fiberglass, bondo, acrylic and wood 44" x 69.75" x 82.5" [detail of installation] Maybe it's just because I somehow came to his work...

Grace Graupe-Pillard Soldier/Rockefeller Center NYC (lightbox still from the series, "Interventions") 2003-2005 [large detail of installation] I saw Grace Graupe-Pillard's installation at The Proposition almost a week ago and I was impressed, but I first looked at my digital...

a look at the Sculpture Center's immediate neighbors on a quiet Sunday afternoon, perhaps a good part of the explanation of its relatively edgy appeal for artists and visitors; I imagine it's even more interesting during the week The...

Tobias Putrih Anthology/Courthouse 2005 monofilament and rear projection screen, dimensions variable [detail of installation] Every time I go back to Max Protetch Gallery after having missed a show or two I have to wonder how I could have so...

special bulletin spotted this afternoon For me at least this was definitely the most provocative found item of clothing I've seen in our basement laundry room in the eighteen years I've been visiting its splendors. This midnight-blue Speedo even...

Reuben Lorch-Miller Untitled (Helicopters) 2004 video projection [still] There was a time when my relationship to the helicopter was very simple. I absolutely loved these machines, and of course like most little kids I wanted one of my own....

Jenny Saville Shift 1996-1997 oil on canvas 130" x 130" [large detail] She doesn't need this humble blog to attract attention; she's already there. But after a visit today to, well . . . okay, I'll admit it, the...

Ryan on the left, Barry with the sawed-off shotgun on the right We hadn't yet left the seductive sidewalk gallery of Eric Doeringer early this afternoon when Barry and I spotted the Humphrey Industries/ open-air kiosk in front of...

Ara Peterson/Forcefield Third Annual Roggabogga Motion Picture 2002 video 6 min. 7 sec. [video still] Ara Peterson 12 Ball 1997 video 2 min. 51 sec. [video still] view of Justin Samson installation showing Nandor the First and Treebeard (2004...

Michael Ashkin Adjnabistan 2005 recycled cardboard and gypsum 46" x 132" x 252" [large detail of installation] Michael Ashkin's new large-scale piece, Adjnabistan, represents a significant departure from his handsome earlier work, which at least appeared to be about...