January 31, 2006
disorderly conduct before the emperor
House arrest If she just had the common decency to wear Old Navy or GAP, it would only have been American business as usual and there wouldn't have been any fuss. Even MSNBC can't make Cindy Sheehan look like...
January 28, 2006
Karen Heagle at I-20
Karen Heagle Bound Man 2005 oil on panel 61" x 68" [pretty large detail] Kaen Heagle Low Tide at Rialto Beach 3 (Lone Starfish) 20o5 oil on panel 45" x 42" [detail] Karen Heagle's show opened I-20 gallery's very...
January 25, 2006
Jim Drain and Ara Peterson at Deitch
POST CARD an extremely photogenic installation Jeffrey Deitch is currently hosting a collaborative show by Jim Drain and Ara Peterson in the Wooster Street space. The very long run of this show will end on Saturday....
January 24, 2006
Cory Arcangel at Monkeytown
the auteur confesses once again, "I heart Garfunkel" Cory Arcangel entertained a packed room at Monkeytown last Saturday night. We were treated to an evening of some of his wonderful, idiosyncratic videos, all of them accompanied by the kind...
January 22, 2006
January 21, 2006
Tamy Ben-Tor at LFL
POST CARD Tamy Ben-Tor The Artist In Residence 2005 DVD [still from installation] The New York-based Israeli artist Tamy Ben-Tor showed five videos and regularly performed live during the run of her recent show at LFL. That last bit seems...
Barbara
POST CARD Niclaus Gerhaert von Leiden reliquary bust of Saint Barbara c. 1465 ashwood with polychromy [detail] It's a totally weird story, but her legendary beauty has inspired gorgeous work by artists for more than a millenium, including this one...
January 20, 2006
some of the group at Oliver Kamm/5BE
Joe Ovelman [detail of installation] Oliver Kamm's 5BE is another gallery which is a part of the new life on 27th Street. I was there the night of the opening of the current group show, mostly hanging out in...
Alyson Shotz
POST CARD Alyson Shotz Arnolfini 360˚ x 12 2006 twelve domed surveillance mirrors, hardware 132" x 120" x 14" [large detail of installation] Alyson Shotz is one of the artists included in the strong group exhibition which inaugurates Derek Eller's...
sort of like post cards
Too many things, and I mean too many images of artists' works, are slipping through because I don't sit down often enough to do some kind of blog with an accompanying text. I've decided to introduce a new form of...
January 18, 2006
Aissa Deebi at LMCC Swing Space
Aissa Deebi [studio view] Aissa Deebi [studio view] Eager to respond to the artist's invitation, we recently enjoyed a visit to the short-term LMCC studio space of Aissa Deebi. We got there well in advance of next Tuesday's open...
January 17, 2006
Gore calls it tyranny, and suggests impeachment
see, if you're a Democrat they can make your oh-so-patriotic scads of flags quite invisible Al Gore has disappointed me over and over again in the past, but what is that saying about a drowning man grasping at straws?...
January 15, 2006
Adin de Masi at Projekt30
Adin de Masi Nostalgia Severed oil on canvas 60" x 60" x 2" Adin de Masi Saint Angry mixed media on paper 52" x 90" Adin de Masi Blowing Boy mixed media on paper 60" x 84" I spotted...
January 14, 2006
January 13, 2006
finally it's right here: a secret police with matching state*
Jane and Louise Wilson Stasi City 1997 video [still from installation] All this blithering about to execute or not to execute, for the death penalty or against - all rot, comrades. Execute! And, when necessary, without a court judgment."...
of superstition and death
Voltaire: not quite an atheist, but an enemy of superstition everywhere Even, or perhaps especially, in the midst of so much grief being felt in Mecca and all over the world today, I don't think it's unfair to ask:...
January 11, 2006
Chelsea's far west 27th Street will never be the same
Jacob Ciocci [installation detail] Jacob Ciocci [installation detail] Kirsten Stoltmann [installation detail] Kirsten Stoltmann [installation detail] Some half dozen of the most interesting galleries in the city will be opening new spaces on West 27th Street tomorrow night (Thursday)....
the American idea of learning; or, what to do with extra cash?
Once again America steps up to the plate, or goalpost, to show the world that we understand what edjukation is all about. Oklahoma State University has announced that Texas oil magnate T. Boone Pickens will donate $165 million to...
January 10, 2006
Gae Savannah and Michael Schall at Dam, Stuhltrager
Gae Savannah Shasta 2006 fabric, metal, wood 69" x 15" x15" [detail of installation] Michael Schall Scenic Collection Facility 2005 graphite on paper 42" x 60" The gallery is on the edge of Williamsburg, in more than one sense....
January 8, 2006
Antonello da Messina at the Metropolitan
Antonello da Messina Portrait of a Young Man ca. 1470 oil on panel 10.5" x 8.25" Yes I saw the Fra Angelico show at the Met, but I try to keep this blog focused on what Barry and I...
January 7, 2006
Gerhard Richter at Marian Goodman
Gerhard Richter 891-1 Waldhaus 2004 oil on linen [detail, including portion of gallery wall] Gerhard Richter 892-10 Abstraktes Bild 2005 [detail] Gerhard Richter 892-12 Abstraktes Bild 2005 [detail] Gerhard Richter 887-2 Abstraktes Bild (Haut) oil on linen [detail] Of course...
Jóhannes Atli Hinriksson at HaswellEdiger
Jóhannes Atli Hinriksson Dr. 2005 video [large detail still from installation monitor] Jóhannes Atli Hinriksson Untitled 2005 mixed media collage 23" x 20" [installation view] Jóhannes Atli Hinriksson Pietà mixed media 6.25" x 4" x 4" [installation view] It...
January 6, 2006
Jesus, just visiting
the eyes have it As I write this it's already the early hours of January 6, the Feast of the Epiphany and traditionally the absolute finish to the long holiday which celebrates the birth of the founder of the...
January 4, 2006
Nayland Blake at Fred in Miami
Nayland Blake The Big One 2003 white nylon 192" x 180" x 6" [large detail of installation] This is almost certainly going to be the last post to include an image from the December Miami shows. I found this...
January 3, 2006
Jack Pierson at Daniel Reich
Jack Pierson Psycho Killer 2000 plastic [sic] 10" x 40" x 36" [view of work as installed lying on floor, with ambient lights eliminated] Jack Pierson Black Jackie 1991 acrylic paint, plywood, silver and black rain curtain, cigarette and...
January 1, 2006
grace under light
[pink-eyed Cyclamen] I found my clunky old tripod today and I immediately teamed it up with my old Macro lens and brought the fancy new camera and a flowering plant to a south window just before the sun disappeared....
