February 24, 2006
Tyler Vlahovich at Feature
Tyler Vlahovich Cloud with Green Event 2005 oil paint on wood panel 24" x 32" [these images are two detail views of the installation, including one oblique view of "Cloud" in the lower one] Also at Feature right now...
February 23, 2006
William Kentridge at Marian Goodman
it glows they flutter it articulates William Kentridge's "Magic Flute" You know you want to see it, if you haven't already, so there's nothing I can write here that would make a difference. Besides, you only have a couple...
Eija-Liisa Ahtila at Marian Goodman
Marian Goodman has beautifully installed a four-channel video, "The Hour of Prayer", by the Finnish artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila in the South Gallery. Alright, it's essentially a story about a girl and her dog, but it's much more. You don't...
Jose Freire curates Mary Boone
POST CARD "I Love My Scene: Scene 1" [detail of installation] Mary Boone has asked Jose Freire of Team to curate a series of three shows at her uptown gallery. The idiosyncrasies of the first installment "I Love My Scene"...
February 22, 2006
Lucky DeBellevue at Feature
Lucky DeBellevue Untitled 2005 chenile and tinsel stems 98" x 109" x 101" [detail of installation] I should have gotten an image of one of the paintings [a new medium for the artist?] included in the show at Feature,...
nobody in charge
I think I can speak for a lot of people on the Left if I say that for a long time we've been in a state of despair because of our belief that the radical Right was pretty much...
February 19, 2006
Ryan Humphrey at DCKT
Ryan Humphrey [various titles] 2005-2006 acrylic on canvas, dimensions vary [three detailed views of installation] Ryan Humphrey pulls out all the stops every time he does an installation, including near-arrest scenarios [think of selling guns on the street, even...
Thomas Nozkowski at Max Protetch
POST CARD Thomas Nozkowski Untitled (8-76) 2005 oil on linen on panel 23.25" x 29.25" [detail] Thomas Nozkowski Untitled (8-68) 2005 oil on linen on panel 23.25" x 29.25" [detail] Thomas Nozkowski has opened another gorgeous show at Max Protetch....
Scott Treleaven at John Connelly
Scott Treleaven Lustre 2006 super8 and digital video [still from installation] This image by itself will tell you almost nothing about Scott Treleaven's masterful show at John Connelly Presents, and it doesn't even say much about the beautiful ten-minute...
February 17, 2006
Scott Treleaven at Printed Matter
Scott Treleaven's zine (the entire very limited collage edition) seen in a vitrine at Printed Matter You may have read the original zine, watched the 2003 film, seen the more recent, very beautiful collages and even, possibly, seen the...
Ralf Ziervogel at André Schlechtriem
POST CARD Ralf Ziervogel OFU 2006 ink on paper 54.5" x 106.75" [detail] A new (but not really so surprising) addition to the huge Chelsea gallery list appeared on 19th Street last night. The young German curator opened his shop...
February 15, 2006
shooting 'em up before they really get into the air
birds fly, buddies stay on the ground I have no first-hand experience with the hunting of tiny birds, but I assume any "sportsman" engaged in its pursuit is supposed to wait until the intended target is in the air...
February 14, 2006
bearded Valentines
(I couldn't find any bearded [German] Iris) This is a funny Valentine, but perhaps funny is as good an approach as any to a holiday whose simplicity has been as compromised by commercialism as much as this one has...
February 13, 2006
Bec Stupak at Deitch Projects
Bec Stupak Doorway 1 2006 single channel video [detail of installation] Once I discovered the conceit of this installation by Bec Stupak at Deitch on Grand Street suddenly "it all came together", as strange as that clause may sound...
still sticking with snow
These two storm details were captured during a walk across West 22nd Street late yesterday afternoon. The first image reminds me that snow isn't so fussy about spreading its largess; even man's stuff get's the full treatment. The second...
February 12, 2006
McDermott & McGough at Cheim & Read
POST CARD Mc Dermott & McGough The "Warm" Friendly Feelings Embodied in a Red-Pink One, 1964 (2005) oil on linen 96" x 96" [detail] Mc Dermott & McGough Schlitz Beer, 1961 (2005) oil on linen 48" x 60" [detail] For...
micro view of macro snowstorm
untitled (snowfolds 1) 2006 untitled (snowfolds 2) 2006 untitled (snowfolds 3) 2006 I've always gotten off on the voluptuousness of snow forms, but these sexy folds are the least approachable part of a great storm - unless you stick...
February 10, 2006
Plamegate updated and illustrated
Juan Cole cuts through all the mendacity this morning: He describes, in the clearest possible fashion [and richly illustrated] the crimes of Bush, Cheney, Libby and Rove as they relate to the Valerie Plame story. Cole's good, but it's really...
February 9, 2006
Stefan Tcherepnin joins Amy Granat at Oliver Kamm/5BE
[a long time exposure in the front gallery] [a quicker shutter during the performance in the second gallery] It almost doesn't get much more exciting than this. I suppose I mean Chelsea. We stopped by at Oliver Kamm's 5BE...
there's nothing like a good cloud, or two
Welcome competition for the skyscrapers. The picture? Yeah, I know this is pretty dull stuff, even if you think a beautiful sky, or at least it's appreciation, is an exceptional thing in Manhattan. So let's just say this post...
needing a thumbs up
Sticker-decorated but otherwise empty Gay City News box seen on 6th Avenue this afternoon. Anybody out there know anything about the image?...
February 8, 2006
the cartoon war, and Thomas Hirschhorn at Gladstone
Thomas Hirschhorn Superficial Engagement 2006 [detail of installation] Thomas Hirschhorn Superficial Engagement 2006 [detail of installation] Most of the commercial media has decided that Americans shouldn't be shown the drawings which seem to have made the world go crazy...
"Mahomet débordé par les intégristes"
This cartoon appeared today in Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical weekly associated with the radical Left. The in-house drawing portrays the prophet of Islam next to a headline, "Mahomet overwhelmed by the fundamentalists." The distraught man cries, "It's hard...
February 3, 2006
wacky Christians green with envy?
The U.S. and British governments criticized publication of the caricatures as offensive to Muslims, raising questions about whether the line between free speech and incitement had been crossed. [Associated Press] One more short thought on the subject of cartoons (although...
"Ride the Subway, See a Movie"
(but don't look at the soft upholstered seating) No, not in New York of course, where transit communications systems have changed little in the last 100 years. Instead, this is the headline of a short item by Sarah Plass...
art in paraphilia
a boy and his fancy dog Ever so often something reminds us that we really don't know much about fetishes. I found this fascinating but uncredited image on a site I was directed to by an email from Slava...
February 2, 2006
we are all Danes today
This whole Mohammed image thing is almost perfectly ridiculous, but there is one perfect solution to the problem. Denmark simply must not be left hanging in the wind. There is a popular, although apparently apocryphal story concerning the Danish...
February 1, 2006
more on Cindy Sheehan's dress code incident
I don't know what to make of all of this, but in the end I have to say I'm not losing interest in this story. See yesterday's post for the background. Thanks to Towleroad for alerting me to the latest...
Iris Bernblum at Artists Space
POST CARD Iris Bernblum 3 pm 2005 video [large detail of still from installation] In the same show, Iris Bernblum showed this stunning video. That mid-afternoon desk break will just never be the same again....
