April 30, 2006
spring sprung
untitled (red petal) 2006 I spotted this ornamental tree in the garden in front of a town house on West 23rd Street yesterday afternoon. I've never before seen these blossoms attached to such a large specimen. The alien red...
April 29, 2006
parrot's back
Two summers back I passed this guy's lofty perch on 8th Avenue at least ten times a week on my way to and from the Cancer Center, but last year I never saw (or heard) him once. Two days...
April 28, 2006
tickets still available for Momenta benefit tomorrow
One of the coolest and most progressive non-profit galleries in the city will be holding its annual fund-raising auction and raffle tomorrow evening. Saturday is Momenta Art appreciation day. Barry and I would never miss this one. It's a chance...
April 27, 2006
the kindest, smartest, most beautiful man in the room
Barry We met fifteen years ago today. It was the best thing that ever happened to me....
Joe Fig at Plus Ultra
Tonight at the School for Visual Arts MFA studio event we talked to a student who had changed his mind about "painting" while working in his studio over the last [two?] years. He said that he had earlier dismissed it...
fourth anniversary of the jimlog
four yellow wild strawberry blossoms in the lawn this morning I started this blog four years ago today. It succeeded more than eight months of emails sent to friends after September 11. It never would have happened and wouldn't...
The Civilians continue to act patriotic
As American dissenters we hardly have to be reminded that we can't survive on demonstrations alone, especially when a cynical and incompetent regime can freely ignore millions of people taking to the streets (at this point I'm more inclined...
April 24, 2006
Meacham, Stephan, Donegan and Campos at 5BE
Tom Meacham Brian Blade is a Better Kisser Than Me 2006 acrylic on canvas 90" x 60" [installation view] Every single work in this delicious at Oliver Kamm's 5BE show can be appreciated for its thing-ness as much as...
Leave New York?
Jade Townsend Sound, Survival in "Cause and Effect" 2006 mixed media [view of installation] Susan Lipper Hollow 2006 video composite [still from installation] Jeffrey kilmer Skinny as a Skyscraper 2006 mixed media [detail of installation] Sarah Lasley Evening and...
April 18, 2006
Soviet Modernism
Gustav Klucis Moscow Spartakiada, Swimmer 1928 design for a poster This morning's NYTimes includes a review by Alan Riding of the Victoria and Albert Museum show, "Modernism: Designing a New World 1914-1939". When Barry showed me this image he...
yellow tulip in a sea of rose-red
Difference is always special, even on Park Avenue. No, especially on Park Avenue....
April 17, 2006
Eric Heist at Schroeder Romero
Eric Heist Artist Talk 2005 MDF, paint, blanket, papier-mâché, wire, wig 76" x 66" x 46" [large detail of installation*] Eric Heist is a wonderful artist working with great skill in mediums traditional and perhaps not so traditional, but...
April 14, 2006
Jeff Wyckoff at 31 Grand
Jeff Wyckoff AIDS altar-piece 1993 36" x 78-90" photosculpture* [installation view] [opened] We were in the back room of 31 Grand recently when we spotted Jeff Wyckoff's extraordinary altarpiece, created in 1993. I could hardly take my eyes off...
"Available" at Monya Rowe
Brian Belott Boom Box #73rd 2003 acrylic on glass 15" x 18" [installation view] Kevin Zucker Untitled 2006 digital C-print, 32" x 40" [large detail of installation] Tim Davis Combatant Balls (My Life in Politics) 2004 C-print 20" x...
April 9, 2006
Robert Boyd at Participant
Robert Boyd Xanadu [two stills from a three-screen video installation, and below those, a still from a second, single-channel video] Robert Boyd has been working on his three-part epic video, "Xanadu", for years. We've seen two sections in earlier...
Jennifer Toth at Holland Tunnel
POST CARD Jennifer Toth Fertility 18" x 21" [installation view, showing a bird shape extending above the top edge of the piece] Jennifer Toth [installation view showing "Commitment Phobic" on the left and "Inner Artist on a String" on the...
Tom Billings at Holland Tunnel
POST CARD Tom Billings Our Founding Fathers 24" x 18" Holland Tunnel has a remarkable show, "Ménage à Trois", of paintings by Tom Billings, Jacques Roch and Jennifer Toth. It continues through the rest of this week. Unfortunately the gallery...
April 8, 2006
The Matthew Barney Show at Jack the Pelican
Roz Chast Cremaster Cycle Cartoon T-Shirt t-shirt Not exactly Matthew Barney's show, but rather "The Matthew Barney Show". It's a group exhibition currently at Jack the Pelican which has been curated by Eric Doeringer. This rich installation is probably...
Chinese contemporary photography at Max Protetch
POST CARD Liu Wei It Looks Like a Landscape 2004 digital B/W photography 60" x 24.5" [installation view] Max Protetch has mounted an extraordinary show of recent Chinese photography. It will be up for another week, but China will be...
Jennifer and Kevin McCoy at Postmasters
Jennifer and Kevin McCoy Double Fantasy II (sex) 2006 mixed media sculpture with cameras, lights, electronics, projected video output, approx. 7' x 11' [large detail of installation] The show closes in two hours, but the gallery will still have...
Rico Gatson at Ronald Feldman
POST CARD Rico Gatson Auction Block 2006 latex paiont on plywood, lights 25" x 48.5" x 24.5" [installation view] The show is "African Fractals", the artist is Rico Gatson and the gallery is Ronald Feldman Fine Arts. Great. The symbols...
"When Artists Say We" at Artists Space
Valerie Tevere UNITED STATES 1996 bluprint posters [large detail of installation] Pedro Lasch Crumbs: Drawing on a Limited View of New York City's Cultural Wealth 2000 [large detail of installation] With its current exhibition, "When Artists Say We", Artists...
Eostre bunnies and their friends
happy shop window on Bleecker Street [I forgot to document the identity of the beautiful store, but for the story of these little critters themselves, see last year's post]...
April 6, 2006
Eileen Myles and Micheal Webster go to Hell
soldier Lewis, sung by David Adam Moore, has been dying in battle for two thousand years Until the boy is asked his name David Adam Moore is called simply 'the Hunk' by Brine, our underworld guide in "Hell", an...
headline of DeLay
torn from this morning's NYTimes But the rest of us know exactly what to do with a stinking privy....
April 5, 2006
Nicole Cherubini at Gasser & Grunert
Nicole Cherubini [details of three pots included in installation] I can't promise to upload a big bunch of pictures for just any gallery which happens to have none on its own site, but this is a very special circumstance....
April 3, 2006
Ridykeulous at Participant
Lindsay Brant Bush Wackers 2004 Trader Joe’s bags, papier mâché, egg shells, foam, wire, plastic, glass eyes [installation view, including a detail of Lisa Sanditz's wall mural, Pussy Den] I've been feeling just a little bit guilty about showing...
Sachar Mathias at Outrageous Look
Sachar Mathias Windows 2006 newspaper [detail of installation] Willamsburg may have lost some very good galleries in the last two years (most in moves to Chelsea), but fortunately there seem to be just about as many new ones settling...
Michael Linares, and "relational formations", at CANADA
Michael Linares Oasis 2006 wood, screws, enamel, plastic, assorted beers 2' x 5' x 5' [installation view] The beers were gone by the time we arrived yesterday, but we got the idea. It's a beautiful sculpture, even absent any...
