July 30, 2006
Soutine and and at Cheim & Read
Joel Shapiro Untitled 2006 wood, casein and wire 66.5" x 23" x 23" [large detail of installation] Perhaps not surpringly, it's not all painting. Cheim & Read's brilliantly curated and brilliantly mounted friends of Soutine show, "The New Landscape/The...
money for art at Schroeder Romero
POST CARD Ken Solomon Steakhouse Waiters - Made With Tip Money 2006 cut paper 15" x 20" [installation view] Ray Beldner 36 Squares of Cash (after Carl Andre's 36 Pieces of Zinc, 1967) 2002 sewn U.S. currency, cork and wood...
July 27, 2006
"butch queen realness with a twist" at John Connelly
New York City Breakers, excerpt from TV show "Graffiti Rock" 1984 video [large detail of still from installation] Lillian Schwartz Papillons 1973 music by Max Mathews, video [large detail of still from installation] Anonymous Vogue Balls: Battle Ball Finals...
July 25, 2006
what do you call it when a nation commits suicide?
Smoke rises from Khiam village after being hit by Israeli air strikes, in southern Lebanon, July 25, 2006 Israel has just killed four UN observers, apparently deliberately, and in doing so may have just dealt itself a fatal blow.An...
the most dangerous war
Timothy Buckwalter [title not given] 2006 acrylic ink on paper 8.5" x 11" The destruction and invasion of Lebanon is very likely to spell disaster for New York, and for any other people or place rightly or wrongly perceived...
July 23, 2006
"terrorist targets" in Beirut
Beirut residents protested the attacks on Lebanon on Saturday [caption and image from theangryarab, although the photograph originally appeared in the NYTimes crediting Bryan Denton]...
what are the cartoonists and bloggers afraid of?
Isn't it strange that our last remaining guardians of truth, the political cartoonists and the two biggie bloggers, have been virtually silent on the biggest news story in the world today? See Juan Cole if you want enlightenment. [image...
July 22, 2006
every one of us is in charge of the U.S. gulags
Benamar Benatta, in an undated Federal detention facility photograph This sort of thing will disgrace us all forever.NEW YORK - An Algerian man believed to be the last domestic* detainee still in custody from a national dragnet after Sept....
July 21, 2006
Derek Eller in summer mode
Peter Caine The Patriot 2006 mixed media animatronic sculpture 100" x 128" x 124" [large detail view of installation] Fritz Welch Props to Rez Fink 2006 wood, paper, cardboard, plaster weld, hoodie tape, graphite, etc. dimensions variable [large detail...
"Flight Plan" at Morgan Lehman
Jenny Laden Airborne 2006 oil on panel 14" x 22" [view of installation] On what was thus far one of the hottest days of the summer, any show with the tag "Flight Plan" would be welcome. The work installed...
July 19, 2006
older New York
a scar in the late nineteenth-century paving stones on West 27th Street, looking west...
they've lost the potato chip!*
[an image either Barry or I captured only days after September 11] Oops. The only remaining recognizable relic of the sacred World Trade Center buildings is missing, but I guess we're still more or less on target to spend...
July 18, 2006
thoughts of Israel somehow always cancel thought
U.N. peacekeepers react at the sight of citizens who were killed when Israeli warplanes targeted their vehicles Saturday (July 15th) AP I've just read two disturbing pieces in today's NYTimes Metro section describing the reaction of New York's "leaders"...
July 13, 2006
closer to Armageddon
Sue Coe War Street 2000 etching 9.5" x 12.5" Okay, for better or for worse, the U.S. is the only "superpower" (for now) so I don't think it's presumptuous to talk about the size of our footprint: Right now...
July 12, 2006
Carol "Riot" Kane at 31 Grand
POST CARD Carol "Riot" Kane Inner Sanctum [view of installation] 31 Grand has this wonderful piece by Carol "Riot" Kane in their self-described "summer [group] show", titled "other worlds". While I can't say the installation isn't summery [I don't know...
July 11, 2006
faced postbox
I saw this rusty postbox sitting on a canted sidewalk at the edge of a West 22 Street mid-block construction site a few days ago. Someone who had been by before was kind enough to try to make it...
July 10, 2006
Dana Sperry, and a lot more, at Dam, Stuhltrager
Dana Sperry Humpty Dumpty: the Battle for the Corner Rages On 2005 DVD video recording on LCD monitors and custom wood case, dimensions variable [view of installation] Dam, Stuhltrager has arranged one of those perfectly-cool summer shows, a group...
July 9, 2006
July 8, 2006
"Data Mining" at Wallspace
Dora Garcia All the Stories 2005 book (sample) 9" x 6" x 3" [installation view] Donelle Woolford Number 1 Painting 2006 wood, screws, glue, latex paint 27" x 21" [installation view] Conrad Bakker Untitled Project: Trash oil on [single...
Chris Moukarbel at Wallspace
Chris Moukarbel Untitled 2006 DVD projection [still from installation] Who owns 9/11? Even the question is scary, but most of us would answer in disgust, "George Bush". Nevertheless we would have to admit that this quick response ignores the...
July 4, 2006
a close afternoon of small pleasures
Cotoneaster [?] lining the footpath urban riverside scene Koi pond poppy above the Hunger Memorial We walked all of the way downtown from 23rd Street yesterday with a friend who was visiting from Berlin. Most of our path brought...
