August 31, 2006
bzzzzz
busy Everyone in the arts world is going to be out and about beginning next week as the galleries reinvent themselves for another season. Even Barry and I are uncharacteristically formally committed to more visibility than usual in the...
August 29, 2006
Darmstadt and John Moran in the Spiegeltent
Darmstadt, newly popular avant I definitely don't post enough here about arts other than the visual. Serious or non-commercial music is extraordinarily important in our lives, and while I suppose a lot of people can make that statement Barry...
August 27, 2006
Duke Riley at White Box
Paul Piers design Paul Piers design The window read "CHANEL" but almost obscuring the merchandise inside was Duke Riley's large drawing of a burning Greenpoint shoreline crowned with a huge cloud of smoke. Inside White Box the night of...
August 24, 2006
Logan MacDonald, from the store at Cinders
(the drawing) (the silkscreen envelope) (the zine, swimsuit edition) (pages from the swimsuit edition) I spotted the neat little drawing shown at the top of this post somewhere in the backroom exhibition space or "store" of the Williamsburg gallery...
August 23, 2006
The Bronx takes off
David Schillinglaw Box Fresh, Get up your antenna and Hell Bent, all 2006, all mixed media on paper and all 17" x 11" [installation view] Graham Gillmore Cattle Bruisers and Ships paint on paper, 36" x 24" and See...
August 18, 2006
"manic and wasted" at LMCC
two views of an installation by Robert Moore a detail and a larger detail of an installation by Pedro Velez a detail and a large detail of a work by Mariana Saldana Because this terrific show closes tomorrow, Saturday,...
August 17, 2006
another view of summer at Feigen
Dennis Kardon Nature Boy 1999 oil on canvas 57" x 48" [installation view] Yes, it's another summer show, but "Summer View" at Feigen is actually pretty summery. This wonderfully yucky piece by Dennis Kardon may be just about the...
Tribeca ghost
". . . and Push"? UPDATE: I just Googled the text of the [1910?] wall advertisement and found this possible explanation for the obscure message on Forgotten New YorkThis sign had been a mystery to me for some time....
August 16, 2006
bringing the war home at Elizabeth Dee
Craig Kalpakjian Abberation 0189øc 2006 Inkjet transparency in light box 26.5" x 25.5" x 5.25" [large detail of installation] Fia Backström [large detail of an installation from the artist's continuing project, "Blonde Revolution"] Elizabeth Dee will be hosting the...
Kiki & Herb embarass Broadway
in formal mode The brilliant downtown team of Kiki & Herb has taken a summer share on Broadway. I've been a huge fan for years (of these two, not Broadway), so although I haven't seen the show which opened...
Anton Kern celebrates 10 years with an "Implosion"
Jim Lambie Untitled 2006 shirt collar, spray paint, concrete, mirrored pedestal 49" x 13" x 13" [large detai of installation] Wilhelm Sasnal DEKADY 2005 ink on paper 16.5" x 11.75" [installation view] Sergej Jensen Kriftler 2002 velvet, paint on...
Pierre Bismuth and more at Cohan and Leslie
Pierre Bismuth One Thing Made from Another; One Thing Used as Another 2006 Pierre Bismuth Collages for Men – Clare 2003 Inkjet print and collage 57.5" x 46" framed [installation view ] It's not an easy collection, especially for...
August 15, 2006
keeping our twenty-first century subway humming
These electrical cable enclosures, which appeared almost exactly at eye level, easily amused me while I was waiting on the N/R platform at 42nd Street yesterday. It's amazing that the system somehow manages to work - most of the...
wispiness
untitled (wispy) 2006 I'm lying low, trying very hard not to think about much of what's going on under these skies these days, but maybe I'll be able to do something in this space tomorrow....
August 10, 2006
Ryan Humphrey at White Box
It was the artist at work - or play. But for the viewer/spectator standing above the floor of White Box tonight it was also, weirdly, a bit like watching a graceful caged animal taking its anger and frustration out...
August 8, 2006
summer art in the city - of Williamsburg
Right now I'd say that summer art is art that somehow can survive the distraction of high levels of heat and humidity. In my case that's a pretty tall order, so I'm impressed that even in my weather-compromised state I...
August 7, 2006
. . . and so on at Andrew Kreps
Steve Keister Vessel with Effigy Lid 2006 ceramic with glaze and acrylic 12" x 9" x 9" [installation view] Josephine Meckseper Untitled (Dead or ALive) 2005 metal, mirror, wire, cardboard, jewelry and fur 35" x 16" x 13" [installation...
crossing from Williamsburg to Manhattan
untitled (bridge lamp) 2006 tungsten moon over the East River...
August 2, 2006
feds throw blogger Josh Wolf into prison
Wolf at work "I feel a little bit responsible for this mess he's in right now, because he told me, 'Mom, you taught me to do what's right.'" Liz Wolf-Spada A Federal grand jury investigating the alleged vandalism of...
