September 30, 2006
this is not a gay film not a a gay film a gay film
I was shocked I was I went to a presentation by the artists and book signing at Aperture on Thursday night, and this is one of many duplicate posters I found clipped up and down parking signs and light...
Cory Arcangel opens Team's new SoHo digs
It was a wonderful block party, and I have no doubts that the show which attracted the crowd is a hoot, but I'm going to have to go back to check out Cory Arcangel's latest magic show. Openings are usually...
September 26, 2006
Gerald Davis at John Connelly
Gerald Davis E.T. and Grandma, 1986 2006 colored pencil on paper 50" x 38" (each drawing in diptych) [large details of the installation's two framed drawings - including ambient reflections] Gerald Davis's show at John Connelly is breathtaking for...
the American Airlines homo scare: even worse than reported
UPDATE ON THE AMERICAN AIRLINES INCIDENT: the airline's straights-only security rules don't fly I have now heard from our friend David Leisner, who was quoted in the The New Yorker story I wrote about on Thursday evening. David was one...
September 25, 2006
Taylor McKimens at Clementine
Taylor McKimens has a single large piece installed inside Clementine Gallery.An exhibition featuring Taylor McKimens's first comic book, published by PictureBox. All of the artwork used to make the comic book has been re-mixed to make a single freestanding...
September 24, 2006
it flies differently in The Netherlands
Terence has two fathers, and that's good This amazing video excerpt from an ordinary Dutch children's TV show sings and speaks for itself, but following upon the story about the American flight diversion threat appearing just below this post...
September 21, 2006
American airline threatens to divert flight over queer kiss
SEE AN UPDATE IN THIS SEPTEMBER 26 POST: "the American Airlines homo scare: even worse than reported" Shortly after takeoff, Varnier nodded off, leaning his head on Tsikhiseli. A stewardess came over to their row. “The purser wants you...
Christopher Reiger at AG Gallery
Christopher Reiger this now, like the beginning, again and again 2006 watercolor, gouache and marker on stretched Arches paper 25" x 25" I'm finding it harder and harder to leave this work alone. I regularly see Christopher Reiger's vibrant...
September 19, 2006
Alice Könitz at Hudson Franklin
Alice Könitz Magazines and Stand 2006 wood, Chromolux paper, magazines 47" x 25" x 20" [view of installation] Hudson Franklin has a wonderfully-challenging (okay, it's actually pretty baffling, and for me that's like catnip) show of sculpture and collage...
September 17, 2006
the old Vinegar Hill
untitled (asphalt siding) 2006 I'm pretty fond of the siding this nineteenth-century house in Brooklyn's Vinegar Hill aquired some time in the next....
September 15, 2006
Haeri Yoo at Thomas Erben
Haeri Yoo Untitled 2006 acrylic and gouache on canvas 12" x 12" [installation view] While I was in Thomas Erben's gallery yesterday I couldn't help thinking about the fact that I was looking at the work of one established...
September 14, 2006
Dona Nelson at Thomas Erben
Dona Nelson Untitled 2004 acrylic on canvas 69" x 80" [installation view] [detail] Dona Nelson Walnut Way 1999 charcoal on canvas 88" x 106" [installation view] [detail] Dona Nelson Gaucho Groucho 2005 acrylic and cheesecloth on canvas 88" x...
unidentified object appears inside Kantor/Feuer window
UPDATE: The artist who created the object has finally been identified on a label attached to the window (see the credit immediately below the image here), and it seems that the window is now the responsibility of something called Art...
an on-line review for our real-space show
later the visitors did actually "step over the body bags" to reach the backyard bar See Barry for the word on Susan Dessel's first review. The writer seems to have gotten it just right, and this account of a...
September 11, 2006
the antidote to 9/11 24/7
I wasn't going to say anything more today about the fifth installment of our annual orgy of mourning and revenge, the anniversary of September 11. But things just got out of hand once we walked into Pierogi this evening and...
Alejandro Diaz on approaching art
Alejandro Diaz Unknown Artists at Unheard of Prices 2006 purple neon sign 24" x 36" [installation view] I'm drooling. Alejandro Diaz attached this [sad/happy?] image to an email greeting this morning and I couldn't resist broadcasting it further. It...
the terrorists have won, without lobbing another shot
I suggest we haven't had another terrorist attack within our borders in these five years precisely because it hasn't been necessary. Bush has managed to exactly fulfill the objectives of the last one. To begin with, it's now official: He's...
September 10, 2006
Chie Fueki at Mary Boone
Chie Fuyeki The Nature of How We See 2005 acrylic, mixed media, paper/wood 96" x 72" [installation view] [detail] I'm not sure when I last walked into Mary Boone on 24th Street, (these days much of my decision-making about...
September 8, 2006
Susan Dessel in "OUR BACKYARD"
[detail of "OUR BACKYARD: A Cautionary Tale" as it was being installed yesterday] "They're wrapped in the material used to make sandbags. The sandbags always arrive when it's too late, don't they?" Susan C. Dessel was answering a friend's...
September 7, 2006
the yard behind Dam, Stuhltrager, and other excitement
Susan C. Dessel OUR BACKYARD: A Cautionary Tale 2006 sandbag tarps, EMS blankets, shellac, plaster gauze, cement, dimensions variable [view of installation] The first part of the first real-time show either Barry or I have curated opens this Friday...
September 6, 2006
Kamp K48 at John Connelly
"Kamp K48", a large detail of the installation inside the "JCP Annex" Shay Nowick Protest Banner 2005 acrylic on cotton fabric 4' x 6' [view of installation, with a glimpse of Hrafnhildur Arnardottir's "The Hairy Hunchback" on the right,...
September 5, 2006
polished Gehry
The old Chelsea confronts the new: The faded remainder of a painted twentieth-century advertising sign for a popular auto body polish faces the sparkling highlights of a nearly-completed Frank Gehry building on the West Side Highway. The top of...
September 2, 2006
asking why there isn't a protest movement?
some kind of "Silence in the Streets", NYC, March 23, 2003 I saw this "Editorial Observer" piece by Andrew Rosenthal in yesterday's NYTimes and I could hardly believe my eyes. The writer asks, in the words of the piece's...
UPDATE: Josh Wolf free on bail - after 30 days in prison!
Josh Wolf, the young California video blogger and freelance journalist who was imprisoned August 1 for refusing to turn over videos of a political protest to a federal grand jury, has just been freed on bail by a federal appeals...
