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This is my second Hallowe'en post. This one's the opposite of grumpy. So I'm thinking, the times are already scary enough; this year a goofy jack-o'-lantern may be just what the doctor ought to have ordered. [I really should...

NOTE: After I had completed a political post last night I accidentally deleted it - irretrievably. I didn't think then that I would try to reconstruct it, but the subject keeps knawing on me and it definitely couldn't be much...

Xylor Janes Ruin [installation view] Xylor Jane So Long [installation view] Xylor Jane's second solo show at CANADA is a knockout, and the more I learn (well, "learn" may be too presumptious; "read" or "hear" would be more appropriate)...

Cliff Evans The Road to Mount Weather 2006 three-channel video [three stills from the installation] Cliff Evans's extraordinary three-channel video installation, "The Road to Mount Weather", is at Location One until November 4. This ambitious and very impressive work,...

Cory Arcangel Untitled (After Lucier) 2006 Mini-Mac [still from installation] Cory Arcangel left Oberlin six years ago with a degree in Technology in Music and the Related Arts and his visual art has almost always incorporated disparate musical elements....

Peter Corrie Untitled 2006 one of a suite of drawings, some with artist's frame, from "No Time Swan", mixed media, various sizes [installation view] "Dangling Between The Real Thing And The Sign In The Window", the group exhibition which...

about terror far more real than that imagined by hysterical post-9/11 SubTalk warnings [altered poster sighted on the C train this afternoon]...

Paul Mpagi Sepuya The Difference Between a Memory, a Portrait, a Resolution parts 1, 2 and 3, three separate digital prints, each 30" x 40" [installation view] Lise Kjaer Untitled, Breathe cutout paper letters, dimensions variable [installation view] Hey,...

Sarah Oppenheimer's construction, "554-5251" completely transformed the main gallery space at P.P.O.W. last month. We had first seen her handsome work in March, 2005, when it represented this gallery at ARTROCK. From the press release:In her upcoming exhibition at...

John Shimon & Julie Lindemann Barry (in Ghostly Prince Costume), Ladysmith, Wisconsin 2003 pigment print on canvas (from 8 x 10 transparency) 50" x40" [installation view] Although John Shimon and Julie Lindemann's show at Sarah Bowen closes tomorrow, I'm...

untitled (razor wire) 2006 These morning glories, seen on a fence in Vinegar Hill, Brooklyn, on a late afternoon earlier this month, seemed totally indifferent to the manufactured thorns installed at the top....

Timothy Marvel Hull The Mask of Katherine 2006 gouache, graphite, ink and ribbon 15" x 19" [installation view] The world which surrounded the early twentieth-century mystic G.I Gurdjieff is only the starting point for a beautiful multi-media installation by...

Scott and Noah We stopped by the very informal K48 benefit held at John Connelly Presents last night, just in time to catch these two provocateurs blocking some of the hot merchandise lining the walls. Shoulda taken more pix,...

Who are all these people? [if you have trouble seeing the images above go here] The slide show images are of Friday's opening reception for "Dangling Between The Real Thing And The Sign In The Window". They were all...

Some of you may already be tired of seeing this image, but as I'm one of a very select number given the responsibility for publicizing this show please humor me. Genuine pictures of the installation will have to wait...

North Korea threatens war against U.S. [AP] Oh great. It seems the Republicans have somehow managed to persuade Kim Jong-il to save their hold on Congress. Get ready to be whipped up over another war just weeks before the...

Dan Rushton Skulls, Branches, Forms and landscape 2006 acrylic on panel 81" x 108" [large detail of installation] Dan Rushton Shape, Branches, Flowers 2006 acrylic onpanel 22" x 30" Dan Rushton Shapes, Branches, Skulls, Forms 2006 acrylic on panel...

I find it absolutely incomprehensible that in the end, after all the horrors of the last twelve years of Republican Congresses, the last six with a totally disastrous Republican administration, we might see the Republican ascendancy overturned because my fellow...

Amelia Biewald Sergeant Bayberries in the Bayou Moss 2006 bleach on velvet, upholstery materials, acrylic, resin and wood 36" x 46" x 6" [large detail of installation] I haven't seen Amelia Biewald's current show at the gallery, but I...

Michele Zalopany Line Up 2006 pastel on canvas (triptych) 88" x 156" [installation view] [detail of above] Michele Zalopany Jimmy Hoffa Bar 2006 pastel on canvas 30" x 40" [installation view] Michele Zalopany 5774 Coplin 2006 pastel on canvas...

Adam McEwen Dresden (Phosphorbrandbombe) 2006 phosphorescent paint and chewing gum on canvas 90" x 70" [installation view] Adam McEwen Dresden 2006 acrylic and chewing gum on canvas 90" x 130" [installation view] [detail of above] I'm not even going...

Ligorano/Reese Memory of Truth 2006 digital print on Duratrans 96" × 113" [large detail of installation as seen from inside the gallery] Where our nightmare began, five years ago. Jim Kempner has just taken down one of the most...

Barry and I now have both post cards and a press release for our show in Williamsburg. The release includes information on each artist, even if we can't give too much away before the opening. We're having a great...