March 31, 2007
ACT UP party tonight
This t-shirt was designed by the legendary activist artist collective Gran Fury 17 years ago. Today South Africa has national health care. A lot of people still think they can do something to help drag our own country into...
my favorite activist
Barry, in the crowd listening to speakers across from the Stock Exchange yesterday...
March 30, 2007
ACT UP renewed, and transformed
across from the Stock Exchange yesterday If yesterday's ACT UP twentieth-anniversary action demonstrated anything, it was the coalition's own renewal, and its transformation from an AIDS activist group once largely made up of young middle-class queer white males into...
March 28, 2007
ACT UP back to the Wall, this time for single-payer healthcare
going back for more, 20 years later Apparently as a nation we can accept throwing away something like half a trillion dollars (and counting), and very likely some 700,000 lives, on a remote elective war whose only accomplishment was...
March 27, 2007
Frankie Martin at CANADA
Frankie Martin the (rainbow) stinker 2006 fabric and acrylic paint 82" x 50" [detail from installation] [installation view] I visited "in your dreamz", Frankie Martin's first solo show at CANADA twice, a luxury I unfortunately don't allow myself often....
March 26, 2007
kohlrabi land mines
untitled (kohlrabi) 2007 I confess I'm more shy about taking pictures of food stalls in Chinatown than I am about taking pictures of art in galleries, so I did this one on the run yesterday, between gallery stops. I...
March 25, 2007
possibly the last word on photographing others' art
not without its replicas - and its history I think the most sensible (and succinct) take on the question of visually recording visual art is contained in the second paragraph of a short comment submitted on my original post...
March 23, 2007
House votes on the war: do we say "whoopie"?
Sue Coe Wheel of War 2004 mixed media drawing on board 12.5" x 8.5" WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday defied President George W. Bush, voting to impose a September 1, 2008, deadline for withdrawing...
March 21, 2007
the invisible artist, the invisible art
invisible art [large detail] This is a true story (only the names have been withheld, for considerations of privacy and copyright):A young artist is chosen to be in a group show at a respectable small non-profit space. An appreciative...
"What F Word?" at Cynthia Broan
Sabyna Sterrett Flood 1979 faux pearls, fabric and thread 19.5" x 22" (25.5" x 28" in plexiglas box) [installation view] Suzanne McClelland Coming to a Head 2007 oil on linen 60" x 56" [installtion view] Lauren Gibbs Free Love...
March 19, 2007
"Surface Wave" at Foxy
Ulla von Brandenburg Jupe 1 and Jupe 2 2006 ink on paper, diptych 22" x 30" each [installation view] Hany Armanious Unrealistic 2007 cast Polyurethane 37" x 24" [installation view] Sometimes a group show just looks right, although the...
March 17, 2007
Jesse Lambert
Jesse Lambert Soft Shelled Vehicles 2007 acrylic on canvas 38" x 48" Jesse Lambert Tropical Shale Shatter #1 2007 35" x 35 " Jesse Lambert Segments and Broken Tubes 2006 32" x 44" Barry and I first saw Jesse...
March 16, 2007
Cathy Begien at Winkleman
Cathy Begien Black Out 2004 single-channel video, audio on DVD [still from installation] Cathy Bergien My Favorites 2004 single-channel video, audio on DVD [large detail of installation including artist's props] We did make it a top pick on ArtCal,...
March 15, 2007
Robert Gober at Matthew Marks
Robert Gober Blanket Sample 1 2006 gypsum polymer and watercolor 10" x 9" x 3.25" [installation view] The show is now gone, and in the end I only saw the 22nd Street space, but this image, which was not...
March 13, 2007
marquee poetry
In this image of the Waverly Theater (now the IFC Center) marquee, as seen from across the street yesterday afternoon, it's not immediately apparent that motorists, approaching from the left on this one-way street, got to see only the...
March 12, 2007
pink pig Bush
(PIG BUSH, DEMOLISH THE BORDER WALL) reads the message on the side of the big pink pig aloft during the Roger Waters concert in Mexico City on March 6, two days before his Bush visit warm-up performance in Bogota...
March 11, 2007
Chad Robertson at Sixspace (Pulse)
UPDATE: a description of the painting's material specifics, furnished by the gallery, has now been added below the image and the comment from Caryn Coleman includes a general description of Robertson's works in series Chad Robertson Mash Up 3 2007...
Shaun O'Dell at Inman (Pulse)
Shaun O'Dell Song of 60 Million Buffalo Ghosts 2006 gouache on paper 29" x 69" [installation view] [detail] Houston's Inman Gallery showed this awesome large drawing by San Francisco-based artist Shaun O'Dell in their booth at Pulse. For a...
Elena Blasco at Galerie Fúcares (Pulse)
Elena Blasco Pequeño Universo 2007 mixed media on acetate sheets 39.5" x 58.25" [detail of installation] [full installation view] Madrid's Galerie Fúcares showed this gorgeous collage by Elena Blasco at Pulse....
Aaron Krach at DCKT (Pulse)
Aaron Krach Houston Street, New York 2 2006 digital C-print mounted on Plexiglas 30" x 40" (31" x 41" framed) [installation view] DCKT showed this large, very beautiful and totally New York-ish abstract by Aaron Krach in their booth...
March 9, 2007
Chris Duncan at Jeff Bailey (Pulse)
Chris Duncan Seriously, It's Dark Out 2006 India ink, latex paint, gouache, wood putty, marker, graphite, colored pencil on panel 71.75" x 96" [installation view] First, I have to apologize for the highlights at the top of this image,...
Heather Cantrell at Sixspace (Pulse)
Heather Cantrell A Valentine 2006 ink-jet print on silver rag paper 18" x 24" Heather Cantrell Circus Family 2006 ink-jet print on silver rag paper 24 x 30" L.A.'s Sixspace had another great booth at Pulse New York this...
Paul Pagk at Moti Hasson (Scope)
Paul Pagk Lexicon Series #60 2006 oil tempera on linen 26" x 25" [installation view] Paul Pagk Lexicon Series #16 2004-05 oil tempera on linen 24" x 25" [installation view] Moti Hasson was showing a number of gallery artists...
March 7, 2007
Tony Swain at Modern Institute (Armory)
Tony Swain Stuck Cuts 2006 acrylic on newpaper 26.5" x 25.25" [installation view] Glasgow's The Modern Institute showed this handsome drawing by the artist and musician Tony Swain (Hassle Hound) in their booth at the Armory. Swain is one...
Satoshi Ohno at Tomio Koyama (Armory)
As I'm admiring these Satoshi Ohno images (from the artist's "acid garden" and "prism" series), and several other pictures of his work which I am not uploading here, I'm reminded of the hazards, at least for the visitor, of...
March 6, 2007
Eliezer Sonnenschein at Sommer (Armory)
Eliezer Sonnenschein By the Book 2007 oil on wood 31.5" x 47.25" [installation view] A number of exciting artists, including Israelis whose work isn't seen nearly enough on this side of the Atlantic, could be found at the Armory...
six Romanian artists show at Plan B (Armory)
Adrian Ghenie Fragile 2007 oil on canvas 19.75" x 37.5" Cristi Pogăcean The Abduction from the Seraglio 2006 woolen carpet, manufactured 43.25" x 70" [installation view] Victor Man none 2006 oil on canvas on board 10.5" x 13.25"; Victor...
Erik van Lieshout at Stella Lohaus (Armory)
Erik van Lieshout drawings [detail of wall installation] The Antwerp gallery Stella Lohaus, appearing at the Armory for the first time, devoted their entire booth to the drawings of a single artist, Erik van Lieshout, who is increasingly known...
Anya Kielar at Daniel Reich (Armory)
Anya Kielar Untitled 2007 mixed media 39.5" x 31.5" [installation view] Anya Kielar, Untitled 2007 mixed media 39.5" x 31.5" [installation view] Daniel Reich was showing these two wonderful scrim-layered collage pieces by the young New York artist Anya...
Carsten Höller at Casey Kaplan (Armory)
Carsten Höller Kabine 2003-2007 acrylic glass 54" x 18" x 21" [installation view] Casey Kaplan had this seductive piece by Carsten Höller lying on the floor outside the gallery's Armory booth, just waiting for this blogger nut, with his...
March 5, 2007
Kevin Zucker at Greenberg Van Doren (Armory)
This austerely-handsome, if baffling, piece by Kevin Zucker was in the Greenberg Van Doren booth at the Armory. Unfortunately I passed without getting any details, but its a medium-sized painting of, I'm surmising here, acrylic (and transfers?) on canvas....
Rebecca Morris at Barbara Weiss (Armory)
Rebecca Morris Untitled (#03-07) 2007 17.25" x 14" [installation view] Berlin's Galerie Barbara Weiss showed this small exquisite Rebecca Morris painting in their booth at the Armory. There are more images of Morris's work on the Berlin gallery site...
Hany Armanious at Foxy Production (Armory)
Hany Armanious Wall Rubbing #1 2007 clogged sandpaper 8.5" x 10.5" (12" x 16" framed) [large detail of installation] Foxy Production showed several small, ethereal drawings by Hany Armanious in their booth at the Armory [large detail of one...
Butt Johnson at CRG (Armory)
Butt Johnson Qualb tenah Maksour 2006-2007 ballpoint pen on paper 16.5" x 23" [installation view] Butt Johnson Another Study for Scientific Creationism 2006 ink on paper 11.75" x 8.5" [installation view] CRG displayed stunning booths at both ADAA and...
March 4, 2007
Jimmy Robert at Diana Stigter (Armory)
Jimmy Robert Untitled 2006 archival print 35.5" x 27.5" [installation view] The Amsterdam gallery Diana Stigter was back at the Armory this year with more work by Jimmy Robert. I found myself attracted to this and another print the...
Tal R at Zach Feuer (Armory)
Continuing with entries showing images I've retained from the late February art fairs, at least until I run out of breath or get distracted elsewhere, this is a beautiful painting shown by Zach Feuer at The Armory Show. The...
March 3, 2007
jimlog subscriptions
stay connected This blog will be five years old next month, having evolved from a series of emails I had started sending to friends six months earlier, almost immediately after September 11. Some of those folks asked me early...
