July 31, 2007
eruv on 6th Avenue
Last week on the day I took shots of this symbolic fence (the thin [nylon?] wires in the photos) along 6th Avenue just below 23rd Street I couldn't find anything on line confirming that it represented a currently-valid eruv,...
Ingmar Bergman 1918-2007
Victor Sjöström and Bibi Andersson in a still from Ingmar Bergman's 1957 film, "Smultronstället" [Wild Strawberries] Well, of course it is. Everything is like a scene from a Bergman film.Wow. Maybe this is not a balanced judgment, since I've...
July 30, 2007
a visit to Brooklyn Museum
Judy Chicago The Dinner Party 1974–1979 ceramic, porcelain and textiles [installation view] Nayland Blake Untitled 2002 charcoal on paper [installation view] Florine Stettheimer Heat 1919 [installation view] [detail] Ree Morton Regional Work #2 1976 oil on wood with Celastic...
July 29, 2007
Marsden Hartley subs for Asher Durand at Brooklyn Museum
Marsden Hartley Evening Storm, Schoodic, Maine No. 2 1942 oil on board 30" x 40.5" [detail] We crossed Brooklyn ferry this afternoon (by subway, of course), on the last day of the Asher Durand show at Brooklyn Museum. I...
Daniel Reich in the Chelsea Hotel
Jeffrey Tranchell Gold Bar 2007 enamel on wood 3.25" x 32" [installation view] Mike Smith untitled 2007 latex, ink and enamel on canvas 24" x 18" [installation view] Mike Smith untitled 2007 latex, ink and enamel on canvas 20"...
July 28, 2007
NY Union Square First Amendment rally July 27, 2007
BICYCLIST DOWNED BY THUG COP, ARRESTED, THEN UN-ARRESTED How much do you have to piss off a New York cop (unknowingly, in fact) before he assaults and arrests you? When Joe Nerolla rode his bike over a large piece of...
July 26, 2007
Guantanamo still screams at the world - and at all of us
Even if it were shut down today (and that ain't happening), Guantanamo will remain our shame forever. [this post is part of a series of reminders begun on May 21, 2007, which will continue until the concentration camp at...
tell Kelly, Quinn and Bloomberg we are still a free people
LA police un-permitting a march in MacArthur Park, May 1, 2007, demonstrating that more and more everything which is not permitted by law is forbidden Tomorrow evening, July 27, folks who want to fight for our right to assemble...
"to squeeze the cars, first primp the public ride"
(of course it's never been easy getting downtown) a view of central Paris some years before the current mayor's congestion campaign, in a print by Nicolas Guérard, "Les Embarras pour la circulation, au Pont Neuf à Paris" (early eighteenth...
July 25, 2007
Wall Street Journal touts ArtCal
I guess none of our fans read the Wall Street Journal (I suppose that's quite possible), because no one told us until today about this item by Lauren A. E. Schuker from last Saturday's edition. It's all about telling...
yellow Koi
This guy in the Battery Park City lotus pool is about eighteen inches long, and what you see here is the actual color....
July 24, 2007
butterfly effect
These two Painted Ladies were very busy in the 28th Street flower market this afternoon. They ignored me entirely, but I can totally understand the reason for their concentration: They have only two weeks to live and to reproduce,...
July 23, 2007
WTC, almost six years on
untitled (the ramp) 2007 This is a view of the hole, taken from a chink in the fabric of the temporary Vesey Street bridge late last night, although it looked to me more like the construction site of a...
July 21, 2007
Joel Longenecker at Sideshow
Joel Longenecker And Then You Die 2007 oil on canvas 90" x 96" [detail] Joel Longenecker Float Theory 2007 oil on linen 62" x 54" Joel Longenecker Get Drift 2007 oil on canvas 78" x 74" When I first...
shy Williamsburg low-rise with tall, aggressive neighbors
untitled (antennae) 2007 Didn't anybody notice this triangular lot when these two buildings were going up?...
"Ceci n'est pas... (This is not...)" at Sara Meltzer
Alejandro Diaz (selection from "Ongoing series of Cardboard Signs" 2003 - present) [installation view] [additional signs from the series] Guy Richards Smit study for front cover of "Grossmalerman Adventures" 2007 gouache on paper 30.25" x 22.75" [installation view] Terrence...
July 20, 2007
"Famous Adults as Children, . . . " at Monya Rowe
Mark Schubert Merry-Jo 2007 epoxy resin, plastic lawn ornaments, chrome table, foam and enamel, approx. 69" x 40" x 42" [installation view] [detail] Joey Fauerso If I'm Thinking I'm Probably Feeling 2006 video: 35-second looped animation made from 454...
July 19, 2007
"Circumventing the City" at D'Amelio Terras
Sarah Braman Step Out 2007 found furniture, Plexiglas, paint 46" x 53" x 32" [installation view] Nicole Cherubini Amphora 2007 ceramic, terracotta, porcelain, luster, yellow crystal ice, wood, enamel and fake gold and silver chain 70" x 64" x...
July 18, 2007
new abstraction at D'Amelio Terras
Roger White Cloth 2006 oil on canvas 54" x 38" Chris Martin Mother Popcorn 2006-2007 oil and collage on canvas 64" x 59" D'Amelio Terras has two dynamite shows up at the same time, and they will both be...
our friendly press, on the future of art blogs
I wasn't going to single out this one article in one periodical for a post here on my site, thinking it would appear too self-serving, but then I realized that people were already reading the provocative piece by James...
July 17, 2007
"Unfathom" at Max Protetch
Mira Dancy Burning Flame 2007 oil on canvas 16" x 16" Mira Dancy Tall Table 2007 oil on canvas 42" x 24" Chris Martin Untitled 2005-2007 mixed media, insulation foam on wire mesh 32" x26.75' [installation view] Eric Heist...
...NOW IT'S YOUR TURN.
untitled (TURN) 2007 This had almost nothing to do with the Manhattan Mini Storage advertising campaign, and almost everything to do with bold and angled lines - and the English bond....
July 16, 2007
"The Black Market" at Anna Kustera
Ju$t Another Rich Kid & Stuart Semple Teen Dream Chaos 2007 mixed media installation, dimensions variable [large detail of installation] [further detail] For those who haven't yet seen the show on 21st Street Anna Kustera has fortunately extended the...
July 15, 2007
roof garden update
looking cool After yesterday's post, I suppose even I might have been able to predict this one. The (five-year-old) roof garden outside our apartment is a great joy, even in the winter. But it's so hard to get living...
"Not Yet Utopic" at Pocket Utopia
Eric Hairabedian Pitcher 2006 C-print 30" x 24" [installation view] Eric Hairabedian Mr. Valentine 2006 C-print 30" x 24" [installation view] Eric Hairabedian Pepe 2007 C-print 8.5" x 11" [installation view, including blogger's reflection] Tricia Zigmund The Church of...
July 14, 2007
triangles in the garden
I shot these images while crossing through our courtyard garden on my way to the market late this afternoon....
July 13, 2007
"No New Tale to Tell " at new 31 Grand
Is it a riot scene, a political demonstration, a fire drill, an Improv Everywhere mission? No, it's just the overflow crowd outside the new 31 Grand on Ludlow Street last night, welcoming the gallery in its move from Williamsburg...
Sinbad was gay?
Kerwin Matthews, "flesh-and-blood Sinbad" Why didn't somebody tell us? Kerwin Matthews, the actor who played Sinbad in the 1958 film, "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad", died July 5 in his home in San Francisco. The NYTimes obituary says that...
July 11, 2007
"She Was Born To Be My Unicorn" at Smith Stewart
Rob Pruitt Under The Cherry Moon 2007 acrylic and oil on panel 36" x 30" approx. [installation view, the rectangular shape of the panel distorted here by the camera parallax] [detail including unicorn sticker] Dana Carlson What Cats Think...
Harriet Quimby
I'd heard about a bit about her before, but when I arrived at page 38 of today's Newsday and saw that beautiful face turned to the camera the name Harriet Quimby somehow came to life for the first time....
July 10, 2007
Jacques Vidal, "making friends + keeping friends"
[detail of Vidal's collage in the gallery window] Please indulge me for this additional post on Jacques Louis Vidal's show at Sunday. The immediate occasion for my uploading some more pictures now was the fact that the artist performed...
Guantanamo languishes
There are no summer breaks inside the cages at Guantanamo, and no AC. [image, otherwise unattributed, via salvationinc]...
New Museum rises on the Bowery
coming soon to a changing neighborhood Looking at this stage more like the Pompidou than the casual stack of clean, minimal, white spaces which will eventually sit on the side of one of the oldest and most historically-evocative streets...
July 9, 2007
rare sighting of a brace of two of my favorite things
lithe youths on light bikes, turning out of Rivington Street last Saturday...
"The Atrocity Exhibition" at Thiery Goldberg
Ahmed Alsoudani Opened Ground 2007 charcoal, pastels and acrylic on paper 80" x 105" [installation view] Ahmed Alsoudani Untitled 2007 charcoal, pastels and acrylic on paper 94" x 107" [installation view] [detail] After entering the gallery and exchanging greetings...
July 8, 2007
"Three for Society" at 303 Gallery
Mary Heilmann Sunset at Makapu 1984 oil on canvas 60" x42" I'm probably showing an image by the most well-known of the artists included in this pretty serious summer group show, “Three for Society”, at 303 Gallery, but it's...
July 7, 2007
Williamsburg and Bushwick, my big sky country
I do think that until you've visited the high prairie you don't fully understand the term, "Big Sky Country". I've been to Montana several times, and I understand. But today I live in a Manhattan canyon, so I also...
July 6, 2007
"A New American Portrait" at Jen Bekman
Brian Ulrich Untitled (Thrift 0628) 2006 30" x 24" Alec Soth Bonnie (with a photograph of an angel), Port Gibson, Mississippi 2000 32" x 40" They're American, so they come in many models. They're not all pretty, but their...
July 5, 2007
update on Jacques Louis Vidal performance schedule
On Tuesday I wrote that Jacques Louis Vidal had scheduled performances through two more weekends during his current show at Sunday on the Lower East Side [LES], but today I've received word that he has reduced them to a...
Tommy Hartung and Rashawn Griffin room at Moti Hasson,
Tommy Hartung Viewing Station #1 2007 4 black folding chairs, media cart, tripod projection screen, dimensions variable [installation view] Rashawn Griffin Untitled (Everything Has) 2006 ink, thread, mixed media on paper, dimensions variable [installation view] and the big white...
July 4, 2007
"New Mutants" slip into Canada
Michael Williams Fur Tree 2007 oil on canvas 58" x 76" Melissa Brown Untitled 2007 silk screen on aluminum 48" x 96" Once again Canada manages to put on a show which local art fans will miss at their...
July 3, 2007
Jacques Louis Vidal and the wooden folks at Sunday
missing person flier in the gallery window Jacques Louis Vidal's appearance at Sunday is more than a show; it's a way of art, a two-way street for both the artist and the viewer. At the opening reception of "Wood...
"Where do Homosexuals Get All Their Energy?"
Brandon Kelley I'm not much of an advertisement for an energetic homosexual at this moment so I was curious about "Where do Homosexuals Get All Their Energy?", this piece in last week's The Onion. I read it straight through...
