October 30, 2007
coming soon: Duke Riley at Magnan Projects
detail of Duke Riley's enormous mosaic of the current British flagship in New York waters* We managed to slip into Magnan Projects this afternoon for a peek at the Duke Riley show, "After The Battle of Brooklyn", opening in...
we go live at CUE Arts Foundation tonight with Brian Sholis
Tonight Barry and I will be in conversation with the writer and critic Brian Sholis at the arts education and support forum, CUE Art Foundation, as part of its career development program for artists called "Meeting Artists' Needs". The...
October 29, 2007
Michael Williams at Canada
Michael Williams Solitaire 2007 oil on canvas 38" x 58" [detail] Michael Williams Cave 2007 oil on canvas 38" x 58" Michael Williams Loddie oil on canvas 24" x 35" Michael Williams Starry Night 2 2007 oil on canvas...
October 26, 2007
John Moran and "What If Saori Had a Party?" at PS122
Saori Tsukada, Katie Brook and Joseph Keckler: Everywoman/Everyman, Birth, Death We saw John Moran's latest music-theater-dance work, "What If Saori Had a Party?", last night at PS122. This latest treasure by the composer responsible for the operas "Jack Benny!",...
October 24, 2007
October 21, 2007
Hany Armanious at Foxy Production
Hany Armanious Basic Construction 2007 PVC 19" x 11" x 11" [installation view] I'm starting with an image that isn't even part of Hany Armanious's first solo outing at Foxy Production. I spotted this flamboyant little piece sitting on...
October 19, 2007
Bryan Zanisnik at Priska Juschka
Bryan Zanisnik Remembrance of Things Past 2007 video [still from instalaltion] Bryan Zanisnik Family Reunion 2007 video [still from installation] Bryan Zanisnik's show at Priska Juschka, "80 Year War", may be totally charming but it's also very compelling for...
October 17, 2007
not so strange: Dalai Lama and Bush very good bedfellows
I'm thinking a blood-red ink would be more appropriate about now Well of course he and Bush get along. Although he was presented the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 "for his consistent resistance to the use of violence," the...
October 16, 2007
Lucas Moran at Buia
Lucas Moran Fishing Net 2007 oil and spray paint on canvas 24" x 30" Lucas Moran Summer Jam 2007 oil, spray paint and galkyd on canvas 62" x 84" Lucas Moran Untitled 2007 oil, spray paint and galkyd on...
we Americans are 'good Germans'
war is never what we expect it to be: Dresden, stacked bodies after 1945 Allied firebombing We despair. Four and a half years ago Barry and I each decided that we were retiring from both direct and indirect political...
October 15, 2007
Pro Publica arrives in town: expected to speak to power
In the middle of the Times city room in The Power of the Press (Columbia Pictures, 1928), the city editor (Robert Edison) congratulates cub reporter Clem Rogers (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) for getting his first page-one story as the more...
October 13, 2007
my favorite Iraq war photo
a long way from Williamsburg I found this image searching Google while preparing my post about Ashley Gilbertson's book. It's from a photo-sharing site in an album maintained by a Marine photo journalist, Staff Sergeant Chad McMeen. This is...
Clayton Patterson at Kinz, Tillou + Feigen
[four stills from the video installation of the film, "Captured"] How do you write about a chronicler with a soul? How do you write about a bard with a camera? We can't begin to understand the importance of people...
October 12, 2007
so President Gore it is
the once and future president I'm not arguing he should be nominated and elected this time because he won the Nobel Peace Prize, but because winning the Nobel Peace Prize can make it happen. Why Al Gore, and not...
Ashley Gilbertson's "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot"
The captured fighter claimed to be a student who had gotten stuck in Falluja. A marine responded. "Yeah, right, University of Jihad, motherfucker." What the fuck It's a hot title, only partially-disguised by the military alphabet code. Ashley Gilbertson's...
October 10, 2007
October 8, 2007
the ArtCal Zine debuts
ArtCal Zine home page screen grab Omigosh, I'm not sure I can stand the excitement. ArtCal now has a real zine! No, I'm really serious about my enthusiasm: I think this thing is really cool. ArtCal is becoming less...
October 6, 2007
gallery photo prohibitions harass all visitors
say no to the no Lately you may have noticed a decline in posts here about gallery shows. There's a reason: I'm not feeling it just now. I'm going to sound like a grouch, if not just a scold,...
October 5, 2007
Dame Ethel Smyth's "The Wreckers"
John Singer Sargent Ethel Smyth 1901 pastel If this hundred-year-old opera had always enjoyed the success it deserves today I'd probably be whining about the endless parade of productions of La Boheme, Aida, La Traviata, Carmen and The Wreckers....
the "war on terror" has reduced us to slaves
Roy Batty's epiphany Last night I spent far too much time worrying about how to express the depth of my broader frustration and despair before posting the latest version of my regular fulminations over Guantanamo. I should have waited...
October 4, 2007
GUANTANAMO DELENDA EST!
This post is part of a series begun on May 21, 2007, which will continue until the U.S. concentration camps at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere around the world have been razed. Many of us learned years ago that we...
October 3, 2007
second annual New York Art Book Fair
Noah Lyon's print mural, wrapped around a wall above his colorful booth Slavs & Tatars poster ("the money, it's not so smart, says the Tajik guy") Soiled Mattress and the Springs, sounding here more hardcore than laid-back, accompanied by...
October 1, 2007
Michael Cline at Daniel Reich
Michael Cline Picket 2007 oil on linen 62" x 36" [detail] In time, Michael Cline's jaw-dropping show of oils at Daniel Reich, "Folks", may be recorded as a cultural benchmark, both aesthetic and social, for offering us such a...
