May 18, 2008
Susan Dessel's "OUR BACKYARD" censored by gallery
this too is our backyard In the twenty-first century the entire world really has become our "backyard" and along with its beauty and energy, there is also much unnecessary misery and death everywhere in that yard. Provincial fears and...
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May 9, 2008
further nuttiness at 303 Gallery
all eyes In spite of the power of my day-to-day fancies, sometimes I'm reminded that the art world is not all sweetness and light, especially when power or money is involved. There are definitely some real Grinches out there,...
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May 8, 2008
Disarmory
attendant art dealer Disarmory art fair, the child of the dBfoundation, "dedicated to creating and fostering ephemeral edifices and intangible structures", had the potential for being the most fun (and genially provocative) experience of the entire New York art...
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May 6, 2008
Beka Goedde with Glowlab at Bridge
Beka Goedde Replacement (study) 2008 etching, pencil on panel 10" x 9.5" Beka Goedde Resettle (study) 2008 etching on panel 18" x 13" Beka Goedde Watershed collection 2007 paper and pencil on canvas 6" x 12" Beka Goedde For...
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May 5, 2008
Ena Swansea with Andre Schlechtriem at Volta
Ena Swansea One 2007 color serigraph 39.5" x 29.5" [large detail] Ena Swansea Three 2007 color serigraph 29.5" x 39.5" [large detail] Andre Schlechtriem showed some beautiful work by Ena Swansea at Volta. The oil and graphite paintings were...
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Adrian Williams with Voges + Partner at Volta
Adrian Williams ALBATROSS ADO 2008 16mm celluloid silent film [large detail of video still from installation accompanied by performance] Rarely have I been so totally engaged in a work of art as I was with Adrian Williams's "Albatross ADO"...
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April 29, 2008
Saul Becker with Sunday L.E.S. at Volta
Saul Becker The Beginning of Every Story Seems Ridiculous at First 2008 oil on panel 29" x 35" Saul Becker Tender in Every Joint 2008 oil on linen 29" x 35" Although I'm now embarrassed to say I found...
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April 28, 2008
Adam Dant with Hales at Volta
Adam Dant Liberty 2008 ink on paper 95" x 72" [installation view, including the entire drawing, but cropped just inside the edges of the folio] [detail, shot from an angle below] Adam Dant was the artist London's Hales Gallery...
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April 24, 2008
Vincent Gagliostro with Margaret Thatcher at Pulse
Vincent Gagliostro After Louie, an excerpt video [stills, and large details of stills, from installation] Margaret Thatcher showed a video by Vincent Gagliostro at Pulse. I'd like to describe it as an art trailer for a full-length film not...
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PSJM with Espacio Líquido at Pulse
the advertising video the shop corner I was delighted with the quality of the installations at Pulse of Espacio Líquido, a new Spanish gallery located in Gijón on the central Asturian coast. They look like they'll be worth watching....
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Sean M. Johnson curated by Arning at Pulse
Paul M. Johnson Donut Eating Contest 2008 video [still from installation] Video takes time, and frankly Barry and I didn't have much left when we finally found the video room at Pulse, "Sameness, Difference and Desire", curated by Bill...
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Cordy Ryman with DCKT at Pulse
Cordy Ryman Silent Echo 2008 mixed media on wood 18" x 15.5" x 3.5" [installation view] Cordy Ryman Octopus 2008 mixed media on wood 18" x 15.5" x 7.25" [installation view] DCKT showed work by Cordy Ryman at Pulse....
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Ofri Cnaani with Andrea Meislin at Pulse
Sure, I admit I seem to be a sucker for Mylar, but I really liked these and the other Ofri Cnaani drawings shown by Andrea Meislin at Pulse....
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Andreas Leikauf with Ernst Hilger at Pulse
Andreas Leikauf i think we can sell this easily 2008 acrylic on canvas 55" x 33.5" [installation view] I'm inclined to agree with the artist's text. This gorgeous canvas by Andreas Leikauf was shown by Galerie Ernst Hilger at...
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Matthew De Leon shown with Parsons at Pulse
The Pulse people set aside a booth for Parsons MFA Fine Arts students to create a "reading room" for the fair located on Pier 40. Called "PULSE PAUSE", the installation was curated by Jeffrey Walkowiak and included work by...
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April 15, 2008
Jana Gunstheimer with Römerapotheke at Scope
Jana Gunstheimer Reservat 2003 acrylic on linen 46.5" x 69.75" [work not at Scope] I'm not sure that it should be necessary to mention it, even if it may be germane (no pun intended), but Jana Gunstheimer, described by...
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April 13, 2008
Antti Laitinen with Nettie Horn at Scope
Antti Laitinen It's My Island 2007 video [large detail of still from installation] [edited sequence of video stills from the gallery site] On the other side of the cultural Finland we know (or perhaps that of almost any other...
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Marcel Gähler with Römerapotheke at Scope
Marcel Gähler untitled 2008 watercolor on paper 60" x 80.25" [installation view] Marcel Gähler untitled 2003 oil on wood 8" x 10.25" [installation view of six small oils] Zurich's Römerapotheke showed these and other paintings and drawings by Marcel...
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April 11, 2008
Jared Lindsay Clark with ADA at Scope
Jared Lindsay Clark Nursery Rhyme Proposal ceramic cow, easterbunny, ghosts, plastic Casper, epoxies Jared Lindsay Clark Ballerina ceramic ballerina, ducks, pelican, trick-or-treater ghost, cupids, epoxies I love these little pieces. Jared Lindsay Clark's small ceramic collage sculptures were a...
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Ernesto Burgos with Cynthia Broan at Scope
Ernesto Burgos Another Heart is Torn 2007 mixed media on paper 30" x 22" Ernesto Burgos Cross Eyed 2007 mixed media on paper 30" x 22" I somehow missed the show of work by Ernesto Burgos which Cynthia Broan...
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April 10, 2008
Paco Pomet with My Name is Lolita at Scope
Paco Pomet Tiempo Muerto 2007 oil on canvas 27.5" x 39.5" [detail] The Valencia and Madrid gallery My Name is Lolita showed some handsome monochromatic oils by Paco Pomet at Scope....
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April 9, 2008
Vinogradov and Dubossarsky with Deitch at Armory
Alexander Vinogradov and Vladimir Dubossarsky Summer 1 2001 oil on canvas 57.75" x 77.5" [photo taken of installation, evincing uneven ambient lighting] Now that I've checked out the artists, and know something about what they're up to, my on-sight...
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Jenny Scobel with Xeno X at Armory
Antwerp's Zeno X Gallery showed work by Jenny Scobel at the Armory this year, including this large piece not accompanied by a descriptive label. The graphite, watercolor and wax painting showed more color than many of her works....
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Matt Mullican with Mai 36 Galerie at Armory
Matt Mullican Untitled (Learning from that Person's work: I) 2007 acrylic and oilstick on canvas 48" x 36" Zürich's excellent Mai 36 Galerie showed a beautiful, rhythmic black and white language work by the indefatigable Matt Mullican at Armory....
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John Finneran with Rivington Arms at Armory
John Finneran 9 Trash Cans 2007 oil on aluminum, rivets 57" x 40" [installation view] John Finneran 7 Mouths 2008 oil and pen on aluminum 7" x 5.5" [cut showing full image found in installation, where it was surrounded...
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April 8, 2008
Cathy Wilkes with The Modern Institute at Armory
Cathy Wilkes Alone 2004 broken glass, glass pane, battery, grinding machine, dimensions variable [installation view] I was stopped in my tracks by this piece at the Armory stand occupied by Glasgow's The Modern Institute and I haven't been able...
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April 7, 2008
Youssef Nabil with Michael Stevenson at Armory
Youssef Nabil Red Egyptian Nightgown 2007 hand-colored silver gelatin print 15.75" x 10.75" Youssef Nabil Amir, New York 2006 hand-colored silver gelatin print 15.75" x 10.75" I just thought I had to think about these images a bit more,...
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Scott Treleaven with Breeder at Armory
Scott Treleaven [installation shot of a small framed collaged drawing] Now that's an interesting headline, even if it is inadvertently misleading. Scott Treleaven just opened a show at John Connelly here in New York. I haven't made it over...
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Rob Churm with Sorcha Dallas at Armory
Rob Churm's "Endless Hair" (Indian ink, biro and felt-tip pen on paper) on the left and "Untitled" (biro and felt-tipped pen on paper) on the right, each from 2007, the first 8.25" x 6" and the second 8.25" x...
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Joyce Pensato with Petzel at Armory
Friedrich Petzel showed this wonderful/awful "Blue Mickey" by Joyce Pensato at Armory. The charcoal and pastel drawing measured 67 by 60 inches....
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April 6, 2008
will resume play
Yeah, this site's been mighty quiet for over a week, and to me the pause button seems like it's been pressed for twice that long. Right after the art fairs I was first feeling pretty burned out, but I...
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March 29, 2008
Ann Craven with Shane Campbell at Armory
[detail] Ann Craven's wonderful big Panda shown by Shane Campbell at Armory...
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Kelli Williams with Leo Koenig at Armory
Kelli Williams Wet Bar 2007 oil on panel 26" x 12" Kelli Williams visits a palace in Baghdad, in this exquisite little painting shown by Leo Koenig at Armory...
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video: art in the fourth dimension, tomorrow at noon
Kasimir Malevich Soccer Player in the Fourth Dimension (1915) I'm a really bad PR person. Until now I'd neglected to tell people about a forum on video art which is connected to "WHITE BOX SPEAKS", and now there's only...
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March 28, 2008
Armory week
Thomas Hirschhorn Tool Table 2007 2 wood planks: 98.5" x 118" each; 12 trestles: 39.25" x 31.5" x 31.5" each; total of all elements: 236.25" x 98.5" x 39.25" [detail of installation] I haven't had a chance yet to...
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March 27, 2008
Ian Pedigo at Klaus von Nichtssagend
Ian Pedigo Summit Associates 2008 newsprint, calendar pages 42" x 50.5" [installation view] Ian Pedigo Already No Longer the Same 2008 wood, laminate, tape, paint, PVC sheet 11.5" x 25.5" x 37" [installation view] Ian Pedigo Saying it was...
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March 26, 2008
"A New High In Getting Low" at John Connelly
Scott Hug Hostage 8 2008 silkscreen on linen 51" x 42" Michael Wetzel The FLy I 2007 oil and egg tempera on canvas 16" x 13" "A New High In Getting Low" at John Connelly Presents...
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Dave Miko at Wallspace
Dave Miko Empty Building 13 oil on aluminum panels 48" x 151" Dave Miko Love Letters 2007 oil on aluminum 32" x 30" Dave Miko at Wallspace...
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Jim Hodges at CRG
Jim Hodges and still this 2005-2008 23.5K and 24K gold with Beva on gessoed linen in 10 parts 200" x 185" x 89" [installation view of exterior] [large detail view of interior] Jim Hodges at CRG...
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Matt Connors at CANADA
Matt Connors untitled 2008 oil on printed cotton with painted wood 10.5" x 11" [installation view] Matt Connors Pissed Print 2008 oil on printed linen on painted wall 26" x 21.5" [installation view, showing white gallery wall] Matt Connors,...
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March 24, 2008
Lutz Bacher at Taxter & Spengermann
Lutz Bacher Sub 2001-2007 video [installation view] Lutz Bacher Men at War 1975 two unique sets of nine black & white fiber prints, 15" x 12" each [detail of installation] [I'm going to be posting a number of entries...
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March 19, 2008
Shannon Plumb at Sara Meltzer
Shannon Plumb Together 2008 single-channel video [large details of two stills, the first from the segment "Tuesday", the second from "Saturday"] Barry and I were both laughing out loud in the upstairs gallery at Sara Meltzer. It may even...
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March 17, 2008
Rashid Johnson at Nicole Klagsbrun
Rashid Johnson Run 2008 mirror with spray paint 53" x 65" (including frame) [installation view] Almost the first piece the visitor sees is a large, five foot mirror covered with the paint-sprayed word, "RUN". Perhaps a tough auspice for...
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March 12, 2008
Norbert Witzgall at Venetia Kapernekas
Norbert Witzgall Sophie Matt 2007 oil on canvas 57.5" x 63" Norbert Witzgall Icy 2008 oil on board, paillettes 9.5" x 11.75" Norbert Witzgall Isi Baisia 2008 oil on board, dirt 12.5" x 15" Venetia Kapernekas is looking more...
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darkened doorway
"this is a monument" This figure darkens the doorway of a temporary construction shed on the south side of West 26th Street....
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March 6, 2008
the Whitney Biennial 2008
When it comes to something like the Whitney Biennial, or for that matter the siren of any large display of contemporary art, whether a museum survey, an art fair or even a small-budget benefit, I look forward to seeing stuff...
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March 4, 2008
no, not that "Armory show", and not Breuer's building
Drill Hall floor of the Armory Drill Hall vault of the Armory We were at the press preview for the Whitney Biennial this afternoon. This year the venue has been expanded to include the Seventh Regiment Armory, in whose...
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March 3, 2008
do we owe it all to Bush?
"Certainly the prestige of the office of president must be seriously compromised if a woman has a serious shot at it." I would add "or a black man" to that conditional clause, but the subject of the article from...
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March 2, 2008
"The Cult of Personality" at Carriage Trade
portrait of Kurt Cobain, by an anonymous artist, from a collection of paintings on velvet Yasser Aggour's photographs of portraits commissioned of Cairo sign painters detail of a section of Jennifer Dalton's "What Does an Artist Look Like?" captured...
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March 1, 2008
Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen at Renwick Gallery
Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen's re-enactment of "Licked Room" 2000 by Ene-Liis Semper Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen's re-enactment of "The Artist's Kiss [Le Baiser De L'artiste]" (1977) by Orlan Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen's re-enactment of "Blood Signs & Body Tracks" (1974) by Ana...
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February 28, 2008
The Seventh Regiment Armory's "American Aesthetic"
Louis C. Tiffany window in the Library of the Armory I've been walking through the front doors of the Administration Building of the Seventh Regiment Armory on Park Avenue for decades, but until this past Monday I had never...
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Guggenheim finds Incredible Shrinking Museum (ISM)
Filip Noterdaeme ISM (The Incredible Shrinking Museum) 2004-2006 model (glycerin soap) [view of installation at HoMu] When I wrote about Filip Noterdaeme's Homeless Museum (HoMu) just about a year ago, I included the picture above and copied the artist's...
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selling off the High Line to developers - no, really!
fourteen floors, most of them condos, to be built on top of our park I admit that I've known about this building for some time. I've been quietly fuming about it (something I don't do often - the quietly...
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February 27, 2008
Marsden Hartley at Babcock in ADAA show
Marsden Hartley Finnish-Yankee Wrestler ca. 1938-1939 oil on board 24" x 18" This small painting by Marsden Hartley was one of the reasons I headed up to the Park Avenue Armory on the last day of the ADAA show...
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February 26, 2008
Joy Garnett at Winkleman
Joy Garnett Night oil on canvas 60" x 78" Joy Garnett has four large canvases installed at Winkleman until March 15. You probably already know how I feel about the artist's work, so I'm just posting an image this...
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February 22, 2008
Rodney Graham at MoMA
Rodney Graham Rheinmetall/Victoria 8 2003 installation: 35mm film (color, silent), Cinemeccanica Victoria 8 film projector [large detail of still from film image projected within installation] [large detail of installation] Maybe it's partly my aspirations as both writer and photographer,...
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February 21, 2008
Jim Lambie at MoMA
Two views of "ZOBOP!" (2006), Jim Lambie's floor installation, being installed by a very industrious crew on the low steps to the Museum of Modern Art's sculpture garden while we were there this afternoon. Visitors Advisory: Be careful navigating...
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February 17, 2008
"Bread, Milk, and Butter" at Hudson Franklin
Mairead O'hEocha Springtime, Truck Museum, Wexford 2007 oil on board 15.5" x 20.25" [detail] Munro Galloway Country Life 2007 oil on canvas 24" x 20" Actually, the full title of the show at Hudson Franklin is "A Loaf of...
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February 15, 2008
Mark Bradford at Sikkema Jenkins
Mark Bradford Mississippi Gottdam mixed media collage on canvas 102" x 144" [detail] It took me a few minutes. I don't know, maybe I was already tired from an afternoon wandering between galleries in the wind and the cold...
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February 14, 2008
Rirkrit, where are you? or, artists have to eat too
view of the gallery installation, with art suspended from bamboo poles and marine rigging in a reference to the innovative poles inside Peggy Guggenheim's gallery, Art of This Century [Stephen Ellis's 2000 untitled oil and alkyd canvas is in...
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but we do celebrate Valentine's Day . . .
. . . and would like everyone else to be able to do the same Justin Marshall Baby, I wanna make-out 2006 C-print This was one of the works in the artist's show in Chicago's excellent Thomas Robertello Gallery last...
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February 11, 2008
Brian Belott at Canada last month
Brian Belott Trinity Insurance Sales Blob 2007 acrylic, glitter, foil, spray paint, oil marker, led clocks on plexi-glass in plastic frame 25.25" x 38.5" [installation view of diptych] Brian Belott Untitled (small geometric) 2007 glitter, foil, acrylic, spray paint,...
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February 10, 2008
"In the Private Eye" at ISE Cultural Foundation
Anna Von Mertens Dawn (the first U.S. sighting of Sputnik October 6, 1957, Fairbanks, ALaska) 2008 hand-dyed, hand-stitched cotton 54" x 100" [installation view] What a great show! The ISE Cultural Foudnation is currently hosting "In the Private Eye",...
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February 7, 2008
WAGMAG benefit at The Front Room tomorrow
Philip Simmons's "Study for High Noon", one of the works included in tomorrow's benefit Barry and I both love art, Williamsburg and Greenpoint, Williamsburg and Greenpoint artists, Williamsburg and Greenpoint galleries, and WAGMAG, that invaluable guide to Williamsburg and...
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February 4, 2008
"At Arms Length" at NURTUREart
Cody Trepte This is how I cope with my neuroses 2004 cross-stitch 6.5" x 6.5" Guy Ambrosino Abu Ghraib #1 2006 watercolor 14" x 10" [detail showing artist's text] NURTUREart has been mounting some great shows lately, and "At...
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February 3, 2008
Chris Martin at Mitchell-Innes & Nash
Chris Martin Glitter Painting 2007 oil, spray paint, gel medium, collage on canvas 54" x 45" [detail] Chris Martin Broom Painting 2007 oil on polyester 48" x 38" [detail] Chris Martin Untitled oil and spray paint on canvas 45"...
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January 31, 2008
303 Gallery continues to ignore modern world
Whew! This photo prohibition thingy is becoming even more insane. Check out Ed Winkleman's post on the subject, and don't miss the comments and the several links you'll find there. I apologize, to myself and to anyone else who might...
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January 27, 2008
475 Kent: the insanity of New York housing policy
a silent cry from a witness across the street two days ago Whatever the bureaucratic, commercial or political story which lies behind the human tragedy of New York City's dreadful and totally irresponsible eviction of over 200 men, women,...
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January 23, 2008
Jan De Cock at the Museum of Modern Art
When I was very young and still a wide-eyed Midwesterner, I used to think that one of the neatest things about art was that you could conceivably do something that was more or less an accident, and pretty messy,...
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January 21, 2008
some P.S.1 shows, and the photography thingy
Lovett/Codagnone Party With Us 2006 neon, audio, dimensions variable [partial view of installation (sign flashes on and off)] When we arrived at P.S.1 the Sunday before last Barry and I identified ourselves at the desk as art bloggers who...
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January 18, 2008
painful "Scenes of Gypsy Life", in painful seats
Janáček in a Slovak-Moravian borderland village a century ago, recording singers onto wax the performance Did anyone see either of the two performances of the Gotham Chamber Opera's "Scenes of Gypsy Life" presented this week at the Morgan? Barry...
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January 17, 2008
Michael Behle's earlier work
untitled collage piece by Michael Behle, probably from 1999, 16.25" x 24.5" I was going to leave the preview stuff on this show to Art Fag City and Bloggy. But then I did spend some time today taking pictures...
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January 16, 2008
Martin Puryear at MoMA
detail of Puryear's "Desire" (1981) details of Puryear's "Desire" (1981) in foreground and "Ad Astra" (2007) behind it I know the show has now closed, but while I was looking at some images to accompany a post on a...
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January 11, 2008
Ingar Krauss at Marvelli
Ingar Krauss Untitled (Beelitz) 2006 gelatin silver print 40"x 33" [installation view] Every year thousands of harvest hands come and go like birds of passage.* Indulge me on this one, as I really wanted to upload this image. No,...
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January 10, 2008
John Moran and "What if Saori Had a Party?" at PS122
John Moran: 'Saori's Birthday!' (excerpt 1) Saori, the animated host of a children's cartoon program, lives in a bubble Wow. We don't often get a second chance to experience one of John Moran's creations, but this week Performance Space 122...
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January 9, 2008
more words on photo prohibitions, these from the artist
UPDATE: Will Ryman heard about his gallery's attitude toward its visitors' use of photography, and has commented generously on my recent post about gallery camera prohibitions. Ryman is a scholar and a storyteller, an artist and a gentleman. I hope...
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January 7, 2008
Joyce Pensato at Friedrich Petzel
Joyce Pensato The Drippy Droopy Eyes 2007 enamel and metalic paint on linen 48" x 40" Joyce Pensato Evil Stan 2007 enamel on linen 90" x 72" Joyce Pensato I Don't Want to be Tamed 2007 enamel on linen...
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more re photo prohibitions and fair use
(invisible art) I'm not the least surprised that I've gotten responses (in comments, emails, and conversation) of all kinds to my several posts on the subject of gallery photo prohibitions. What I have found surprising is the fact that...
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January 5, 2008
Marlborough Gallery prohibits photography
Will Ryman The Bed 2007 papier mâché, magic sculpt, resin, acrylic, wire mesh, wood, cloth [detail of installation] (the artist taking notes) No, that headline is not about the fact that Marlborough doesn't seem to have ever shown artists...
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January 3, 2008
Daniel Joseph at BUIA
Daniel Joseph It's starting to rain acrylic, latex and collage on wood 96" x 24" [artist's note mounted to right of painting, completing installation of "It's starting to rain"] Daniel Joseph I'll forget eventually 2007 acrylic, latex, oil and...
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December 24, 2007
Ester Partegàs in Miami
Ester Partegàs Yes Collection 2007 resin, spray acrylic and enamel paint 12.25" x 82.75" x 59" [installation view] Barcelona's Nogueras Blanchard gallery showed work by Ester Partegàs at NADA, including this over-size identification bracelet. I thought the gallery's images...
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December 23, 2007
Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen at Basel
Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen The Artist's Song 2007 video (16mm film transferred to DVD) [large detail of still from video] Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen's terrific rap take on the state/hotness of the current art scene was one of the most entertaining...
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December 19, 2007
Ara Peterson at Miami Basel
four views of Ara Peterson's site-specific wall relief inside one of the most popular containers of "Art Positions" at Art Basel Miami Beach last week. This installation, of hand-painted, laser-cut birch plywood, glass mirrors and space, was arranged by...
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December 15, 2007
Art Basel in Miami
Louise Fishman's "Dartmouth Quartet I" at New York's Cheim & Read large detail of Xu Zhen's "ShangART Supermarket" at Shanghai's ShangART Gallery Ann Craven's "Stripe" at New York's Klemens Gasser and Tanja Grunert large detail of still from Miguel...
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December 9, 2007
Pierogi / Feldman / Hales in Miami
Barry here, to say go visit the show created by Pierogi, Ron Feldman, and Hales galleries around the corner from Pulse. Today (Sunday the 9th) is the last day. More information is on bloggy....
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December 8, 2007
ArtHaus Miami at the Miami art fairs
Bruce High Quality Foundation arthur kills again 2007 [detail of installation] Eugenio Ampudia Impression Soleil Levant 2007 video [installation view] I'm not going to be able to do regular posts while Barry and I are still in Miami for...
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December 4, 2007
James Fuentes's "Programming Chance" at Emily Harvey
Aaron Young Untitled (silver and gold) 2007 acrylic paint and rubber on aluminum 144" x 144" engineer: Wink 1,100 [detail] William Stone Branching Drawings 1996 computer printout on paper, dimensions variable, engineer: Charles Waldman [detail] I knew we had...
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David Reed at Max Protetch
David Reed #575 oil and alkyd on polyester 40" x 160" [detail] I've enjoyed looking at David Reed's work for years, and this is one of the most beautiful paintings I've seen yet. He's definitely not standing still. The...
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December 2, 2007
the new New Museum's inaugural installations
In my earlier post, and its addendum, I've shown views of the inside of the New Museum building itself; with this one I'm uploading images of [only some of] the works I found most interesting, and photographically accessible, on my...
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new New Museum (extra)
A few footnotes to my earlier post on the architecture of the New Museum: This piece was my favorite continuing thing in the old New Museum, where it hung near the front door for years. This ACT UP/Gran Fury neon...
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November 29, 2007
new New Museum building is a new New York treasure
raindrops on the roof of the temporary tent at the entrance obscure the Bowery facade each of the building's sets of stairs is a star, including this interior tower the aluminum mesh covering the facade shades this row of...
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November 28, 2007
"Divine Find" at Stonefox Artspace
Timothy Marvel Hull Untitled 2007 ink on paper 11" x 8.5" [installation view] Tex Jernigan [one image, not in this show, from "One: Across America" (2006)] Lauren Ross has curated a very neat group show, "Divine Find", inside a...
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November 25, 2007
"Out of the Box" (continued)
Heide Hatry Expectations IV, 2007 C-print Since my Friday post about "Out of the Box" show at Elga Wimmer I've gone back to the desk and written a paragraph on each of the artists included in the installation: Regina...
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November 23, 2007
"Out of the Box" at Elga Wimmer
Heide Hatry Expectations 2007 [still from video] Sonia Khurana Bird 2000 [still from silent, b&w video] He Chengyao Broadcast Exercise 2004 [still from video] I'd always felt very much an outsider when it came to art by women which...
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November 19, 2007
"The Blogger Show" at Agni Gallery
Cable Griffith Summer Pile 2007 oil on paper 11" x 17" [Seattle-based blog: Cable Griffith] Martin Bromirski Untitled painting on canvas 8" x 16" [formerly Richmond-based, and now a New York State-based blog: anaba] Fallon and Rosof 48 Useful...
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November 16, 2007
Claire Oliver shuts out photographers
NO CAMERAS! Barry and I had decided to stop by receptions at only two or possibly three galleries last night. At one point during the evening a friend of ours asked if we had seen the show at Claire Oliver....
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November 14, 2007
Lawrence Weiner at Pocket Utopia
detail of a selection of Andrew Hurst's posters for the show a moment during Hurst's sound and slide show performance, created specifically for the opening a re-creation of a piece referencing painting, which Weiner first exhibited in New York...
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November 13, 2007
Dan Levenson's "Little Switzerland" at EFA
images of two fictive young Swiss artists hanging above the t-shirt and thong table a detail of the t-shirt display, showing the gallery's unforgettable logo What does an excellent young artist do when he wants to stretch his wings...
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November 11, 2007
notes from the Asian Contemporary Art Fair [ACAF]
a small Yayoi Kusama painting from the mid-sixties (less than 2' square) Sonia Khurana Lone Women Don't Lie 1999 video [large detail of still from installation] Mekhala Bahl Ramp and Slide acrylic, ink and collage on printed canvas 60"...
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November 9, 2007
Asian Contemporary Art Fair
Lu Peng showed up everywhere, but this particular painting was holed up in the VIP room We were at the preview reception of the Asian Contemporary Art Fair last night. As a veteran of just about every similar event...
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November 6, 2007
Duke Riley at Magnan Projects
Duke Riley Burgees attributed to seditious faction of Marblehead Militia 2007 [detail of vitrine displaying items salvaged from the vessel, including "Tooth of giant sperm whale believed to have been engraved by Davis"] Duke Riley After the Battle of...
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November 4, 2007
J. J. Garfinkel at Hogar Collection
J. J. Garfinkel Myriad Quay 2007 acrylic and oil on panel 45" x 48" [detail] J. J. Garfinkel Scribble Terrace 2007 acrylic and oil on panel 45" x 48" J. J. Garfinkel Clingman Rope 2006 acrylic and oil on...
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November 3, 2007
Adam John Stennett at 31 Grand
Adam Stennett Girl in Bathtub 2007 oil on wood 48" x 48" [detail] It's not just another pretty face. I'm having a hard time getting this painting out of my head. I can't explain it, especially since I'm just...
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November 2, 2007
perhaps we need more mirrors
FINISHING TOUCH The giant charm bracelet by Nicola Malkin, a designer and ceramicist, is typically displayed on chairs, large tables or bedposts, as at the J. Roaman furnishings store in East Hampton, N.Y. I don't think anything could better...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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!",...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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October 13, 2007
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...
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October 12, 2007
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...
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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...
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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,...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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September 27, 2007
Mark Stillwell at Front Room
Mark Stillwell Super Defense Force [two details of the installation] The current show at Front Room, Mark Stillwell's "Super Defense Force", seems like a perfect fit for the post 9/11 U.S. mindset. The theme runs something like terror as...
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September 26, 2007
Andrew MacDonald in Front Room Banner Project
It seems everybody loves a banner, these days probably more than ever, and the Williamsburg gallery Front Room has been inspired by their popularity to commission works by a number of artists over the years. The current installation is...
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September 25, 2007
"Death & Love in Modern Times" at Dinter
George Horner Skull 2006 acrylic, gesso, silkscreen ink and whiskey on canvas 35" x 29" [installation view] Valaire Van Slick Stop making eyes at me, I'll stop making eyes at you And what it is that surprises me is...
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September 20, 2007
"Quote Unquote" at Nurture Art
Jason Lujan Selections from the Native American Handbook 2005 paper, ink T-pins, variable dimensions [detail of installation] Carlos Motta SOA: Black and White Pain-tings I 2005-2006 book, 2 audio CDs, headphones, shelf 9" x 77" [detail of installation] A....
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September 17, 2007
Matthew Northridge at Zach Feuer window
Matthew Northridge Memorial to the Great Western Expo September 11 - October 20, 2007 [no other information available for this piece, shown here in an installation view] I have to admit that among the changing installations in the Chelsea...
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Capla Kesting throws blogger out of gallery
Travis Lindquist [image protected here from viewers] In Williamsburg last Friday evening Barry and I had just come from a reception and we had a little time to kill before the 7 o'clock hour when the galleries we had...
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September 16, 2007
"The Pierogi Show" at Pocket Utopia
Manfred Fuchs Untitled 2002 12" x 16" mixed media on paper [installation view] Michelle Marozik Office Cubicle 2004 8.5" x11" [installation view] Bethany Bristow Blue and Orange Drawing 2002 ink on vellum [installation view] Bill Gerhard Four Day Exposure...
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September 14, 2007
Jim Torok at Pierogi
Jim Torok Don't Forget Who You Are 2007 acrylic on panel 12" x 14" Jim Torok Do Not Be Too Afraid 2007 acrylic on panel 48" x 60" Jim Torok You Are Wrong 2007 acrylic on panel 48" x...
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September 13, 2007
the Chelsea Symphony is super!
supernal music between the altar and the first pew Barry and I are big fans of the two-year-old Chelsea Symphony. It has little to do with allegiance to a home team, even if that's what got us into the...
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September 12, 2007
Greenpoint public library benefit Saturday
"Del Baldwin, Tence Massey and Anna Pope are preparing library books for circulation." Barry and I will be participating with Leah Stuhltrager as jurors in a benefit for the Greenpoint branch of the Brooklyn Public Library on Saturday. The...
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September 11, 2007
Michael Jones McKean at Sunday
Michael Jones McKean The Astronomers' Ecstasy As They See Solidarity Between Forms 2007 100" x 108" x 44" [large detail of installation] [detail] Michael Jones McKean The Allegory of Rule and the Geometry of Wind 2007 36" x 49"...
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September 8, 2007
D-L Alvarez at Derek Eller
D-L ALvarez Occasion to be Denounced 2007 crepe paper installation, dimensions variable [large detail of installation] D-L ALvarez Something to Cry About 2007 children's clothing, dimensions variable [large detail of installation, with detail of "The Closet" behind] D-L Alvarez...
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Thomas Lendvai at Winkleman
detail of Thomas Lendvai's site-specific sculpture, "Between Pain and Boredom" I doubt that any gallery installation in the city rewarded visitors with as much fun on Thursday night as that of Thomas Lendvai at Winkleman. It was a hit...
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Jules de Balincourt at Zach Feuer
Jules de Balincourt Untitled 2007 oil and enamel on panel 27 ” x 34 ” Jules de Balincourt Cycles of Morning and Dyeing 2007 oil on panel 32" x 38" Jules de Balincourt Remembering Our Great Dead Heroes 2007...
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Cheryl Donegan at Oliver Kamm 5BE
Cheryl Donegan The Hard Night 2007 water-based oil on cardboard 20" x 16" Cheryl Donegan Greatness is 1/3 2007 water-based oil on cardboard 24" x 18" Cheryl Donegan Luxury Dust (Gold) 2007 gold tape on cardboard 25" x 18"...
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September 5, 2007
Shane Hope
Shane Hope Chromosome More Clipped Graphite on Atomolecularly Manufactured Cell-ecular Unfolded Docking Decoy Proteins vs. Microbially Scribbled Scriptable Ornamentally Challenged Secondary Structures and Superstring Art, molecules, 2030 Shane Hope Infomorphic Animolecular Flowchart Food Chain of Event Horizons ’cause what’s...
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September 4, 2007
August 29, 2007
new ArtCal launched
As the chief says, "we're still working on a few features and tweaking the design", but the new ArtCal site is now live. By next week at this time, with the opening of New York's vigorous fall gallery season,...
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August 27, 2007
"Office Party" at Participant Rental temp space
Lovett/Codagnone All Work No Play 2007 vinyl lettering and mirror [installation view with detail reflection of two bloggers] Barry and I were both very happy to be able to get to a Participant show this summer, since the gallery...
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August 24, 2007
Scot Kaplan parks on West 24 Street
Scot Kaplan Artist's Park 2007 mixed media, dimensions potentially variable [installation view] [detail] We can never have too much park - or too many artists - and an "artist's park" sounds like a good thing to me, even if...
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"Substance & Surface" at Bortolami
Mike Kelly Carpet 7 2003 acrylic on carpet, mounted on wood panel 46.25" x 64.25" Paul Lee Untitled 2007 cotton towel and ink 46" x 41" [installation view] Jim Lambie Y-Footo 2002 mattress and silver vinyl tape 72" x...
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August 23, 2007
"Slava Mogutin & Justin Beal" in the back room at Bortolami
Slava Mogutin Joey San Francisco, 1999 archival C-print mounted on aluminum 30" x 20" Slava Mogutin Yellow Billboard Moscow, 2004 archival C-print mounted on aluminum 30" x 20" There's nothing about this installation on the gallery's site, so I'm...
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August 22, 2007
"Greener Pastures, Permanent Midnight" at Moti Hasson
Joy Garnett Storm 2006 oil on canvas 60" x 78" Joy Garnett Road 2007 oil on canvas 30" x 35" Regular readers of this blog already know how much Barry and I think of the prolific and innovative painter...
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August 21, 2007
"Purple Hearts" at Jen Bekman
Spc. Sam Ross 21 years old, 82nd Airborne, was wounded May 18, 2003 in Baghdad when a bomb blew up during a munitions disposal operation, leaving him blinded and an amputee. After many, surgeries, Ross was sent home to western...
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Ayn Rand linked to Deutsche Bank skyscraper tragedy?
skyscrapers have very complex lives I've just read that the name of the sub-contracting company in charge of the demolition at the Deutsche Bank building is the John Galt Corporation. Who is John Galt? I immediately recognized the intriguing...
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August 20, 2007
"NeoIntegrity" at Derek Eller
Billy Sullivan Christian 3 2004 pastel on paper 45" x 78" [large detail of installation] A.L. Steiner Swift Path to Glory (James Dean auditions) 2003, 25 4" x 6" prints [detail of installation] Sakura Maku Akira [no date] oil...
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August 18, 2007
two Greenpoint survivors
Its neighbor's roses and its own arbor gate standing at the edge of the sidewalk are homey touches for this unreconstructed wooden Federal house on Green Street in Greenpoint. The house is built in exactly the same form as...
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August 15, 2007
"Late Liberties" at John Connelly
Daniel Hesidence Untitled (1 7 7 9 /pedestrians) oil on canvas 96" x 84" Alex Kwartler Untitled (Still Life) 2007 oil on canvas 24" x 21" Carrie Moyer Dark Tonic 2007 acrylic, glitter on canvas 40" x 28" John...
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"Laying Bricks" at Wallspace
Michael Wilkinson Wall 2005 acrylic on mirror, frame 59.25" x 49.25" [installation view, with Alice Könitz's "Double Take" and Nathan Hylden's "6.22.07" in the reflection] Alice Könitz Banana-Peel-Rug 2007 acrylic felt 81" x 56" [installation view] I was already...
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August 14, 2007
Felicia Ballos and Flora Weigman at Elizabeth Dee
Barry and I walked over to Elizabeth Dee this afternoon to catch part of an all-day performance by Felicia Ballos and Flora Weigman. It was today's segment of "Carte Blanche", the gallery's August-long program of video and performance art...
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August 12, 2007
Gaudi not dead; only injured
I used to think, "Gaudi", eccentric, interesting, even beautiful, but a dead end. But then, was/is El Greco a dead end? I actually knew virtually nothing about Gaudi when I first visited Barcelona 45 years ago and found myself...
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August 8, 2007
Bruce High Quality Foundation
Bruce High Quality Foundation Bachelors of Avignon* Bruce High Quality Foundation Joseph Beuys, from the "Sculpture Tackle" series In spite of some serious temptations which might have gotten ourselves to Bushwick weeks ago Barry and I didn't get to...
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August 7, 2007
Lisa Smith at SVA Open Studios
Exceedingly luscious. These two images were part of Lisa Smith's installation in the photography gallery at last Thursday's School of Visual Arts Open Studios event....
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Hagar Sadan at SVA Open Studios
I think the heat inside the SVA Open Studios event was wearing down my stamina by the time I came across Hagar Sadan's art on Thursday. I captured only this one image, but I remember liking the rest of...
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Steve Page at SVA Open Studios
The beautiful work of Steve Page seen at the SVA Open Studios reception is an example of why these visits to student exhibitions can be so exciting for enthusiasts, even those who are able to regularly make the rounds...
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Luis Tovar at SVA Open Studios
Luis Tovar's drawings at the School of Visual Arts Open Studios event were mostly almost-abstract renderings of negative space, specifically the spaces of his own studio and those of the other artists in the school's loft building on 21st...
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Joshua Allen Harris at SVA Open Studios
Joshua Allen Harris, detail of the work on the left in the thumbnail below [full view of two drawings] Joshua Allen Harris, studio wall detail My camera was angry with me for making it take pictures in the near-darkness...
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August 6, 2007
SVA Open Studios, including Gabriel Shuldiner
Gabriel Shuldiner An Unavoidable Destiny 2007 modified acrylic polymer, pigment, latex house paint, alkyd resin, gesso and casein resin, overall dimensions variable, approx. 48" x 96" x 1" [installation view] Gabriel Shuldiner Site And Context (Part I) 2007 modified...
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August 4, 2007
Duke Riley: news from the [water] front
under arrest securing the Acorn This story had legs from the start, sea legs. Barry and I were watching it on line as it grew all day yesterday, and apparently it's still going. I would say that this late...
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August 3, 2007
"collage + abstraction" at Pavel Zoubok
Martin Mullin Hydra 2006-2007 mixed media collage 11.75" x 9" [installation view] Tony Berlant 24 Hours 2000 11.5" x20" Robert Warner Untitled 2007 flint glass and collage on book board 10.25" x 8.25" [installation view] [detail] Fritz Bultman Waves...
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August 1, 2007
Jeremy Blake 1971-2007
Jeremy Blake Reading Ossie Clark 2003 video [still taken from November, 2003 installation] Jeremy Blake is no longer no longer missing, but he is still very much missed. The picture above looks very different to me after the news...
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July 31, 2007
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...
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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...
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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...
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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"...
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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...
Posted by james at 4:11 PM | Full Post
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...
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"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...
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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...
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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...
Posted by james at 8:34 PM | Full Post
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...
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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...
Posted by james at 6:26 PM | Full Post
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...
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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...
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July 15, 2007
"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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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July 9, 2007
"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...
Posted by james at 4:29 PM | Full Post
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...
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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...
Posted by james at 10:37 AM | Full Post
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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June 28, 2007
Shepard Fairey takes on U.S. rotten moral currency in print
I had almost forgotten that I had this image. It's been on my computer for a week. Once you get past its nightmare-come-alive reference, I think this Shepard Fairey* piece is very beautiful, not least for the color and...
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June 27, 2007
"Homegrown" at David Krut Projects
Kuhl and Leyton Just Like Heaven 2007 acrylic tape on paper 60" x 54" [installation view] Lee Tusman Have a Nice Millenium 2006 quilt - mixed media, t-shirts, found fabric 56" x 54" [installation view] Renée Riccardo is the...
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Tom Meacham at Oliver Kamm 5BE
Tom Meacham Untitled 2007 tape and acrylic on canvas 90" x 60" [installation view] Tom Meacham Untitled, Diptych 2007 tape on canvas 60" x 72" [installation view] Tom Meacham's work is always about much more than what first meets...
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David Noonan at Foxy Production
David Noonan Untitled 2007 silkscreen on stretched linen 84" x 120" [installation view] David Noonan Untitled 2007 silkscreen on linen, plywood, dimensions variable (80" tall) [installation view] David Noonan returns to Foxy Production with a dreamy (each definition) show...
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June 22, 2007
Julian Pozzi and John Pearson at Jeff Bailey
John Pearson Daylight Landscape 2001 video [large detail still from installation] John Pearson Untitled with Commercial 2005 video [large detail still from installation] John Pearson Untitled (white light) 2005 [large detail still from installation] I've been a little distracted...
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panel on radical history of Lower East Side
ACT UP demonstration for access to clean needles, seventeen years ago After yesterday's post, which was totally connected to current political activism, I'm going to turn back and examine what the territory looked like in the 80's and 90's....
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June 19, 2007
Peter Pezzimenti at Monya Rowe
Peter Pezzimenti Untitled 2007 oil and latex on wood and cardboard 31" x 36" [installation view] Peter Pezzimenti Untitled 2007 oil and latex on wood and cardboard 24" x 34" [installation view] Peter Pezzimenti Untitled 2007 oil and latex...
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June 18, 2007
Sarah Peters at Winkleman
Sarah Peters Being American 2007 pen and pencil on paper 42" x 240" [details of installation] I was going to post about some very good shows we had seen earlier, but this show got in my way. I suppose...
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June 17, 2007
sad ending for Brooklyn College MFA suit
still I was stunned when I first heard about the "settlement" of the Brooklyn College MFA students' cases against the City of New York, the NYC Parks Department and Brooklyn College, cases which had cited First Amendment violations and...
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June 13, 2007
"In Defense of Ardor" at Bellwether
Otto Muehl Wehretüchtigung 1967 film [two stills from installation video] Nathalie Djurberg Dumstrut 2006 DVD [two stills from installation video] Joao Ribas and Becky Smith have together curated a third, and unfortunately the final, show at Smith's gallery Bellwether...
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June 11, 2007
Jonathan VanDyke opens Austin Thomas's Pocket Utopia
Barry and I had to see what Austin Thomas was up to now, so we headed out to further Williamsburg (the Morgan stop on the L) for Jonathan VanDyke’s installation/homage to the abandoned hair salon which has/will become Pocket...
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June 9, 2007
tHe FinaL rUn iNs and Kalup Linzy at Taxter & Spengemann
tHe FinaL rUn iNs [detail of installation, including a bit of "unique miscellany"] Kalup Linzy The Pursuit of Gay (Happyness) 2007 digital black and white video with sound [still from installation] We were at Taxter & Spengemann this afternoon,...
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June 4, 2007
Peter Fox, Jeanne Tremel at eyewash @ Hogar Collection
Peter Fox SOME WORLD 2007 acrylic on canvas 34" x 54" [detail] [oblique detail] Williamsburg's The Hogar Collection, which was located on lower Grand Street, west of Bedford for several years, has moved a number of blocks up-island, to...
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Jasper Johns at MoMA
Jasper Johns Green Target 1955 encaustic on newspaper and cloth over canvas 60" x 60" What can I say?...
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Ad Hunt, Beth Letain at Supreme Trading
Ad Hunt The Ambassador 2007 oil on canvas Beth Letain Every knee shall bow 2007 oil on canvas A show called "Place Setting", of work by students at the MFA program at SUNY Purchase College was installed at Williamsburg's...
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June 3, 2007
last chance to support NURTUREart's benefit!
large detail of a fragment of a Byzantine floor mosaic (circa 500-550) with a representation of Ktisis, "a personification of generous donation or foundation", according to the plaque which accompanies this piece in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Sharp...
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Ron Davis at MoMA
Ron Davis Ring 1968 polyester resin and fiberglass 11.25" x 56.5" [installation view] On Friday I saw this piece by Ron Davis hovering over the information/members desk at the Museum of Modern Art. Delicious. Looking like nothing so much...
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Ben La Rocco curates at Janet Kurnatowski
Patrick Armstrong Virgo and Libra 2007 epoxy and gesso on paper 22" x 30" [installation view] [view from one side] Dorothea Rockburne Gravity Wave (Direction Painting #2) 1993 Lascaux Aquacryl, Beryl Artistic and Flasche on gessoed wood panel 40"...
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June 2, 2007
Richard Serra at MoMA
Richard Serra Intersection II 1992 [detail of installation] Richard Serra Intersection II 1992 [detail of installation] Richard Serra Torqued Ellipse IV 1998 [detail of installation] This isn't really a review of Richard Serra's show, which tomorrow opens to the...
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June 1, 2007
Dan Perjovschi at MoMA
four details of Dan Perjovschi's drawings, the third taken through an opening in the wall on MoMA's third floor In spite of their seriousness and the pain they evoke, the humor and compassion of Dan Perjovschi's delicate childlike drawings...
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Fiona Banner at MoMA
Fiona Banner Nude Standing 2006 pencil on paper 106.25" x 69.25" [installation view] [detail] I spotted this drawing by Fiona Banner from the floor of the atrium space at MoMA yesterday. It's hanging on the third floor and part...
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May 30, 2007
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy and Sophy Naess at Thrust
cut-paper collage by Sophy Naess [installation view] [detail] collaged drawing by Matthew Lutz-Kinoy [installation view] collaged drawing, a collaboration of Sophy Naess and Matthew Lutz-Kinoy [installation view] Thrust Projects is currently mounting an exhibition of work by Matthew Lutz-Kinoy...
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May 26, 2007
Eliezer Sonnenschein
Eliezar Sonnenschein Landscape and jerusalem 2007 acrylic on wood 96" x 48" Three years ago I did a post which included an image of a painting by Eliezar Sonnenschein, who shows with Tel Aviv's Sommer Gallery. Yesterday I came...
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May 24, 2007
William Powhida at Schroeder Romero
William Powhida The Rules 2007 graphite and gouache on panel 24" x 18" [large detail of installation] William Powhida Pricing Guide 2007 graphite and gouache on panel 14" x 11" [large detail of installation] We missed all the fun...
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May 17, 2007
another Barcelona
I've always wanted to inhabit this glorious utopian folly, so it was way up near the top of my list during our visit to Barcelona. In the end, since the platform occupied by the 1985 recreation of Mies van...
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May 6, 2007
"Perdidos en el despacio" at Off Limits in Madrid
Artemio Made in china 2006 self-adhesive vinyl 80cm x 150cm [installation view with Barry and gallery guest in foreground] Yesterday Barry and I went to an opening in Lavapiés with Teresa Moro, a show by a group of Mexican...
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May 5, 2007
Teresa Moro in Madrid
[detail] We really happy to spend some time with Teresa Moro today, especially since we weren't originally sure we would even find her while we were here. We hadn't seen the artist since her solo show at Foxy Production...
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May 2, 2007
Sterling Ruby at Foxy Production and Metro Pictures
from the entrance at Foxy, a detail of "SUPEROVERPASS" collages grouped in the rear of the gallery at Foxy a detail of the enormous "Recondite" at Metro Pictures more of "Recondite", with collages on the wall in the background...
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May 1, 2007
NURTUREart benefit
Barry has all the words, and he links to all the important information on his post: Williamsburg's NUTUREart is having a benefit party, and they're throwing it in Manhattan. I suppose the location may have been chosen partly for...
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April 25, 2007
13P throws a fundraising party
still from scene of Winter Miller's "The Penetration Play", produced by 13P in 2004 The feisty Obie-winning playwrights' collective 13P ("we don't develop plays. we do them.") is having a cabaret benefit at Joe's Pub this Sunday, April 29....
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April 24, 2007
Williamsburg galleries on Sunday
This has to be just a teaser, because of time constraints (we're off to Spain in a few days), but on a beautiful Sunday afternoon Barry and I made the rounds of several Williamsburg galleries, visiting one of them for...
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Williamsburg spring Sunday
on a beautiful Sunday afternoon in Williamsburg some did chores some partied in the sun and some of us enjoyed galleries, including the street gallery [the third image is a detail of the painted stoop outside The Front Room...
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April 18, 2007
benefit performances: The Civilians tonight, 13P on April 29
a new musical based on Colorado Springs, Ted Haggard, the evangelical movement, and US I've been a little tardy in announcing two affordable benefits for performing arts groups that interest Barry and myself. I'm especially late with my The...
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Christopher Lowry Johnson at Winkleman
Christopher Lowry Johnson Platform 2007 oil on canvas 66" x 78" [large detail of installation] [detail] This is not a walk-thru show. Actually, this is probably true for most painting shows (at least those where the gallerist/curator has any...
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April 17, 2007
Swoon person in Chelsea
Probably not invited. This Swoon drawing is attached to a wall just outside the commercial galleries on West 22 Street. UPDATE: I've received a comment from Adrian that the work is not that of Swoon, but either Elbowtoe or...
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Gang Gang Dance, and friends, at Rhizome benefit
Liz Bougatsos from left, Josh Diamond, guitar, Liz Bougatsos, vocals, Tim DeWitt, drums, Brian DeGraw keyboards These are two images of Gang Gang Dance performing at the Rhizome benefit last night. It was a great concert program: GGD followed...
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April 13, 2007
Elisa Lendvay at Moti Hasson
Elisa Lendvay's dramatically-lighted sculpture, and (parts of) part of the opening-reception crowd [installation view of "untitled (Chalice)" and "Lund (Demystify)"] [detail of "untitled (Chalice)"] Elisa Lendvay Field Sky Under 2007 steel, wood, acrylic, wire, chenile stem, papier-maché, acrylic paint...
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April 11, 2007
Marjorie Schwarz and Ludwig Schwarz at Sunday
Ludwig Schwarz [large detail of "The Four Seasons (Season Premier)" installation of four works, each untitled 2006 oil and enamel on canvas 72" x 72"] Marjorie Schwarz Untitled 2006 gouache on linoleum 12" x 12" [installation view] Marjorie Schwarz...
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Rhizome throws a party
drawing by Brian Degraw, artist and Gang Gang Dance member, for an album by TK Webb Remember these guys? I did I post almost two years ago about a show of internet-based art, hosted by Rhizome, installed in the...
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April 10, 2007
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy at Cooper Union
Since I've already been writing about Matthew Lutz-Kinoy's art for over two years, it's very difficult to believe these images of his work are taken from his Cooper Union BFA show for a degree just completed only this spring....
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April 7, 2007
Ryan Sarah Murphy at Outrageous Look
Ryan Sarah Murphy Untitled (Plots) 2000 wood, 10,000+ clothespins, paint, gesso, glue, each component 34" x 21" x 6" Ryan Sarah Murphy's installation was lying in the sun of the east window, just to the right of the door,...
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Gavin Green at Outrageous Look
Gavin Green If (A) 2006, and If (B) 2007, both embossed plastic on panel 24" x 24" [installation view] Gavin Green Hoalam Haba 2006 embossed plastic and mirrored vinyl on panel 24" x 24" [installation view] Outrageous Look is...
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April 6, 2007
"Intelligent Design" at Momenta
Aaron Williams Forever 2006 tree, mirror, acrylic and enamel paints, wood shim, string 72" x 16' x 12", in the foreground, with works by Ivan Navarro, Deborah Grant and Aron Namenworth on the walls [installation view] [detail of "Forever"]...
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April 5, 2007
cupcake preservation?
cupcake as landmark? I know I'm going to regret bringing the subject up again, and not only because the additional notoriety may only be what the owners of Burgers & Cupcakes want. But I did a post one month...
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April 4, 2007
"A Cloudy Day's Epiphany" at Dinter
Valaire Van Slyck And even though we don't mean what we say, we throw our words like bombs and handgrenades 2006 enamel, acrylic, confetti, glitter and clear-coat canvas 36" x 48" Andrew Guenther The Space Between Faces 2006 acrylic...
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April 3, 2007
Oliver Herring at Max Protetch
Oliver Herring Wade 1 2006 digital C-prints, museum board, foam core and polystyrene 68" x 22.5" x 15" [detail of installation] Oliver Herring's show at Max Protetch closed on Saturday. Everything in this multi-media installation was breathtakingly beautiful, but...
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"The Art of the Deal" at Kantor/Feuer
The Kantor/Feuer Window show, "The Art of the Deal", which opened on Saturday may be "The ultimate art show for insiders.", as Art Fag City calls it, but if you do happen to find yourself inside it's actually very...
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April 2, 2007
Hunter Reynolds at Artists Space
Hunter Reynolds Patina du Prey's Memorial Dress: 1993 to 2007 [detail of installation] Spinning, spinning, spinning. Hunter Reynolds's elegant installation, "Patina du Prey's Memorial Dress: 1993 to 2007", is currently installed in one of the galleries of Artists Space....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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"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...
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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...
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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...
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