This week’s addition to the annals of pointless-but-wonderful technology: yooouuutuuube.com, a digital filter through which an ordinary youtube clip can be transformed into a trance-inducing cascade of the clip’s individual frames, to mesmerizing effect. So mesmerizing, in fact, that I recommend you don’t visit the site at work (unless you’re willing to explain to your [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2009
A History of the Heart in Three Rainbows
May 19, 2009 – 1:18 pm
A History of the Heart in Three Rainbows, Francesco Clemente’s new work at Deitch Projects, is more of a chapel than an exhibition. This effect is partially due to the watercolor medium, which on such a grand scale implies the cloudy translucence of stained glass. The piece consists of three sets of five enormous panels [...]
(super)natural at the New York Photo Festival
May 18, 2009 – 3:29 pm
At the New York Photo Festival in Dumbo, portraits of nature at the (super)natural exhibition stood out in a sea of fashionable faces and provocative angles. Curated by the collective LUCI, (super)natural takes you to the quiet world of earthly environments largely devoid of a human presence. And that might be the best thing about [...]
Grizzly Bear and The Red Balloon
May 18, 2009 – 2:36 pm
Though the official video for Grizzly Bear’s lilting single Two Weeks has yet to be released, JT Helms has put together this charming edit of the classic French film “Le ballon rouge.” Enjoy.
We Chose Our Words With Care
May 18, 2009 – 2:02 pm
On a balmy Sunday evening, Overduin and Kite introduced Marc Camille Chaimowicz to Los Angeles. He presented two separate engagements, starting with a performance entitled “Partial Eclipse…” In a daze of slides in black and white and pale hues, a dapper young man in a black suit chain-smoked Exports while two voices–one male, one female–provided [...]
Poppy de Villeneuve at Grand Life
May 18, 2009 – 12:06 pm
You Are Everywhere Photographs by Poppy de Villeneuve Opening Wednesday, May 20 7-10 pm The Gallery at Soho Grand 310 West Broadway, New York RSVP: events@grandlifenyc.com Show is up May 20 – September 2
Long Live Dead Polaroid!
May 15, 2009 – 7:02 pm
The death of Polaroid made a lot of fashion editors, photographers and instant picture lovers (author included) miserable. 12 Instances, a group exhibition of Polaroid works at Heist Gallery, glances with nostalgia at the farewell world of instant snaps. Curated by artist Molly Surno, 12 Instances comprises random self-portraits, night visions, interpretations of other people’s [...]
Terence Koh and Kaye Donachie at Peres Projects Berlin
May 14, 2009 – 3:43 pm
When Peres Projects decided to combine Terence Koh’s sculpture “Boy By the Sea” with Kaye Donachie’s first solo exhibition in Berlin, they managed to create an intensely homogeneous atmosphere–even though the two parts appeal to very different perceptions of art. Koh’s sculpture, a perfect effigy of his own juvenile body covered with 65,000 artificial pearls [...]
Serge Strosberg’s ‘Les Demoiselles de New York’
May 14, 2009 – 8:46 am
When you imagine the work of a classically trained painter, portraits of transvestites in bedazzled bikini tops and garter belts don’t usually come to mind. But somehow, in a marriage of high art and cultural taboos, Serge Strosberg’s latest work, “Les Demoiselles de New York,” seamlessly unites these two unexpected components. Born in Belgium and [...]
