This Thursday, May 17, come view video art by the shape-shifting ladies of Symbols + Rituals, listen to music by 51717, and stare wistfully at all the beautiful objects and clothes at Maryam Nassir Zadeh. The event will be at the store at 123 Norfolk St., NYC, from 8 – 11 pm, with a live [...]
Author Archives: Caris Reid
Pati Hertling Presents Mary Beth Edelson
October 6, 2011 – 7:49 pm
Curator Pati Hertling is best known for her cyclical curatatorial project Evas Arche und der Feminist, started in Berlin and continuted here in New York at Gavin Brown Enterprise, and her 2009 show Modern Modern at the Chelsea Art Museum. We invited Pati to contribute as a guest blogger and she, along with photographer Emily [...]
New Blood Orange Video
July 13, 2011 – 11:59 am
Director Alan Del Rio Ortiz has once again paired up with Dev Heynes from Blood Orange to create a music video of a clandestine world most of us will never brush up against. Shot on Super 8 film, Alan worked with choreographer Lily Baldwin (the dancer in the red and black jacket) and a mix [...]
Mirror Mirror, Interiors
July 12, 2011 – 4:04 pm
In their newest video, Interiors, Mirror Mirror cast Rumi Missabu, legendary member of the 60′s psychedelic drag troupe The Cockettes, as their hermetic heroine. Dressed in a stark black dress designed by Lauren Devine, with metallic cones extending from each of his fingers, Rumi slinks around a white abyss mouthing lyrics about reclusiveness. The effect of [...]
3,348 Hours of Sunshine
March 19, 2011 – 2:07 pm
3,348 Hours of Sunshine, an exhibition featuring the work of eight LA artists – Dan Finsel, Sanya Kantarovsky, Alex Klein, D’Ette Nogle, Chadwick Rantanen, David Snyder, Miller Updegraff, and Aaron Wrinkle – opens today, March 19 from 3-7pm at Clifton Benevento, 515 Broadway, NY. The exhibition runs through April 23. Above image: video still from [...]
Nothing Ever Touches
February 27, 2011 – 10:54 am
To touch without touching, according to physics, is the only sort of touching we know. On February 28 and March 3, The Wallis Gallery and Rassa Montaser present Nothing Ever Touches a poetic miming of this paradox, curated by Ross McNicol. The exhibition, which is divided into two parts, features the work of Eloise Fornieles, [...]
Gone/Gone Beyond/Gone Beyond Beyond
January 8, 2011 – 12:15 pm
Artist and curator Tony Cox presents a playful and crude showing of work by Joe Roberts and Derrick Snodgrass at the Fuse Gallery, 93 2nd Ave. # A, NYC. The show opens tonight, January 8, and runs through January 25.
Hans Ulrich Obrist: Interviews, Volume 2
November 14, 2010 – 10:53 pm
Artbook and MoMA Ps1 recently launched the much anticipated Interviews, Volume 2 by famed interviewer Hans Ulrich Obrist. With its sleek silver microphones starkly set against white, the cover looks like the art world cousin of Phaidon’s Silver Spoon cookbook. Both have minimalist covers that belie their extensive, almost encyclopedic content. His interview project, which began [...]
Automobile by Gospel Music
October 24, 2010 – 12:59 pm
Alan Del Rio Ortiz recently directed a light enfused Super 8 video called Automobile for Gospel Music that has me missing summer. Camera Obscura’s Trayanne Campbell sings some of the vocals. I got to know Alan while working with him for Thisartist.tv last June, and I really admire his precision in capturing whimsy – like [...]
Calling All Creative Types
October 2, 2010 – 4:05 pm
This zealot has a new cause and is out to convert you. I recently began working with an organization called The Art of Elysium that brings creative types into the pediatric center of local hospitals to set up workshops, and yesterday morning I hosted my first one: a monster workshop. With the help of Rachel [...]
