Employing collage and pastiche as both form and content, the American painter David Salle has been heralded as one of the clearest representatives of postmodernism. Caris Reid met Salle in his Brooklyn studio to talk about dirty words, the internet, and his work.
Caris Reid: While looking at your paintings I kept thinking about the funny [...]
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Banana Man: Interview with David Salle
January 7, 2010 – 3:32 pm
Cave Painting at Gresham’s Ghost
October 16, 2009 – 7:28 am
Alice’s descent down the rabbit hole came to mind as I stepped onto the basement stairs and a gold emblem caught my eye, like a promising flash of tail. Spray painted on the wall above me was the image of a grasshopper, the moniker of Gresham’s Ghost, the nomadic gallery that is hiding for the [...]
“Flaming Floral All Over Recline”
October 1, 2009 – 9:59 am
Oh, all over wallpaper and the eccentric beings who hang it. Diana Vreeland, the infamous fashion editor, is here reclining in a room she wanted “to look like a garden, but a garden in hell.” How right she was, the sea of red behind her looks like a Matisse painting minus the sanity. Pictured beside [...]
Less Me More Z
September 17, 2009 – 7:41 am
There will be an opening for The Society for the Advancement of Inflammatory Consciousness’ (SAIC) new show at Momenta Art on Friday, September 18th, 7-9pm. It is SAIC’s first solo exhibition and will feature a presentation of their unusual “art by consensus,” workshops on new age theory, pop psychology tests, and pagan rituals that they’ve [...]
Built Upon an Anagram – Interview with artist Tauba Auerbach
September 11, 2009 – 1:42 pm
Tauba Auerbach’s show Here and Now/And Nowhere opened last Thursday at Deitch Projects. The symphonic exhibition included photographs, paintings, sculpture and and a musical performance with Cameron Mesirow of Glasser, which she will be recreating tonight at Deitch at 8pm. Tauba took a moment to discuss how logic, reason and math unexpectedly led her to [...]
Lost & Found in the New Museum
September 8, 2009 – 5:49 pm
The New Museum is having a video screening of scrap pile poetry – lost and forgotten film footage – Wednesday night starting at 7pm, featuring images and sounds collected by artists, musicians, and poets. Check the website of the Lost & Found archive for more info.
A turntable, a mixer and twin nature: sound artist Maria Chavez
August 26, 2009 – 5:30 am
When Maria Chavez decided in 2005 that her performances would no longer be recorded, she was taking a radical stance. In the age of documentation, we hardly differentiate between the recorded event and the event itself. As though gifted with an ability to “play back” time, we watch a video, see a photo, or listen to an audio file, [...]
Life Lessons – Interview with Thomas Moffett
August 9, 2009 – 7:19 am
I met with Thomas Moffett, the writer of Shrink, to discuss self-medicating, Bob Dylan, and of course, his latest film.
Hi Thomas. Jung or Freud?
Jung. I’m afraid of Freud. Have you ever seen the movie Bad Timing? It’s from 1980 I think….If you’re afraid of Freud you’ll love this movie! Art Garfunkel plays a young [...]
The Fight of the Down and Out – James Ensor at the MOMA
July 23, 2009 – 6:01 am
Long before expressionism fell into the public light, there was James Ensor. With his manic mints, feverish reds, and haunting, often masked figures, eating, fighting, parading, and laughing demonically, Ensor was a late nineteenth century eccentric and occasional visionary.
Seeing the 120 paintings included at the MOMA’s exhibition of the artist’s work, there is a notable sense of urgency and a [...]
