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 [...]
Author Archives: Caris Reid
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 [...]
Play It Again – Dorothy Iannone
July 7, 2009 – 5:46 am
I first came across the erotic art of Dorothy Iannone in an article written by Robert Storr back in 2002 for Parkett. The article, which focused mainly on the love affair and the illustrated correspondence between Dorothy and Dieter Roth in the 1970s and 80s – postcards crudely painted on by Dieter, and emotive, graphic [...]
Josh Melnick’s “The 8 train” at Art in General
June 8, 2009 – 3:27 pm
The four screens of Josh Melnick’s solo show at Art in General appear still, or almost still. His tightly framed portraits of train travelers slowly scan from cheek to cheek. A flash from a subway light behind a head seems everlasting. A blink seems momentous. And in this slowed realm we are invited to stare [...]
Lewis Forever Tonight at the New Museum
June 4, 2009 – 12:52 pm
The performance group Lewis Forever has just begun their residency at the New Museum for the month of June, and the group, comprised of four siblings, is having their first happening tonight at the New Museum at 7pm.
