On Thursday, September 10th, the Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery will host In Visible Cities, the second solo exhibition by Barney Kulok.
The large black panels of In Visible Cities represent a departure for Kulok, who has become, in a sense, a photographer without a camera. Taking to the streets of New York, he has mapped the city [...]
Author Archives: Jared Killeen
From Blue to Blue
July 21, 2009 – 8:00 am
The photography of Martien Mulder, hitherto featured in a slew of international galleries and magazines, is now on view at Capricious Space. Mulder’s preoccupations appear to be with plantlife and portraiture, pretty much in that order. The former she treats with an almost spiritual reverence—venerating verdant palm trees in Brazilian Mist (2001) and Plant in [...]
Sexy and the City
July 17, 2009 – 6:00 am
When viewing “Sexy and the City,” a new group photography show at the Yossi Milo Gallery, one may be tempted to trace the historical arc of sexiness. To accomplish this, one need only view the photographs chronologically, paying particular attention to shifts in the popular conception of ‘sexy’ as they occur. Since the photos in [...]
NYFA Fellowships Announced
June 26, 2009 – 3:48 am
A year ago, the mood in Chelsea was rather less glum. Local aficionados, examining their own epoch, might well describe the first eight years of the millennium as an Age of Optimism. Back then there appeared no limit to the curator’s good fortune: galleries thrived, crowds gathered, artists bought homes in East Hampton. Now, as the market [...]
Bellwether (In Memoriam)
June 23, 2009 – 1:36 am
If bygone galleries were given funereal services, Bellwether would deserve a sweeping procession down Tenth Avenue. For over ten years, the gallery has been a hallmark of the city’s art scene; as others have come and gone, Bellwether has endured trends and trepidations, from the artists’ rise in Williamsburg to the galleries’ exodus to Chelsea. [...]
Louise Ingalls Sturges at Court
May 29, 2009 – 3:54 pm
The photography of Louise Ingalls Sturges is now on view at Court on Mulberry Street. The exhibit, called Tangled Up In Blue, is a modest collection of color prints, hung in odd, tight groups along two of the store’s interior walls. Despite its confinement, Sturges’s work is remarkably expansive in visual scope. Each photograph, named [...]
Ro Agents
May 12, 2009 – 7:51 pm
Ro Agents’ new album is frighteningly good. Listen to track five, “T.R.A.” Notice how it begins rather gloomily, a sort of co-opted field holler (“I say whoa, lil’ child/ Heaven is watching you”). This, you think, will be a somber affair. Then, midway through, without warning, the song lifts into pop balladry. Pay attention to [...]
The Museum of Broken Relationships
May 11, 2009 – 2:39 pm
For all but the celibate, fizzled romances are a simple fact of life. When a relationship dies, it casts a pall on everything, even the belongings we cherish. What were once the gifts of a mate—a teddy bear, a favorite T-shirt, a set of apartment keys—quickly become memento mori, grim reminders of the relationship’s fate. [...]
Perfvigvm Makes the Blues
May 11, 2009 – 2:09 pm
In 1933, musicologist John Lomax traveled through the American South in search of an exotic breed of musician. He visited prisons and back alleys and occluded little towns. He followed rumors through Louisiana backcountry and toured Texas farms that spread like enormous khaki quilts. Lomax was looking for bluesmen.
A decade or two earlier, blues [...]
Andrew Gilchrist’s ‘James V’ Showing May 13th
May 7, 2009 – 5:55 pm
Much has been written on the theater’s relation to cinema. Not long ago, André Bazin suggested that the connection is far older and closer than is generally admitted, and that if we hope to understand one form, we ought to understand the other. But today it is the divergence between theater and cinema that seems [...]
