I’ve had a grudge against big contemporary art shows. I almost never go to the New Museum, and I’ve opted out of the Whitney Biennial since ’05, but this year’s SCOPE made me wonder how much fun I’ve missed out on as a result. Martin C. Herbst showed a series on Parmigianino’s Self-Portrait that included [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Preview: New Deal
March 11, 2009 – 4:26 pm
New Deal, an exhibition curated by Matthew Moravec and Kyle Thurlow showcasing fourteen of New York’s best young artists, will host its opening reception at 7:00 pm this Thursday at theArt Production Fund’s Houston Street gallery. While all of the featured New Deal artists fall in the age-range (26-and-under) considered that of artistic infancy in [...]
Chairlift live at the Journal
March 11, 2009 – 4:13 pm
A few days shy of embarking on an extensive North American/European tour, Brooklyn’s Chairlift stopped by The Journal’s Williamsburg gallery to play a short, sweet and semi-secret show. Admittedly, I had been skeptical of the recent Columbia signees, but listening to Caroline Polachek sing “I’m feeling great tonight” from soon-to-be-reissued debut Does You Inspire You [...]
The Intimate Line at SEPIA International
March 11, 2009 – 3:54 pm
The Intimate Line is nothing short of its title. The group exhibition featuring Elinor Carucci, Sunil Grupta, Angelika Sher and Amy Jenkins offers an opportunity to peek through the cracks at the intimacies of motherhood. Elinor Carucci’s latest portrait series, My Children, consists of personal photographs documenting her relationship with her twin children. Tastefully raw, [...]
Vanessa Beecroft VB64 at Deitch Studios
March 10, 2009 – 1:24 pm
After 9 years of silence in the States, Vanessa Beecroft returned to Deitch Studios in Queens with an installation that blended performance with sculpture. In VB64, life-sized human casts in gesso rested on coffin-like bases beside 20 white-painted naked women. In an adjacent room, there were more bodies, this time painted black. Beecroft was inspired [...]
The Other Night Sky at Bellwether
March 7, 2009 – 8:46 pm
In “The Other Night Sky,” Trevor Paglen’s new exhibition at Bellwether, dozens of American spy satellites are depicted as pricks of light in the sky. The show is a photographic appendix to Paglen’s most recent book, Blank Spots on the Map, of which an entire chapter is dedicated to the study of satellites (charting their [...]
Web Folks Meet In Real Life
March 6, 2009 – 3:26 pm
It’s likely that you’re a young person between, say, 18 and 35, and that you spend a good chunk of your time on the Internet. It’s also likely that you spend little of that time considering the ontological nature of online commerce, or how exactly one might describe that nature, or if one can describe [...]
The fields, the lakes, the forests and the streams
March 4, 2009 – 5:11 pm
Shot from atop cliffs, or high-ranging coastlines, or sometimes from a helicopter hovering below the clouds, Florian Maier-Aichen’s photographs are of unearthly beauty. No small accomplishment, given that most of them are landscapes. His new exhibition at 303 Gallery, which opened last Saturday night, is a collection of land and sea shots, some color, some [...]
Uniqlo for Opening Ceremony
March 3, 2009 – 5:23 pm
Like any practiced Japanese tourist, Yamaguchi-based clothier Uniqlo has visited both New York and Los Angles. On February 26th the ultra-hip line, known for its colorful and affordable menswear, launched a new collection at Opening Ceremony on La Cienega. Those in attendance got a first-look at the new Spring catalog, including pastel plaid button-downs and [...]
