Performa is throwing down. Friday night’s Text of Light was dynamic curation at its most inspiring. Curators Lana Wilson and Esa Nickle worked with Friends of the High Line to screen two “city symphony” films from the 1930s set to original music. The location was the High Line Park underneath where the Standard Hotel straddles [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2009
Felix Gonzales-Torres’ Untitled
November 15, 2009 – 6:21 pm
Floating a Boulder: Works by Felix Gonzales-Torres and Jim Hodges presented at The FLAG Art Foundation is responsible for sprinkling a little heaven on this billboard on 13th Street, a few feet from the High Line park. Originally commissioned by MoMa and displayed on 24 billboards throughout all five boroughs of New York City, this [...]
Sante on the Postcard
November 14, 2009 – 11:47 am
Photography sage/sleuth Luc Sante has published a new book, Folk Photography, collecting 122 postcards which purport to document the United States “in all its messiness, sprawl, disaster, homely comfort, hard labor, pageantry, violence, optimism, piety, ignorance, hubris, imaginative flight, orderliness, grandeur, chaos, and pastoral quiet.” The pictures come with an essay, and Sante’s essays are [...]
Performa 09: Omar Fast
November 14, 2009 – 6:46 am
Anyone attending the Candice Breitz performance at Performa 09 should definitely try getting to Omar Fast’s performance, also at the Abrons Art Center tonight. His show Nostalgia at the South London Gallery, still open, has been one of my highlights of 2009. Info after the break.
Candice Breitz Does New York
November 13, 2009 – 8:00 am
Candice Breitz’s new piece New York, New York premiered Thursday night as part of Performa 09. It was laugh out loud funny, which made me reflect that there’s seemingly a lack of humor in contemporary art at the moment. Continuing her collaboration with twins, she held marathon character-building sessions where each set of twins developed [...]
Partners & Spade
November 13, 2009 – 4:28 am
Partners & Spade is a shop/gallery/studio space located at 40 Great Jones St. in Manhattan that houses a smörgåsbord of curios, objets d’art, eccentric bric-a-brac and enough whimsy to make you feel like you’ve stepped into the living room of a fiercely cool grandparent’s house. Founded in 2008 by art lovers Andy Spade (the founder [...]
Girls XXX “Lust for Life”
November 12, 2009 – 10:13 am
For more on Girls see Bennett Rathbun’s review of their recent show at Bowery Ballroom.
The Pulse Within – Sopheap Pich at Tyler Rollins
November 12, 2009 – 8:00 am
Days before his New York solo debut I sat down with Sopheap Pich at Tyler Rollins to discuss his new show The Pulse Within. Expanding the forms and materials of his bamboo and rattan based sculptures, Sopheap is addressing in a quiet and subtle way a project about reflection, memory, the body, and creating a [...]
Chris Jordan: The Midway Atoll
November 12, 2009 – 3:32 am
This is not an assemblage, it is an albatross that died after eating debris its parents mistook for food. The phenomenon is common in the garbage-choked Midway Atoll where thousands of such corpses appear yearly. The photographer, Chris Jordan, captured these transfixing images just as he found them. See more on the NYRblog, or read [...]
jj – “Ecstasy”
November 11, 2009 – 7:00 pm
Earlier today I posted a link to jj’s new video. Here is an oddly mesmerizing video apparently made by a fan for their song “Ecstasy“, off of their full length jj n° 2.
