Mining the Remnants by Chen Tamir Rancourt / Yatsuk, Guy Benfield, Shana Moulton at Art in General
October 29th - January 9th, 2010
Posted
11/15/09
No visit to SoHo is complete without a stop at Art in General. Its new commissions program offers fresh work by emerging artists who are normally off the beaten track, and hand-picked for their visions. This time they’ve lined up three ambitious projects. Collectively titled “Erratic Anthropologies,” they are “performance installations …that mine the visual culture of flawed but influential community structures.” In essence, the three projects are each ironic, comical... [more]
Palimpsest of Bohemian New York by Chen Tamir Julieta Aranda, caraballo-farman, Kabir Carter, Eckhard Etzold, Andrea Geyer, Pablo Helguera, Nancy Hwang, Nina Katchadourian, Pia Lindman, Anna Lundh, Carlos Motta, Hatuey Ramos-Fermin, Katya Sander, Ward Shelley, Xaviera Simmons, Dexter Sinister, Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere, Alex Villar at Apexart
November 4th - December 19th
Posted
11/15/09
Avant-Guide to NYC is a wonderful and thoughtfully curated exhibitions that is also quite hard to place. Not an historic survey, not a thematic group show per se, and not a typical geographically defined show, although it centers around New York City. It brings together work by mostly rising and mid-career (by loose standards) internationally active artists working in this city, grappling with the legacy of previous generations and the cultural milieu which they shaped and by which the... [more]
You Are What You Look At (And I Know What You’ve Been Watching), an exhibition of new work by recent Yale MFA graduate Jacques Louis Vidal, is immediately striking. The small gallery space at Marc Jancou Contemporary is crowded with color, frenetic with form; standing at the entrance, the viewer is met with what appears to be the insides of someone’s eccentric and highly personal psychological landscape. Each work reads simultaneously as objet d’art and as a culmination... [more]
Urs Fischer defies description. Zurich-born, he lives and works in a downtown Brooklyn loft, is covered in tattoos, and chooses to picture himself prone, yellow-tank-top clad, and snuggling a bug-eyed Chihuahua; he is an artist known to turn expectations on their heads. He finds ever riper—or more rotten, as it were—ways to challenge the idea of “the exhibition,” despite decades of scholarship which have declared that endeavor either no longer relevant, no longer compelling, imp... [more]
Poetry and Photography Book release and Party
"Urban Photographs in a Poetic Dimensions"
Great drinks, music and ambiance in one of the best bars in California.
You don't want to miss it. [more]
Over the last seven months, the ten to fifteen members of the collective The Society for the Advancement of Inflammatory Consciousness conducted a series of workshops for themselves based on the four states of community-building outlined in American psychiatrist M. Scott Peck’s The Different Drum (pyseudo-community, chaos, emptiness, and true community). During the workshops, they used various activities culled from different sub-and-popular cultural sources such as recovery group pr... [more]
Fitting Somewhere in Between by Natalie Hegert Katherine Bernhardt, Joan Brown, Otis Houston Jr., Sadie Laska, Chris Martin, Dona Nelson, Agathe Snow at Canada
September 11th - October 11th
Posted
9/20/09
Just a few blocks away, check out this playful, exuberant group show on view at Canada gallery. Entitled Spaced Out / On Time, the show's flyer is a Venn diagram (remember those?) where all the artists names fall in the space somewhere between "Spaced Out" and "On Time", somewhere between slapdash and punctilious, sloppy and precise. Though quite a broad categorization curatorially speaking, it's an apt title for this intergenerational showcase.Standouts of the show are Kat... [more]
The Ratio by Charlie Schultz Group Show at The Kitchen
September 10th - October 31st
Posted
9/19/09
There is a ratio I used to hear a lot as a student, that what you put in is what you get out. In this metaphysical bank where effort is deposited and results get withdrawn nobody ever mentioned the possibility of accruing any interest, but it is possible. Interest, I learned on my last trip to the bank, grows in proportion to the amount of risk one takes. This updated ratio—(Effort + Risk) / time = Interest rate on Results—is helpful to keep in mind when engaging documents and vestiges of durational action and live even... [more]
Urban Woods by Hong-An Truong Maya Lin at Pace Wildenstein- 22nd St.
September 10th - October 24th
Posted
9/13/09
In contradiction to the exhibitions at X Initiative, across the street is Maya Lin’s latest grand installation, Three Ways of Looking at the Earth. While not typically a diehard fan, I have to admit I was seduced. Leaving the X space on 22nd Street, I could see one of Lin’s large, minimal landscape sculptures through the massive windowed walls of Pace Wildenstein. I was compelled to go in.
Launched into the public eye after submitting the winning design for the controversial Viet... [more]
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