Number of comments: 10 . Wanted to go to Boston last week after reading on a blog! about the RHQ show at the Boston ICA. Was going to go to the opening for fun and then go back to the gallery again the next day to see the show without all the [...]
Number of comments: 12 Apparently Jerry Saltz has deleted his big facebook thread with the pigpile on Tyler Green. If you saved that conversation send it to me and I'll post it here. Discretion assured!
UPDATE!: wrongly worded above... i'm not facebook friends with jerry and had not [...]
Number of comments: 2 . "The one on the right is so nasty (and funny) that even the security guard commented on how rank it was. (Please don't fire him--it's a valid reaction.)" - Tom Moody on Mike Kelley show at Gagosian.
"Giggling at Mike Kelly's penis paintings at Gogo with fabulously'" [...]
Number of comments: 0 . "So far, the back-and-forth has shed more heat than light. As always in such cases, transparency is the key. How much is the show costing? Who’s paying for it? Are works in the exhibition for sale? Needless to say, museum officials would rather drink cyanide than answer such questions." [...]
I'm curating a show of plop art on the roof of the Bari's Sunshine Hotel, next door to the New Museum, for when Jeff Koons' show is up. This show will only be visible from the big' [...]
Joshua Smith at Real Love Apartment Show. Joshua and Denise are the artists responsible for all the Apartment Shows. How many have there been now? I've been' [...]
Number of comments: 1 .if you're looking to see something good try - Andrew Erdos at Jack the Pelican (CLOSES TODAY 10/11), David Kennedy Cutler at Derek Eller (10/24), Andy Yoder at Winkleman (10/24), Vincent Fectau at Matthew Marks (10/24), Ida Ekblad at Journal Gallery (10/25), Joanne Greenbaum at D'Amelio Terras (10/31), Sarah McEneaney [...]
Too weird... an identical paper crew of Scrooge McDucks on the deck of a ship like a piece of walking furniture. Absurd hopeful greedy comic determined futile sameness.
Number of comments: 8 . James Kalm has been requested by School of Visual Arts' Communications Director Michael Grant to take down his Dave Hickey SVA lecture videos.
Dave Hickey on art (from about 8:18) - "Art doesn't do any of the things that we expect of American creativity... you know what I mean... it just makes a bunch of Jews a bunch'" [...]
Number of comments: 3 . Guy Ben-Ner at Mass MoCA. Eight films played large in eight spaces. It takes about an hour and forty-five minutes to watch them all (each is 10 to 20 minutes)... WORTH IT!
Moby Dick, 2000 Elia - A Story of an Ostrich Chick, 2003 Wild Boy, 2004 Treehouse [...]
Number of comments: 0 . WTF? The first "real" artist to show at Triple Candie in almost four years is former head of VCU painting Richard Roth? aka Dick Backscratch?
Number of comments: 13 . Just recently found out that Ethan Greenbaum has been producing an online arts journal for two years... called ***The Highlights***(!)... can't believe I never heard of it. Make sure to check out the archive!!
Number of comments: 2 . THIS WEEK: - Ellie Pyle at Eastern District, through Sunday August 23rd. Eastern District is at the Morgan stop of the L train, same block as Ad Hoc Art and the Archive coffee shop. - Bryan Zanisnik is included in a show at [...]
Found this EXHIBITION... just by accident walking by. EXHIBITION is a six-month show of 40+ successive artists; each artist comes in for a week and can do whatever, within an area determined by a roll of dice, to be followed [...]
Nancy Smith's Low-Fi Par-Tay of Watercolors & Paper Banners closes THIS THURSDAY... at Other Music, 15 East 4th Street, through July 3oth. Nancy Smith of artloversnewyork.
Number of comments: 4 less than 2,000 page views to one million official page views. that's pretty good for an independent artist blog... for comparison, winkleman is at 1,757,321 page views.
Number of comments: 0 . Pocket Utopia presents Business Edition, a one-night exhibition of artist-produced editions and prints, incluing a selection of the recently inaugurated Kris Graves Projects + Pocket Utopia joint Flatfile and recent editions from 246 Editions.... THIS THURSDAY, 6-9pm!
Number of comments: 3 . SHOCKER!!! - Went to the grocery store Saturday evening and saw what looked like some kind of art show, in an empty space nearby...
It was the opening for a show with Darren Bader, Justin Beal, Sarah Braman, Corin Hewitt, Bill Jenkins, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Dave McKenzie, [...]
Number of comments: 5 . Philip Smith, the single member of the original five-artist Pictures show not included AT ALL in the thirty-artist Met show, responds in a letter to Art in America.
Number of comments: 2 Chuck Webster, Glyph From An Italian Fireplace, 2007.
Color and Form: The Language of Abstract Art, curated by Hellmut Wohl, at The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield MA. It's Chuck Webster and Charles Thomas O'Neil, with a small selection of older work from the' [...]
Number of comments: 3 This old man was standing outside taking a photo of the gallery with his cell phone... he was taking photos up and down the street. I asked him why he was taking all of these photos and he said because he had lived here for [...]
Number of comments: 2 Joe Bradley, Bax, 2009 - Crooked door, top hat, leaning building. I don't know what Bax means, but he makes good titles... one of the paintings from the Schmagoo show was called Abelmuth, which is probably a reference to the Dick novel' [...]
Number of comments: 0 Lance Rautzhan, at The Archive.... good coffee shop in Bushwick near Ad Hoc Art, short walk to Pocket Utopia... Morgan Stop on L Train.
Meridith's piece is a suspended clicking wriggle machine, activated at each joint by motion sensors... it's like a struggling insect caught in an invisible web, and also the spider. The moves [...]
Number of comments: 3 Brian Cirmo is included in a three-artist show at The Arts Center Gallery, in Saratoga. I saw this show early in the month after reading Doug Gruse's review in the Saratoga Post Star.
Number of comments: 3 . Nancy Smith's Low-Fi Par-Tay of Watercolors & Paper Banners at Other Music, opening reception THIS THURSDAY May 21st, 7-9pm, 15 East 4th Street, through July 3oth. Nancy Smith of artloversnewyork.... she's the greatest.
Number of comments: 1 Jessica Stockholder, in Madison Square Park.
I'm sitting on the other half... a set of bleachers. The path through the park bisects the piece... the two halves are connnected by blue... same blue as the bleachers.
Number of comments: 4 . I'm included in a show opening in LA this week called My Certain Fate, at Pharmaka, curated by Timothy Buckwalter. The show runs May 14th - June 6th, with an opening reception this Thursday May 14th, 6-9pm.
Lightning Drawings. He makes them on a bed of nails... pressing the paper down flat to the board so that all the nails have punctured through... tilts the board and dips a ball in' [...]
Number of comments: 5 Tony Feher and Jason Middlebrook at Usdan Gallery, Bennington College.
Dan Cameron curated a three-artist installation for Bennington College... the show was assembled over the first three weeks of its four-week run, with each artist working independently... the first artist had an empty gallery, [...]
Number of comments: 2 . upcoming must-attend art events.... these are important -
Apartment Show - Far Out, April 26 7-10pm, 245 Varet Sreet (in Bushwick), Third Floor. Featuring Nolan Simon, Elizabeth Deasy, Christina Leung, Patrick Brennan, Alicia Gibson. ONE NIGHT ONLY!
Number of comments: 6 Lauren Luloff, at Sunday LES.
Saw these before the show had opened - they were still installing - although I think it was mostly(?) done except for the lights. That reversed piece at right above is a Keltie Ferris from a previous [...]