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Tunneling in Bushwick: Group Show at Famous Accountants
By emmy thelander | September 1, 2010 | 1 Comment
The current show at Famous Accountants, a dimly lit, but glowing white basement gallery in a Bushwick home, is a disorienting mix of media and technology. The exhibition, Tunneling, is a 13-person group show which covers the theme of tunneling in both its physical/spatial associations and its psychological—“confining, degenerating, myopic” (press release).
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The sporting life – Daniel D’Ottavio’s RUGBY creates monuments of flesh and blood
By roberta | August 20, 2010 | 3 Comments
Athletes make superb photography subjects. In motion, their bodies perform seemingly superhuman tasks that are a thrill to see. At rest, either before or after their feats, athletes’ faces are studies in concentration — or pain. Photos of teams remind us of our pack-ness; our ability to bond with others — or fight. RUGBY, Daniel [...]
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Picasso, Picasso everywhere – museum roundup
By guest writer | August 19, 2010 | 3 Comments
by Cheryl Harper Pablo Ruiz Picasso lived from 1881-1973, a long span in any terms, but he has never left this world judging from the manner in which his life and work are continuously celebrated. Take this season for instance; I’ve seen four Picasso museum shows in as many months: “Picasso and the Avant-Garde in [...]
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Report from Brooklyn: Regina Rex Gallery
By guest writer | August 9, 2010 | 2 Comments
by Emmy Thelander The show up right now at Regina Rex, a brand new gallery on the top floor of one of Bushwick’s industrial buildings, reminds me of a remark Carl Andre made in 1996 about the work of Eva Hesse. He said, “Perhaps I am the bones and the body of sculpture and perhaps [...]
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New York summer, Part 1 – rooftop tiki bar and bells
By roberta | August 6, 2010 | 0 Comments
Last Friday night Steve, Cate and I ran in to the Whitney Museum to see the Christian Marclay Festival — part exhibition, part performance space and part graffitti-friendly hangout (well, chalk-on-blackboard grafitti anyway). We missed the 7 pm performance but the place was still pretty packed till closing at 9 pm. The museum’s pay what [...]
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Carolee Schneemann in New Paltz
By andrea kirsh | August 1, 2010 | 2 Comments
Carolee Schneemann is one of the most important artists of the past forty years, so why did I find myself on a bus headed to a rural university an hour and a half north of New York City to see the most complete American overview of her work since an exhibition at the New Museum [...]
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“Matisse; Radical Invention 1913-17″ at MoMA
By andrea kirsh | July 29, 2010 | 0 Comments
Matisse; Radical Invention 1913-17 at the Museum of Modern Art through Oct. 11 is not for those take the artist at his word that a painting should be like a good armchair: familiar and comfortable, presumably. Rather it’s for those who like a challenge and find that almost a century later some of his work [...]
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Weekly Update – Warhol’s celebrity photos
By roberta | July 28, 2010 | 8 Comments
Andy Warhol loved to take pictures of people, especially celebrities. Warhol was a potent combination of socially awkward and a voyeur; he killed two birds with one stone by frequently taking refuge behind a camera lens in social situations, and his prodigious output shows it: At the time of his death in 1987, the pop [...]
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Saturday this and that
By roberta | July 17, 2010 | 0 Comments
Here’s a short list of four great and interesting things from the inbox. PAPERGIRL PROJECT GIVES AWAY ART IN NEW YORK CITY This one is close to my heart since it’s an art giveaway. PaperGirl out of Berlin organizes giveaways of real art to complete strangers on the streets of a busy city. PaperGirl is [...]
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Andy Warhol, the movie – the thingness of things
By roberta | July 12, 2010 | 1 Comment
The last scene in Andy Warhol — the first documentary made about the artist after he died in February, 1987 — is a close-up of Warhol talking while he’s having make-up applied by an assistant, presumably for a tv appearance although it’s not clear. He’s having a conversation with someone off camera and he’s talking [...]
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