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Weekly Update – Postmodernist Flurries in Fleisher-Ollman’s emerging artist show

This week’s Weekly has my review of Fleisher-Ollman’s emerging artist invitational.  Below’s the copy with some pictures.  More photos at flickr.
The world is a diminished place in “I Don’t Watch the Internet,” Fleisher-Ollman Gallery’s seventh annual emerging artist survey. A non-themed invitational that’s big on miniatures and works that whir and clack, the show rounds [...]

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The Return of Liberta–awards for 2009

2009 is the year artblog had its sixth birthday and graduated to a Wordpress design and a real logo and new maps and listings!  Liberta made it to the Miami art fairs this year for the first time.  Loved it, won’t be going back — we’ll take Manhattan. Volta New York is still our favorite [...]

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What’s it Worth? Works on Paper at Arcadia–the show

This is part 2 of a 2 part post. Part 1 is about the talk delivered by show juror Joao Ribas.
Ribas’ choices for the Arcadia Works on Paper exhibit raise issues of sharing, reproducibility and loss of copyright control. They raise disturbing questions about the value of all art at a time when works on [...]

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West Prize finalists show at SEI

Thomas Doyle, 2006, Null Cipher, mixed media, 14” x 13 3/4” x 13 3/4”.  West Collection finalist, in the show at SEI, now until the first week of April.
We dashed out to the West Collection at SEI in Oaks last month for a peek at the West Prize Finalists exhibit before the Grand Prize Winner [...]

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Vox Populi’s January shows

Vox Populi’s January show opened Jan. 9 and, carumba, it closes Feb. 1 — get over there quick because there’s good stuff!
Vox Members Shows
Julianna Foster’s From Morning On
Julianna Foster’s From Morning On continues the artist’s exploration of narrative through serial photography. This group of photographs shows gorgeous misty landscapes, decrepit mystery interiors that are [...]

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Weekly Update — Another Look at A Closer Look 7

This week’s Weekly has my review of A Closer Look at Arcadia. Below’s my original copy restoring more than 200 words that were cut by the paper….and some pictures. And here’s Libby’s post on the show.
Linda Yun’s Incident. Here’s the little video I made and put at flickr as an experiment in [...]

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A Closer Look 7 at Arcadia

Linda Yun, Incident, 2008, mylar, fan, sound, reflected light and color, dimensions variable, as installed in A Closer Look 7 at Arcadia.
Usually sensory experiences are things I think of as juicy. And I can sense there’s something sensory going on in the work of all the artists in A Closer Look 7 at Arcadia. But [...]

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American Dream noir at Vox

James Johnson, Some Rooms-Part I (Yours), installation detail
Darkness is my pillow at Vox Populi this month. Almost everything is noir, and the American Dream has turned into something lost, exploded, longed for and gone. At least that’s what I got over almost everything I saw there.
The most ambitious work on the subject is James Johnson’s [...]

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Richard Prince interview–a prezzie from James Johnson

With Richard Prince’s Spiritual America having just opened at the Guggenheim, he’s everywhere in the media–the Times, the New Yorker and here on the internet, in a four-part video interview on Art Talk on VBS.TV.
James Johnson sent along the url’s with a suggestion to sit tight through the advertisement before the show, but only part [...]

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The slippery truth–contemporary art photography

James Johnson, When I was a Kid I thought Mr. Rogers Could See Me Too2006, detail,inkjet prints; on the monitor to the right is a video by Kara Crombie.
Photography is all over town–and there’s more on the way. From L’Autre, a group show at University of the Arts, to Tina Barney at Gallery 339, [...]

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