Tag Archives: marginal utility

First Friday: We kvetch, we look, we clap

By libby and roberta | August 10, 2010

First Friday was hotter than Hell in the galleries, and we complained a lot. Every person who asked us how our summer was going got the same answer–shitty, hot.  But beyond weather, we have to say the art was hotter than we expected for the usually dead month of August.  Performance and installation art was [...]

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Rachel Mason’s The Deaths of Hamilton Fish at Marginal Utility

By tiernan alexander | June 14, 2010

On January 16, 1936 the Peekskill Evening Star newspaper ran two unrelated stories on the front page. One about a man being put to death in the electric chair, and the other about a wealthy man who had died; both were named Hamilton Fish. That is the germ of The Deaths of Hamilton Fish, an [...]

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2009, A Space Odyssey–Ronnie Bass at Marginal Utility

By libby | November 8, 2009

The multitalented Brooklyn-based artist Ronnie Bass has brought his video/installation The Astronomer, Part 1: Departure From Shed, to Marginal Utility–the newest gallery to open at 319A N. 11th St. aka the Vox Building  (mercifully, Marginal Utitlity turned out to be quite useful–it is on the second floor, giving a nice respite as we climbed toward [...]

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Weekly Update – November First Friday on the mind

By roberta | November 4, 2009

This week’s Weekly has my first Friday roundup.  Below is the copy with pictures. Big news this First Friday: A new gallery, Marginal Utility , is opening in the Vox building. The six-story former factory building already houses Vox Populi , Copy , AHN/VHS , Progressive Sharing , Jeffrey Stockbridge Fine Art and Tiger Strikes [...]

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