Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty at the New Museum, the bearish artist’s first U.S. solo show at a major museum, surprised us for what wasn’t there.
By libby | September 1, 2007
Rudolf Stingel, June 28-October 14, 2007, Whitney Museum of American ArtPhoto by Sheldon C. Collins. The room is a street-punk Versailles.
After years of knocking ourselves out on each trip we take to New York, we have finally calmed down a little. This time we didn’t walk until we dropped. And this time we didn’t try [...]
untitled painting by Joe Protheroe
Post-Minimalism and Post-Photoshopism and Post-Illustratorism have all joined forces to abhor the straight line and perspective, abhor the mass produced, abhor the slick perfection and abhor the uniformity that Minimalism and computer graphics–and advertising–promised. Those were the formal issues that struck me silly when I walked into Slought to see The [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged amy walsh, anna neighbor, blaine siegel, brent wahl, emilia kabakov, ilya kabakov, joe protheroe, michelle le claire, pernot hudson, timothy belknap, tricia lopez, wil medearis |
This week’s Weekly includes my review of the Whitney Biennial. I know, you’ve read about it here and here to say nothing of there and there. Zoe Strauss is the reason to go. I guess I can’t say it enough. Read the article on the art page. Here’s the copy below [...]
Nari Ward’s Glory — church of the dead soldier
[NOTE: This post has been changed. We added a few more pictures.]
Here’s our first cut at this year’s Whitney Biennial, an anti-war show if ever there was one. Our first reaction was, ooh, we know a lot of these people. We made a list for [...]
Posted in art fairs/biennials, national | Also tagged dan colen, dorothy iannone, francesco vezzoli, jamal cyrus, kori newkirk, lisa lipinski, matthew day jackson, matthew monahan, paul chan, robert a. pruitt |
