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I had the pleasure of documenting an interview with Joel Shapiro at the Paula Cooper Gallery this past winter. The gallery had a retrospective of his work on display and artist Jenny Snider organized a question and answer meeting with her fellow artists-in-residence at the Marie Walsh Sharpe [...]
I finally get it. It’s amazing when something becomes so clear after I had thought that I had it all figured out. I have never been a fan of Dan Flavin’s work. Despise would have been an accurate description of my feeling towards the work. At least until this show. To me it was always [...]
So I woke up this morning thinking about this venue of artblogging, and I came upon the article in the NY Times about Shepard Fairey confessing to a copyright violation for using an AP image in his famous “Obama Hope” poster. Of course I, like everyone else in America is familiar with the poster and [...]
So I realize that this post is quite a bit late, given that it is now October, and John Currin Works on Paper, A Fifteen Year Survey of Women was up at the Andrea Rosen Gallery over the summer. But I thought that it would be good to write about it anyway.
So again, I must [...]
Monolithic. Topographic. Singular. The show is very impressive.
This is definitely a blue chip show, at a blue chip gallery, from a blue chip artist.
The reason that I bring this up is because, initially this show immediately overwhelms the senses, in its scale, and its poetry. It is representative of what Maya Lin is known for [...]
I definitely can be categorized as a fan of Kara Walker’s work. Okay, we know it’s derivative, that is, it’s been done. When I first saw the work years back, I knew it seemed familiar. I didn’t know where it was that I may have seen the graphic silhouettes before, depicting the struggles of African [...]
On my rounds a few weeks back of the galleries, I stopped into Printed Matter to check out if there was anything titillating for me to browse through. One of my favorite things to do, especially when I was a student, is to spend hours thumbing through books at the bookstore.
I haven’t been doing that [...]
Wonderfully simple and elegant, the installation called “Shadowplay” by Hans Peter Feldmann was one of the highlights of the opening shows for the Fall 2009 season in New York City. This work was originally shown at the 2009 Venice Biennale, in ” Fare Mundi” curated by Daniel Birnbaum.
There are a number of aspects to this [...]
Here’s a show that clearly deserves one of the first reviews on my new blog. I have no idea who the curator is, so I’m going to tell it how it is. The gallery should have considered closing at the end of July instead of leaving this rubbish heap open for all to see. Your [...]
Finally an interesting installation in New York City. Phew! I was thinking that sculpture was dead. Where are the Ann Hamilton’s and Robert Gober’s of this decade? Black Acid Co-op at Deitch Projects in New York is one of the best shows that I’ve seen in New York in a while.
It is completely self [...]
