Methinks Viva is der werst blogger in the world;(
What she lacks in immediacy, though, she compensates her reader with content. I did have a very good excuse for not handing in my homework on time. Really!Ignominiously, on my NYC return, I tripped on the stairs to my apartment thence suitcase and all tumbled down to the next landing. Such was my vanity in wearing high heels when traveling! Even worse is that unless you've actually broken a leg and even seriously sprained something no one has much sympathy for you in New York City. So a hobbler I became for a few weeks.But the grin from my last blog was elicited by an all expenses paid trip back to London. Now, while some readers may surmise that Viva's become a belle de jour it's nothing of the sort (alas''';). But women must have secrets else they die of strangeness.
Just to make you all seethe with jealousy, Viva did cred attending the Raindance Festival Film (there's an NYC course Nov 15), got balls (and weary eyes) infiltrating the 54th BFI London Film Festival sassy'd down the aisles of the Frieze Art Fair ad much more. (See Cosmic Vivace for loads of photos etc)
Still running is The White Light Festival opening (NYT article with artistic director Jane Moss): as quoted by the New York Times, Jane Moss creator of the festival said in her opening remarks that what it is really about is to serve as “an antidote to the midterm elections...a focus on the personal interior spaces “where all music starts.”
Janet Cardiff’s sound installation Forty-Part Motet - based on English composer Thomas Tallis’s 1573 Spem in Alium (surround sounds - every 4o voice from the Salisbury Cathedral given a speaker- the Agnes Varis and Karl Leichtman Rehearsal and Recording Studio of Jazz at Lincoln Center in the Time Warner Building until Nov. 13) - arguably the best 'chill out' room in Manhattan.
Or make someone treat you (as I did - it won't cost you an arm and a leg) - and even if it did you'd be eternally soothed by the legend that is singer Jack Jones (NYT review) - only until Nov 13
For those who fear that the art of crooning and balladeering is vanishing, fear not that books are being devoured by pixels:
The Editions Artists' Book Fair founded in 1998 by Susan Inglett of I.C. Editions and Brooke Alexander Editions. Free admission.
Books as intellectual cultural status has Mickey Smith questioning in Believe You Me at Invisible-Exports NYC
At MoMA/P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Printed Matter, Inc. presents The NY Art Book Fair take over all three floors (Nov 5–7) - 275 international presses, booksellers, antiquarians, museums, galleries, and artists from twenty-four countries.
including the special exhibition You Are Her - a collection of over 1,000 Riot Grrl zines from the '90s for reading and photocopying. Loads of other great stuff. There's even a free bus (Sat Nov. 6 from 1–5) pootling among the Sculpture Center, Flux Factory, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Socrates Sculpture Park, and Noguchi Museum.
Although it's probably grossly politically incorrect to compartmentalise male and female artists, on this site the woman go first;)
Joy Cuff discusses what it was like being the only woman working on the models for 2001: A Space Odyssey.
EXHIBITIONS CLOSING SOON:
Liz Cohen's Trabantimino is at Salon 94 Bowery (thru Nov. 11) (New York Times article) - a parallel universe to Marc Newson's Transport recently at Gagosian Chelsea
The paintings of Joy Garnett's Boom & Bust at Winkleman Gallery are sourced from photography of military events (thru Nov 13).
What with What at Thomas Erben Gallery is the first solo US show by British painter Rose Wylie (thru Nov 13)
ONGOING EXHIBITIONS:
Gladstone Gallery is showing the Early work of Marisa Merz (thru Nov.20) - a central figure and the only woman associated with the Arte Povera movement of the late 1960s and '70s.
Jo Ann Walters was hailed by William Eggleston as "one of the few independently original photographers working in color today.” These original color prints Vanity + Consolation (1985 plus) have never been exhibited in New York.
Australian video artist Tracey Moffatt's Montages (1999-2010) features in The Bronx Museum's tripartite show. The series of 7 videos explore tropes of cinema's motherhood, race, love.
Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968 at the Brooklyn Museum (thru Jan 9) incl. Vija Celmins (whose recent show after many years absence was at McKee Gallery.
STUX Gallery is showing sculptures by Sokari Douglas Camp whose work, NO-O-WAR-R NO-O-WAR-R, was short-listed for London's Trafalgar Square Fourth Plinth in 2003 and has a major public commission, All the World is Now Richer, for Burgess Park, London marking the bicentenary of the slave trade
abolition.
Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism continues at the Jewish Museum (thru Jan. 30)
MoMA's Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography (thru Mrch 21)
New York Times obit of artist Sylvia Sleigh who died aged 94 NYT obit
At the Sputnik Gallery Moscow based artist Ekaterina Rozhkova's Veil of Happiness silkscreens and hand paints photos of traditional Chinese life onto Chinese patterned silk hopefully creating a dialectic between Western and Eastern representation.
Polish artist Monika Sosnowska is at Hauser & Wirth.
Luxembourg & Dayan usher back into our minds the ghosts of Jeff Koons' Made in Heaven Paintings (thru Jan. 21). Many, many critics including the NYT's Roberta Smith never wanted them around when they were alive ;): "Occupying some no woman’s land of female objectification, they are visual train wrecks."
Katrin Sigurdardottir continues at the Metropolitan Museum.
Still running is The White Light Festival opening (NYT article with artistic director Jane Moss): as quoted by the New York Times, Jane Moss creator of the festival said in her opening remarks that what it is really about is to serve as “an antidote to the midterm elections...a focus on the personal interior spaces “where all music starts.”
Janet Cardiff’s sound installation Forty-Part Motet - based on English composer Thomas Tallis’s 1573 Spem in Alium (surround sounds - every 4o voice from the Salisbury Cathedral given a speaker- the Agnes Varis and Karl Leichtman Rehearsal and Recording Studio of Jazz at Lincoln Center in the Time Warner Building until Nov. 13) - arguably the best 'chill out' room in Manhattan.
Or make someone treat you (as I did - it won't cost you an arm and a leg) - and even if it did you'd be eternally soothed by the legend that is singer Jack Jones (NYT review) - only until Nov 13
For those who fear that the art of crooning and balladeering is vanishing, fear not that books are being devoured by pixels:
The Editions Artists' Book Fair founded in 1998 by Susan Inglett of I.C. Editions and Brooke Alexander Editions. Free admission.
Books as intellectual cultural status has Mickey Smith questioning in Believe You Me at Invisible-Exports NYC
At MoMA/P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Printed Matter, Inc. presents The NY Art Book Fair take over all three floors (Nov 5–7) - 275 international presses, booksellers, antiquarians, museums, galleries, and artists from twenty-four countries.
including the special exhibition You Are Her - a collection of over 1,000 Riot Grrl zines from the '90s for reading and photocopying. Loads of other great stuff. There's even a free bus (Sat Nov. 6 from 1–5) pootling among the Sculpture Center, Flux Factory, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Socrates Sculpture Park, and Noguchi Museum.
Although it's probably grossly politically incorrect to compartmentalise male and female artists, on this site the woman go first;)
Joy Cuff discusses what it was like being the only woman working on the models for 2001: A Space Odyssey.
EXHIBITIONS CLOSING SOON:
Liz Cohen's Trabantimino is at Salon 94 Bowery (thru Nov. 11) (New York Times article) - a parallel universe to Marc Newson's Transport recently at Gagosian Chelsea
The paintings of Joy Garnett's Boom & Bust at Winkleman Gallery are sourced from photography of military events (thru Nov 13).
What with What at Thomas Erben Gallery is the first solo US show by British painter Rose Wylie (thru Nov 13)
ONGOING EXHIBITIONS:
Gladstone Gallery is showing the Early work of Marisa Merz (thru Nov.20) - a central figure and the only woman associated with the Arte Povera movement of the late 1960s and '70s.
Jo Ann Walters was hailed by William Eggleston as "one of the few independently original photographers working in color today.” These original color prints Vanity + Consolation (1985 plus) have never been exhibited in New York.
Australian video artist Tracey Moffatt's Montages (1999-2010) features in The Bronx Museum's tripartite show. The series of 7 videos explore tropes of cinema's motherhood, race, love.
Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968 at the Brooklyn Museum (thru Jan 9) incl. Vija Celmins (whose recent show after many years absence was at McKee Gallery.
STUX Gallery is showing sculptures by Sokari Douglas Camp whose work, NO-O-WAR-R NO-O-WAR-R, was short-listed for London's Trafalgar Square Fourth Plinth in 2003 and has a major public commission, All the World is Now Richer, for Burgess Park, London marking the bicentenary of the slave trade
abolition.
Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism continues at the Jewish Museum (thru Jan. 30)
MoMA's Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography (thru Mrch 21)
New York Times obit of artist Sylvia Sleigh who died aged 94 NYT obit
At the Sputnik Gallery Moscow based artist Ekaterina Rozhkova's Veil of Happiness silkscreens and hand paints photos of traditional Chinese life onto Chinese patterned silk hopefully creating a dialectic between Western and Eastern representation.
Polish artist Monika Sosnowska is at Hauser & Wirth.
Luxembourg & Dayan usher back into our minds the ghosts of Jeff Koons' Made in Heaven Paintings (thru Jan. 21). Many, many critics including the NYT's Roberta Smith never wanted them around when they were alive ;): "Occupying some no woman’s land of female objectification, they are visual train wrecks."
Katrin Sigurdardottir continues at the Metropolitan Museum.
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