Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) hosts an evening with artist and filmmaker Andrew Lampert, including a screening with performative elements and a conversation between Lampert and musician/writer Alan Licht - part of EAI's ongoing 40th anniversary programming. (6.30pm Tues May 31)- $7.00 / Students $5.00
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Just when one was about to give up on digital aquaticism, Mr Fish - my new photographer for the uninitiated (me thinks he's possibly a philosopher who prefers to ponder his subjects) redeemed himself with an interesting eye at these gallery previews below. And a reminder that Bushwick's annual open studios is next weekend (June 3) - really generous, interesting artists and well-worth the trip (and hardly what one could call a trek). Let's hope for good weather.
Jack Smith show Thanks for Explaining Me (Gladstone Gallery)
Untitled, 1958-1962/2011 Analog C-print hand printed from original color negative on Fuji Crystal Archive paper
Jack Smith film installation
Bob - Claire Fontaine (Metro Pictures)
Louise Lawler Fitting (Metro Pictures)
Martin Kippenburger Broken Kilometer (1990), with Kippenburger's Untitled (Wallpaper) (1991) on wall in background (I had Vision, (Lurhing Augustine Gallery) © Estate Martin Kippenberger, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
detail from Martin Kippenberger's Untitled, 1991
gummy bear detail from Martin Kippenberger Untitled (from the series Heavy Burschi), 1989/1990 © Estate Martin Kippenberger, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
detail from Robert Crumb Metamorphosis, 1994 (Pages 50-51) (Tony Shafrazi Gallery). Worth a visit for the Vladimir Tatlin and the Constructivist film posters.
James Cohan Gallery: painting on wall Trenton Doyle Hancock
(detail of table piece) Tom Friedman Small World, 1995-1997 (modeling clay) - James Cohan Gallery
detail from Business As Usual: The Tower at the Folkert de Jong Operation Harmony show at James Cohan Gallery (ended May 7)
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Jack Smith show Thanks for Explaining Me (Gladstone Gallery)
Untitled, 1958-1962/2011 Analog C-print hand printed from original color negative on Fuji Crystal Archive paper
Jack Smith film installation
Bob - Claire Fontaine (Metro Pictures)
Louise Lawler Fitting (Metro Pictures)
Martin Kippenburger Broken Kilometer (1990), with Kippenburger's Untitled (Wallpaper) (1991) on wall in background (I had Vision, (Lurhing Augustine Gallery) © Estate Martin Kippenberger, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
detail from Martin Kippenberger's Untitled, 1991
gummy bear detail from Martin Kippenberger Untitled (from the series Heavy Burschi), 1989/1990 © Estate Martin Kippenberger, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
detail from Robert Crumb Metamorphosis, 1994 (Pages 50-51) (Tony Shafrazi Gallery). Worth a visit for the Vladimir Tatlin and the Constructivist film posters.
James Cohan Gallery: painting on wall Trenton Doyle Hancock
(detail of table piece) Tom Friedman Small World, 1995-1997 (modeling clay) - James Cohan Gallery
detail from Business As Usual: The Tower at the Folkert de Jong Operation Harmony show at James Cohan Gallery (ended May 7)
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Thursday, May 19, 2011
Johnny Depp upstaged by the mermaids! Yeahhhh, life does still have meaning after all;) The disappointing thing about Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, though - and it'd be hard for Mr. Depp ever to disappoint, is that it just isn't that exciting. Dariusz Wolski's 3D cinematography should probably garner an Academy Award nomination next year in a sea of forgettable 3D Hollywood efforts. But when mortals comme moi begin analysing the 3D (and wow is it quietly and unobtrusively impressive) something must inevitably be lacking in other departments. It's a shame most of the mermaids are underwater and underused except for Syrena (Astrid Berges-Frisby-a promising screen future there) captured for her tear that would unlock the fountain of youth. Now: did the film's writers borrow that idea from a Tribeca 2010 film The White Meadows (Iranian writer/director Mohammad Rasoulof) about a man who sails around collecting tears? Credit where credit is due.
But this movie does what it says on the can. It rollicks often rollercoasts along and the musicals cred of director Rob Marshall (Nine, Chicago) is really valued in choreographing the film as a whole. A crying shame there just weren't any dance/singing numbers, though. People would pay good money to see Depp, Penélope Cruz and the gang besport themselves in merry moves.
Now if Mr. Fish had taken more photos for me he would have been treated to this watery fest. Can fish feel fear? Or even guilt? By process of osmosis who does that effect the DNA of a mermaid? Oh dear, Viva had better stay stum - that's what happens when you start dating a scientist.
Opening tomorrow is the annual experimental Migrating Forms film fest at Anthology Film Archive (May 20–29) with Melanie Gilligan's Popular Unrest . Loads of bounty here shining from the watery cine depths. Each year the fest highlights a neglected director and this year Brazilian Glauber Rocha has the honour. If you miss the screenings both Black God, White Devil (Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol) 1964 and Entranced Earth (Portuguese: Terra em Transe) 1967 are available on that bête noire of cineastes, DVD (thanks to a region free Brit outfit Mr. Bongo), but Antônio das Mortes (1969) is harder to find. Among the shorts are Cao Fei's East Wind (his exhibition Play Time opened at Lombard-Freid last night. BZV is Kevin Jerome Everson's latest (he opened last year's fest). And the the very Lower East Side Laure Provost (she's actually London based) receives a nice profiling.
Another treat for New York is the month long New Museum residency of Thai film director Apichatpong Weerasethakul (my favorite being Syndromes and a Century)
Tonight's opening at the Krause Gallery looks interesting. Michael Marshall is an artist, photographer, educator, physicist, platinum printer, creative ornithologist, gardener, digital image maker, illusionist, natural historian, cartographer, wood worker, yogi, encaustic painter, professor. Not backwards in coming forwards is Mr. Marshall. And Rob Tarbell has been working with smoke on paper for years: "With Vitreous Humor, Tarbellís interest lies in fabricating immediate yet elusive objects that play with a pleasurable deception as a way to channel a collective desire to suspend disbelief. The works consider how trust is gained and how obvious fictions become reality." Hmmm...
The Kitchen's Foreclosed. Between Crisis and Possibility interrogates the term foreclosure.
Continuing at Marianne Boesky's Chelsea space are Salvatore Scarpitta's Trajectory and Ted Stamm's Works on Paper in the Project Room. Matthew Porter's The Undefeated at Invisible-Exports is an artistic dialectic of Jane Fonda and John Wayne's hollywood careers. And any chance to see the work of Chaim Soutine shouldn't be passed up - you even get Francis Bacon for the same visit (Helly Nahmad Gallery – located in the Carlyle Hotel). Nor should hearing some of the legends of music in the Cafe Carlyle - Bobby Short's 'hang out'. Viva was in a spin for weeks after seeing Eartha Kitt there many moons ago. Spooning of moons....
Dinah Washington singing Destination Moon
And The American Museum of Natural History (Fri 20th 9pm-1am) has One Step Beyond vibing in the Hayden Planetarium with live bands, DJs, and VJs at the Rose Center for Earth and Space. Cocktails in space - tickets are $25 but that does include a free future visit to the museum. (You have to be 21 or over because of the alcohol though)
100th anniversary of Gustav Mahler's death yesterday. Can't wait to see Percy Adlon's (does anyone remember Zuckerbaby or Baghdad Cafe?) film Mahler on the Couch
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But this movie does what it says on the can. It rollicks often rollercoasts along and the musicals cred of director Rob Marshall (Nine, Chicago) is really valued in choreographing the film as a whole. A crying shame there just weren't any dance/singing numbers, though. People would pay good money to see Depp, Penélope Cruz and the gang besport themselves in merry moves.
Now if Mr. Fish had taken more photos for me he would have been treated to this watery fest. Can fish feel fear? Or even guilt? By process of osmosis who does that effect the DNA of a mermaid? Oh dear, Viva had better stay stum - that's what happens when you start dating a scientist.
Opening tomorrow is the annual experimental Migrating Forms film fest at Anthology Film Archive (May 20–29) with Melanie Gilligan's Popular Unrest . Loads of bounty here shining from the watery cine depths. Each year the fest highlights a neglected director and this year Brazilian Glauber Rocha has the honour. If you miss the screenings both Black God, White Devil (Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol) 1964 and Entranced Earth (Portuguese: Terra em Transe) 1967 are available on that bête noire of cineastes, DVD (thanks to a region free Brit outfit Mr. Bongo), but Antônio das Mortes (1969) is harder to find. Among the shorts are Cao Fei's East Wind (his exhibition Play Time opened at Lombard-Freid last night. BZV is Kevin Jerome Everson's latest (he opened last year's fest). And the the very Lower East Side Laure Provost (she's actually London based) receives a nice profiling.
Another treat for New York is the month long New Museum residency of Thai film director Apichatpong Weerasethakul (my favorite being Syndromes and a Century)
Tonight's opening at the Krause Gallery looks interesting. Michael Marshall is an artist, photographer, educator, physicist, platinum printer, creative ornithologist, gardener, digital image maker, illusionist, natural historian, cartographer, wood worker, yogi, encaustic painter, professor. Not backwards in coming forwards is Mr. Marshall. And Rob Tarbell has been working with smoke on paper for years: "With Vitreous Humor, Tarbellís interest lies in fabricating immediate yet elusive objects that play with a pleasurable deception as a way to channel a collective desire to suspend disbelief. The works consider how trust is gained and how obvious fictions become reality." Hmmm...
The Kitchen's Foreclosed. Between Crisis and Possibility interrogates the term foreclosure.
Continuing at Marianne Boesky's Chelsea space are Salvatore Scarpitta's Trajectory and Ted Stamm's Works on Paper in the Project Room. Matthew Porter's The Undefeated at Invisible-Exports is an artistic dialectic of Jane Fonda and John Wayne's hollywood careers. And any chance to see the work of Chaim Soutine shouldn't be passed up - you even get Francis Bacon for the same visit (Helly Nahmad Gallery – located in the Carlyle Hotel). Nor should hearing some of the legends of music in the Cafe Carlyle - Bobby Short's 'hang out'. Viva was in a spin for weeks after seeing Eartha Kitt there many moons ago. Spooning of moons....
Dinah Washington singing Destination Moon
And The American Museum of Natural History (Fri 20th 9pm-1am) has One Step Beyond vibing in the Hayden Planetarium with live bands, DJs, and VJs at the Rose Center for Earth and Space. Cocktails in space - tickets are $25 but that does include a free future visit to the museum. (You have to be 21 or over because of the alcohol though)
100th anniversary of Gustav Mahler's death yesterday. Can't wait to see Percy Adlon's (does anyone remember Zuckerbaby or Baghdad Cafe?) film Mahler on the Couch
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Wednesday, May 11, 2011
New York PhotoFest is upon us again from this evening. What's great is that there is something for everyone in these annual exhibits all within easy walking distance throughout Dumbo. The FotoVisura Pavilion (sponsored by The Viso Lizardi Family) in the Dumbo Arts Center shows In Love and War and Dia introducing "the work of present professional photographers who during the 60s through the 80’s used the camera as a simple medium of communication and documentation of their life, identity and reality. In doing so, these individuals come together due to a shared sense of identity." Talks and discussions include Sat May 14th, 4pm: E-Cite: The Phenomena of Online Blogs & Magazines at St. Anne's Warehouse (followed by cocktails...now you're talking;) and Sun 15th, 3pm: An Intimate Screening and Discussion with the artists from Love and War.
Under The Bridge: Projections Of A Revolution (Thurs 12th, 8pm - 10pm- Archway under the Manhattan Bridge) has photos and videos documenting the revolutions in North Africa. Hope: Between Dream and Reality shows "young photographers who neither provide a faithful representation of reality nor create an illusion, but who have impressed me with their ability to capture the essential aspects of life", writes curator Enrico Bossan. Subjective/Objective is curated by Elisabeth Biondi: "As images can no longer surprise by discovering unknown territory photographers venture into a more personal visual language. From the more traditional approach which strives to show the world in an objective way to a more contemporary subjective engagement. Photographers today are increasingly exploring their own vision."
Other shows in our fair isle? If clay's your thing then Hillary Harnischfeger at Rachel Uffner sounds like your kinda gal. She combines the substance with everyday objects: "Their lumpy shapes, ugly/beautiful sensibility and focus on the grafting of bodies and things draw on varied influences, such as ritualistic Haniwa terracotta figures, Eva Hesse’s eccentric abstractions and Rosemarie Trockel’s defamiliarized ceramics. The artist’s mixing of dyed clay, based on the Japanese method of Neriage, ensures that unlike traditional ceramics that are tinted and glazed only on their surface, these pieces are instead wholly infused with vibrant color."
More of Louise Lawler discovering larger worlds by photographing the seeming mundane in Fitting at Metro Pictures. Yet more 'bibs and bibs' in Simon Evans' wonderfully titled show Shitty Heaven at James Cohan.
Better known as an award winning film director, David Shapiro: Money Is No Object (in conjunction with the New Museum’s Festival of Ideas for a New City) redraws and repaints all of his bills and receipts on 12 vellum scrolls for the entire year of 2010. Wow, that's dedication to meditation on dialectical materialism!
Gillian Wearing is always fascinating and Katy Moran another Brit artist looks exciting.
And no one could resist new work by yet another Brit Richard Long Flow and Ebb, Rise and Fall (at Sperone Westwater in the new Norman Foster-designed gallery).
Jack Smith's Thanks for Explaining Me curated by Neville Wakefield includes 12 recently restored films (the film program is on Saturdays from 4-6 pm) and much hitherto unseen material. Each screening is introduced by film historians, scholars, friends and collaborators. Trust me, Smith's world was strange, wondrous and every significant artist of the 60s/70s openly acknowledges a debt of gratitude to him.
Another great pioneer often unsung outside architectural circles is Vladimir Tatlin: he of the Russian Constructivist movement and his huge never built tower- Monument of the Third International 1915-1920. What a 5 years of art history they were!
Martin Kippenberger's I Had A Vision mocks and muses what all became of us materialists "objects evince a self-mocking disposition expressed through the transmogrification of domestic décor'
Nothing will really make up for missing the William Kentridge exhibition last year at MoMA (opera designs and all) but Marion Goodman offers a meal rather than a taster in this latest show of recent work. Still running (thru June 4 at MoMA) is the Dziga Vertov film retrospective.
And you'll never leave a Chris Marker show without experiencing an altered state (both Peter Blum galleries): "over 200 photographs, made from digital images taken with a surreptitious camera by Marker on the Paris Metro during 2008-2010". Debates continue on the web as to what camera he actually used.
A banquet of movies and shorts in the 15th Annual Summer Series of Rooftop Films (presented by IFC and New York Magazine) features the World Premiere of New Yorker Zachary Raines' Freeloader (Sat May 14th), "a serious comedy following Frank, a feckless young man recently dumped by his girlfriend." You never know...
Bit disappointing that my new snapper Mr. Fish decided not to attend last Friday's gallery openings and chose instead "to practice skipping". I assume he meant the game of skimming pebbles on the water surface rather than some fetishistic aquatic water sport. But who are we to judge?
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Under The Bridge: Projections Of A Revolution (Thurs 12th, 8pm - 10pm- Archway under the Manhattan Bridge) has photos and videos documenting the revolutions in North Africa. Hope: Between Dream and Reality shows "young photographers who neither provide a faithful representation of reality nor create an illusion, but who have impressed me with their ability to capture the essential aspects of life", writes curator Enrico Bossan. Subjective/Objective is curated by Elisabeth Biondi: "As images can no longer surprise by discovering unknown territory photographers venture into a more personal visual language. From the more traditional approach which strives to show the world in an objective way to a more contemporary subjective engagement. Photographers today are increasingly exploring their own vision."
Other shows in our fair isle? If clay's your thing then Hillary Harnischfeger at Rachel Uffner sounds like your kinda gal. She combines the substance with everyday objects: "Their lumpy shapes, ugly/beautiful sensibility and focus on the grafting of bodies and things draw on varied influences, such as ritualistic Haniwa terracotta figures, Eva Hesse’s eccentric abstractions and Rosemarie Trockel’s defamiliarized ceramics. The artist’s mixing of dyed clay, based on the Japanese method of Neriage, ensures that unlike traditional ceramics that are tinted and glazed only on their surface, these pieces are instead wholly infused with vibrant color."
More of Louise Lawler discovering larger worlds by photographing the seeming mundane in Fitting at Metro Pictures. Yet more 'bibs and bibs' in Simon Evans' wonderfully titled show Shitty Heaven at James Cohan.
Better known as an award winning film director, David Shapiro: Money Is No Object (in conjunction with the New Museum’s Festival of Ideas for a New City) redraws and repaints all of his bills and receipts on 12 vellum scrolls for the entire year of 2010. Wow, that's dedication to meditation on dialectical materialism!
Gillian Wearing is always fascinating and Katy Moran another Brit artist looks exciting.
And no one could resist new work by yet another Brit Richard Long Flow and Ebb, Rise and Fall (at Sperone Westwater in the new Norman Foster-designed gallery).
Jack Smith's Thanks for Explaining Me curated by Neville Wakefield includes 12 recently restored films (the film program is on Saturdays from 4-6 pm) and much hitherto unseen material. Each screening is introduced by film historians, scholars, friends and collaborators. Trust me, Smith's world was strange, wondrous and every significant artist of the 60s/70s openly acknowledges a debt of gratitude to him.
Another great pioneer often unsung outside architectural circles is Vladimir Tatlin: he of the Russian Constructivist movement and his huge never built tower- Monument of the Third International 1915-1920. What a 5 years of art history they were!
Martin Kippenberger's I Had A Vision mocks and muses what all became of us materialists "objects evince a self-mocking disposition expressed through the transmogrification of domestic décor'
Nothing will really make up for missing the William Kentridge exhibition last year at MoMA (opera designs and all) but Marion Goodman offers a meal rather than a taster in this latest show of recent work. Still running (thru June 4 at MoMA) is the Dziga Vertov film retrospective.
And you'll never leave a Chris Marker show without experiencing an altered state (both Peter Blum galleries): "over 200 photographs, made from digital images taken with a surreptitious camera by Marker on the Paris Metro during 2008-2010". Debates continue on the web as to what camera he actually used.
A banquet of movies and shorts in the 15th Annual Summer Series of Rooftop Films (presented by IFC and New York Magazine) features the World Premiere of New Yorker Zachary Raines' Freeloader (Sat May 14th), "a serious comedy following Frank, a feckless young man recently dumped by his girlfriend." You never know...
Bit disappointing that my new snapper Mr. Fish decided not to attend last Friday's gallery openings and chose instead "to practice skipping". I assume he meant the game of skimming pebbles on the water surface rather than some fetishistic aquatic water sport. But who are we to judge?
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