A few weeks back, I had the pleasure of going on a Gallery Week walking tour hosted by the Whitney’s Margot Norton. The tour hit up a handful of the LES’s best galleries, but what stuck with me the most was Hilary Harnischfeger’s delicious handmade sculptures at Rachel Uffner.
In the age when things are [...]
Luis Dourado makes images just like the ones I would make if I made images. (via Dazed Digital)
It’s no secret that I have some serious love for Vena Cava. Well just the other day, the lovely ladies’ blog pointed me to 9-eyes, an amazing project by artist Jon Rafman. To create these images, Rafman scours the (virtual) globe via Google Street View. The results are some beautiful, some scary and some downright [...]
Spent my (very windy) Saturday at Mary Boone checking out nothingtoodoo, the latest from Terence Koh. Koh has said this piece is all about peace, so I couldn’t have picked a better time to swing by: early evening, dead silent, pristine white, the artist lying motionless across the floor. I settled in for a while, [...]
Kazuko Miyamoto Untitled, String Construction, Installation at 597 Broadway, New York, 1978
I’ve probably seen Kazuko Miyamoto about a zillion times at her L.E.S. gallery onetwentyeight, but I never knew about her work until now. The Japanese artist works in dialogue with the likes of Sol LeWitt and Joseph Beuys, and her gallery shows portraits of [...]
“Jeffrey told me he was looking for artists with star qualities,” Inka Essenhigh said of Jeffrey Deitch, one of her former dealers. She compared his gallery to Warhol’s Factory. “Jeffrey wanted to be Andy,” she said. “He wanted his Edie and Paul America. He wanted me to have a drug problem. He wanted me to [...]
Working on ART+NYC has given me the chance to reconnect with some favorite artists I haven’t otherwise thought about in a while. Today’s artist: Jennifer Steinkamp.
A few years ago, I had a panic attack. I was at work and I’d gone to lunch and I just couldn’t get myself to go back into the [...]
David Adamo’s performance-based sculptures were one of my favorite pieces at this year’s Whitney Biennial, so I was kind of psyched when I came across this piece in a group show at Untitled. This is exactly how i feel today.
David Adamo
Untitled (Duet)
2010
Pool cues, wooden beam, pear, wooden canes, wire, wire hand-wrapped in yarn, bronze [...]
Last Address from Ira Sachs on Vimeo.
Ira Sachs’ stirring 2009 film Last Address, visits the final homes of artists–including Klaus Nomi, Robert Mapplethorpe, Peter Hujar, David Wojnarowicz and Felix González-Torres–who lost their lives to AIDS. For more on the film and the artists visit lastaddress.org.