Art

  • Don’t forget to tag things for ArtCal

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    The new ArtCal uses feeds from Flickr, blip.tv, and also searches for links back to each listing via Bloglines Citations. When you’re out taking photos and videos, or writing about shows, don’t forget to tag/link appropriately.

    This page     (which was used for the screencap above) shows a good example of all three.

    Update: Here is another idea for artists and galleries. If you have video or computer animation in a show, and your website isn’t really set up well for video (unlike this), put some excerpts on blip.tv and tag them so that people visiting the exhibition page on ArtCal can watch them.

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  • Non-NYC art recommendations

    For those not here in NYC to avail themselves of the 193 upcoming openings on ArtCal, here are some openings of friends or people I’ve written about coming up in other cities.

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    Scott Treleaven, buckskin (iii), 2007
    Watercolor and paper
    9.5 × 5.75 inches

    First, Scott Treleaven has an opening on Saturday, September 8, at Marc Selwyn Fine Art in Los Angeles. James and I are big fans of his work.

    The Soap Factory in Minneapolis has a group show titled Host curated by Elizabeth M Grady that includes a number of artists whom I either know or have written about, including Derick Melander, Carol Salmanson, and Caitlyn Masley. That opens September 8th.

    In Washington, DC, artist JT Kirkland of the Thinking About Art blog, has curated a show titled The One Word Project Show, a group show of 33 artists. It will be held at The Arts Club of Washington, the former home of President James Monroe and at one point the White House. It opens September 7th.

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  • Noticed how quiet it’s been around here?

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    The blog’s been quiet due to multiple art-related projects. Not only did ArtCal relaunch with a new look this week (and a new programming framework for the geeks in the house), Winkleman Gallery is now using ArtCat for its website. This is my favorite part of Ed’s post announcing it:

    I can attest to how much easier making changes to the website has become with this new tool. One of the complaints I often heard with the old website was that there were not enough images. Well that’s because adding images was a huge pain in the ass given the way that site was designed, but with ArtCat, adding images is a breeze, so you can expect to see plenty more moving forward. In fact, I’ve added some behind the scenes shots of Thomas Lendvai creating his truly astounding new installation (he’s been working very hard on it all summer), which opens, you guessed it, next Thursday.

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  • New ArtCal launched

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    We’re still working on a few features and tweaking the design, but the new ArtCal, with design by Michael Mandiberg, went live today. Check it out.

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  • Iconic Joy Garnett image spotted in private dwelling

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    James and I took a walk in the lovely humid air this afternoon, and spotted this, from the “Riot” series, in our wanderings. The photo is by him. Visit Joy’s home page and blog for more about her.

    Related: The website for the show we curated last year that included three paintings by Joy.

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  • Larry Bamburg’s “Untitled Variable” at Peter Blum

    Larry Bamburg, Untitled Variable, 2007
    Ceiling fans, plexiglass, monofiliament, masking tape, wire, fishing line, plastic beads, rubber bands, metal clamps, screw driver, wood, lead, band aid, and cricket

    This is one of several great pieces in Stubborn Materials at Peter Blum. It’s up for 2 more hours on 29th Street. Go!

    Related: A post on a show at Esso Gallery that included his work in 2006

    [note to people reading this via the feed: there are 2 videos in this post]

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  • On photography in galleries

    I love 303 Gallery and its program, but given the fact that we’ve been told not to take photographs in the gallery, I find it funny that founder Lisa Spellman is quoted in The Art Dealers saying,

    As a student I had been immediately been touched by the generation of appropriationist art and by the intensity of political discussions centering on the new notions of Postmodernism.

    The show in question was Mary Heilman’s exhibition in 2005. At the time, there were only work images on the website, and no installation views. How can you write about a Mary Heilman show without talking about how the various works relate to each other in the space?

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  • Two performance recommendations tomorrow

    As we move into the middle of August and Chelsea starts shutting down for the month, there are still some interesting things happening, especially related to performance. There are 2 events tomorrow I recommend:

    • 4pm: A walk-thru of the exhibition with private dealer Betsey Geffen, aka Charley Friedman as part of Ceci n’est pas… (This is not…) at Sara Meltzer Gallery
    • All day: “An improvisational dance performance by Felicia Ballos and Flora Wiegman. Staged in the midst of demolishing the exhibition format of Part One and constructing the setting for Part Two, the performance takes inspiration from the actions performed by the gallery workers, with each dancer creating her movements in response. “ This is part of Carte Blanche at Elizabeth Dee Gallery.

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  • Culture Pundits – an ad network for art bloggers

    In March I mentioned that I was looking into this, and I wanted to let people know that we now have a website:

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    and the ability to buy or sell ads on ArtCal plus 9 blogs so far. For ArtCal, it’s only for the banner ad at the top, or a 125×125 button under the left nav. The ad network software isn’t really set up to manage something like the gallery ads on the right at the moment.

    I’m sure some of my readers are interested in buying an ad, or signing up as a blogger/publisher. There is a signup link if you wish to serve ads on your site. You also will have the advantage of seeing some of your posts show up on the home page of the newly redesigned ArtCal which launches this month.

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  • Elizabeth Murray, 1940-2007

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    Elizabeth Murray in 1998 with one of her New York subway murals, at the 59th Street and Lexington Avenue station in Manhattan. G. Paul Burnett/The New York Times

     

    This is my favorite paragraph of her obituary, written by Roberta Smith, in the New York Times:

    Born in Chicago in 1940, Ms. Murray had a hardscrabble childhood that included bouts of homelessness caused in part by the ill health of her father. Ms. Murray traced her interest in art to watching a nursery-school teacher cover a sheet of paper with thick red crayon, an experience that she said gave her an indelible sense of the physicality of color. She drew constantly from an early age, inspired mostly by newspaper comic strips, and once sent a sketchbook to Walt Disney asking for a job as his secretary. By the fifth grade she was selling erotic drawings to classmates for a quarter.

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