Culture

Current favorites:

• David Noonan at Foxy Production – see write-up from James
• Phoebe Washburn and Simone Shubuck at LFL – another James post
• “I’ve Met Someone Else” at Monya Rowe – ditto
• Pipilotti Rist at Luhring Augustine – beautiful imagery and soundtrack
• Echo Eggebrecht at Sixty Seven – new Chelsea location! I plan to write more about her show later.

Dan Rushton untitled 10 (2004) 40” × 30” gouache on panel

James has more info.

I’ve written about Eric Doeringer several times, and even appeared on a radio show talking about him.

Here is his latest project:

I’m seeking submissions of artwork, music, video, fiction, poetry, and games inspired by Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle for inclusion on a new web-based project. Please send jpegs, mp3s, text files, etc. to cremasterweb@yahoo.com.

Go send him some stuff if you’ve got it.

We have found ourselves in Williamsburg several times over the last month. My current picks for favorite shows there:

• Beth Bridea & Tucker Nichols at SOUTHFIRST – Tucker is also in the current show at The Drawing Center
• Janice Caswell at Schroeder Romero – beautiful use of pins, wall painting, and other media. I had seen her works on paper before, but they hadn’t made me realize what she is capable of in a whole room installation.
• No Return at Momenta – a number of good works that come together as a brilliant group show.

I am expecting some images from Schroeder Romero of a young artist who has a solo show coming up. I will write about that later.

Thanks to reBlog, I found an interview from November 2003 with brilliant geek artist John F. Simon, Jr. We have one of his pen plotter drawings, titled Bug, hanging in our entrance hallway.

I hadn’t realized he sold works called Souvenirs for $50 and under from his website.

Florentine “arts and crafts” in lower Manhattan. Before that phrase sends you running away, I’ll point out that it includes an exhibit of Medici portraits from the Uffizi at the Federal Hall National Monument.

Here are a Newsday article and the official web site.

Ellie Covan, founder of Dixon Place at her apartment (which is also the home of Dixon Place)

Dixon Place is a great example of why so many of us moved to New York. It is “an artistic laboratory with an audience,” a place where performing artists of all kinds try out work in progress before an audience. From the very beginning, Dixon Place has also made a commitment to pay the performers who appear there. For a space in NYC that hosts works in progress, that’s pretty rare.

It is all the creation of Ellie Covan, one of the saints of the art world. I have been going to Dixon Place since it moved to the current (and past) loft on the Bowery. James has been going since it was in Ellie’s apartment in the East Village. During that time, people were told to start singing Happy Birthday if the police arrived, as it was a rather irregular situation.

The New York Times Real Estate section has an article in its Habitats section on Ellie and Dixon Place. It also talks about Dixon Place’s new space on Chrystie Street, which is currently being constructed. They are still raising money for it, and I can think of few organizations more worthy of your money, if you have any to spare. None of you who go out and buy $10 drinks every weekend can plead complete poverty!

[photo by Diane Bondareff for The New York Times]

HARRY CALLAHAN
Collage, Chicago, 1957
gelatin silver print
signed in stylus (in the margin); signed and annotated ‘same as one’ in ink (on the verso)
7 5/8 × 9 5/8in. (19.3 × 24.4cm.)

We have one photograph by Harry Callahan (of trees). I was browsing Christie’s web site to see if they had any works similar to ours when I came across this beautiful collage photograph. There’s not much text, but I suspect it was made of cut-up film.

Feel free to buy it for me. It is one of the lots from Elton John’s art collection being auctioned by them. He has some good stuff.

[Image from Christie’s web site.]

If you’re not looking at Wooster Collective : A Celebration of Street Art daily, you’re missing out.

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