Here is an installation shot of Ara Peterson’s Standing Waves in the current show at Greene Naftali. James as more on the show.
Standing Waves, 2004
wood, acrylic
45” × 168” × 30”
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Ara Peterson, Standing Waves
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Bill Gusky
I went to look at Bill Gusky’s web site because of his comments on James’s site. There are some interesting works there, including this work on paper from the gallery page.
Untitled 2005
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Swoon at Deitch
It was too crowded to see the main room (Jen Bekman concurs) at the show Thursday night, so I took a couple of photos of the floor in the smaller project space. I suspect most images of the show will focus on the main room and the walls, so this is a reminder to look down when you visit.
Note to hipsters with cell phones: If you can’t navigate a crowded gallery and talk on the phone at the same time, go outside. And leave large dogs at home. They don’t seem to appreciate packed openings.
While you’re on Jen’s blog, check out this Frank Gehry post too.
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Wooster Street Party / Red, White, and Blue
We went to Soho tonight for the “block party” on Wooster and the openings at Spencer Brownstone, Guild & Greyshkul, and Deitch.
Block party (I think pedestrians should spontaneously take over streets more often):
and, from the Spencer Brownstone show, I present red, white, and blue:
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Horrifying advertisement on the subway
The people on Mitchum’s PR team are idiots. This morning I heard the news of the London attacks when I woke up. While riding the subway to Soho tonight, I saw this:
One would think someone would have thought of the Madrid attacks, and what happened to the stupid MTA ad censors that have previously prevented such things as safe sex ads on the subway? I would think the suburban guys that are at the top would find this… problematic.
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Kissinger is lobbying for the NYC Olympics
I found it sad, knowing that people like Muhammad Ali are there, to read that people went wild over Hillary Clinton’s “star power.” I was more than sad — horrified was more like it — to learn that one of the other people in Singapore to lobby for NYC to host the Olympics is Henry Kissinger. I guess it’s one of the few places outside of the USA he can still visit without risk of arrest.
I don’t want the Olympics here, and obviously no thinking person does either if they have that man representing us. I agree with Todd Gibson on what hosting them would mean:
a month of lockdown and police-state presence in 2012 that will make last summer’s Republican Convention look like a fire drill.
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NY1 on Rhizome Art Base
Paper Rad and Matt Barton extreme animalz: the movie: part 1 2005 video and mixed media [detail of installation]
NY1 has a short segment on the Rhizome ArtBase 101 show at the New Museum. It’s kind of funny in a “gee whiz, it’s art!” way. At least you get to see Lauren Cornell and T. Whid talk, and you have a chance to see Paper Rad and Matt Barton’s fabulous work in motion. For more on the show, read the post James did.
[photo by James]
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Oops, didn’t mean to let my homepage go blank
If you want to see what work we’ve been seeing lately and liked most, check out the homepage of ArtCal. I haven’t had time to work, blog, and see art at the same time, so working and seeing art is winning. I also think this heat makes me less likely to carry around a camera and write things down.
We did see most of Greater New York at PS1 yesterday, but didn’t make it through all of it. I think I have to say my favorite room was the one containing Sean Bluechel, Ryan Johnson, Christian Holstad, and Garth Weiser. Of course, the two middle ones were already very familiar to us. The “challenge” of finding Cordy Ryman’s work throughout the building was fun too.
One more thing. I thought Dominic McGill’s piece in the show was wonderful:
Dominic McGill
Project for a New American Century (detail), 2004
graphite on paper
80 inches x 65 feet
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Artist photos?
While reading John Perrault on doing a Virtual Chelsea Tour, I clicked on the link for Mary Boone since I haven’t set foot in her gallery in a couple of years.
Am I the only one who finds it odd that the home page has no art images, just photos of the artists and two images of empty galleries? Also, when you click on an artist image, the next page shows the artist’s photos larger than their art thumbnails.
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Fireworks
Oswald Kabasta [source]
Right now I can hear the “gay pride” fireworks outside. It’s odd to hear something that sounds like we’re being bombed as I listen to a program on KUSC featuring recordings of symphonies conducted by Oswald Kabasta. Go read that last link. Kabasta was a pro-Nazi conductor originally from Austria, and performed in Munich until performances were suspended due to heavy Allied bombing in 1944. After his de-Nazification hearing, and his demotion to the status of a “common laborer,” he committed suicide in February 1946.
The recordings we heard tonight were extraordinary. It’s sad to think such a musical genius was so terribly wrong in his political beliefs.
All hail the power of the internet! I had never heard his story until I listened to this music today from a radio station on the other side of the country.
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