Making a List, Checking it Twice
Many art publications have been putting out “year-end best-of” lists. (That is all this month’s artforum is.) I don’t care about “ranking” art shows, being …
Posts tagged jarrett earnest
“Drag” & “Abstraction”
Most of my performer friends feel about “drag” the way most of my painter friends feel about “abstraction”: that they represent historical languages so …
David Zwirner and the Need for Novels
It is not shocking to hear a dealer ask “can you smell the money?” Things that obvious can only be boring. My issue with …
SFAQ Review: Tim Whiten solo exhibition at Olga Korper in Toronto, Canada.
THE MARRIAGE OF THE SKULL AND THE ROSE As an object the human skull is a fact. But skulls are never quite …
SFAQ Review: “Everything was sleeping as if the universe were a mistake” solo exhibition by Roni Horn at Hauser & Wirth, New York.
Early morning sunlight pours in through skylights. It feels “fresh”. Scattered around the room, like seeds or stars, are ten basins; all the same …
Tough Love for THE FUN at the Museum of Art and Design, NY
“THE FUN: a fellowship in the social practice of nightlife”—is a radical project of the Museum of Art and Design that deserves praise and critical …
RE: The Cost of Being an Artist
Today the New York Times published a feature about “The Cost of Being an Artist”. They asked six “art people” in New York to …
Bad Girl, Mad Girl: Erin Markey
While sitting in the audience of Erin Markey’s show at Joe’s Pub last week I heard someone behind me say “…of course it was …
Contemporary Art and “Queer Aesthetics”
Gordon Hall I want to try to connect the aesthetic or formal aspects of art to “queerness”—a preferred term for many in my generation …
Contemporary Art and Hetero-Masculinity
Chris Burden’s show at the New Museum “Extreme Measures” is great. I did a warm, lengthy interview with him that will appear in next …
Weird Rooms in Pittsburgh
Putting elaborate theories aside, “installation art” is the art of weird rooms. And, as a general rule, the more specific the room the more effectively …
Review: “Under the BQE” at M/L Artspace, New York.
“Here you go New York. Here is your living underground, your young artists squatting—occupying!—that mythic zone the city is said to have once possessed” …
Review: “Audible Presence”, Fontana, Klein, Twombly at Dominique Lévy, New York.
The glamorous “L” of L&M Arts has just opened the first show of her new eponymous gallery Dominique Lévy, in a beautiful building at …
Respecting Your Elders (and Youngers)
AN OPEN LETTER TO EVERYONE WHO WANTS TO HAVE FUN AND MAKE GOOD ART RIGHT NOW IN NEW YORK CITY (for Penny Arcade): Every …
Lambs Wheeled to Slaughter: Maria Abramovic Institute
OK, I am firmly opposed to talking about any aspect of Marina Abramovic because I find it banal and irrelevant. However I like sci-fi kitsch …
Dickpix and New Images of Man
“Each period has its peculiar image of man” said theologian Paul Tillich at the beginning of his essay for the Museum of Modern Art …
Children, Art, Entertainment
Two days ago Genesis Breyer P-Orridge gave an artist talk to accompany he/r ongoing retrospective at the Andy Warhol museum in Pittsburgh. After the …
“le Corbusier: Atlas of Modern Landscape” at MoMA, NY
No spatially sensitive person can bear to be in the Museum of Modern art, at least I can’t. The spaces are designed to …
“The Act of Killing,” a film by Joshua Oppenheimer
“Being in Indonesia today is like being in Germany fifty years after the Second World War and finding out that the Nazis were still …
Two Sketches of White Show at the Armory, New York
I am convinced that White Snow is one of the great works of our century, as sprawling, multivalent and rich as the novels …