Art

Thu, Oct 22 2009

Douglas Crimp: Action Around the Edges

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A lecture drawn from Cripm’s memoir in progress of New York City in the 1970s. This portion deals with the de-industrializing city as a space of experimentation for artists and gay men, with a particular...

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Wed, Oct 21 2009

Comme Toujours Here I Stand

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Comme Toujours Here I Stand at The Kitchen from Big Dance Theater on Vimeo. Premiering NYC this week at the Kitchen, Big Dance Theater presents its latest production, Comme Toujours Here I Stand, which...

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Thu, Oct 8 2009

This Bicycle is a Sculpture: A School Struggles to go Green

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This year marks the 150th anniversary of New York’s Cooper Union, a free, highly competitive college with schools of Art, Architecture, and Engineering. The most conspicuous commemoration has been...

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Tue, Sep 29 2009

Kandinsky

This year the Guggenheim museum is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Following the exhibition of the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, who created the signature spiraling building of the museum, Guggenheim...

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Thu, Aug 13 2009

Yoko Ono: Anton’s Memory

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One of the best things about Yoko Ono’s solo exhibition ‘Anton’s Memory’ at Pallazetto Tito in Venice is that the coldness of her minimalist conceptual work is altered by the old...

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Thu, Jul 16 2009

In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960 – 1976

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Jan Dibbets. Untitled. 1969. Photolithographed postcard. In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, the new show at MOMA, is a portrait of the Amsterdam conceptual art scene. This “scene,”...

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Thu, Jul 16 2009

Chinese Artist Xing Xin to Live in Metal Box for 49 Days

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Just outside this year’s Venice Biennale someone has welded themselves inside an iron box. Fortunately, the box is equipped with waterproof LED TVs connected to two internal cameras. Xing Xin, a...

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Fri, Jul 10 2009

The Columns Held Us Up

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The Columns Held Us Up opened yesterday at Artists Space, a show done in partnership with the Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center of Istanbul. Offering itself as a kind of interim space, Artists...

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Wed, Jul 1 2009

Domesticating the German Pavilion

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The German Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale breaks with tradition by exhibiting the work of British-born artist Liam Gillick. When I approached the pavilion, I saw Liam Gillick and my former professor...

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Fri, Jun 26 2009

Suppressing Nationality at the Giardini.

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In the midst of the Venice Biennale media crush, openings and general party reverie, walking into and through the Czech/Slovak pavilion was a much needed respite and a literal breath of fresh air. Roman...

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