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Monthly Archive for February, 2009
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Part of Going Postal: Celso in Brooklyn. (Photo by Celso.)
- In NYC: The release party for Martha Cooper’s new book, Going Postal, opens this Friday at 7:30 p.m.
- In NYC: Artificial Realities at Black & White, opens Friday.
- In NYC: Emily Jacir at the Guggenheim, through April 15.
- In N.J.: Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz: Ask Chuleta at the Jersey City Museum, through April 26.
- In Houston: Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul at the MFA Houston, opens Sunday.
- In Sydney, Australia: Yayoi Kusama: Mirrored Years at the Museum of Contemporary Art, opens next Tuesday
- Totally unrelated: Did artists try to warn us about the cracks in our system?
Chamboles les amoureuses, 1947 by Roberto Matta at SFMOMA. (Photo by C-M.)
- In NYC: Roberto Matta: Five Decades at Pace Wildenstein, through Feb. 28.
- In NYC: Tema Stauffer & Francesca Romeo at Daniel Cooney, opens Thursday.
- In NYC: That’s Kinda Queer, video and film screenings, at Chez Bushwick, Wednesday at 7:00 p.m.
- In NYC: Urban China: Informal Cities at the New Museum, through Mar. 29.
- In NYC: Zdanek Kosek at Cavin Morris, through Feb. 28.
- In Rochestor, Minn.: Experimental Geography at the Rochester Art Center, through April 19.
- In Seattle: Cut: Contemporary Collage at Platform Gallery, opens Thursday.
- In S.F.: Underground Newspapers from the ‘60s and the ‘70s at Babylon Falling, opens Thursday.
- In L.A.: Nobhuito Nishigawara at Mark Moore, opens Saturday.
- In S.F.: Jonah Lehrer, author of the new book How We Decide, at BookShop West, tonight at 7 p.m.
- In London: Joseph Beuys, early works on paper, at Hauser & Wirth, through Feb. 28.
Peter Schjeldahl reviews Shepard Fairey’s solo at the ICA in this week’s New Yorker, describing it as “strangely wholesome.” Read the full review here.
’80s-style Spanish Mediterranean + ginormous columns + fugly color palette = Narchitecture. (Photos by C-M.)
If narchitecture is architecture that looks as if it were commissioned by drug traffickers, then the narchitecture of northwest Florida would appear to have been devised by their thuggish suburban cousins. This thriving regional school of design takes narchitectural staples, such as Italianate balustrades and Classical columns, and showcases them against a backdrop of oversized structures that scream ‘stuccoed Mediterranean citadel’ and ‘psycho homeowners association’ — all at the same time. Not to mention the colors: a rainbow of shades that are drawn straight from the polo shirt selection at Abercrombie & Fitch. What’s most intriguing about these McManses, however, is their voluminous scale, intended to make the average late model Denali look downright puny. The best part? All of the structures shown here are actually simple beach “cottages.”
Click on image to supersize. Many more after the jump.
Continue reading ‘So Many Columns, So Little Time: The narchitecture of the Florida panhandle.’
Gagosian Rules: Patrons at the opening were only allowed to snap one picture of Vezzoli’s new fragrance. We took four, of course. At least that’s when we stopped counting. (All photos by San Suzie.)
What does Greed smell like? Last Friday night, half of Rome, eager to find out, trundled down to Gagosian to sample the new scent by Milan-based artist Francesco Vezzoli. You may be wondering what the hell perfume hawking is doing in a gallery. So are we. But because we’re suckers for public relations, we nonetheless trudged through the rain and rhinoed our way past a mob the likes of which we haven’t seen since we tried getting into the Vatican Museums on a Friday in July. (Seriously.) The big news: Turns out the perfume was a fake! Nothing inside but aqua colorata.
Even so, we had a great time seeing the local Roman celebs, not to mention Roman Polanski, who directed the fake infomercial video that we got to see before we made it over to the tinted holy water. Our verdict? The idea is a rehash of pieces by Marcel Duchamp and, more recently, by Bulgarian-born, New York-based artist Daniel Bozhkov — with the addition of annoying needlepoint appropriations of female artists’ faces. We did, however, really enjoy the stylish, bordello-red drapes. They gave us the sensation of being someplace really special. Like the Vatican.
Click on images to supersize. Much more (including Roman Polanski) after the jump.
Continue reading ‘Eau de Hype: Francesco Vezzoli’s “Greed” at Gagosian in Rome.’
Ay, qué macho.
There are times I worry that we could one day run out of art industry ridiculosity to write about. And then I read my e-mail. Waiting for me in my inbox this evening was a forwarded missive from the Dumbo Arts Center advertising an e-Bay auction fundraiser. Up for bid? Julian Schnabel’s jailhouse-style PJs from a 1995 shoot with Annie Leibovitz:
The dark blue, yellow-striped pajamas are a laundered, paint-splattered, lovingly mended and patched two-piece collectible, signed by the artist. As if that weren’t enough, the winning bidder will receive Annie Leibovitz’s famous 16” x 20” portrait (Archival Pigment print, 1995, signed and dated) featuring Mr. Schnabel wearing the same PJs.
If owning the garment that once encased El Schnabel’s schvitzy, bear-like physique isn’t incentive to spend $2,000, then I don’t know what is. But shit, they’re also “lovingly mended” and “signed by the artist” which makes me think that plunking your good money down on this ensemble is a better investment than gold.
You’ve got ’til next Saturday to bid. Get on it.
Boogie Down! Beaches and Parks (1972-78) by Barbara Crane, at the Amon Carter Museum in Ft. Worth. (Image courtesy of the Amon Carter.)
- In Fort Worth: Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision, at the Amon Carter, opens Saturday.
- In NYC: Louise Nevelson: Dawns and Dusks at Pace Wildenstein, 25th Street, opens Friday.
- In NYC: Matt Straub, Stand Still You Buzzards — Don’t Go For Those Guns, at Lyons Wier Ortt, opens Friday.
- In Buffalo: Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning and American Art at the Albright Knox, opens Friday.
- In Miami: Paul Chan, Second Light, at World Class Boxing, opens Saturday.
- In S.F.: Anthony Lister: Magic Trick at Fifty24SF, through Feb. 26.
Hard at work. (Photo courtesy of Factory Fresh.)
Illustrators Jon Burgerman and Jim Avignon have been busily collaborating in the deep, dark recesses of the Factory Fresh basement on a series of works that will go on display this Thursday, Feb. 12 in a show called Anxiety Room. If you’re in Brooklyn, check ‘em out! The show will be up through March 15.
Slow Storm, 2006 by Danica Novgorodoff at Out of Sequence, at the Lab at Belmar in Lakewood, Colo. (Image courtesy of the Denver Post.)
- In Denver: Out of Sequence: Underrepresented Voices in American Comics at The Lab at Belmar, in Lakewood, through May 12.
- In Milwaukee: Remains: Contemporary Artists and the Material Past, opens Thursday.
- In Kansas City, Mo.: Check out Polly Apfelbaum’s installation Split at the Kemper, through Aug. 9.
- In NYC: Vik Muniz talks about his artist’s choice selections at MoMA, tomorrow at 6:30 p.m. (Hrag Vartanian.)
- In NYC: The New York premiere of the documentary film Handmade Nation, at the Museum of Arts and Design, this Thursday at 6:30 p.m.
- In NYC: Edward Dolnick discusses his book, The Forger’s Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, at the Jewish Museum, this Thursday at 6:30 p.m.
- In London: Takashi Murakami: New Paintings at Gagosian, opens today.
- In Weimar: 15 Artistic Interventions in the Public Space at Bauhaus-University, through Feb. 16. (rebel:art.)