Surfer Blood at the Brooklyn Bowl. (Photo by timnyc.)
Orange Crush, 2009, by Jessica Mallios. Part of the exhibit 31 Women in Art Photography, organized by the Humble Arts Foundation, at the offices of Affirmation Arts, through April 10. (Image courtesy of the Humble Arts Foundation.)
- In NYC: Barnstormers Group Show at Joshua Liner, opens today at 6pm.
- In NYC: Anthony Lister, How to Catch a Time Traveler, at Lyons Wier, opens Friday at 7pm.
- In NYC: Aurora Robson, Sarah Frost and Portia Munson, Debris, at PPOW, opens Saturday at 6pm.
- In NYC: Shaun O’Dell at Susan Inglett, opens Friday.
- In NYC: Valerie Hallier, Screened Calls and Slow Portraits, at MediaNoche, opens today at 6pm.
- In NYC: Mike Nelson, A Quiver of Arrows, at 303 Gallery, through April 10.
- In NYC: James Rosenquist at Acquavella, through March 19.
- In NYC: Norman Mooney, Wallflowers, the inaugural show at Causey Contemporary in Brooklyn. Opening reception on Friday at 6pm; RSVP required.
- In Philadelphia: Michael De Feo lectures at the University of Pennsylvania (200 College Hall) this afternoon at 2pm.
- In Pittsburgh: Nothing is Impossible at the Mattress Factory, opens Saturday.
- In Chicago: Matisse: Radical Reinvention 1913-17 at the Art Institute of Chicago, opens Saturday.
- In Houston: Shannon Taggart, Portraits, at Thom Andriola Gallery, opens Saturday.
- In San Pedro, Calif.: Sojung Kwon, Planning a Year, at Angel’s Gate, opens Sunday. Reception at 2pm.
- In L.A.: RETNA, Desaturated, at New Image Art, opens Saturday at 7pm.
- In London: Quilts, 1700-2010, at the Victoria & Albert, through July 4.
- In Paris: Lucien Freud: L’Atelier at the Pompidou Centre, through July 19.
- In Amsterdam: The Hoerengracht, by Edward and Nancy Kienholz, at the Amsterdam Historical Museum, opens Saturday.
Nice Pants, by Landon Nordeman. (Image courtesy of Jen Bekman and 20×200.)
Late update: The WNYC/Whitney Biennial Twitter tour is on NYT Artsbeat. If you’re in NYC, you can sign up for the tour here. It’ll be good, geeky fun.
- Chat Roulette Piano Improv with Merton. (Coudal.)
- In his screed against critics of the NuMu’s Skin Fruit show, “art collector, heir” Adam Lindemann forgot to disclose that he’s a big-time investor in Urs Fischer’s work and that he supported Fischer’s solo at the museum. Now that’s a typo!
- “The show looks like a yard sale of pushed buttons, or more to the point, given the emphasis on grotesque figuration, like the cantina scene from Star Wars.” That’d be Time Out New York’s Howard Halle on Skin Fruit. Daaaaaang.
- Speaking of which, what happens when you show up at the NuMu with an over-sized, stuffed pink penis and stand in the lobby? You get thrown out, natch. (@russelltrombone.)
- MoCA is gonna be doing a fundraiser at a gallery. And Christopher Knight ain’t happy.
- Richard Lacayo’s top three Whitney Biennial faves. (Art Fag City.)
- Brent Burket provides Twitter-esque reviews of every last work in the Brucennial in one and two parts, with more on the way. Best line: “The color. The line. Purple mountains majesty, motherfuckers.”
- Dubai art fair, like the emirate, not as hot as it once was. (Arts Journal.)
- Wow! ArtInfo is now linking off their site. Welcome to the new millennium, guys!
- Meditating with Marina. Not. (A Flower Every Day.)
- Free museum podcasts, in iTunes’ Museum Room. (@museumnerd.)
- Artists never to hire as a keynote speaker: Kiki Smith. (Modern Art Notes.)
- Art Merch: The R. Crumb Wallet.
- The NYT gives William Kentridge’s production of The Nose a thumbs up. I gotta be honest, as much as I love Gogol’s story and I dig Kentridge’s animations for the opera — as well as the giant papier-mâché nose (complete with pimple) — the staging felt kinda flat. In a related piece: a video report in which Kentridge talks about the opera, and his funny chat at the New York Public Library about what it’s like to carry a giant nose.
- Vintage tornado pix.
- Tempt1, an L.A. graffiti artist afflicted with ALS, “tags” by using special eye-writing glasses.
- Today’s Street Art: ReFreshInk in Italy.
- The carbon emission toll generated by a single page-view of Tree Hugger. Extrapolating that figure against the page views Perez Hilton gets makes me realise that he is, indeed, going to be the death of us all. (Cool Green Science.)
- Yes, it’s pointy: Daniel Libeskind’s new Dublin theatre.
- Paul Goldberger on rebuilding at NYC’s World Trade Center. Basically, he tells us it’s gonna be the same shit (offices), different look. God forbid someone in New York do some innovative urban planning.
- Waterfalls.
Draper style. (Photo by F.Trainer.)
- You too could be the proud owner of a giant Canadian beaver. Inflatable, of course.
- It’s all about performance. At least in NYC’s major museums. Plus: An audio slideshow devoted to the female artists of the genre.
- The Marina Abramovic cam. In related news: I stared at Marina Abramovic and all I got was this lousy T-shirt. And: Audio of Abramovic’s press conference, earlier in the month. (@gregorg.)
- Child performers at the Gugg’s Tino Sehgal show didn’t get paid. Instead, they got a hat, a bag and a museum membership. What, no key chain? Sehgal’s performers also report that American college students are the rudest of all museum-goers.
- Could be interesting: The Tate is inviting producers, poets and hip-hop musicians to react to Chris Ofili’s work.
- Christopher Knight likes Luc Tuymans, he really really likes him.
- Nazi-looted Corot to go to auction.
- A biennial grows in Denver. ‘Cuz what the world really needs is another biennial. (Though I have to confess, I’m digging the North/South America angle on this one.)
- Kathy Grayson, a director at Deitch’s gallery, to take on a bunch of the soon-to-be MoCA director’s artists.
- Alexandra Peers goes to the NY Observer. (@russelltrombone.)
- Art by telephone: authenticating Andy Warhol.
- Please don’t lick the art. Shit, I coulda used this shirt on Saturday night. (Eyeteeth.)
- From the Annals of White People Hijinks: Having chickens in NorCal is now a movement known as “femivorism.” In the rest of the world (and among the poor and in agricultural/rural societies), this important movement is known as “having chickens.”
- The rare black penguin.
- Rednecks and cars.
- Photo Set: New York in the ’60s and ’70s. (Flaming Pablum.)
- RIP photographer Charles Moore. Renowned for dramatic civil rights era photographs such as this. (Thanks for the heads up, Bill.)
- Today’s Graff: Arp in Naples, Italy.
- Jean Nouvel’s latest. Ourossoff describes it as having a “rough-edged sex appeal.”
- I love me some taxidermy. (Coudal.)
Bunny Bread. (Photo by Alex Gaidouk.)
- Chile, nine days later. (Coudal.)
- An unofficial ad campaign for the New Museum highlights the institution’s ethical challenges.
- Speaking of which, the NuMu has a forum about art museums, private collectors and the public going down this Saturday…that costs $10 per person to attend.
- “You must ask him to get down. I know better than anyone what that is like, and even I can’t take it!” Marina Abramovic to a New Museum curator, on Pawel Althamer’s sculpture, Schedule of the Crucifix — after a performer’s legs began to turn blue while hanging on a makeshift cross in the galleries. (@ARTnewsmag.)
- Jerry Saltz seems to love anything as long as he’s featured in it. (@TylerGreenDC.)
- Obligatory Whitney Biennial round-up: Christian Viveros-Faune is ambivalent — likening parts of the show to Tylenol PM and others to the bitchslap of a new beginning, Paddy Johnson is a like, and Kriston Capps is of a mixed view. (Modern Art Notes.)
- Tino Sehgal, a kid’s take. (Art Fag City.)
- Yosi Sergeant talks about the out-of-touch NEA.
- Elisabeth Eaves on the gaps in Patti Smith’s memoir.
- This looks super-cool: Felix González-Torres pieces grace billboards in Texas. (Modern Art Notes.)
- Annie Liebovitz’s new creditors. (@russelltrombone.)
- L.A.’s Brody art collection worth big bucks.
- Ansel Adams’ photographs of Japanese internment camps.
- Jörg Colberg describes the art fairs as a place “where your soul is not only crushed, it’s actually slowly and steadily ground into a fine powder.” Yup, sounds about right.
- A visual summary of The Big Lebowski.
- Nice online piece from the Guggenheim for their Contemplating the Void exhibit, which examines the architectural/installation possibilities of the museum’s atrium. Can someone please scrape up some budget to let Arne Quinze build a stilthouse in the rotunda? Also digging the proposals by Andy Goldsworthy, Mass Studies, Martha Rosler and Amanda Levete’s rotunda reflection.
- Today’s Street Art: Jan Vormann’s Lego fixes in New York City. (@russelltrombone.)
- Extinction outpaces evolution.
…’cuz you can fix your hair in them. (Photo by C-M.)
Camera No. 1 by Miroslav Tichý. Photo by Roman Buxbaum. Part of the exhibit Tichý, at the International Center of Photography in NYC, through May 9. (Image courtesy of ICP.)
- In NYC: A month-long screening of Helen Leavitt’s 15-minute film, In the Street, on the anniversary of her death, at Laurence Miller Gallery, starting today.
- In NYC: Boris Hoppek and Alex Diamond: Damage Control at Factory Fresh, opens Friday at 8pm.
- In Philly: Dead Flowers, a group show, at Vox Populi, opens Friday at 6pm.
- In Portland, Ore.: Melody Owen, Letters from Switzerland, at Elizabeth Leach, opens Thursday at 6pm.
- In L.A.: Ali Prosh, Travelers’ Suite, at The Company, opens Saturday at 6pm.
- In L.A.: Rachel Whiteread: Drawings, at the Hammer Museum, through April 25.
- In L.A.: A signing with Uglydoll creators David Horvath and Sun-min Kim, at Giant Robot, this Saturday at 3pm.
- In Toronto: Ryan Dineen and Jacques Oule, Cityscrapes, at Show & Tell Gallery, opens Friday.
14671. (Photo by C-M.)
Tune into U-Stream today from 2pm-4pm to catch Celso, my partner-in-crime, getting shreddy at #CLASS. I’ll be wandering around the room… Just look for the big hair.
Self Immolation in Afghanistan: A Cry For Help, by Stephanie Sinclair. Part of 2010, the Whitney Biennial, opening today in NYC. (Image courtesy of the Whitney Museum.)
- In L.A.: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life 1765-1915, at LACMA, opens Sunday.
- In L.A.: David Navas at Garage Gallery, opens Saturday at 8pm.
- In Chicago: William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, at the Art Institute of Chicago, opens Saturday.
- In Chicago: Matt Saunders, Parallel Plot, at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, opens Sunday at 4pm.
- In NYC: The Five Year Anniversary Show at Jonathan LeVine, opens Feb. 27 at 7pm.
- In NYC: Konstantinos Stamatiou, Refused Reused, at Black & White, opens today at 6pm.
- In NYC: Projects 92: Yin Xiuzhen atMoMA, through May 24. This looks amazing.
- In Rome: Auschwitz Through the Lens of the SS, a photographic exhibit, at the Complesso del Vittoriano. The New Yorker had an incredible story about these pictures back in 2008.
- In Tokyo: Medicine and Art at the Mori Art Museum, through Feb. 28. More on that show here.
LA River, 2003 by Mark Swope. Part of the exhibit Mark Swope: The Los Angeles River at Craig Krull Gallery in Santa Monica, through Feb. 20. (Image courtesy of Craig Krull Gallery.)
- In NYC: A screening and conversation about Whole Train, a feature film by Florian Gaag about a crew of graffiti writers, at the Goethe-Institut’s Wyoming Building, Tues. Feb. 16 at 7pm.
- In NYC: Diane Ayott at Kathryn Markel Fine Art, opens Thursday at 6pm.
- In NYC: Brooke Larsen at Christopher Henry Gallery, opens today at 6pm.
- In NYC: Where They At, a Multimedia Archive of New Orleans Bounce, at the Abrons Art Center, opens today.
- In S.F.: Tofer Chin, Alex, at Fecal Face Dot Gallery, opens tonight.
- In S.F.: Alternorthern, an exhibit of Canadian contemporary artists, opens Friday at 6pm.
- In L.A.: Kim Rugg, Please Remain Calm, at Mark Moore Gallery in Santa Monica, opens Saturday at 5pm
- In L.A.: Year of the Tiger at Giant Robot, opens Saturday at 6:30 p.m.
- In Long Beach: Kevin Staniec and Melanie Moore: I Am. You Are. — a book and blog release party at {open} bookstore, opens Saturday at 8pm.
