Ready to go all Ollie North on your art and other meaningful pieces of paper. (Image courtesy of Steve and Jaime at Brooklyn Street Art.)
There is all kinds of goodness going down at the #CLASS show at Winkleman Gallery in the coming week and I’m hoping you join us. On Saturday (as in tomorrow), William Powhida will be leading a gallery walk/slush in Chelsea, Mira Schor will be reading from her essay On Failure and Anonymity and blogbuds Barry Hoggard and James Wagner will be talking all about collecting. On Sunday, there will be hanging out, Battleship and artsy talk in Second Life. And, next Wednesday, at 2pm, I will be assisting my partner-in-crime, El Celso’s performance of Art Shred, in which he will dispose of several dozen works of art, meaningful love letters and one-of-a-kind family photos. If you haven’t submitted anything for shredding, no worries: walk-ins are welcome. I’ll personally be disposing of a raft of love letters from someone who I once had a kind of intense mind-meld with. Yes, it will be wrenching to see them destroyed.
Plus, a list of other #CLASS related projects and information:
In NYC: Elizabeth Peyton delivers the Distinguished Alumnus Lecture at SVA, today at 7pm. Update: I think the guaro is beginning to cook my brain. This lecture took place on Nov. 5. Der. Thanks to Elad for the heads up.
In Albany, N.Y.: Dona Ann McAdams: Some Women, at the Opalka Gallery, at Sage Colleges, through Dec. 11. McAdams will be giving a gallery talk on Tues., Dec. 1st at 12:30 p.m.
A tentacle by Avoid, at Work to Do. (Photos by C-M unless otherwise specified.)
I managed to get a sneak peek atWork to Do, the show that the boys over at the Endless Love Crew have been cooking up over at 112 Greene Street in SoHo. (See Martha Cooper’s preview pix here.) Featuring a super duper line-up that includes Ellis G, Avoid, Darkcloud, Stikman, Robots Will Kill and loads more New York City street and graffiti artists, the exhibit will be openings its doors to the public this Thursday, March 26th at 6 p.m. Check it out!
P.S.: I’ve got serious catching up to do on work, sleep and grocery shopping. No Digest today.
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The art industrial average is so far down the crapper it’s gonna take a Trainspotting-like move to dislodge it. And it ain’t any easier for museums. Related: Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin in Miami to close. (Art Observed.)
MOCA’s problems aren’t just financial. They’re architectural, reports the LA Times’ Christopher Hawthorne.
Dear NYT Arts Section: For the love of all that is sacred, please hire someone to make your Twitter feed at least mildly interesting.
Late addition:Art Fag City is having a fundraiser to keep her site going. (It’s a non-profit donation, under the umbrella of Momenta Art — so it’s tax deductible.)
Through the looking glass: The bubble mirrors on the ceiling made for fun photographing. (Photos by C-M.)
Disorienting times call for disorienting art. Factory Fresh, in Brooklyn, has a gallery-sized maze that leads viewers around bends and into dead-ends, all covered in various layers of sensory-overload paint. A collaboration between Celso, infinity, former Keith Haring collaborator LA2 and the mysterious Stikman, the maze takes the concept of the graffiti-covered alleyway and turns it into a total funhouse. (Full disclosure: Celso is my partner-in-crime, romantic and otherwise.) One of my favorite touches was the ceiling, where the artists installed bubble mirrors that delivered a warped viewing experience of the entire scenario.
The show is up through Dec. 2nd.
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