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…where I’m discussing one of my favorite topics: whether photography should be allowed in museums. And yes, that’s me above, shooting through Teresita Fernandez’s 2005 sculpture Fire at SFMOMA.
Category: Photography
Calendar. 05.08.13.
Saw Over Want, 1980-82, by Carolee Schneeman. Part of the artist’s solo exhibition Flange 6rpm, at PPOW Gallery. Opens Thursday, in Chelsea. (Image courtesy of the artist and PPOW.)
- NYC: Matthew Barney: Subliming the Vessel, at the Morgan Library. Opens Friday, in Midtown.
- NYC: New Harmony: Abstraction between the Wars, 1919-1939, at the Guggenheim Museum. Opens Friday.
- NYC: Jack Goldstein x 10,000, at the Jewish Museum. Opens Friday, on the Upper East Side.
- NYC: Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album, and Cecily Brown, at Gagosian Gallery on Madison Avenue. Through June 22, on the Upper East Side.
- NYC: Ugo Rondinone, at Gladstone Gallery on 21st Street. Opens Saturday, in Chelsea.
- NYC: Bruce Conner, at Paula Cooper Gallery. Through June 22, in Chelsea.
- NYC: Los Carpinteros, Irreversible, at Sean Kelly Gallery. Opens Saturday, in Chelsea.
- NYC: Extravagant Features, curated by Clarissa Dalrymple, at C24. Through June 22, in Chelsea.
- NYC: Martin Parr: Life’s a Beach, at the Aperture Foundation Gallery. Through July 3, in Chelsea.
- NYC: Scenes from the South 1936-2012, at Howard Greenberg Gallery. Opens Thursday, in Midtown.
- NYC: Matthew Jensen: Local Expeditions, at Third Streaming. Through August 15, in SoHo.
- NYC: Richard Tuttle: The Reinhart Projects, at Pocket Utopia. Opens Saturday, on the Lower East Side.
- L.A.: Florian Morlat, Sticks and Stones, at Cherry and Martin. Through June 1, in Culver City.
Calendar. 03.27.13.
Man in a Traditional Minobashi Raincoat, Niigata Prefecture, 1956, by Hiroshi Hamaya. Part of the exhibit Japan’s Modern Divide: The Photographs of Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto, at the Getty Museum. Through August 25, in West L.A. (Courtesy of the Getty.)
- L.A.: Trisha Brown: Floor of the Forest, at the Hammer Museum. Starts Saturday, in Westwood. These sculptural dance performances look like they’re gonna be all kinds of crazy-pants. Be sure to check the website for dates and times.
- L.A.: Fritz Haeg, Domestic Integrities, at Human Resources. Through April 4, in Chinatown.
- L.A.: In Case We Don’t Die, at the Torrance Art Museum. Opens Saturday, in Torrance.
- L.A.: A screening of La Dérive by Paula Delsol, at Public Fiction. This Friday at 7pm, in Highland Park.
- Minneapolis: Mo/Re Re/Al: Art in the Age of Truthiness, at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Through June 9.
- Raleigh, N.C.: The Experience of Time in Contemporary Art, at the North Carolina Museum of Art. Through August 11.
- NYC: David Hartt: Stray Light, at the Studio Museum. Opens Thursday, in Harlem.
- NYC: Daido Moriyama: Now and Now, at Steven Kasher Gallery. Opens Thursday at 6pm.
- NYC: Benny Andrews: There Must Be a Heaven, at Michael Rosenfeld Galelry. Through May 18, in Chelsea.
- NYC: F.A.T. Gold: Five Years of Free Art & Technology, at Eyebeam. Opens Monday at 7pm, in Chelsea.
- NYC: Thomas Ruff, photograms and ma.r.s., at David Zwirner. Opens Thursday, on 19th Street in Chelsea.
- NYC: Wayne Gonzales, at Paul Cooper Gallery. Opens Saturday, in Chelsea.
- NYC: Direct Address: An Inaugural Group Exhibition, at Joshua Liner. Through April 21st.
- NYC: Hooray for Gay: Pre-Stonewall Images From The Harry H. Weintraub Collection, at Boo-Hooray. Opens Saturday at 6pm.
- NYC: Dona Bailey, the creator of Atari’s Centipede, is giving a talk at the NYU-Poly Game Innovation Lab. Next Wednesday, April 3, at 7pm.
Calendar. 03.20.13.
NASA, Echo I test inflation, Weeksville, NC, April 1960, by an unknown photographer. Part of Exhibition Space, organized by Greg Allen, at Apexart. Opens today at 6pm, in Tribeca. (Image courtesy of Allen.)
- L.A.: Vernon Fisher: The Long Road to Nowhere, at Mark Moore Gallery. Opens Saturday at 6pm, in Culver City.
- L.A.: Made in Space, at Night Gallery. Through April 15, in downtown.
- Los Angeles: California Scene Paintings from 1930 to 1960, at the Pasadena Museum of California Art. Through July 28, in Pasadena.
- NYC: David Diao, TMI, at Postmasters — the last show in their Chelsea space! Opens Saturday at 6pm, in Chelsea.
- NYC: B. Wurtz, at Metro Pictures. Opens Thursday at 6pm, in Chelsea.
- NYC: Julie Schenkelberg, Hearsay, at Asya Geisberg Gallery. Through April 20, in Chelsea.
- NYC: Susanna Heller, Phantom Pain, at Magnan Metz. Through April 20th, in Chelsea.
- NYC: Peter Alexander, New Resin Works, at Nyehaus. Through April 20, in Chelsea.
- NYC: LaToya Ruby Frazier, A Haunted Capital, at the Brooklyn Museum. Opens Friday.
- NYC: Chris Verene, The New Family Chapters, as well as photographs by Tom Sullens, at Valentine. Opens Friday at 6pm, in Ridgewood.
- NYC: Sarah Walker, Planet X, and Nadja Bournonville, A Conversion Act, at Pierogi. Opens Friday at 7pm.
- NYC: After the Museum: The Home Front 2013 and Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft & Design, at the Museum of Arts & Design. Through June 9 and September 15, respectively, at Columbus Circle.
- Düsseldorf: Wolfgang Tillmans, at the Kunst Sammlung Nordrhein Westfalen. Through July 7.
- Online: Ciarán Walsh, They Echo in the Sublime Stillness of Infinity, at Light & Wire. Through April 14.
Calendar. 02.20.13.
Ybor City, Florida (Mother with Brown Paper Bag), 1983, by Mitch Epstein. Part of the exhibit Everyday America: Photographs from the Berman Collection, at Steven Kasher Gallery. Opens Thursday, in Chelsea.
- L.A.: In the Good Name of the Company: An Exhibition of Artist Prints and Street Posters Produced by Colby Poster Printing Company, at ForYourArt. This Saturday at 6pm, in Mid-Wilshire.
- L.A.: Ends and Exits: Contemporary Art From the Collections of LACMA and the Broad Foundation, at LACMA. Opens Saturday, in Mid-Wilshire.
- L.A.: Catherine Opie, at Regen Projects. Opens Saturday at 6pm, in Hollywood.
- L.A.: Richard Prince, Cowboys, at Gagosian Gallery. Opens Thursday at 6pm, in Beverly Hills.
- L.A.: Art Shay: A Retrospective, at DRKRM. Opens Saturday at 7pm, in Chinatown.
- L.A.: Alejandro Cartagena, Car Poolers, at Kopeikin Gallery. Opens Saturday at 6pm, in Culvery City.
- L.A.: Susumu Koshimizu, at Blum & Poe. Opens Saturday at 6pm in Culver City.
- Chicago: Kara Walker: Rise Up Ye Mighty Race, at the Art Institute of Chicago. Opens Thursday.
- NYC: Painterly Pasted Pictures, collages by de Kooning, Frankenthaler, Kline, Schwitters and others, at Freedman Art. Opens Thursday, on the Upper East Side.
- NYC: Rebel Newsprint: The Underground Press, at Interference Archive. Opens Thursday at 7pm, in Gowanus.
- NYC: 101 Tragedies of Enrique Metinides, at Aperture Gallery and Bookstore. Opens today at 6pm, in Chelsea.
- NYC: Darkclouds, at Tender Trap. Opens tonight, in Williamsburg.
- NYC: Allyson Vieira, Cortège, at Laurel Gitlen Gallery. Opens Friday, on the Lower East Side.
- NYC: In Conversation: Acts of Resistance and Inclusion in African-American Art, a discussion panel, at the Brooklyn Museum. This Thursday, at 7pm.
- London: Light Show, at the Hawyard Gallery. Through April 28.
Miscellany. 02.18.13.
Room Where Bessie Smith Died, Clarksdale, Mississippi, by Zoe Strauss. From the photographer’s billboard series. See it large. (Courtesy of Zoe Strauss.)
- The L.A. Times has an interesting package of stories that explore the role of violence in various forms of culture — from film, to television, to theater and art. Not histrionic; worth checking out.
- Vanity Fair on the L.A. MOCA mess.
- More on the art and money vortex, this time by Christian Viveros-Fauné.
- In an impassioned piece in the New York Times, Roberta Smith asks that museums stop segregating folk art from academic art. Jerry Saltz concurs. (The NYT’s accompanying slide show makes Smith’s point beautifully.)
- Macho Macho Men: Mira Schor has a good critique of the work of critics Robert Hughes and Hilton Kramer in Artforum.
- Once upon a time there was a wall…
- When L.A. Was Empty: Some great images of vintage SoCal landscapes.
- Hostile to building and experimental architecture: Kriston Capps has a good essay in the City Paper about how direly over-regulated Washington’s Mall is. (Hyperallergic.)
- Rent Richard Neutra’s office.
- America’s venerable literary rags get picked apart on n+1.
- From the Department of Not Very Big Surprises: The research that led to the Comics Code Authority was faked.
- A few long lost files are calling the facts in Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood into question.
- The Pentametron: Making poetry out of Twitter.
- A Tumblr for reading nerds.
Calendar. 01.30.13.
Ayate con Perro (Ayate fabric with dog), 2005, by Betsabee Romero. Part of the exhibit Superreal: Alternative Realities in Photography and Video, at El Museo del Barrio. Opens next Tuesday February 5, on the Upper East Side. (Image courtesy of the artist and El Museo.)
- NYC: Marcela Zaraias, Raw/Cooked, at the Brooklyn Museum. Opens Friday.
- NYC: Jason Lujan, Famous (Indian) Battles of the Muhheakantuck, at the Morris-Jumel Mansion. Opens Thursday at 6pm, in Washington Heights.
- NYC: Senga Nengudi, Performances 1976-81, at Thomas Erben Gallery. Through February 23, in Chelsea. Artist reception this Thursday, at 6pm.
- NYC: How & Nosm, Late Confessions, at Jonathan LeVine Gallery. Opens Friday, in Chelsea.
- NYC: The Outsider Art Fair 2013, at Center 548. Opens for previews on Thursday at 6pm, for general public on Friday at 11am and runs through Sunday 6pm, in Chelsea.
- Savannah: The Pulse Art & Technology Festival, at the Telfair Museums. Through Saturday.
- Columbus: Josiah McElheny: Towards a Light Club, at the Wexner Center for the Arts. Through April 7, at Ohio State University.
- Las Vegas: Roadhouse 4.0, at VAST Space Projects. Opens Saturday at 6pm, in Henderson.
- L.A.: The Oldest of Rainbows, at Control Room. Opens Saturday at 7pm, in Downtown.
- L.A.: Art in the Dancehall, at Subliminal Projects, at Subliminal Projects. Opens Saturday at 8pm, in Echo Park.
- L.A.: The Printed Matter LA Art book Fair, at MOCA Geffen. Starts this Friday at 11am, through Sunday 6pm, in downtown.
- L.A.: Mario Ybarra Jr., Double Feature, at Honor Fraser. Through March 16.
- Pittsburgh: Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, at the Warhol Museum. Opens Saturday.
- Montreal: Peru: Kingdom of the Sun and Moon, at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Opens Saturday.
Miscellany. 01.18.13.
Bunker Hill, The Castle, 1965, by William Reagh. See many more pics of this L.A. photographer’s work at KCET Artbound.
- A good friend likes to joke that one day a room full of hedge fund managers are going to be sitting around drinking single malts, and one of them will talk about some painting he’s just bought, and another will say, “Oh, you’re still collecting art?” And at that moment the entire art market will simply evaporate. This essay about Steve Cohen in n+1 isn’t that story. But it’s close.
- Very related: Ben Davis makes three points about the intersection of art and money.
- All the GIFs on Wikipedia. (Hyperallergic.)
- Photos of Tweet locations. (taylorlorenz.)
- Alex Smith over at Flaming Pablum has been putting up his photos of New York, in one, two and three parts — with lots dating back to the early 1990s. Somebody please give this guy a show.
- A photographic series on the border monuments that mark the U.S./Mexico boundary.
- Jonathan Jones is extra cranky these days. He says art criticism has become too fawning.
- A truly excellent artist’s statement generator. Here’s mine. (Hyperallergic.)
- KCRW looks at guns, from a design perspective. This piece is worth every last of its 24 minutes.
- Like a 1970s time capsule: The wondrous William Raiser/Arthur Elrod-designed interiors for the Ebony/Jet building in Chicago.
- Pussy Riot matryoshka dolls.
- I think I have social jet lag.
- How to speak hipster, 1959 edition: “Paranoia is the hipster’s disease.”
- Plus: Cab Calloway’s Hepster Dictionary, which dates back to 1938. A good round-up of the slang of the era.
- Escaping Michel Foucault, the video game.