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New York day trip – great show at Ronald Feldman, good show at Pace MacGill and great walk on the Highline
Cate and I took a leisurely downtown walk one day late last month and saw one interesting show and one fantastic show. And because we both love it so, we took another walk on the Highline.
San Francisco surprises
In our family annals, this will go down as a great year. Alex got married to Lindsey (video trailer link at the end).
‘Living as Form’; Creative Time’s Summit and Exhibition in the old Essex St. Market
Creative Time has been one of the most challenging and exciting visual art presenters in the country over its 37-year history, with a record of commissioned projects that have been novel, imaginative and remarkably artistically successful. That’s saying a great deal for an organization that has asked artists to do things they likely haven’t done before, or haven’t done in the proposed circumstances. Furthermore, it has taken art out of its designated venues and presented it to unfiltered, urban audiences. The organization has ferreted out unlikely venues. Some took opportunistic advantage of real estate in transition, such as the ... More » »
Martha Wilson, Nick Cave and Pepon Osorio in New York City
Age was something that happened to Other People, so it was startling to walk into P.P.O.W. Gallery to see a huge, poster-sized photograph of Martha Wilson in her exhibition I have become my own worst fear (through Oct. 8, 2011). I hadn’t seen Wilson in twenty-five years and, turning to her dealer, Penny Pilkington (whom I’ve seen intermittently during the more than twenty years we’ve been aquainted, so we’ve aged slowly for each other) I said, I guess we’ve all gotten older.
On the road: Fallingwater in summer
Fallingwater is on Wendy’s bucket list. She said this as we piled into my Prius, Murray at the wheel, map maven David on shotgun, Wendy and me in the back.
‘LoL; A Decade of Antic Art’ at the Contemporary Museum, Baltimore
This exhibition inaugurated Sue Spaid’s directorship at the Contemporary with a bang and a guffaw (and quite a few chuckles). LOL; A decade of antic art was a tightly-packed survey of artists or collaboratives whose work during the past decade involved satire, parody and pranks which ranged from engaged political seriousness to everyday fun. The exhibition ran from June 10-Sept. 4, 2011, and I apologize for getting there the final weekend, which makes this review retrospective. It was well worth the100-mile trip from Philadelphia.
Dead in August; Alive in Greenpoint
Recently a friend and I biked to Greenpoint, Brooklyn. I had my sunglasses on. The heat built up through the early afternoon and I broke a sweat by the time we arrived. I took my sunglasses off and everything looked a coolish green compared with the totalizing, creamsicle orange of my sunglass lenses. We passed a lone blue police barrier blocking traffic to one end of the block. A black event tent was set up, with people mingling underneath, and others setting things up in the background. The block party for Dead in August, a month-plus long exhibition of rotating ... More » »
Artists’ to-do lists and ephemera at the Morgan Library
By Kaitlin Kylie Pomerantz Sometimes what artists make that isn’t art is just as interesting as their art. That’s what I learned from the “Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts and Other Artists’ Enumerations” show at the Morgan Library in New York City, a magnificent yet subtle exhibition of non-art scribblings and scrawlings made by artists, all culled from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art.
The debut of an occasional series: One Work Worth the Trip
As I was leaving the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA, or The Met) on a Sunday afternoon in July, I followed the line of people waiting to get into the Alexander McQueen exhibition. The line ran the entire length of the corridor of the 19th century galleries, took a left turn where it continued through the enfilade of Near Eastern galleries and ended somewhere on the mezzanine balcony. It was 3:45, and I doubted everyone would get inside the exhibition, much less have time to see it properly. Now, the McQueen exhibition was spectacular – literally and figuratively – but ... More » »
NYC Pride – Really happy together
Over a month ago, trophy brides and husbands, gold diggers, friends and family celebrated marriage equality in New York state at NYC Pride. I danced and cheered down 5th Avenue for most of the parade with my friend, who worked to organize her section. I felt as proud of my friend’s rallying actions as her mom, who accompanied her at the rally this year for the first time. My friend Margo also joined to blast them beats and blow them bubbles alongside one of the tamer and possibly straightest contingents of the parade: the high-school-aged Young Democrat interns, who blushed ... More » »
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