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Family and Family Pictures at the Guggenheim

Alex’s toys and marketing merch Alex is 29 tomorrow, so we went to New York mainly to take him out to dinner. Since my main mission in New York had to do with family, not art, it seemed appropriate to go to Family Pictures, an exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum that’s still up for a couple more weeks. The exhibit of 40 pieces, including mostly photos and video drawn from the museum’s collection, included some work I knew, some I didn’t, but seeing it together brought up the same old issues of portraiture, manipulation, prurience and how are art photos ... More » »

Weekly Update – Strauss’s Whitney

This week’s Weekly includes my review of the Whitney Biennial. I know, you’ve read about it here and here to say nothing of there and there. Zoe Strauss is the reason to go. I guess I can’t say it enough. Read the article on the art page. Here’s the copy below with some pictures. Just WhitneyPhiladelphia artist Zoe Strauss’ Biennial 2006 submission steals the show. At the heart of the Whitney Museum’s Biennial 2006 lies a small dark room where bright images flash on the wall in a slide show of photographs by Philadelphia artist Zoe Strauss. The quiet chapel ... More » »

Weekly Update – ICA’s new formalism

This week’s Weekly includes my review of the ICA’s Gone Formalism. Here’s the link to the art page and below is the copy with some more pictures. For a more complete view of the ICA’s current crop of shows see my flickr set. And here’s Libby’s posts on the ramp project and on the Ben Franklin installation.Cold Hands, Warm HeartSix artists tackle chilly formalism, but with heated anxiety. The Institute of Contemporary Art‘s “Gone Formalism” is an exhibit of antisublime works by six out-of-town artists (two of whom, Liz Larner and Mark Grotjahn, are in the Whitney Biennial). Like the ... More » »

Whitney 2006 Listing Service

Who we saw at the Whitney Biennial who we’ve seen before: Peter Doig goes all Gauguin on us at the Whitney At the Carnegie International we saw:Trisha Donnelly – video and drawingsPaul Chan -videoPeter Doig – paintingMark Grotjahn – painting Liz Larner’s RWBs of aluminum tubing, batting, fabric, ribbons, wire rope padlocks and keys At the ICA nowMark Grotjahn – paintingLiz Larner -sculpture/installation untitled by Troy Brauntuch, conte crayon on cotton At the ICA previouslyRodney Graham – videoTroy Brauntuch – drawingPeter Doig – painting here’s Zoe Strauss, barely visible in her slide-projection chamber, below one of her images At the ... More » »