Tag Archive "urs-fischer"
Art of the Steal at Extra, Extra
This month at Extra, Extra, “PRE-CAREER RETROSPECTIVE: WORKS FROM 2009-2010“. The title of this exhibit sets you up with the premise, a play on words, traditional words relating to the traditional art world.
Urses minor–at the New Museum
Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty at the New Museum, the bearish artist’s first U.S. solo show at a major museum, surprised us for what wasn’t there.
Skin and guts–Rudolf Stingel at the Whitney
Rudolf Stingel, June 28-October 14, 2007, Whitney Museum of American ArtPhoto by Sheldon C. Collins. The room is a street-punk Versailles. After years of knocking ourselves out on each trip we take to New York, we have finally calmed down a little. This time we didn’t walk until we dropped. And this time we didn’t try to see everything from the Bronx to the Battery to Bed-Sty. The top attraction of going to New York was Roberta’s friend photographer Madelyn Roehrig (see post). She was visiting MoMA and the Whitney. But we decided it was the Whitney’s Rudolf Stingel exhibit ...
Innocence lost, innocence found–The Day After
untitled painting by Joe Protheroe Post-Minimalism and Post-Photoshopism and Post-Illustratorism have all joined forces to abhor the straight line and perspective, abhor the mass produced, abhor the slick perfection and abhor the uniformity that Minimalism and computer graphics–and advertising–promised. Those were the formal issues that struck me silly when I walked into Slought to see The Day After, an exhibit of work by recent MFA graduated of Penn, Tyler and PAFA. To put it another way, this show is sad and angry, a declaration of innocence lost and dreams tucked away. The Day After is literal in these students’ lives, ...
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 ...
Whitney Biennial News Blast
Nari Ward’s Glory — church of the dead soldier [NOTE: This post has been changed. We added a few more pictures.] Here’s our first cut at this year’s Whitney Biennial, an anti-war show if ever there was one. Our first reaction was, ooh, we know a lot of these people. We made a list for you, and we’ll give it to you in another post. And by the way, both Libby’s and Roberta’s flickr sites have extensive photo documentation. Click each name to see the photos. Dan Colen’s papier mache boulder/bombs footed by the carved wood phrase EAT SHIT AND ...
