Author: patrick brennan

[spacer height=”1px”] Anne Sherwood Pundyk December 2015 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] This piece is drawn from the work of the artists, writers, art historians, and critics footnoted. The collected phrases are plucked from their writing, and, in some cases, slightly altered to follow the cadence or tense of Gil Scott-Heron’s “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.”[spacer… Continue reading The Revolution Will Be Painted

Daniel Barbiero December 2015     [spacer height=”20px”]Physical Counterpoint: Reflections on Sound & Movement in Duet   The arts aspire, if not to complement each other, at least to lend one another new energies. – Charles Baudelaire [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] Ken Manheimer, Sarah K. Schaffer & Erica Hagen of the Nancy Havlik Dance Company, photograph… Continue reading Physical Counterpoint

Mira Dayal November 2015 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] I’ve been having more conversations recently about “currents” in contemporary art practice–conversations that inevitably culminate in ruminations upon the requisite energy, accumulated travel miles, and resulting exhaustion from keeping up with the current. This current traverses continents, navigates close relationships, and carves into conflict-ridden landscapes. It… Continue reading Artist in Exile / Art as a Home

Terry Greene November 2015 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] Little Vespa 2015, oil on linen, Sue Kennington [spacer height=”20px”] 9 Contemporary Painters in Dialogue with Agnes Martin [spacer height=”20px”] Recently, whilst stumbling around on the internet, I discovered that there is a new computer program, one that attempts to tease out any influences upon an artist. The… Continue reading Lines for Agnes

Steve Dalachinsky & Yuko Otomo October 2015 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] Costume en Face – A Primer of Darkness for young Boys and Girls notebook written by Moe Yamamoto Translated from the  Japanese by Sawako Nakayasu (Emergency Play Scripts – Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn, New York) [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”]   To translate and recreate… Continue reading Costume en Face

Bern Nix September 2015 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] My first guitar teacher was probably in his late fifties or early sixties. This short, stocky man had a semi-bald head, pale somewhat ruddy skin and a harsh autocratic voice that allowed him to speak in a crisp abrupt manner. He almost invariably wore a tie, dress… Continue reading Slouching Towards Harmotopia

Altoon Sultan September 2015 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”30px”] The Seven-Pointed Star, No. 5 and No. 7, 1908; tempera, gouache, and graphite on paper mounted on canvas, ca. 29 x 24 in. [spacer height=”20px”] In 2012 the Museum of Modern Art mounted a great exhibition, Inventing Abstraction: 1910-1925. If they had thought to include the work of the… Continue reading Hilma af Klint: Spiritualism & Aesthetics

Todd Swindell September 2015 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”30px”] Ronnie Burk & Charles Henri Ford in Montauk, Late 90s, photo by Indra Tamang   [spacer height=”20px”] This piece was written for the website ACT UP Archives in honor of what would have been poet Ronnie Burk’s 60th birthday. This is an expanded edition. [spacer height=”20px”] photo Photo-Mantic… Continue reading Remembering Ronnie Burk

Daniel Barbiero September 2015 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] What decides whether a notational form or system survives is its vitality -Cornelius Cardew [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”]  Solitute by  Hans Christoph Steiner [spacer height=”20px”] Notation & Counter Tradition Toward the end of his comprehensive, multi-volume survey of the history of Western art music, Richard Taruskin raises the possibility… Continue reading Graphic Scores & Musical Post-Literacy

Randee Silv June 2015 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”]   [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] Given that the Whitney now sits on fossil fuel infrastructure, is the art museum committed to exhibit art that explores themes such as the environment, energy, and how corporations operate in society? How will people and artworks be kept safe and protected if… Continue reading Fracking Meet Whitney
Spectra Meet Con Ed

Steve Dalachinsky July 2015 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] This piece was written on June 25th, 2015 after I was requested to read at the memorial for Ornette Coleman which took place June 27th, 2015 – it is for the most part built on his sounds his titles SONGS – words – his poetics – his… Continue reading this is our music
for ornette coleman

patrick brennan June 2015 [spacer height=”60px”]  photo by Katherine Helen Fisher [spacer height=”40px”] Composer, saxophonist & guitarist David Crowell insists on developing an honest and original response to the musical examples that have moved and inspired him.  This work in progress demonstrates itself distinctly in his Empyrean Atlas project, an ensemble of three electric guitars… Continue reading David Crowell: Polyrhythm Calling

Steve Dalachinsky June 2015 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] from All of Ted Joans and No More, Excelsior Press, NY, 1961 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] Le Corbeau et Le Courbet – for Ted Joans (written at Café Le Roquet – Paris 1/30/06) today the light is so bright diffused light tracing det snoaj like a backward shadow @ the… Continue reading For Ted Joans

Sparrow June 2015 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] Richard Serra Viewing, Gagosian Gallery, 980 Madison Avenue, NYC, March, 2015   Richard Serra’s show consisted of just two pieces: large drawings mirroring each other. The titles: “Double Rift #8,” “Double Rift #9.” Almost the entire paper was covered with black, yet I hesitate to call this minimalism. At… Continue reading Battleships

Jerry Orter May 2015 [spacer height=”80px”] [spacer height=”20px”] He dreamed of an open window. A vagina, said his psychiatrist. Your divorce, said his mistress. Suicide, said an ominous voice within him. It means you should close the window or you’ll catch cold, said his mother. His wife said nothing. He dared not tell her such… Continue reading The more you know the more you see

patrick brennan May 2015 [spacer height=”20px”]   [spacer height=”20px”] Our sense of curve arguably has a lot to do with water. Apparently it likes gathering itself most as sphere.  Then,  consider where the fall of gravity sends it.  Mix that with the ricochet pull of the planet’s horizontal spin, turning water’s earthward linear chute spiral,… Continue reading Tangled Eloquent

[spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] 1926 – 2015 [spacer height=”20px”] Roma this city is the ruin of ancient Rome’s empire as new york is the ruin of the wigwams of the Algonquin. wherever we go we step on the past, on the graves of our ancestors on the graves of our mothers every apple is the… Continue reading Judith Malina

patrick brennan April 2015 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] Perfil infinito, 1966 Joan Semmel: Across Five Decades Alexander Gray Associates 510 West 26 Street April 2 – May 16 [spacer height=”20px”] Joan Semmel’s one helluva painter, and has clearly been so for a very long time now.  I’ve come across her work peripherally here and there without… Continue reading Body as Itself

Steve Dalachinsky April 2015 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”40px”] [spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] for Jacob Lawrence Panel 61 (Colin Ferguson) the truth itself is a lie the awkward way you have of moving your toes along the richly woven rug the story you told before you settled in and settled down on the hard… Continue reading For Jacob Lawrence Panel 61