Category: Current

SILENCE IS NOT ENOUGH

Yuko Otomo March 2015 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”]  [spacer height=”20px”] SILENCE IS NOT ENOUGH  (FOR SUZAN FRECON) [spacer height=”20px”] earth red terra verde ultra marine indigo blue matte or gloss silence is not enough I stand in a room full of muted light * je pense je suis on me pense JE est un… Continue reading SILENCE IS NOT ENOUGH

Three Correlations:
OUT & / or IN

Otomo  –  Hughes –  Silv February 2015 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] Outsider Art Yuko Otomo 1. terminology What makes “in?” What makes “out?” Outside of something & inside of the “same” something. What separates something into the two? Inside of some framed/circled/segregated/fenced condition or space seen from the outside & outside of the same something seen… Continue reading Three Correlations:
OUT & / or IN

Macho Meal Breakfast of Champions

patrick brennan February 2015 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] I’d chosen to avoid checking out Damien Chazelle’s film Whiplash not just because of its almost sinister title, but because “jazz” and conservatoire in combination still feel so oxymoronic to me (must be a generational thing or something, as the combination now seems to play so de rigueur… Continue reading Macho Meal Breakfast of Champions

DIALOGUE
AS A VERB

Christine Hughes September 2014 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] Conversation with Detroit’s Alley Culture founder Sherry Hendrick [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] The mayor of Bogota, Enrique Peñalosa, who rebuilt his city from the citizens-up rather than the SUVs-down, called it “Democracy at War.”  We seem to have lost respect for ourselves as shown through our cities, for where… Continue reading DIALOGUE
AS A VERB

Unraveling Vivian Maier

[spacer height=”1px”] Donald Martineaw-Vega January 2015 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”40px”] Self-Portrait, undated [spacer height=”20px”] Vivian Maier: In Her Own Hands Howard Greenberg Gallery  October 30 – December 31 [spacer height=”20px”] When I was in photography school, we had an assignment to go out and photograph life, what you saw in front of you, and to engage… Continue reading Unraveling Vivian Maier

E Pluribus Plures:
El Anatsui

patrick brennan January 2015[spacer height=”40px”] El Anatsui’s gawu constructions (wu  +  ga  : “garment” + “made of metal”), recently visible at both the Jack Shainman and Mnuchin galleries, feel very social to me.  They don’t feel univocal.  Even though these pieces derive from the decisions of a single artist, the vision doesn’t seem solitary.  It’s… Continue reading E Pluribus Plures:
El Anatsui

The Fractured Egg #4

Steve Dalachinsky January 2015 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] the good life  /  or a bad i.o.u. – the age of the poets aka waiting for badiou  /  or badiou saved from frowning[spacer height=”30px”] 1. i was invited but i wasn’t invited with a gold star this is the logic of the world or terror monkey dew… Continue reading The Fractured Egg #4

In the Meantime:
A Playroom of My Own
Paris & Paris, Again

Yuko Otomo December 2014 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] #5 (Part One) I’m still planning to write about Jeff Koons — although his show is down & the summer is gone & the winter is here & nobody talks about him any more & no more media attention & no more big billboard ads hovering over us… Continue reading In the Meantime:
A Playroom of My Own
Paris & Paris, Again

Verdes Carne, Pelo Negro . . .

patrick brennan February 2015 [spacer height=”40px”] The Black Atlantic¹ graces the opening of Carlos Suara’s 2010 film (although just recently shown here in NYC) Flamenco, Flamenco on contemporary flamenco — not at all his first film on the music.  The camera, in the hands of cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, at times behaves with the finesse, wit… Continue reading Verdes Carne, Pelo Negro . . .

Rethreadings

Randee Silv December 2014 [spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”20px”] That reaction the other night. To align not dispute. I could’ve ignored yet another abstract stroke and returned to the street. But while there, somehow, I didn’t mind getting caught in their grip. They hit hard. I went up to the gallery’s second floor, then back down.… Continue reading Rethreadings

Interview
Joseph Thompson (MASS MoCA)

Christine Hughes November 2014 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] CH MASS MoCA has been open for 15 years now? JT This is year 15, but for me personally 13 was more significant because we had then been open longer that it took to get open to begin with. CH Can you give those of… Continue reading Interview
Joseph Thompson (MASS MoCA)

The Fractured Egg #3

[spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] the perpetual lovers (gustave moreau & his model/lover) – for ghibellino [spacer height=”20px”] the moss-covered cross a remnant of you / a now unknown grave risen & gone never to return again no matter how hard some believe & i, enraptured by your arrival seeing this tomb / the tome / this… Continue reading The Fractured Egg #3

In the Mix

Dan Joseph December 2014 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] In this new section we’re opening the space for “public discourses” on shared topics, concerns or ideas. Revitalizing the tradition of “soap box” discussion, we’re going to be inviting various individuals to voice their minds to inspire further discussions among us.  We all live in extremely complicated… Continue reading In the Mix

Oijen, Wybe, Dele, Tomma Abts

patrick brennan November 2014[spacer height=”40px”] Tomma Abts (at David Zwirner from September 10th through October 25th) dispenses with the quotation marks seemingly placed so often around a good amount of contemporary “painting” in a way that humbles. The exhibit of eight modestly scaled 48x38cm oil & acrylic canvasses and seven color pencil drawings on paper… Continue reading Oijen, Wybe, Dele, Tomma Abts

Perpetual Ripplets
Futurism

Yuko Otomo October 2014 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] Italian Futurism, 1909 – 1944: Reconstructing The Universe @ Guggenheim Museum, NYC Feb. 21- Sept. 1, 2014[spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”]  <prior to viewing the exhibition>[spacer height=”10px”] I am writing this part in advance without having seen the exhibition at the museum. I want to consume my thoughts on non-visual… Continue reading Perpetual Ripplets
Futurism

Answerless
(MX City)

Randee Silv October 2014 [spacer height=”40px”] I sat behind her and did everything she did. She kneeled. I kneeled. She stood. I stood. She clasped her hands together, closed her eyes and bent her head slightly down. I did the same. She was saying something, not as a whisper, but for someone to hear. She… Continue reading Answerless
(MX City)

Specular Reflection

Jerry Orter October 2014 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] SPECULAR REFLECTION INCIDENCE is equal to REFLECTION [spacer height=”40px”] In order to gain some insight into the forces that elevate certain products to the level of ‘works of art’ it is helpful, among other investigations, to look into the economic and political underpinnings of the institutions, individuals and… Continue reading Specular Reflection

Post-Game Commentary

Basil King September 2014 [spacer height=”40px”]Park Slope Pastoral   1982 – 83. Martha was working at Sloan-Kettering. I came along with the staff to Shea Stadium to see a ball game. Hot Dogs, Hamburgers, French Fries, Beer, Cokes, Pepsi. The docs, nurses, administrators and the rest of the staff all sat in the bleachers. The… Continue reading Post-Game Commentary

Weiwei & Chicago

Ai Weiwei[spacer height=”20px”] I recently went to see Ai Weiwei’s large exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum and the single word I would use to describe it is underwhelming. I appreciate his stature as an activist, however I found his work rather uncompelling in this show. For anyone at least half aware of contemporary art, Weiwei… Continue reading Weiwei & Chicago

Lygia Clark: The Abandonment of Art

Tola Brennan December 2014 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] Lygia Clark’s ouvre evokes the word subversive. Why? Because her work reminds one why the word is meaningful at all. When it’s more familiar today as a commodified grab for attention, subversive, like so many other modalities, has been absorbed into a blasé sludge of buzzwords. But Clark… Continue reading Lygia Clark: The Abandonment of Art

In the Meantime:
A Playroom of My Own

Yuko Otomo July 2014[spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] #4: Public Art [spacer height=”20px”] For some reason, I still haven’t been back to the Futurism show at the Guggenheim Museum yet. I’ve been meaning to do so in order to finish my writing on this fascinating movement for my Perpetual Ripplets column. I definitely have to make a date… Continue reading In the Meantime:
A Playroom of My Own

Variations on Thirst

Randee Silv June 2014 A few of us stood there about to intervene.[spacer height=”20px”] They were both harassing him as if he were prey.  “Before you know what’s going on you better get your facts straight.”  He unwrapped a green piece of stick gum and started chewing fiercely.  The elderly, startled, awaited quietly in the… Continue reading Variations on Thirst

Time Outside

[spacer height=”0.1px”]patrick brennan May 2014 [spacer height=”20px”] The Music of the Temporalists (by “André Pogoriloffsky”) Contributes to the Musics Beyond the Clock — — — — and What about Rhythm? [spacer height=”10px”] In the beginning of this year, I received a very formally worded e-mail from out of nowhere entitled Book on Musical Time Theory.[spacer… Continue reading Time Outside

Through Most of It

Randee Silv May 2014 [spacer height=”20px”] May 8 – May 11[spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] She signaled me to step back from the kicking motorized colored tights. 8 legs mounted on the wall. I might interfere with its demonstration of 40, 320 sequences. I preferred seeing those hues on the ski masks worn in the video where… Continue reading Through Most of It

Hands in Transit

[spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] With composition, you have your inspired moment, and then you have inspired moments along the way as you compose. But you also have the opportunity to change your composition, in any way, at any time. With improvisation, you never have this opportunity. When you genuinely improvise—spontaneously—you don’t even guide the improvisation, by… Continue reading Hands in Transit

Perpetual Ripplets
On Cubism

Yuko Otomo April 2014 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] Part One[spacer height=”10px”] V.[spacer height=”2px”] Things break up into pieces. Light & shadow join their company. Here. An apple’s sweetness never gets called into question. A pear’s form terminates.[spacer height=”20px”] VI.[spacer height=”2px”] Things fall into pieces. Light & shadow escape from their world. An apple’s sweetness is now… Continue reading Perpetual Ripplets
On Cubism

Traces

Randee Silv April 2014 [spacer height=”20px”] Among the rolling Alentejo hills of cork oaks, vineyards, olive trees and sheep grazing, a small agricultural city in Portugal, Montemor-o-Novo, with a population of under 20,000, has this surprisingly active arts community with galleries, performance venues, alternative spaces and international projects. The arts have received continuous support and… Continue reading Traces

The Fractured Egg #2

[spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] KARMA: the re(a)lative BRIGHTNESS of GREY Brice Marden in conversation at Karma bookstore[spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”]   1. an almost unrelated prelude:   salaries & negotiated arrivals: even some bourgeoise are good /eyeglasses / sunglasses / rowers > today’s the day legends are made / luxury rentals / solid wax-ons / clear… Continue reading The Fractured Egg #2

Bubble as Metaphor

[spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] Metaphor[spacer height=”20px”] Conceptual metaphor: Understanding one idea in terms of another. Language about language.[spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] Conceptual domain: Conscious or unconscious organization of experience; sensation.[spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] Subjective: It is (feels) hot (quality)[spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] Objective: It is 150 F. (quantity)[spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] According to George Lakoff and Mark… Continue reading Bubble as Metaphor

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