Category: Current

Randee Silv April 2014 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”]i had to see what he meant by cat-food-colored modernism. [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”100px”] [spacer height=”100px”] [spacer height=”100px”] [spacer height=”100px”] [spacer height=”100px”] [spacer height=”100px”] [spacer height=”100px”] [spacer height=”100px”] [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] April 3 – May 23, 2014 photos: Arteidolia [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”]

Christine Hughes March 2014 [spacer height=”40px”] The American Academy of Arts and Letters’ “Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts” opened on March 4th and runs through April 12th. The 250 Academy members look at contemporary American art and find about 150 artists who they nominate. These artists are then narrowed down to this year’s participants by… Continue reading The Invitational

[spacer height=”20px”] An independent gallerist explained to me that the growing financial imperative to participate in art fairs relates, at least partially, to diminishing foot traffic in the physical galleries themselves. Among art fairs, Volta stands out for the human scale of its presentation with each gallery (often a small, one person operation) showing only… Continue reading Volta at Mercer

[spacer height=”10px”]Jennie C. Jones   Out of the corner of my eye, I thought I was looking at just another instance of still more minimalism, an artistic predisposition toward which I’ve always felt some ambivalence – whether the fundamentalist pin striped suits of early Stella or The Platonic Republic of Judd. After decades of seeing… Continue reading Tone

Otomo – Silv – Hughes February 2014 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”]An Opening of the Field: Jess, Robert Duncan, and Their Circle Grey Art Gallery, 100 Washington Square, New York January 14 – March 29, 20014[spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] Yuko Otomo[spacer height=”20px”] When Academia takes on the subject of something that developed non-intentionally, non-systematically, organically, such as the… Continue reading Three Correlations
Jess & Duncan

Yuko Otomo February 2014 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”]1. a column stands   in the middle of an atelier/library.   events. articles.   1997.   1989, 90, 91, 93, 94, 95, 96.   a classified idea   of   when where who how   &   through.   carrots, grapes, chicken, radishes & corn.   juice,… Continue reading What We Eat
(for Ferran Adrià)

Yuko Otomo February 2014[spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] Makura no Soshi (The Pillow Book)[spacer height=”20px”] A Note on The Pillow Book It was like a Big Bang. My head exploded in such a way. It took place in the Japanese Classics course in my high school freshman class. When a teacher read the first line of the… Continue reading Sei Shonagon

Kurt Novack February 2014 [spacer height=”40px”]Observe…Process…Expound upon your conclusions…Repeat! Examining van Gogh’s work process in order to shed light on understanding real versus counterfeit   van Gogh Repetitions, The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C., Oct 12, 2013-January 26, 2014 An exhibition examining van Gogh’s habit of revisiting themes over the course of his career.  Included along… Continue reading Repetitions

Yuko Otomo February 2014 [spacer height=”40px”]Part One[spacer height=”20px”] The square is not a subconscious form. It is the creation of “intuitive reason.” The square is a living, regal infant. Under Suprematism, I understand the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art. – Malevich[spacer height=”20px”] I ended my last piece, On Ad Reinhardt, with a mention… Continue reading Perpetual Ripplets
Malevich

patrick brennan February 2014 [spacer height=”20px”] I still remember seeing years back a sculpture by Nicholas Mukomberonwa that, except for a single chiseled dent about 3/4 of the way up a vertical edge, presented nothing but otherwise untouched polished stone.   I felt whisked by its peculiarly visceral numinosity and presence.  Even an airtight cognitive… Continue reading Material Poet

Randee Silv February 2014 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] Round. Red. 40,800 years old. Fifty samples tested from eleven caves in Spain. One in the Panel of Hands in Cueva de El Castillo is now considered Europe’s oldest dated art, 4000 years before the black charcoal rhinoceros drawings in Chauvet, France. Dr. Alistair Pike from the University… Continue reading Migration of the Dot: Red

Randee Silv February 2014 [spacer height=”20px”] “Start-up galleries are opening; middle-tier galleries are holding their own, or doing better than that. Artist-intensive neighborhoods like Bushwick and Ridgewood are still affordable, companionable and fun,”  New York Times art critic Holland Cotter recently wrote.  I had to laugh. The Clintons spotted at Roberta’s.  Bushwick featured in HBO’s… Continue reading Pediments: Ridgewood

[spacer height=”20px”] useless art   Yet another travesty, Stan Douglas’ film installation at David Zwirner Gallery titled “Luanda Kinshasha.” It’s a reconstruction of “The Church”, the famous Columbia Records recording studio where everyone from Monk to Miles to Mingus to Bernstein to Gould to Aretha to Billie Holiday to Dylan to Pink Floyd and so… Continue reading The Fractured Egg

Sparrow February 2014 [spacer height=”20px”] I’ve begun to curate my refrigerator, possibly as a result of being trapped indoors during the Catskills winter. My first “show” consists of a large postcard (7″ x 10″) from the current exhibition at the Sperone Westwater Gallery, on the Bowery in New York. It’s a detail of “Red Gas”… Continue reading Curating my Refrigerator

[spacer height=”20px”] On Joe Morris’ Perpetual Frontier: The Properties of Free Music [spacer height=”20px”] The art of sound, music, is neither easy to write nor read about, the irony being that it’s such an intimate and vivid experience for so many, so palpable, that the digital linearity of language, no matter how necessary, forges an… Continue reading Music Where Musicians Set the Criteria & Decide Whether it Meets those Criteria

[spacer height=”20px”] Caroline Martel’s Film, Wavemaker [spacer height=”20px”] Maurice Martenot (1898 – 1980), the cello prodigy middle child of a music saturated Parisian family, was working as a military telegraph operator during the First World War and heard a musical instrument that didn’t yet exist amid the wandering tweets and whistles of his radio apparatus.… Continue reading The Most Human Sensitive Electronic Instrument You’ve Never Heard Of

Jerry Orter January 2014 [spacer height=”20px”] I have just seen a quiet, unassuming and valuable show of photography. There are more than 30 pieces in this show. They are rich black and white examples of expertise that reveal Vega’s instincts for light, composition and the right moment. “A moment In Time” is the apt title.… Continue reading Vega: A Moment in Time

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 Randee Silv December 2013[spacer height=”20px”] Recessed spotlights lined the floor replacing the once hanging single bulb. All details could now be witnessed. A few loosely sketched black figures and motifs juxtaposed with bold, colored geometrical shapes intertwined with a multiangular web of lines that crisscrossed the stone walls, reaching onto the arched ceiling where a… Continue reading Interrupting Siqueiros: San Miguel & LA

patrick brennan December 2013 [spacer height=”20px”] It really fascinates me that Richard Serra’s “rusted metal wall” was publicly flogged out of Federal Plaza for how it disturbed people because this same artist’s work, for me, feels so amazingly sympathetic, even simpático. The sculptures seem to exude out of a powerfully committed trust in sensory experience… Continue reading Walking the Serra Torque

Randee Silv December 2013 [spacer height=”20px”] Situation #1: Kligman’s Red, Black & Silver Situation #2: 123 Frida Kahlo Replicas Situation #3: Qian/Diaz/Rosales/Knoedler [spacer height=”20px”] A woman next to me did portraits of owners’ dogs while they waited on the West Broadway block where I was selling with a few other off the grid painters in… Continue reading Magnifying Fakes