[spacer height=”0.1px”]Marcus David October 2024 [spacer height=”40px”] [spacer height=”20px”] Belarus Free Theatre Production Directed by Natalia Kaliada and Nicolai Khalezin Performed by: Katsiaryna Snytsina, Blanka Barbara (on-stage DJ), Darya Andreyanova, Mikalai Kuprych, and Raman Shytsko [spacer height=”20px”] The new season at La Mama starts strong with a powerful combination of sports, art and politics. From… Continue reading KS6: Small Forward
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another world is possible, another world is present
[spacer height=”0.1px”] Jim Leftwich December 2017 [spacer height=”20px”] Mask of Anubis [spacer height=”20px”] William Carlos Williams from “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower” (1952 – 1954) It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there. Emily Dickinson from a letter to Thomas Higginson… Continue reading another world is possible, another world is present
Field Notes on Raku & Cork
Catherine Henke Randee Silv December 2017 [spacer height=”30px”] [spacer height=”20px”] Obvara is a 12th century Siberian technique involving scalding the finish on the pottery to seal the porous surface. Pieces are made with a clay (white for obtaining more effects) that has quite a lot of sand in it to resist thermal shocks. After the… Continue reading Field Notes on Raku & Cork
Conversation w/o Words
Tania David Randee Silv November 2017 [spacer height=”30px”]
Cracked Reality
Azusa Yoneta Otoha Takenami October 2017 [spacer height=”30px”] 日々のすきま ソレトアレノアイダ In Between Ordinary Scenes: A Conversation [spacer height=”30px”] [spacer height=”10px”] [spacer height=”10px”] [spacer height=”10px”] [spacer height=”10px”] [spacer height=”10px”] [spacer height=”10px”] [spacer height=”10px”] [spacer height=”10px”] [spacer height=”10px”] Azusa Yoneta photographs Otoha Takenami drawings
Responding to a Call
Tania David & Randee Silv March 2017 [spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”20px”] Tania David/San Miguel de Allende, Mexico Randee Silv/New York City ©Tania David & Randee Silv [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”]
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
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
In Walks
Considering Kiefer
Christine Hughes May 2014 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”20px”] Anslem Kiefer has been called one of the great artists of our time, Germany’s greatest living artist and has been on the scene larger than life since the 70s. I began asking myself what makes for a “Great” artist? Is it the 10,000 hours of working… Continue reading In Walks
Considering Kiefer
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
In the Meantime:
A Playroom of my Own
Yuko Otomo May 2014 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] #1: Shoku-Sho Today, finally, I went to the Futurism show @ Guggenheim that opened at the end of February. I had been gathering my thoughts here & there on this first prototype of an “art movement” of the 20th century beforehand, thinking & writing on every aspect… Continue reading In the Meantime:
A Playroom of my Own
A Conversation
With Chris Teerink
Having seen the press screening of the documentary film “SOL LEWITT”, Film Forum publicist, Adam Walker was good enough to arrange for me to have a meeting with the film’s director, Chris Teerink. He had just flown in from Amsterdam to meet with press. address audiences and take questions at the film’s opening. It is hard… Continue reading A Conversation
With Chris Teerink
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