Gary Hill, George Quasha, and Charles Stein at EAI
A screening and conversation was held last night at Electronic Arts Intermix in celebration of the new book An Art of Limina: Gary Hill’s Works and Writings. A panel consisting of Gary Hill, George Quasha and Charles Stein (authors of the publication) illuminated and discussed a selection of Hill’s early single-channel videos, such as Around... [ Read More → ]
Art Fair Weekend 2010
My fear of being blinded from too many patent leather Christian Louboutins as well as lack of trusting myself not to pick a fight with some trophy wife/art snob/dickish gallery owner told me not to seek out the festivals this year. However, I still went to the Armory, and the Independent. There were some highlights... [ Read More → ]
Diamond Shine
Here are some things that I have been up to lately that I have not had time to blog about because of the oppression that is being a 25 year old s/w/f living in New York, going to grad school, while working part time. It’s soooo awwwwful. I can’t even blog about all of the... [ Read More → ]
2009: Best of (in no particular order)
X Initiative- If no one writes a book about the importance of X in the coming year, I am going to make it the topic of a dissertation. Meant to exist for exactly one year from it’s conception, X has offered excellent exhibitions and even better spontaneous performances, lectures, and events. It has easily been... [ Read More → ]
Video Witch: Joan Jonas’ shamanistic approach to performance
I had no idea what to expect for the performance billed ‘Joan Jonas reading Dante.’ I read the Performa summary, which lent almost no information, as well an ArtForum article about the work as instantiated for the 2008 Biennale of Sydney and some other scraps; yet nowhere in the limited information that I could cobble... [ Read More → ]
Museum Futures: Distributed
Last Tuesday, I went to the New School for a screening of Marysia Lewandowska and Neil Cumming’s 2008 film ‘Museum Futures: Distributed.’ The artists have collaborated between 1995 and 2008, in institutions such as banks, museums, galleries, archives, auction houses, universities, and department stores. Commissioned for the 50th anniversary for the Moderna Museet in Stockholm,... [ Read More → ]
Bruce High Quality Foundation- Art History with Benefits
Seeing BHQF for the second time last week, as part of Performa at X-Initiative in Chelsea, I finally realized that the art world really still is anyone’s oyster. Bruce have formed a collective under the auspices of the late social sculptor Bruce High Quality, for which it acts as the official arbiter of the estate.... [ Read More → ]