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Monthly Archives: November 2009

The Sunday Video: Literal Video Version Homage

Sunday, November 22, 2009

With this week’s Sunday Video we pay homage to the genre of Literal Video Version. Having liberated countless classic music videos/tracks, from Meatloaf’s ‘Anything For Love‘ to Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ (Bollywood version), ocular and auditory detail oriented individuals with a niggling desire to “make a funny” from the best yet questionable efforts of popular culture’s [...]

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Jet Set Saturdays: Barb Choit at Rachel Uffner Gallery

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Barb Choit, “Patrick Nagel, ‘Black Teddy,’ Fine Art Poster, UV Exposure Time Two Weeks,” 2009, digital C-print, 24 1/2 x 19 inches, Edition of 3. After working at Christie’s and directing someone else’s successful gallery for five years Rachel Uffner opened her own space at 47 Orchard St between Grand and Hester. Currently on view [...]

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Jet Set Saturdays: Adam Helms at Kathryn Brennan Gallery

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Installation view of Adam Helms’ Under Western Eyes at Kathryn Brennan Gallery. All kinds of creatures lurk in the corners of Chinatown at night, some with tails, others with tales of the darkside. Opening this evening at Kathryn Brennan Gallery, Adam Helms’ rich charcoal drawings portray dark creatures of a different sort. Shamanistic forms instantly [...]

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Friday’s Hairy Eyeball: Christo’s wife Jeanne-Claude dies, Lower East Side art scene grows, New York Gallery Week set for May 2010

Friday, November 20, 2009

Image credit. Friday’s Hairy Eyeball; capping off a week’s worth of sour milk from culture’s black sheep cousin. Jeanne-Claude, who collaborated with her husband, Christo, on dozens of environmental arts projects, notably the wrapping of the Pont Neuf in Paris and the Reichstag in Berlin, and of course the pairs “Surrounded Islands” project in Biscayne [...]

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Hump Day Cool Finger: Wooden Tops from Herman Miller Select

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Image credit. For this week’s Hump Day Cool Finger, rather than pour over the rampant osmosis between artistic and commercial fields we’d like to celebrate an artful application of craft to an area of commercialism that in addition to being one of the most monstrous and poorly regulated is typically saturated by plastics and reprehensibly [...]

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Night Shift at Bass Museum of Art

Monday, November 16, 2009

Promotional image for Night Shift describing a project which was not included in the exhibition. Last weekend Night Shift, a group show of outdoor works curated by Jerome Sans, Founder and Co-Director of Paris’ Palais De Tokyo, Director of the Ullens Center of Contemporary Art, Cultural Curator for Le Meridien Group, rock musician and DJ, [...]

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