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Monthly Archives: July 2010

Postcard from New York: Swell at Metro Pictures, Friedrich Petzel Gallery and Nyehaus

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Rob Reynolds, Untitled (STRANDED PHYLLIS #2), 2010, courtesy the artist and Friedrich Petzel Gallery. This weekend I traded Miami’s tropical breezes for New York’s sticky and oppressive concrete heat. My surfer friends report that, while I was gone, storms brought rare overhead waves into South Beach. Meanwhile, I was wandering through Swell: Art 1950-2010, a [...]

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The Sunday Video: Paul Ross

Sunday, July 25, 2010

The inspiration for this week’s Sunday came while shopping on the UK version of Amazon. After trawling for sensible shoes and a birthday present for mom my sister’s boyfriend pointed me in the direction of a box canvas print of British TV and radio personality Paul Ross. Described in reference to his younger, ultimately more [...]

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Human Rites at Bass Museum of Art

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

(Near to far) John Beech, 22 Doorstops from SFMOMA, Allan McCollum, 240 Plaster Surrogates and Mark Dion, Brockton Cabinet. Art is inherently ritualistic. Whether painting images of God Almighty, offering a transcendent color field, or engaging in and documenting repetitive action, an artist is carrying materials and images from the mundane into the symbolic. Resonance [...]

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Is It Art or Fart?

Monday, July 19, 2010

Is It Art or Fart? book opening at Family Bookstore, Los Angeles. Image courtesy of Adam Shopkorn. The book entitled Is It Art or Fart? found its inception in a blog focusing on snapshots. These quickly taken images depicted objects or events that seemed to represent the artwork or experience of many contemporary artists. Participants [...]

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The Sunday Video: William Shatner “Rocket Man”

Sunday, July 18, 2010

This week’s Sunday Video is for the benefit of those unfamiliar with the anthological musical career of William Shatner. This particular performance, Elton John and Bernie Taupin’s “Rocket Man” at the 1978 Science Fiction Awards show, parodied in episode 5 season 3 of Family Guy, stands apart for me amongst various spoken word covers of [...]

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Jet Set Saturdays: Karen Ann Myers at Luis De Jesus

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Karen Ann Myers, Striped Cot, 2010. Oil on canvas, 60×60 inches. “Thinking of You.” A benign statement, with a sentimentality with which we are all familiar. These moments of private female pleasure and sentimental yearning are captured in Karen Ann Myers’ remarkable show at Luis De Jesus. Myers’ work, like that of Mickaelene Thomas (recently [...]

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