if we were immortal: Slater Bradley at Team Gallery
Jon Leon11.17.09
‘Much has been written about New York artist Slater Bradley since his debut at Team Gallery ten years ago. Some have sung his praises, some his pitfalls. In some cases facileness is implied, in others, eminence. No matter what or how you call it, Bradley’s youthful obsessions are always engaging, never boring, and totally worth it,’ Jon Leon writes about the artist’s lastest show at Team, if we were immortal.
In the In Between: a Conversation with Galit Eilat and Chen Tamir about the Mobile Archive
Thom Donovan10.10.09
The Mobile Archive holds roughly 1,000 videos by Middle-Eastern and Eastern European artists. It has travelled throughout Europe for the past three years and is now being exhibited at Art in General in NYC (September 24th through October 17th). Thom Donovan interviews two key curators for the Archive: Galit Eilat, who founded the M.A. through her work at the Israeli Center for Digital Art in Holon, Israel, and Chen Tamir, who has selected videos from the archive for the current Art in General show. The interview also discusses Eilat’s Liminal Spaces – a collaborative project which researches spaces in between bureaucracies, mental and physical geographies, legal systems and what remains beyond the law in the more fluid realm of culture. Other topics discussed are the politics of curation, Israeli military strategy, and questions about the submergence of the "liminal" within popular American culture and intellectual discourse.
Doug Aitken’s Migration of Light
Zoey Mondt09.28.09
“Draping a building in light and image" Doug Aitken "appropriates the architecture, transforms it into art, his art, and demands greater responsibility and participation from the viewer who in turn navigates their own perspective and experience" as Zoey Mondt writes, taking us through the plazas and grottoes of his wandering of light, migration, now at Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
Benny and The Mets
Gail Hosking Gilberg09.20.09
Both of New York’s MLB teams played in new stadiums this year. While the Yankees are 9 games up as this blurb is written, the Mets, with 64 wins & 85 losses, have looked less than amazing, have already been eliminated from postseason play, and don’t seem quite as cozy in their snazzy new home. For longtime Mets fans (and baseball fans in general), forget about this season for a moment and take a gander back in time, as Gail Hosking Gilberg takes us back here through the eyes of her Mets loving son. Art by Danny Jock.
Threading the Needle: Deconstructing NFL Uniforms
Adam Underhill09.13.09
With the scent of fresh pigskin fresh and heavy in the air, our attention shifts slightly from the art of working the clock while clinging to a 34-31 lead, or an agonizing dropped pass in the end zone, to that subtle, ever-present force, yet so often overlooked in terms of team superiority. That’s right, it’s the uniforms. And while Adam Underhill may have a different cultural definition for "Cleveland Browns" than I, he possesses a unique zeal and sharp, critical eye for such topics. He opines—no, he decrees—exhaustively on The State of the Uniform for each of the 32 professional football teams. Art by Danny Jock.
The Fairy’s Hole: Vincent Fecteau’s Caveman Sculpture
Derek McCormack09.11.09
Author Derek McCormack takes us down the fairy’s hole, from the fairy grottoes of Georgian England on down through André’s beauty parlor on The Flintstones, to the modern, colorfully garish, ponderously beautiful, holey fake forms of Vincent Fecteau, now on view at Matthew Marks in New York City.
Talk Show 28 with Thomas Beller, Joshua Furst, Elizabeth Graver, Dave King, and Binnie Kirshenbaum
Jaime Clarke07.29.09
Long buried in a trash heap in Georgia are most of the presidential physical fitness awards I won as a kid during the Reagan administration. Learned back then while trying to run the mile part of the test that I had asthma; still I managed to eek it out for the Gipper. When older and "punk", and a bit smashed, I took some of these and other trophies and hit them with a baseball bat over the backyard fence into the rear lot of the A & P grocery store. Ah… awards. Well in this episode of Talk Show, # 28, host Jaime Clarke talks to authors Thomas Beller, Joshua Furst, Elizabeth Graver, Dave King, and Binnie Kirshenbaum about their memories of awards, more specifically blue ribbons. Art by Danny Jock. -CM
The Invisible Dragon Redux: La Chanson de Dave
Gean Moreno07.27.09
Been a long week off, and now over at mom’s trying to catch up, but then Apocalypse Now (redux) comes on and delays the blurb, am thinking of the beauty of this film, each time seen, different elements unnoticed before twixt all the the dreamy smoke screens of colored flares, like little Roman Coppola reading Baudelaire at the French Plantation. Here, in this review by artist and critic Gean Moreno, we reexamine the meaning of beauty – Dave Hickey’s take on it, in his redux version of a book released in 1993, The Invisible Dragon. ‘To each his own chimera’ – as Baudelaire would say? This book stirred controversy before and surely will again.
Herr Bud
Adam Underhill07.18.09
Bud Selig: a man often vilified among the ranks of baseball fans and sports writers alike, a man whose judgement and quiddities often flew in the face of baseball purists, a man who made many changes to the game to keep it up with the times, for better or for worse, but usually for better. Although he will probably be best known as the commish who reigned during the ugly times of steroid scandals, Selig’s positive contributions to the game must be (reluctantly) acknowledged, as Adam Underhill does here.
Talk Show 27 with Daphne Beal, Charles Bock, Emily Chenoweth, John McNally, Irina Reyn and Peter Trachtenberg
Jaime Clarke07.02.09
Jaime Clarke talks to authors Daphne Beal, Charles Bock, Emily Chenoweth, John McNally, Irina Reyn and Peter Trachtenberg about things from the past they might like to see return to the present (in some form or fashion) and why – from manual typewriters, to wooly mammoths, to classic Woody Allen dinner parties, to something akin to the workers movement known as The Wobblies…the answers in this episode are as varied as anyone might be expected to produce. Art By Danny Jock.
