Art: Greg Dalton
Casey McKinney08.07.09
Wanted to recommend someone I’ve long known, who is as true an artist as they come, Greg Dalton. He has a banner (the one with flora and a…
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.
Understanding Comics
Ben Bush07.13.09
There has been a lot of hand-wringing among critics that high-quality journalism will be lost as news makes it’s transition onto the internet but…
Provocateurs and Participants – a review of Acting Out: Social Experiments in Video at the ICA Boston
Julie Perini06.17.09
Artist Julie Perini describes the current exhibition at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Acting Out: Social Experiments in Video as one “sidestepping the moral responsibility of academia,” as 5 international artists: Yael Bartana, Johanna Billing, Phil Collins, Javier Tellez, and Artur Zmijewski act as rogue sociologists who “freely borrow from the methods and conventions of fiction and documentary filmmaking while deploying their own hybrid strategies.” These works are complex aesthetically and tackle the politics of the body, both from the individual and global perspective. They beg not only physical engagement from their players, but intense attention from their viewers. If you are in New England this summer don’t miss it.
(HH) Hamlet House – A Play In Progress
Thom Donovan06.07.09
Lilac Co and St. John’s Theater program have been engaging in a work in progress titled (HH) hamlet house that was performed last week at the Warsaw theater in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Thom Donovan was there and reviews here the play written and directed by Sean Lewis and featuring Lewis, Elisa Matula, Seth Powers, and John Morena. It’s an inventive take on Shakespeare that has Hamlet played by two, doubling characters, an Ophelia forefronted, some merry prankstering and an invite for audience participation that is unique and welcomed. If you missed this showing, read up and then see the next one!
Now at the Whitney: Photoconceptualism, 1966-1973
Alyssa Bianca-Pavley05.29.09
There is a whole lot of awesome currently crammed into the Whitney Museum of American Art. “Photoconceptualism, 1966-1973” is third in a series of exhibitions that focuses on the photography collection amassed by the Whitney. This show, though tiny, is comprised of incredibly compelling conceptual photographs by artists such as Bruce Nauman, Ed Ruscha, Adrian Piper, and Mel Bochner, to name only a few.
Fanzine’s Web Saviors
Casey McKinney05.28.09
Wanna give some love back to our sometime savior, Karsten Krejcarek, one of the best artists working these days, and others, love you all.
Kinke Kooi
Alyssa Bianca-Pavley04.25.09
Note: we meant to get something done on this show before it goes down, but alas it’s going down today. Anyway, if you are out and about…
A Triennial is Born And It’s Younger Than Jesus
Alyssa Bianca-Pavley04.16.09
Yes there is a new ‘-ennial’ out there. A triennial – at the New Museum in New York’s (re)burgeoning bowery art scene. On inception it’s being called The Generational: Younger Than Jesus, because everyone in the show is under 33. And we wonder if they are going to keep the same title ever year? ‘Younger than Jesus’ that is? I mean what if all the believers out there are right and Jesus happens to come back in the years in between? Guess the Priory of Sion is not in on this one. Alyssa Bianca-Pavley, quite younger than Jesus herself, gives us the run down in brief.
American Mirrored – Dan Graham: Beyond
Zoey Mondt03.23.09
Dan Graham has been a working artist since the 1960’s, and is one of America’s foremost talents, carving paths in the conceptual field, in sculpture, architecture, performance art and video. The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles is currently housing a retrospective of his work, Dan Graham: Beyond. Zoey Mondt glimpses through the myriad of mirrors that Graham holds up with a critical eye, reflecting who we are (in case we don’t know).
