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“THE WHITE CUBE” By Thomas Marquet #51: Economical solutions for evaluative conversations. Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn.
REVOLT2DIE & GJYD @ MEME By Matthew Nash Riding among an exhausted busful of Negroes going on to graveyard shifts all over the city, she saw scratched on the back of a seat, shining for her in the brilliant smoky interior, the post horn with the legend DEATH. But unlike WASTE, somebody had troubled to write in, in pencil: Don’t Ever Antagonize The Horn. Somewhere near Fillmore she found the symbol tacked to the bulletin board of a laundromat, among other scraps of paper offering cheap ironing and baby sitters. If you know…
BRAVO AND REALITY ART By Judy Kermis Blotnick If you happened to be in New York on July 18th and 19th you would have had the opportunity to go to White Columns and audition for Bravo’s new upcoming show. No, not Top Chef, not Project Runway, but a brand new art-related reality competition to be produced by Sarah Jessica Parker. The show will feature 13 artists who will compete in assorted media to “create unique pieces highlighting art’s role in everyday life.” According to the New York Times and Bravo the pieces…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman Dear movie industry liars, Why have you decided that it is easier to make a bad movie with good advertising than to just make a good movie? You should hire the guys who make your ads to make your movies because they must be super-creative to make your crap look interesting. Almost everyone I know shows up at the movies early to watch the previews because they are actually exciting! Usually the movie is a huge disappointment where people leaving saying things like “all…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: MEME GALLERY By Big Red Friday, July 17th, 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at MEME Gallery for a performance by GJYD as part of their exhibition “Revolt2Die”. This is the second event at the new MEME Gallery. —- MEME GJYD Revolt2Die Foz Bozzerstein and the Foozletown Poozlers “Revolt2Die” was on view July 4 – 18, 2009 at MEME.
CHRIS ELAM/MISNOMER DANCE THEATER: BEING TOGETHER By Chelsey Philpot Misnomer Dance Theater dancers bend in ways human bodies are not meant to bend. At times they even painful to watch. Dancers flip their arms behind their heads as if both shoulders have simultaneously been dislocated, and I swear I saw one dancer raise her leg to the point where her barefoot was practically touching the nape of her neck. On Thursday, July 16th, I watched the Brooklyn-based Misnomer Dance Theater perform through webbed hands as if I was viewing a horror movie:…
TUFTE @ ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM By Stephen Vincent Kobasa There is always a vanity to the making of art, although there is a difference between vanity of intention and vanity of scale. But that distinction is not relevant here. Edward Tufte apparently has the resources to make whatever he wants out of any material that strikes him. The landscape itself has been reconfigured and replanted for this exhibit, although that new framing is not documented in the exhibition materials. It is as if there is a secret history running parallel to…
ROBERT INDIANA @ THE FARNSWORTH By Elena Sarni Walking through the five galleries bursting with Robert Indiana’s signature colorful work, stunningly displayed against muted gray walls, was like visiting the artist’s home, since most of the exhibition pieces were transplanted from the Star of Hope, Robert Indiana’s home and studio on the island of Vinalhaven, fifteen miles off of Rockland, Maine, home to the Farnsworth Art Musuem. Indiana, although still strongly associated with New York City’s thriving 1960s American Pop Art scene, has actually been a year-round islander since 1978. Although the…