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A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman A MOMA Novella Chapter 1: The Opening They went to museum to have fun, but it turned out the museum completely sucked. “Free tickets and the members only opening? How could it not be fun?” Matthew said to Sarah. “Ooh, we can dress up and walk around before they let the riff-raff in!” she agreed. So the date was set: June 28, 2008. Manhattan. 53rd between Fifth and Sixth. 8 PM sharp. For the members only opening of: “Dalí: Painting and Film” (12…
SERIOUSNESS @ NOVA BENWAY By Matthew Nash Currently on view in a living room in Jamaica Plain is the exhibition “Seriousness,” featuring work by Nate McDermott, Shawn Zamechek and Meg Rotzel. The living room belongs to Nova Benway, co-curator of the Berwick Research Institute’s Artist in Research program, and it is the first such exhibition she has hosted in her home. “The Berwick really wasn’t involved in that decision,” Benway said. “I’ve just always wanted to have a show and it was pretty easy to put one on.” The work on view is…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: BOND STREET GALLERY, BROOKLYN, NY By Big Red August 13, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at Bond Street Gallery for the opening of New Curators, New Ideas – curated by Alana Celii & Grant Willing (Fjord Photo), Michael Bühler-Rose, Jon Feinstein (Humble Arts Foundation), Laurel Ptak (I Heart Photograph), Amy Stein (amysteinphoto.blogspot.com), and Lumi Tan. Bond Street Gallery
REKA REISINGER @ REAL ART WAYS By Megan Driscoll Over the past several years, photography has evolved from a replica of the world we live in, to a carefully constructed and digitally enhanced version of reality. In her new show entitled Cutouts, Reka Reisinger’s series of self portraits tackles this theme with images that are both visually confusing and undeniably authentic. The Hungarian-born artist constructs life-size cardboard cutouts of her own likeness by hand and then re-photographs them out in the world where Reisinger does “…not use any digital manipulation to composite…
BADLANDS @ MASS MOCA By Abraham Storer The title of the current landscape show at Mass MoCA, Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape, refers to the geographical place in the Dakotas, “an area filled with both inhospitable conditions and immense beauty,” while simultaneously suggesting a landscape that is in “bad shape,” according to curator Denise Markonish. The legacy of the Hudson Valley Painters, characterized by their idealized vision of a pure landscape, seems to haunt the whole of the exhibit. The historical impulse to unveil beauty from the landscape becomes mixed with the…
A CONVERSATION WITH DENNIS KOIS By Jess Dugan Jess T. Dugan: How did you come to be the Director of the DeCordova, and what drew you to this museum in particular? Dennis Kois: The Board had hired a New York firm that specializes in museum searches, Pillips Oppenheim, and they called a colleague from my time at the Freer Gallery of Art, who gave them my name. I was surprised to get their call asking if I was interested, but very excited—I’d visited the DeCordova in the past and thought it had great…
By Big Red Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at the opening of “Seriousness”, the first show at Nova Benway, an alternative space in Jamaica Plain. The exhibition features work by Nate McDermott, Shawn Zamechek and Meg Rotzel. “Seriousness” is on view August 28th – September 25th at Nova Benway, 15 Bardwell Street #1, Jamaica Plain. Viewing hours are Wednesdays, from 6-8pm.
The New York Times had a piece yesterday about a series of billboard images by artist Suzanne Opton that were supposed to be on view in Minneapolis and St. Paul during upcoming RNC. However, the owners of the billboards, CBS Outdoor, has decided to cancel the contract. From the NYT: Ms. Opton’s photographs, part of a series called the Soldier Billboard Project, have been displayed on billboards in Syracuse, and one was on a billboard in Denver during the Democratic National Convention. But the company that owns the Minneapolis-St. Paul billboards, CBS…