How Fucking Romantic

Quirky lyrics in this amazing collection of songs makes for fun illustrations. There was a whole new level of excitement when I found out through flavorpill that this was being done. I hop they publish it because I want a book.

69 Love Songs, Illustrated

Art on the Pulaski Bridge

Rainy day on the Pulaski Bridge proves to be more interesting than other art seen in LIC

Eternal Return

I wish I had taken an installation shot. The works had a nice relationship and dialogue in the space.

Featuring Works by

Jonathan Brilliant, Judith Braun,
Joy Curtis, Thomas Lendvai,
Tara Parsons, Reuben Lorch Miller
and Cody Trepte
   
Curated by
Christine Spangler
& Tyler Wriston 

NURTUREart

910 Grand Street, 2nd Floor, 718-782-7755

January 22 - February 28, 2010
Web Site

David Maisel Liberty of Dust

Surprisingly dark, yet beautiful show

Library of Dust
2005 — 2006

“. . . these canisters hold the cremated remains of patients from an American psychiatric hospital. Oddly reminiscent of bullet casings, the canisters are literal gravesites. Reacting with their ash inhabitants, the canisters are now blooming with secondary minerals, articulating new metallic landscapes.”

— Geoff Manaugh, Contemporary

Von Lintel Gallery
520 West 23rd Street
Ground Floor
New York, NY 10001
T: 212.242.0599
http://www.vonlintel.com

Afruz Amighi Cages

beautifully delicate work that casts even better shadows

afruz amighi
cages
nicelle beauchene gallery 
21 orchard street, new york, ny 10002  
january 21 - february 28, 2010

Trying Them On

Great concept and works picked. The fascination with or the embracement of another culture that is "exotic" is something that I remember seeing frequently in Florida growing up. I find it equally hilarious and disturbing. Somewhat nostalgic too.

Michael Bühler- Rose

Trying Them On - Curated by Jon Feinstein
Presented by Humble Arts Foundation and Hendershot Gallery
Exhibition run: January 21 - February 27, 2010

"This group exhibition includes five photographers whose work explores fascination with “the other" through gendered, sexual, racial and subcultural costuming. The exhibiting photographers depict white Europeans and westerners who glamorize and vilify other cultures, at times presenting them as the enemy, while at others declaring them a cultural muse."

LINKS: Costume Photography

Costume Photography

via CRAFT by Arwen O'Reilly Griffith on 1/21/10

I love these amazing photographs by Aline Smithson. This series is of her mother in a range of incredible costumes, portraying her as everything from a bride to a geisha to a lion tamer to Elvis. I love the playful approach to portraiture, the hand-painted technique, and the incredible costumes. What a cool mom, too!


Here's what she has to say about it: "This series incorporates traditional photography techniques yet, becomes richer with the treatment of hand painting. It is my intent to have the viewer see the work in a historical context, with the addition of color, and at the same time, experience Whistler's simple, yet brilliant composition formula for the composition. My patient 85 year old mother posed in over 20 ensembles, but unfortunately passed away before seeing the finished series. I am grateful for her sense of humor and the time this series allowed us to be together." (Via Advanced Style, an awesome blog that highlights elderly fashionistas.)

LINKS: Gabriel Orozco

• The parts in this Mexican artist’s survey do not add up to a convincing whole

  
  

  Gabriel Orozco

  
  

  By Howard Halle
  

  
  

  Museum of Modern Art, through Mar 1
  

  
  Maybe I’m making too much of this, but judging from some of the reactions to Gabriel Orozco’s two-decade retrospective at MoMA, it appears that a number of people who like his work feel let down, as if the parts they admired all these years don’t quite amount to a satisfying whole. I can’t say that I share their disappointment, but then, I’ve never really been a fan of the Mexican artist. I can remember seeing his first one-person exhibition in New York in the mid-’90s, at Marian Goodman Gallery, and thinking, WTF. For that occasion, Orozco had nailed a series of transparent Dannon yogurt lids rimmed in blue to the walls—and that was it. They’re here, with a label assuring us that these otherwise dispensable bits of flotsam represent the artist’s courageous willingness to take risks. But since when has betting on the art world’s indefatigable appetite for supposedly edgy gestures constituted a long shot?
  Mexico has a tradition of leftist artists, and for this reason, perhaps, a certain political import is given to pieces like Yogurt Caps—that their very disposability somehow speaks to the plight of the global underclass. This has always struck me as preposterous given the weightlessness of Orozco’s oeuvre. But other, more poetical explanations for his efforts are likewise unconvincing—the idea, for instance, that the lids evoke the O in the artist’s last name. As far as such gestures go, it’s certainly more economical than those oversize initials you can buy in card shops, but that’s about all. Still, I have to agree that Orozco’s work seems driven more by solipsism than social consciousness.
  Whatever Orozco may be up to, there’s a hint of mawkishness here that sends some of the works veering dangerously in the direction of the Hallmark Store. My Hands Are My Heart (1991) looks like a valentine as Ana Mendieta might have conceived it: a rough lump of clay molded into the shape of the eponymous major organ. It retains the indentations of the fingers that shaped it, but in case we miss the point, it’s accompanied by a photo of the artist holding the object out from his bare chest, as if offering it in supplication to the viewer. Of course, the heart as a symbol has deep roots in Mexican culture and the Catholic faith that cradles it—the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Frida Kahlo’s The Two Fridas, Aztec sacrifice—but it’s hard to get past the pure sentimentality of this Arte Povera gesture. Are we supposed to feel ennobled by the artist’s spirit of generosity? At least Jeff Koons’s shiny stainless steel hearts possess the irony of an oppressive corporate presence.
  Other pieces fall similarly flat: a car sawed lengthwise, its middle third removed, before being welded back together again; an empty shoebox on the floor that seems to be begging for coins to be tossed into it; a large ball of plasticine (a sculpting clay that never hardens) covered in dirt and grime. This last item had been rolled through the streets of Mexico City, collecting bits of debris along the way, presumably as a talisman of slum culture, but here at MoMA, it resembles a giant kneaded eraser. If this piece is indeed intended to remind us of those who dwell at the bottom of the economic pyramid, it doesn’t help that it’s perched at the top.
  And therein lies the rub. Orozco’s very considerable reputation is based on the fact that he’s regarded as a pioneer of what’s often referred to as poststudio practice, a strategy that, as the name suggests, eschews the burden of the atelier for an approach that is site-specific and reliant on materials at hand. It’s also quite dependent on institutional support, which is why poststudio practice has flourished in an era when art fairs have proliferated and museum spaces have expanded worldwide. It’s instructive to compare today’s poststudio practitioners with the artists who arguably invented the genre in the late ’60s, like Robert Smithson. They went off to build earthworks in America’s Western desert in part because they wanted to get away from what they perceived to be the corrupting influence of the art world’s institutional and commercial system. No doubt they were being naive, but their work in retrospect retains an undeniable integrity, no matter how impoverished its form. Artists like Orozco, by contrast, set off for the very centers of power, bags lightly packed with the fig leaves of identity politics. In that respect, they shouldn’t be surprised that their work doesn’t hold up in the long run.
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Never Say Goodbye

An excellent concept, taking an old empty music store and turning into an art exhibit about music. Although a little late (I think a kids r us was in and out of there since tower closed) and not such an original idea since LMCC was already doing it with their swing spaces. Also the donation boxes everywhere is a little bit cheesy.

Never Say Goodbye

Broadway and 4th st.

New York City

January 16- February 13, 2010
Wednesday to Sunday, 12pm to 7pm

F.O.B: Yumi Janairo Roth

F.O.B: Yumi Janairo Roth 

Curator: Nadine Wasserman

January 16 – March 6, 2010
Cuchifritos Gallery
120 Essex St.
inside the essex st market

Links: Christian Boltanski: Personnes / Monumenta 2010 at Grand Palais Paris / Interview

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Links: Naoko Ito

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Naoko Ito

Links: Mary Iverson's Frontier

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Mary Iverson 

Links: Meet The Cosmonauts by Jeremy Geddes

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Jeremy Geddes

Adam Kruger

Adam Krueger Coleman Burke Gallery

638 West 28th Street, Ground Floor

January 14 – February 27, 2010

Alex Prager

Alex Prager

YANCEY RICHARDSON GALLERY 

535 West 22nd Street 3rd floor 

January 14 - February 20, 2010

Stripped Tied and Raw

David Noonan

Stripped Tied and Raw

Marianne Boesky

Group Show: Jorge Eielson, Donald Moffett, David Noonan, Steven Parrino, Salvatore Scarpitta

Jan 15 - Feb 13, 2010

Wide ranging in quality and kind of work.

Steven Yazzie

IN/SIGHT 2010

Chelsea Museum
A group show of contemporary art by American Indian Artists

January 15th – February 13 2010

The Rise and Fall of Excess Culture

Though all the pieces were great on there own (nicely picked) I'm not sure how they worked together as a group

AES+F

The Rise and Fall of Excess Culture

Curated by Jovana Stokic

Aaron Johnson, AES+F, Hilary Harkness, Patricia Iglesias, Shimon Okshteyn, Jelena Tomasevic, Zhou Tao

Stux Gallery

January 14, 2010 - February 6, 2010

Pakayla Biehn

Pakayla Biehn

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Links: Los Angeles MOCA Set to Name Jeffrey Deitch Director

Los Angeles MOCA Set to Name Jeffrey Deitch Director, Shake Up Art World

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BLANE DE ST. CROIX at Black and White Project Space

BLANE DE ST. CROIX

MOUNTAIN STRIP / PRESS RELEASE 

site-specific installation / on view until January 10, 2010

Black & White Project Space

483 Driggs Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11211 // t. 718-599-8775 // f. 718-599-8798

Pierogi: Chan Kok Hooi

Chan Kok Hooi

You Are Carnivores
8 January – 7 February, 2010

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177 north 9th street brooklyn, ny 11211 718.599.2144
noon to 6p friday through monday and by appointment

Links: Former Brooklyn Museum Payroll Manager Pleads Guilty

Former Brooklyn Museum Payroll Manager Pleads Guilty

by Samuel Newhouse (sam@brooklyneagle.net), published online 12-29-2009
PROSPECT HEIGHTS — The former payroll manager at the Brooklyn Museum has admitted he stole more than $620,000 by cutting checks to nonexistent employees...... via Brooklyn Eagle

The Brooklyn Museum Exhibitions: Extended Family: Contemporary Connections

This long term exhibition was wonderful.

Shinique Smith

Exhibitions: Extended Family: Contemporary Connections at the Brooklyn Museum

Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden on a Sponge

 On 24 February 2009 the Royal Court of Sweden officially announced the engagement of Crown Princess Victoria to Westling (a commoner). Their wedding is set to take place on 19 June 2010 in Stockholm.

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Dress Codes: The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video

Alice O'Malley

October 2, 2009–January 17, 2010

Dress Codes: The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video

The Triennial is ICP's signature exhibition: a global survey of the most exciting and challenging new work in photography and video

LINKS: Gingerbread House for your Mug

How-To: Tiny Gingerbread House for your Mug

via CRAFT by Natalie Zee Drieu on 12/19/09

Not Martha has a tutorial on how to make this cute tiny gingerbread house that can perch on the rim of your mug. You can download thYou can download the PDF template for the gingerbread cookie shapes. Thanks Sarah and Craftzine!

LINKS: NEWSGRIST: Top Ten Most Scathing Art Review Zingers of 2009

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Top Ten Most Scathing Art Review Zingers of 2009

Point blank. She didn't deserve it. Photograph: Emily Jacir creating Material for a film (performance). Courtesy The Artist And Alexander And Bonin, New York [link]
I offer this list without endorsement. These are simply the most withering remarks of the year. While I'm sure there are even pissier or at least equally scathing ones out there that I haven't included, these stand out. A simple web search of these writers will yield a rich crop of zingers every time, so if you are an art writer and you don't see your name here, maybe you're just not mean enough.

Top Ten Most Scathing Art Review Zingers of 2009
(in chronological order)

10. "THE NEW MET DIRECTOR WON’T LAST A YEAR. What was his name?" Artnet magazine: 2009 CRYSTAL BALL. By Charlie Finch, Jan 3, 2009
9. "There seems to be a mindlessness about his work that makes you wonder if even he knows what he is doing." NYTimes: Art in Review, JOSH SMITH 'Currents' Luhring Augustine. By Ken Johnson, Feb 27, 2009

8. "Jacir appears blind to the possibility that evil can fester in the most erudite and aesthetically inclined of souls, including, apparently, her own." -- Time Out NY: The Hugo Boss Prize 2008: Emily Jacir. By Howard Halle, Mar 5–11, 2009  

7. "By contrast, Fairey's claims to questioning authority through guerrilla interventions in the public sphere are jejune. Obey Giant is now an industry, Hello Kitty with pretensions." Los Angeles Times Culture Monster: Review: Shepard Fairey at ICA Boston. By Christopher Knight, March 23, 2009

6. "Scant of surface and image, with glancing, uneasy brushwork, they imply a divided attention and a reliance on pictorial short cuts and ambiguities to disguise limited skills. Although they are some of Bacon’s best-known works, they barely pass muster as paintings." NYTimes: If Paintings Had Voices, Francis Bacon’s Would Shriek. By Roberta Smith, May 21, 2009

5. "For the most part though, the favorite artists in today’s market are dead ones. Mine, too--they are a hell of a lot easier to deal with." Artnet magazine: Dick In Hand. By Kenny Schachter, July 9, 2009

4. "Condemnations of Dash Snow as a hipster fuck-off are bound to fade away, leaving only the picture of the soul of an artist. That's how legends—-and fortunes-—get made in the art world." Gawker: Dash Snow's Basquiat-ization. By Hamilton Nolan, July 15, 2009

3. "If it feels like what 'Younger than Jesus' is really inaugurating is the era of the exhibition as status update, then maybe that alone tells us something about where we are." ARTFORUM: The Generational: Younger than Jesus. By Gene McHugh, Summer 2009

2. "But even Ms. Emin appears to have reached a point of saturation—-and, finally, the capacity to be embarrassed—-with her own oversharing." NYTimes: Quite Big in Britain, Not Quite in the U.S. By ERIC KONIGSBERG, November 13, 2009

1. "If you spend more than twenty minutes with the three-floor extravaganza, you’re loitering. The New Museum could just as well not have done the show while saying it did. The effect would be roughly the same: expressing a practically reptilian institutional craving for a new art star." The New Yorker:  Putting on Urs. By Peter Schjeldahl, December 14, 2009 

All the Trimmings: a collection of works under $500

Denise DeSpirito

All the Trimmings: a collection of works under $500

Louis Zuflacht Studios at NY Studio Gallery

154 Stanton St.

New York, NY

212.627.3276

Thru Jan 23, 2010

works by:
Ronald PD Brandt, James Boyd-Brent,
Holly Ann Brooks, Denise DeSpirito,
Clea Felien, Gina Fuentes Walker,
Eunjung Hwang, Charlotta Janssen,
Lisa Lebofsky, Yen-Hua Lee,
Emmy Mikelson, Lilly Pereira, Heidi Russell

(IN)TANGIBLE

Really wonderfully curated show

Kazue Taguchi   

(IN)TANGIBLE

Thru Jan 9 2010

Taller Boricua Galleries 1680 Lexington Avenue, NYC, N.Y. 10029 / t: 212.831.4333
f: 212.831.6274 e: tallerboricua@yahoo.com www.tallerborica.org
6 Train to 103 Street / Free admission /

Dia Beacon

I discovered that one of the reasons that Dia Beacon has winter hours is that many of the galleries are lit by natural light. A little less awe inspiring 2nd visit, maybe because the first was really good.

Tim Burton at MOMA

Though it was crowded as the Tim Burton exhibit (as expected), you can get a glimpse at what the filmmaker envisioned with his movies. Fun with a bit of a themeparkesque feel. My favorites ended up being the funny little illustrations that weren't movie related.

Hunter MFA Thesis show

This show was great! Heres a few that I really liked:

Sarada Rauch

Jared Deery

MFA Thesis Exhibition

Thru January, 16 2010

Hunter College/Times Square Gallery

450 West 41 Street
New York, NY (map)
Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 1–6pm
(212) 772-4991

FREE Store Reception Today

On view: December 5, 2009 – January 9, 2010
Reception: Saturday, December 12, 4 – 6 pm

Cuchifritos is pleased to present, in collaboration withDouble A Projects (artists Athena Robles and Anna Stein) a new project, the Free Emporium and Gift Exchange, specially designed for the space at Cuchifritos. The Free Emporium and Gift Exchange is a franchise of the project Global Free Store and offers both an exhibition and interactive storefront experience. In a boutique-like setting, Free Emporium and Gift Exchange showcases Global Free Storeproducts, tags, prints and seeds, as well as photographs and video produced in conjunction with the Global Free Store. Visitors are encouraged to contribute their responses to the exhibition. In addition, as the gift-giving season is upon us, Free Emporium and Gift Exchange offers a special opportunity in which visitors can bring in their unwanted and unused holiday gifts to exchange for other items/unwanted gifts in the store.

Free Emporium and Gift Exchange continues the work of Double A Projects to examine alternative systems of support and the creative ways in which communities work to sustain them. The Global Free Store and its emporium is a roving, artist-run collaborative project based on demonstrating principles of generosity, self-sustainability and a gift economy in art. The debut incarnation of Global Free Store on Nassau Street attracted worldwide press and TV coverage in March 2009.

Special Bake Swap Event: Public Project by Rosa Ruey on Saturday, December 19th
To participate, bring canned or baking goods to theFree Emporium through Dec 16th during exhibition hours.

Asesinos

I liked the untraditional installation having a grouping from each of the artists in a pinwheel like formation.

Asesinos

Live With Animals 

Williamsburg / Greenpoint / Bushwick

210 Kent Avenue, corner of Metropolitan, 347-526-3179

December 11, 2009 - January 10, 2010 

KEITH NOORDZY

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KEITH NOORDZY

Great show at Pace, I loved the smell of the smoke and the atmosphere it gave the show.

PaceWildenstein "Zhang Huan: Neither Coming Nor Going" 545 West 22nd Street, featuring a monumental smoking buddha figure carved from ash, steel and wood & large- scale works on paper based on the ancient Chinese prophecy book, Tubei Tu On ViewDecember 11, 2009 through January 30, 2010

LINKS: Flavorwire: Art Shows We’d Hate to Clean Up After

Art Shows We’d Hate to Clean Up After

9:40 am Friday Dec 4, 2009 by Kelsey Keith

LINKS: Artforum: Artists Announced for 2010 Whitney Biennial

NEWS: Artists Announced for 2010 Whitney Biennial

via artforum.com on 12/10/09

2.11.09

The 2010 edition of the Whitney Biennial will not only try to chronicle current goings-on in contemporary art but will also reflect the world at large, reports Carol Vogel for the New York Times. Thus, in these recessionary times, the show will be smaller than it has been in recent years, with just fifty-five artists, down from eighty-one in 2008 and one hundred in 2006. It will also be contained in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s home, the Marcel Breuer building, rather than spilling over into a second location, as the 2008 Biennial did when it occupied much of the Park Avenue Armory or into Central Park as other Biennials have.

Next year’s event, which runs February 25–May 30, is being organized by Francesco Bonami, fifty-four, the Italian-born curator who helped put together the Rudolph Stingel retrospective at the Whitney in 2007, and Gary Carrion-Murayari, twenty-nine, a senior curatorial assistant at the museum who helped with the Biennials in 2004 and 2006.

On view will be a mix of well-known and new artists ranging in age from a twenty-three-year-old photographer, Tam Tran, to the seventy-five-year-old conceptual artist Lorraine O’Grady.

In a change from past years, the curators have limited each artist to one work or series, so that the Biennial will feel more like a snapshot of the state of art rather than a succession of miniretrospectives.

And unlike the one in 2006, this Biennial won’t have a theme. Bonami said he didn’t want one: “The theme is the year—2010—which is the title.”

David Adamo 
Born 1979 in Rochester, New York; lives in Berlin

Richard Aldrich 
Born 1975 in Hampton, Virginia; lives in Brooklyn, New York

Michael Asher 
Born 1943 in Los Angeles; lives in Los Angeles

Tauba Auerbach 
Born 1981 in San Francisco; lives in New York

Nina Berman 
Born 1960 in New York; lives in New York

Huma Bhabha 
Born 1962 in Karachi, Pakistan; lives in Poughkeepsie, New York

Josh Brand 
Born 1980 in Milwaukee; lives in Brooklyn, New York

Bruce High Quality Foundation 
Founded 2001 in Brooklyn, New York

James Casebere 
Born 1953 in East Lansing, Michigan; lives in Brooklyn, New York

Edgar Cleijne and Ellen Gallagher Born 1963 in Eindovern, the Netherlands/Born 1965 in Providence

Dawn Clements 
Born 1958 in Woburn, Massachusetts; lives in Brooklyn, New York

George Condo 
Born 1957 in Concord, New Hampshire; lives in New York

Sarah Crowner 
Born 1974 in Philadelphia; lives in Brooklyn

Verne Dawson 
Born 1961 in Meridianville, Alabama; lives in Saluda, North Carolina, and New York

Julia Fish 
Born 1950 in Toledo, Oregon; lives in Chicago

Roland Flexner 
Born 1944 in Nice, France; lives in New York

Suzan Frecon 
Born 1941 in Mexico, Pennsylvania; lives in New York

Maureen Gallace 
Born 1960 in Stamford, Connecticut; lives in New York

Theaster Gates 
Born 1973 in Chicago; lives in Chicago

Kate Gilmore 
Born 1975 in Washington, DC; lives in New York

Hannah Greely 
Born 1979 in Los Angeles; lives in Los Angeles

Jesse Aron Green 
Born 1979 in Boston; lives in Boston and Los Angeles

Robert Grosvenor 
Born 1937 in New York; lives on Long Island, New York

Sharon Hayes 
Born 1970 in Baltimore; lives in New York

Thomas Houseago 
Born 1972 in Leeds, England; lives in Los Angeles

Alex Hubbard 
Born 1975 in Toledo, Oregon; lives in Brooklyn, New York

Jessica Jackson Hutchins 
Born 1971 in Chicago; lives in Portland, Oregon

Jeffrey Inaba 
Born 1962 in Los Angeles; lives in New York

Martin Kersels 
Born 1960 in Los Angeles; lives in Los Angeles

Jim Lutes 
Born 1955 in Fort Lewis, Washington; lives in Chicago

Babette Mangolte 
Born 1941 in Montmorot (Jura), France; lives in New York

Curtis Mann 
Born 1979 in Dayton, Ohio; lives in Chicago

Ari Marcopoulos 
Born 1957 in Amsterdam; lives in Sonoma, California

Daniel McDonald 
Born 1971 in Los Angeles; lives in New York

Josephine Meckseper 
Born 1964 in Lilienthal, Germany; lives in New York

Rashaad Newsome 
Born 1979 in New Orleans; lives in New York

Kelly Nipper 
Born 1971 in Edina, Minnesota; lives in Los Angeles

Lorraine O’Grady 
Born 1934 in Boston; lives in New York

R. H. Quaytman 
Born 1961 in Boston; lives in New York

Charles Ray 
Born 1953 in Chicago; lives in Los Angeles

Emily Roysdon 
Born 1977 in Easton, Maryland; lives in New York and Stockholm

Aki Sasamoto 
Born 1980 in Yokohama, Japan; lives in Brooklyn, New York

Aurel Schmidt 
Born 1982 in Kamloops, British Columbia; lives in New York

Scott Short 
Born 1964 in Marion, Ohio; lives in Chicago

Stephanie Sinclair 
Born 1973 in Miami; lives in New York and Beirut, Lebanon

Ania Soliman 
Born 1970 in Warsaw; lives in Basel and New York

Storm Tharp 
Born 1970 in Ontario, Oregon; lives in Portland, Oregon

Tam Tran 
Born 1986 in Hue, Vietnam; lives in Memphis

Kerry Tribe 
Born 1973 in Boston; lives in Los Angeles and Berlin

Piotr Uklański 
Born 1968 in Warsaw; lives in New York and Warsaw

Lesley Vance 
Born 1977 in Milwaukee; lives in Los Angeles

Mariane Vitale 
Born 1973 in New York; lives in New York

Erika Vogt 
Born 1973 in East Newark, New Jersey; lives in Los Angeles

Pae White 
Born 1963 in Pasadena, California; lives in Los Angeles

Robert Williams 
Born 1943 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, lives in Chatsworth, California

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LINKS: Juxtapoz Exclusive Interview: Travis Louie

Travis Louis had a really wonderful show at Fuse in New York.

He's currently on view San Francisco’s Shooting Gallery.

Click here for the interview

Felicity Hogan

Felicity Hogan

First Seeking

2004

acrylic and oil on canvas

22" x 28"

The Lightness of Being

 Thru January 24, 2010

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Gregory Euclide

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NYtimes: The Manly Art of Museum Curating

The Manly Art of Museum Curating

By WENDELL JAMIESON

Published: November 28, 2009

 “Arts of the Samurai” show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. As we walked around admiring the many gleaming sword blades, fantastic helmets and braided suits of iron armor, I detected something unfamiliar in the air, at least in this museum. I couldn’t quite figure out what it was until we were standing at the cash register in the gift shop.

The saleswoman was speaking to the middle-age couple ahead of us. They were all laughing about something or other when she said: “You know, we’ve never seen so many men here at the museum. This show has filled our galleries with men.”

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Call for Submissions: Artists and Curators for Signal & Noise 2010

VIVO Media Arts Centre in Vancouver is currently seeking submissions by artists and curators for their Signal & Noise festival, which will take place May 27-29, 2010. Next year marks the tenth anniversary of this contemporary media and sound art festival, which showcases single and multi-channel audio & video works, live performances and immersive installations. The deadline for applications is January 10, 2010.

Phillip Toledano's Hope and Fear

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Mark Khaisman

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Columbia MFA Open Studios

Admittedly, this was my first Columbia MFA Open Studios. I was both pleasantly surprised at the work I saw and kind of frustrated by the hoards of people making in hard to get into studios much less to see the work, this was compounded by the fact that each studio building was only open for a few hours. If the hours were longer and if maybe they opened the first year students studios as well it wouldn't have been so congested.

Van Hanos

Jesse Weiss

James Colebright

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Studio Museum of Harlem

I missed the opening at the Studio Museum of Harlem for 30 Seconds off an Inch so I went up this weekend to see it along with their Open Studios. Though I really liked many of the pieces picked, it can be a little confusing where the show begins and ends.

Jayson Keeling - God is Alive

30 SECONDS OFF AN INCH 

November 12, 2009–March 14, 2010

The Studio Museum in Harlem 144 West 125th Street, New York, New York