-- A Cyberspace Review Of The Arts
Volume 20.3
May 9, 2013
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Vivian Maier Documentary See the Vivian Maier Newsletter for the story about the new documentary. Our review of Vivian Maier's work is here. |
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JUDITH SCHAECHTER IN NYC
Judith Schaechter: Battle of Carnival and Lent At Claire Oliver Gallery, NYC This is not a review, but a pointer to the announcement of Judith Schaechter's upcoming show at the Claire Oliver Gallery in New York, where you can see the works we reviewed while they were still at the Eastern State Penitentiary site in Philadelphia. The show will be there from May 23d until June 29, and there is a reception with the artist on May 23d from 6 to 8 p.m. The Claire Oliver Gallery is at 513 West 26th St. in New York. For more information, see the announcement, http://judithschaechterglass.blogspot.com/2013/05/esp-work-on-exhibit-opening-may-23.html; see the Artezine article for an idea of what to expect. (permalink) | ||
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S H E L L G A M E
'Shell Game': Molly Crabapple At Smart Clothes Gallery This is not a review, just a pointer to this show and artist, whose most recent works have been noticed in Wired, The New York Times, HuffPo, The Village Voice, and so forth. The public show opening is at 7 p.m. April 14th (this evening as I'm writing this) and is to be an Event. It will be up for only a short time. I strongly recommend it; the artist's combination of a sensuous, indeed luscious graphic style, sharp wit, surrealism, humor, and political consciousness are not to be missed. See the artist's web site for further information. The gallery is at 154 Stanton Street (corner of Suffolk Street in the Lower East Side) and the opening is at 7 p.m. April 14. |
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Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt at MoMA/PS1
Entering this exhibition, which occupies one of the larger spaces at MoMA/PS1, was overwhelming. I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like it. The entire space is filled with numerous, mostly shiny artifacts, made of the most diverse materials, mostly things one might obtain from a 99-cent store or a trash pile. Several themes and concerns come together: formal pictorial and plastic values; religious sensibility and aesthetics; Gay and general sexuality; class politics; diverse cultures; the conflicts and cross-pollination between these elements. (CONTINUED....) | ||
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Judith Schaechter
at Eastern State Penitentiary by Gordon Fitch
On a chilly day late in November, as the sun was
already declining towards the horizon, I found myself
within the heavy, gray stone walls of a prison,
or rather the ruin of a prison.... |
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Susan Roecker's Cat(s)
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Like a figure in a dream, Vivian Maier begins to
disappear even as we catch sight of her. With one
ambiguous gesture she points out our world and
shows us things that were always there, but which
we had never seen; with another, she declines our
questions and steps back into the darkness. We
want to call out to her to wait, but the dream
silences us, and then she is gone forever. We
turn and, scattered all around us, see the objects
of her work, an enormous treasure we will spend
years, even lifetimes, trying to order and decode.
About Maier herself, we can mostly only guess. ...
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Morgan Taylor at Art Lab Galleries
by Robert Sievert
For a show of summer landscapes, Morgan Taylor's
recent exhibit in the Art Lab Galleries, is not
without controversy. Mostly, controversy about
the light of the work. Read about it
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Tending Toward the Untamed: Artists Respond to the Wild Garden, at Glyndor House, Wave Hill in the Bronx, from April 3 to August 19, 2012. This is a rich and thought provoking exhibition that includes a visit to Wave Hill's Wild Garden, and highlights the work of eight artists who use technology, new media, and traditional representation. Paths through both Gallery and Garden are well worth exploring and then re-visiting as the experience builds on itself. Continued here.... |
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Lucian Freud at Acquavella
by Robert Sievert A recent show of Freud's drawings reviewed here .... |
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Leo Kenney
Considering the case of a remarkable, now nearly-forgotten artist of the Northwest -- read about it here .... |
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Images from the I Ching
A review of Barry Fishman's 80-painting interpretation
of the Book of Changes (I Ching), by Robert Sievert
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Henry Taylor
at MoMA/PS1
A review of the recent show at MoMA/PS1
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C0NSTRUCTIONS OF CONSCIENCE: By Robert Sievert
Susan Grabel has amassed a formidable body of work
over the past 40 years. I never understood it as
an ongoing singularity until I viewed her work in
a retrospective now being shown at the Staten Island
Museum (January 29 through May 28, 2012). Susan is a
figurative sculptor of great ability. She can model
a figure with remarkable accuracy achieving form that
is definitely understandably human. . . .
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'Stuart Sherman Reappears' Reappears ... a book review
Read it |
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Lee Bontecou at Freedman Art
Lee Bontecou, whose work was most recently seen in New York City at a retrospective at the sadly departed MoMA/Queens in 2004 and at MoMA proper in 2010, now has a small gem of a show at Friedman Art just off Madison Avenue at 73d Street in the Upper East Side, for the moment at least a locus of innovation and inspiration among the endless boutiques thereabouts which now seem mostly trapped in 1920s retro. The show will be there until February 11th. Read more here.... |
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George Kuchar At MoMA-PS1
George Kuchar's Pagan Rhapsody, a show of video, film, cartooning and painting designed by the artist before his death earlier this year, has come to MoMA-PS1 in Long Island City. Read about it here... |
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