Nobody's Diary18/11/2009
I’m really sad I missed the meteor showers this week.
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17/11/2009
» 2009 Miami Art Fairs Map
Only two weeks until Miami!
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12/11/2009
continued thoughts on the New Museum controversy made visual. sadface.
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11/11/2009
» NYT: Some Object as Museum Shows Its Trustee’s Art
Dan Cameron, a former New Museum curator who is now artistic director of the Prospect New Orleans art biennial, said the choice of Mr. Koons made him uncomfortable. “I am a big fan of Jeff’s,” he said, “but he is not a fair or impartial or even interesting interpreter of what Dakis does.”
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09/11/2009
Announcing BAM Photography Portfolio IV Artists: Anna Gaskell
Once again, I am continuing highlighting the artists in the newest BAM Photography Portfolio. Up next is Anna Gaskell:
Anna Gaskell’s (b. 1969, Des Moines, IA) imagery explores what she calls “elliptical narrative” – fluid, layered stories that shift and change with each retelling, disrupting common storytelling conventions. Actors are carefully staged, placed in controlled pastoral settings of subtle artificiality. Recently and interestingly her practice has shifted towards film-making, which I think is reflected in this incredibly filmic work, which is comprised of six film stills. She has exhibited at Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami; White Cube, London; Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado; Menil Collection, Houston. Group exhibitions include Sightings at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; and Moving Pictures at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. She currently shows with Yvon Lambert. More images below:
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» Curator: Stressful jobs that pay badly. Thanks CNN...
89% of curators say their job is stressful (and underpaid considering the level of education needed and amount of work that actually needs to happen to make a show successful). Comparatively, only 71% of substance abuse counselors say their job is stressful. Career change?
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Is there such a thing as too much art?
On Friday, I saw Tacita Dean’s Craneway Event at St. Mark’s Church on the Bowery as part of Performa 09.
On Saturday, I saw Garcia and Granoff at the Kitchen (with the amazing Kate Bush Dance Troupe) at the Kitchen
This week is going to be busy… Come find me! Here is what I am going to be doing:
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06/11/2009
Another current installation of Felix Gonzales-Torres billboards found via Flickr.
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current installation of Felix Gonzales-Torres billboards found via Flickr.
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via Lindsay Pollock: Six mysterious billboards have appeared on the New York City skyline, featuring an evocative image of a rumpled, morning-after bed.
This is not some Calvin Klein ad missing the models, but instead a 1991 work by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, from MoMA’s collection.
The billboards have been erected courtesy of Chelsea’s FLAG Art Foundation, as part of “Floating a Boulder: Works By Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Jim Hodges,” a show on view through Jan. 2010.
Manhattan billboard spotting: Meatpacking district at the West Side Highway at 13th Street and in Tribeca at the intersection of Canal and Varick Street at the entrance to the Holland Tunnel.
Image: Felix-Gonzalez Torres, Untitled, 1991, billboard, location #22: 504 West 44th Street; size varies with installation. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Projects. Photo by Peter Muscato via BOMB
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Next Wave Art reviewed in this month’s Brooklyn Rail! link here!!
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There will be more about Alec Soth later since a work from this series just happens to be in Photography Portfolio IV. But I am going in alphabetical order by last name so this won’t be for a while. Nevertheless, I love this work that Jen Bekman posted. Up next for PP4 artists will be Anna Gaskell.
Grand Twin Cinema, Paris, Texas 2006 by Alec Soth from Thirty-three Theaters and a Funeral Home
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