Nobody's Diary09/11/2009
» 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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05/11/2009
Announcing BAM Photography Portfolio IV Artists: Roe Ethridge
Western Diamondback, 2006, C-Print; Courtesy of the Artist and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Continued from yesterday, here is the work by Roe Ethridge. Ethridge (b. 1969, Miami, FL) queries the fault lines between creating imagery and capturing the world. He arranges his large-format photographs into series whose precise meaning remains elusive. At first glance his groupings may seem like selections from a stock-photography archive, but they are infused with an element of nostalgia and the uncanny. His photographs have appeared in numerous group exhibitions, including Photographers on Photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; 2008 Whitney Biennial; The Americans, The Barbican Center, London; and Greater New York, P.S. 1, New York. In 2005 the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, mounted a solo show of his work. More images after the jump.
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04/11/2009
Announcing BAM Photography Portfolio IV Artists: Anne Collier
So, Photography Portfolio IV is finally (just about, at least) done. I am thrilled with the results. Sales have started - slowly but surely - which is also good news and we are preparing to go to Miami in December. I wanted to focus on each participating artist, highlighting their donated image and several other examples of their work. First up, Anne Collier:
Notes and Observations (Page 41), 2008, C-Print, Image Size: 21.5 x 22.3 inches; Paper Size: 24 x 30 inches; Courtesy of the Artist and Anton Kern Gallery, New York; Mark Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles; Corvi-Mora Gallery, London; and Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin
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03/11/2009
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