Prospect 2-New Orleans
The Prospect 2 biennial runs from Oct. 22, 2011 to January 29, 2012. Founded in 2008 by curator Dan Cameron after Hurricane Katrina, it was created in an effort to help revitalize the city. I was so sad I didn’t make it to Prospect 1 as I heard it was amazing. 42,000 people [...]
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At the Old U.S. Mint one found William Eggleston’s black and white nightclub portraits–single images of characters from 1970s clubs. These works were quite different from the typical photos of his found in most exhibitions. Also on view was An-My Le’s Delta: New Orleans, Louisiana 2011. The artist spent time in Louisiana and visited different Vietnamese communities of the [...]
Highlights from Miami 2011
I honestly think this is my first trip to Miami where I was unable to see everything I wanted to. Obviously I was down there for work so I had different priorities this trip. However, I still managed to see a lot of cool stuff, and some total crap too.
The best show [...]
On a perfect day at the end of July the artist Jonathan Prince and his lovely wife, Bridget, invited a handful of people to their home/studio in the Berkshires for a sneak peek at the four pieces that will be included in an upcoming exhibition he is creating for the Sculpture Garden at 590 Madison Avenue [...]
No time like the present to go see something that has been on my list for quite some time, Kiki Smith and Deborah Gans’s window at the Eldridge Street Synagogue. The synagogue opened in 1887 when hundreds of Jewish immigrants flooded the Lower East Side of Manhattan. It was the first time in the US [...]
Though they were unveiled the day before my visit on a cold and dreary rainy day, I managed to see the animal heads on a beautiful spring day here in NYC. Somehow managing to be majestic and whimsical the work has a special poignancy due to the continued unknown whereabouts of the creator, Chinese artist [...]
Though the 38 sculptures of pink and red roses have been up for a couple of months already, they will remain on view until May 31st so you still have plenty of time to see the work which can be found in the medians of Park Avenue from 57th to 67th Street. The son of [...]
For a limited time you can pop into the Park Avenue Armory to see a new film by the artist Sue de Beer. It only runs a couple of times a day through Sunday and it’s free. A thirty minute journey of remembrance and flashbacks, the work is something everyone can relate to–a lost love. [...]
Fritsch and Elmgreen and Dragset’s maquettes for the Fourth Plinth,
© James O. Jenkins, courtesy of the artist
This morning it was announced that Elmgreen and Dragset and Katharina Fritsch will be the next artists to have work on view on the Fourth Plinth. Entitled “Powerless Structures, Fig. 101″ the golden statue of a child astride a [...]
This morning I attended a breakfast hosted by ArtTable where the artist Jessica Stockholder spoke about her work. She received her MFA from Yale and is now the Director of Sculpture there. She is best known for making site related work internationally. Color and space are points of departure for her.
In smaller works, the existing [...]