Hallucinating With Fred Tomaselli

Brooklyn-based artist, Fred Tomaselli is about 5 days into his show at the Brooklyn Museum.  Though I am not a big fan of going into the desert to take hallucinogens and commune with coyotes, I am enamored with Tomaselli’s meticulously crafted psychedelic artwork.  Tomaselli’s work is often composed of collaged elements including the requisite cut-out [...]

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Art and Taxi Cab Drivers

Art invades the streets via New York City cabs. From September 9 through September 15, visual artist Amir Baradaran will debut TRANSIENT, a series of 40-second video installations infiltrating NYC taxicabs for one week. “TRANSIENT is intended as an ephemeral gift, foregrounding the possibilities of liminal states. Baradaran seeks to capture, challenge and transform the [...]

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Sally Potter at MoMA

A scene from “Yes” on the left and Tilda Swinton in “Orlando” on the right Always political, always experimental, Sally Potter is one of the most exciting filmmakers in contemporary cinema.  MoMA took notice this month and screened her masterwork, Orlando, which managed to launch both her own and Tilda Swinton’s career.  Based on the [...]

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A Lush Life on the Lower East Side

The literary and visual arts are intersecting in New York’s Lower East Side, thanks to independent curators Omar Lopez-Chahoud and Franklin Evans who have assembled an intricate group show based on the popular LES detective novel “Lush Life” by Richard Price.  The eponymous group show utilizes nine Lower East Side galleries as geographical correspondents to [...]

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Favorite: Eva Hesse

Eva Hesse was one of the artists who led the Postminimalist movement. She was a brilliant sculptor and painter who took such cold and unfriendly materials as latex, fiberglass, and plastic and imbued them with warmth and the pulse of a beating heart. She died before her time but not before leaving behind a prolific [...]

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Know Your (Art) History

Found this via the Swiss-Miss site. It pretty much sums up anything you need to know and ends the debate over who owns what in the history of art. Brilliant.

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A Look Back: “Five Series of Repetitions” by Xu Bing

I love printmaking. I love the selection of papers, I love the processes, and I love how versatile a craft it is. An artist can silkscreen an edition of 200 to make some affordable works or he can execute a more painstaking process – woodblock, lithography – for one magnanimous creation. Chinese artist Xu Bing [...]

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