Kissing is in the air, and not just because it’s spring and my allergies are attacking my face to death. No. Led by Tino Sehgal‘s “This Progress,” which opened at The Guggenheim back in January and featured “Kiss”, where exclusively male-female couples made out on the rotunda of the museum for like, all day, kissing [...]
How do you solve a problem like Lady Gaga? Give her a penis, apparently.
I’ve been thinking about Lady Gaga. (But who hasn’t?) I first became aware of the seemingly unstoppable pop sensation when Gawker sister-site Jezebel began posting paparazzi images of her back in January. (They’ve just published the year-in-Gaga anthology of images; definitely worth a looksie.) She emerged—to me—as a mute, mysterious image; a person fixated on [...]
Question: Is this kid performing?
I saw this MGMT video the other day, and I have to say, I thought it was brilliant. But also complicated, and, by my own definitions, unethical. (Skip about 1 minute in for the video proper.) Now, can we, as humans, find pleasure in the unethical? Umm, all the time! But obviously what intrigued me [...]
REGARDING ART, PERFORMANCE, AND THE PRINCIPLE OF CONSENT
Wednesday night, I attended Steven Cohen’s presentation of film works at CPR in Williamsburg. During one of the brief discussion breaks—led by a becostumed Cohen—one audience member prefaced his question by stating that “the audience inevitably becomes part of your work.” The assumption went unchallenged. It struck a particularly live chord for me, as throughout [...]
TO DO: Mt. Tremper Arts NYC Benefit Party
Mt. Tremper Arts – NYC Benefit Party Monday, April 27 7pm-9pm Powerhouse Books in DUMBO 37 Main Street Brooklyn, NY 8456889893 info@mttremperarts.com (more details below) Come out and support this amazing festival, founded by Aynsley Vandenbroucke and Mathew Pokoik. Arts, across the board, are in dire need of direct funding right now. If you can [...]
“Manchester, England, England!”
Early last evening, C.C. hit a little cocktail party/press conference at the W hotel in Union Square for the second Manchester Festival, an original-work biennial festival taking place in the jolly old town of Manchester UK. This year’s festival, taking place over two weeks in July, features a pretty serious 17-day performance art attack on [...]
“The Christ in Me” and “The Bagwell in Me”: A comparative analysis
Below, you will find a post that I prepared weeks ago but didn’t get around to finalizing. It’s a revisit to Ann Liv Young‘s “The Bagwell in Me.” It’s a kind of mega-rant, full of twists and turns, perversities, theories, doubts, and, as always, criticisms. I know this makes me officially obsessed with her work, [...]
Whitney Biennial Post-Mortem
Art Review: 2008 Whitney Biennial How will I know if it’s really art? It would be fabulous if we could ask Aretha Franklin what she knows about these things. But I’m afraid, with contemporary art, we’re on our own a lot of the time. Most people, no doubt, fear the relational free‑fall into which contemporary [...]
Yay boundaries!
L. Ro. invites readers to join in a few different threads of confab over on The Culturist. One of them is on something I had written about the Murakami exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. My comment was that “Art, by definition, is false,” and to me, Murakami’s art was too real, or too much part [...]
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