WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
WHITNEY LIVE SERIES AND CHEZ BUSHWICK PRESENT
MAGNETIC LABORATORIUM
POLIS 07 VIDEO ART PERFORMANCE
DIRECTED BY MARISELA LA GRAVE
FRIDAY / JANUARY 11 / 2008 / 7PM
(C.C. be in it to win it.)
January 11, 2008
Categories: Art World, Dance, Events, Film, Gallery, Opera, Theater, To Do, Uptown, Video . . Author: countercritic . Comments: No Comments
RITE OF SPRING MONDAY! (Oh boy…
The second round of the rock-em-sock-em performance art biennial known as Performa, ended Monday night in a self-immolating “Grand Finale” at the Hudson Theater in Times Square. The festival, which has made us all laugh, cry, pull out our hair, stress out way too much about our fashion sensibility, and [...]
November 22, 2007
Categories: Art World, Downtown, Events, Gallery, Lincoln Center, Museums, Performa 07, Pop Culture, Rant, Uptown . . Author: countercritic . Comments: 5 Comments
November 16, 2007
Categories: Dance, Downtown, Gallery, To Do . . Author: countercritic . Comments: No Comments
C.C. makes a New York Times debut!
So we’ve been following L. Ro.’s ArtsBeat coverage of Performa 07, as you know. And we were moved, for various reasons, to address some…concerns we’ve been having. Long story short, we posted this hot comment, and they actually published it! It totally relates to our last post. [...]
November 15, 2007
Categories: Art World, Blogs, Brooklyn, Critics, Dance, Downtown, Editorial, Gallery, NY Times, Performa 07 . . Author: countercritic . Comments: 1 Comment
The etylomology of OUTRAGE, a word that has been associated with the work of Ann Liv Young since her days at Hollins, stems from, in its oldest sense, ideas of excess and extravagance. However, when used today to describe something (as outrageous), it is more often used to mean beyond reasonable limits, which is, I [...]
September 10, 2007
Categories: Art World, Critics, Dance, Downtown, Gallery, NY Times, Pop Culture, Pop Music, Review, Time Out . . Author: countercritic . Comments: 5 Comments
Kate Taylor reports for The Sun on a new exhibition of graphic music scores at The Kitchen.
It’s kind of hilarious that the beginning of the article is basically like, the creators of the exhibition decided not to include John Cage. Then she goes on for two pages about John Cage. And rightly so. He is [...]
September 5, 2007
Categories: Classical Music, Downtown, Gallery, NY Sun, New Music . . Author: countercritic . Comments: No Comments
Is creep the new cache?
Nymphettes get another rolling over in the Morton Bartlett show at the Julie Saul Gallery, as reported by The Times.
Anatomically correct dolls with their own wardrobes?!
Now I can finally get rid of My Buddy!
August 8, 2007
Categories: Art World, Gallery, NY Times . . Author: countercritic . Comments: 1 Comment
Is the art world getting over identity politics? Post-black? Post gay? Post-post? Possibly, according to Jori Finkel’s piece on artists-who-all-happen-to-be-black Edgar Arceneaux, Rodney McMillian, Mark Bradford and Kori Newkirk in The Times.
I would argue that any work that is liberated from a sense of obligation to biological/cultural is bound to the [...]
June 11, 2007
Categories: Art World, Gallery, Museums, NY Times . . Author: countercritic . Comments: No Comments