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 [...]
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 [...]
Our cheatin’ heart
Hey, y’all! (a la Brit) So, I know some of you think I ain’t been writin’ recently. But t’aint true! I just been writin’ somewheres else. Check these dance reviews over at The Brooklyn Rail: First, Neal Medlyn and Jack Ferver queer it up at The New Museum… Whether we’re post-gay, post-AIDS, post-Will & Grace, [...]
Not The End of the World
The New York Times went ape shit this morning after Phillipe de Montebello announced his plans to retire from being the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art yesterday. They published not one, not two, but three articles on the chief’s departure. First, Carol Vogel gives you the sober details. Cold hard facts with a [...]
Little House on the MoMA
It’s hard to imagine a more precise example of contemporary decadence than erecting five homes that are not to be lived in, only to be looked at, then taken away. This is essentially what MoMA has planned for their exhibit of prefabricated homes, as reported by Robin Pogrebin in The Times. Well, come on. It’s [...]
Liebestodt: Performa 07, “Grand Finale”
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, [...]
Art Bashing
What gives, people?!?! The Times reports on two instances of crazy m-er f-ers vandalizing artwork. First, some drunken lout pushed his fist through a Monet at the Musee D’Orsay. Then YouTube posts an actual coup de culture that took place at a little university gallery in Sweden that was displaying some sexually explicit photos by [...]
Outsourcing
NY TIMES DIVERSITY DAY! “A New Museum [IN ENGLAND] Is Frank In Its Exploration of the Slave Trading Past,” by Jane Perlez, of The Times “He ain’t white! He ain’t white! He definitely…ain’t…white!” Anyone see Not Another Teen Movie???
-
Recent Comments
