NY TIMES DIVERSITY DAY! Juuust in case you had forgotten why we all need a faithful Counter Critic in our lives, Martha Schwendener at The Times, with the flick of the whitey, throws down this inanely reductionist and haphazardly authoritative phrase in her listing for the Studio Museum of Harlem‘s “Midnight’s Daydreams” exhibition. Regarding the [...]
TO DO: Studio Museum of Harlem
My girls up at the Studio Museum of Harlem are having a little soiree and discussion for their resident artists, Titus Karphar, Wardell Milan, and Demetrius Oliver. I saw the show, and so should you. 7PM TONIGHT 144 West 125th Street: A, C, B, D, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 all to 125th Street Yes, [...]
Walk It Off, Girls
Ouch. Our amigas over at the Studio Museum of Harlem got a little beat-down from Nicolai Ouroussoff in The Times for their current exhibit featuring architectural models and sketches from David Adjaye. Don’t fret ladies. We got your back. And if there were like some kind of tunnel that ran in a straight line from [...]
Critics Award of the Day (CAD): Leslie Camhi gets on Richard Serra
Even though she’s wrong, because size does matter, even if critically we believe it shouldn’t, Leslie Camhi writes a lovely piece in The Voice on Richard Serra’s GIGANTOR exhibition at MoMA, with a crazy excursion into hot sex. (Does anybody else think this piece looks like a big vagina? “Intersection” my ass!) Here’s the tasty, [...]
Alas, not so poor Yorick
Damien Hirst’s diamond skull. Part of me thinks this is totally hot. Part of me thinks its gross and reprehensible. Part of me wonders what the world is coming to. Part of me is afraid of death. Part of me wonders if I had the resources, would I choose to make this kind of art. [...]
Post-It
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 work that established [...]
Critics Award of the Day (CAD): Howard Halle on Neo Rauch at The Met
Not many writers manage to find a way to fit in the phrase “cock-up” without intending some kind of sexual entendre. But TONY‘s Howard Halle does in this well-written commendation for the Neo Rauch show that’s currently going on at The Met. I haven’t seen Rauch’s work in person, but from the sound of it, [...]
Secular Crap
Edward Rothstein chimes in again on make believe with this follow up article on the American Museum of Natural History’s “Mythic Creatures” exhibit. Here, he gives similar leniency to those who want to believe in mermaids, unicorns and cyploses as he did in yesterday’s piece on the Creation Museum to those who want to believe [...]
Holy Crap
If you grew up Christian, this NYT article might remind you of everything you ran away from as soon as you left home for college to become a gay, meth-addicted baby killer. But now it’s all collected in one place, juuust in case you get nostalgic for the denial of scientific inquiry. The piece walks [...]
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