Founded in 1971 by Alanna Heiss, P.S.1 was created as an organization devoted to organizing exhibitions in abandoned spaces across New York City. Now located in Long Island City, P.S.1 became affiliated with the Museum of Modern Art in 2000 and now uses its spaces for exhibitions rather than as a collecting institution. (more…)
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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010Gallery Spotlight: Richard Misrach at PaceWildenstein
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Recent photos by Los Angeles born photographer Richard Misrach are on display through February 20 at the Chelsea gallery, part of PaceWildenstein galleries, in New York. The exhibition features nearly twenty large-scale pigment prints from Misrach’s 2007-2009 series, Untitled.
Gallery Spotlight: Ryan Schneider at Priska C. Juschka Fine Art Gallery
Sunday, February 14th, 2010
Through February 20, Ryan Schneider’s Send Me Through will be on display at Priska C. Juschka Fine Art Gallery in New York. Schneider’s work continues investigating the human condition through personal experience using painting. (more…)
Gallery Spotlight: Leon Botha and Gordon Clark at João Ferreira Gallery
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
Leon Botha is, at 24, the oldest living person with Progeria, a Greek word for rapid aging. His latest exhibition, Who Am I? – Transgressions, is different from what he usually does and can be seen in Cape Town, South Africa at João Ferreira Gallery through February 13.
Gallery Spotlight: Glitch Generation at BAC Gallery
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Beginning February 4 visitors to the Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery will be able to see Glitch Generation, a group exhibition of artworks based off of mistakes, intentional or not, in the wiring of our brains.
Gallery Spotlight: Quintron and Miss Pussycat at NOMA
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
The New Orleans Museum of Art kicks off its 2010 Contemporary exhibition January 29 through May 2 with New Orleans artists Quintron and Miss Pussycat. Parallel Universe: Quintron and Miss Pussycat Live at City Park is designed to get audiences acquainted with the artists’ past work while exposing their new work.
Gallery Spotlight: Pop-Up Art Loop
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
In the time of the recession, cities all over the world have started using empty storefronts as pop-up art galleries. Pop-Up Art Loop is the latest initiative put into place by the Chicago Loop Alliance and features four art galleries, creating partnerships between artists and property owners. (more…)
Gallery Spotlight: Barry McGee at the XeBiennale de Lyon
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
San Francisco-based artist Barry McGee joined a long list of others for the 2009 edition of XeBiennale de Lyon, The Spectacle of the Everyday, in France. The XeBiennale de Lyon is a yearly compilation of artists from all over the world spread between four venues. (more…)
Gallery Spotlight: Dzine at Bass Museum of Art in Miami
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
Through February 21, Chicago-based artist Dzine’s latest work can be seen on display at Bass Museum of Art in Miami. A former graffiti artist, his latest work comes in the form of a site-specific project comprising of wallpaper, objects and sound.
Gallery Spotlight: Lisa Erf featured in Group Exhibit at Byron Roche Gallery in Chicago
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009Lisa Erf’s series of new collages is currently being showcased at the Byron Roche Gallery in Chicago through December 31. The series of landscape collages are Erf’s latest work, comprised of images from tons of different publications.
This series of landscapes are full of bright colors, fantasy and mystery. To create this aesthetic Erf has been collecting clips from natural history books, cookbooks, children’s books, medical books, travel guides and instruction manuals (just to name a few) for decades while doing studio work.
Natural Universe features a dark sky and looming clouds over a desert landscape filled with sea creatures like seashells and coral, along with mushrooms and flowers. The Big Surprise shows a bright blue sky and is filled with brightly colored butterflies, flowers and a snake.
This group exhibition also showcases works of other Byron Roche artists such as the abstract paintings of Jeremy Vajda.
Gallery Spotlight, by Shelby Blitz, is a series of weekly short features on art exhibitions, and the galleries that host them, from all corners of the world
Gallery Spotlight: Os Gemeos “Vertigo” at Brazilian Art Museum
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Brothers Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo’s, better known as Os Gemeos (Portuguese for “the twins”), first exhibition ever in their hometown of São Paulo, Brazil is currently on display through December 15 at the Brazilian Art Museum. Recognized worldwide for their graffiti, Vertigo, also incorporates painting, sculpture and sound objects.
Gallery Spotlight: Design Festa Gallery East & West
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
Located in Tokyo’s Harajuku district, home of Japanese fashion, Design Festa Gallery East and West is unlike any art gallery you’ve seen before. The West branch of the gallery opened in 1998 in support of Asia’s biggest art event, Design Festa and in 2007, the East branch opened just across the street. (more…)
Grails Guitarist Discusses Creating Album Art for Doomsdayer’s Holiday
Friday, November 7th, 2008
Doomsdayer’s Holiday is the new release by Portland’s instrumental rock band Grails. Fusing Indian music, 1970s film noir, and psychedelic sounds into heavy acoustic and electric rock, Grails is a wonderful anomaly. I recently spoke with guitarist Alex Hall, who created the artwork for the album. (more…)
Jeff Koons Book, Edited by Francesco Bonami
Monday, September 29th, 2008
Jeff Koons is the ex-Wall Street broker come wildly successful kitsch artist that critics around the world hate to love.
Previously married to Ilona “Cicciolina” Staller, a Hungarian pornstar who became a member of Italian parliament (true story), Koons is likely best known for his Statuary, Kiepenkerl series in which he cast several different inflatable toys in immaculate stainless steel. Pieces from this series are included in a current survey of his work at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago—his first solo US exhibition in 16 years. (more…)
Weekly Burlesque: Porcelain Twinz
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
There are several velvet-rope bars on Christie Street in Manhattan, in a section of the city formerly reserved for lower-income working class immigrants, especially Ukrainians, Italians, and Germans. The Europeans gathering on the outside of the ropes are hardly working class, however; everything they’re wearing is either designer or ironic, and the price they’ll have to pay a for bottle of champagne or vodka in the club is about what it would cost to have that bottle flown in singly in its own airplane seat. (more…)
