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Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:59:38 -0500

I was on the LES on Saturday and I passed by this building on...

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:00:00 -0500

I was on the LES on Saturday and I passed by this building on the corner of Houston and Mulberry. 290 Mulberry is the exact address and the building turns out to be a new luxury building. I dare you to go to the developer’s website and see how much a loft is going for! No wonder the building is vacant. I hope it will stay this way for a long time because the light show they put up is lovely!

"Conceptual art is only good when the idea is good."

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:15:10 -0500

“Conceptual art is only good when the idea is good.”

- Sol Lewitt

Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and South-African video...

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:33:00 -0400

Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and South-African video artist Robin Rhode reinvent Musorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition by adding video and imagery. Don’t miss their live performance at the Lincoln Center in New York on November 13-14, 2009.

World premiere!

Liu Dong, We Tend to Become Emotionally Involved in Subject...

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:32:20 -0400

Liu Dong, We Tend to Become Emotionally Involved in Subject Matters that Were Invented, 2009.

"they talk down through the centuries to us, and this we need more and more, the statues and..."

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:13:02 -0400

“

they talk down through
the centuries to us,
and this we need more and more,
the statues and paintings
in midnight age
as we go along
holding dead hands.

and we would say
rather than delude the knowing:
a damn good show,
but hardly enough for a horse to eat,
and out on the sunshine street where
eyes are dabbled in metazoan faces
i decide again
that in theses centuries
they have done very well
considering the nature of their
brothers:
it’s more than good
that some of them,
(closer really to the field-mouse than
falcon)
have been bold enough to try.

”

- Charles Bukowski, On Going Back To The Street After Viewing An Art Show

…because today is National Poetry Day (US).

It’s fascinating how Berlin artist Dennis...

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:52:00 -0400

Gentle Civilizer, 2009

Parasite #17, 2009

Sponger #06, 2009.

Sponger #06, 2009.

It’s fascinating how Berlin artist Dennis Feddersen’s biomorphic works take over the space they occupy, devouring it, feeding off of it. I find Gentle Civilizer particularly interesting as it reminds me of Gregor Samsa’s transformation into a gigantic pest in Kafka’s Metamorphis.

Don’t miss the 13th annual D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge...

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:06:00 -0400

Don’t miss the 13th annual D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival!It starts this evening and continues throught Sunday, September 27, 2009.

Elisa Strinna and Eva Cenghiaro,Wood song, 2007.

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:09:55 -0400

Elisa Strinna and Eva Cenghiaro,Wood song, 2007.

"It is self-evident that nothing concerning art is self-evident any more."

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:05:29 -0400

“It is self-evident that nothing concerning art is self-evident any more.”

- Theodor Adorno

"Our fine arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times very different from..."

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:02:01 -0400

“Our fine arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times very different from the present, by men whose power of action upon things was insignificant in comparison with ours. But the amazing growth of our techniques, the adaptability and precision they have attained, the ideas and habits they are creating, make it a certainty that profound changes are impending in the ancient craft of the Beautiful. In all the arts there is a physical component which can no longer be considered or treated as it used to be, which cannot remain unaffected by our modern knowledge and power. For the last twenty years neither matter nor space nor time has been what it was from time immemorial. We must expect great innovations to transform the entire technique of the arts, thereby affecting artistic invention itself and perhaps even bringing about an amazing change in our very notion of art.”

- Paul Valéry, Pièces sur L’Art, 1931

Tracking Happiness, a solo show by Romanian artist Mircea Cantor...

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:25:00 -0400

Tracking Happiness, a solo show by Romanian artist Mircea Cantor is on at Kunsthaus Gallery (Zurich, Switzerland) until November 8, 2009.

A young Conceptual artist influenced by Duchamp, Mircea Cantor challenges the way we routinely see things through subtle, almost imperceptible gestures. He employs photography, video, or art installation to create a fluid, ever-changing reality that evades categorization.

In this instance, Cantor addresses the traces left and deleted of a society whose history is recorded by computer communication and systems of surveillance. With scarcely any written records, and a higher risk of systems crashing down, of information being deleted, will there be anything left to remind future generations of the the way we lived?

To get a sense of the exhibition, watch the video. I just did and now I really wish I could fly to Zurich!

Raquel Ormella, I’m worried this will become a slogan,...

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:18:11 -0400

Raquel Ormella, I’m worried this will become a slogan, 1999–2002.

Jürg Lehni and Alex Rich, Empty Words, 2009. You can see this...

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:23:41 -0400

Jürg Lehni and Alex Rich, Empty Words, 2009.

You can see this work and others by the artists at the Swiss Institute ( 495 Broadway, 3rd Floor, New York) beginning from September 19 to October 31.

Ola Pehrson, Yucca Invest Trading Plant, 1999. In this...

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:12:00 -0400

Ola Pehrson, Yucca Invest Trading Plant, 1999.

In this installation, a computer software gathers data from a yucca plant through electrodes and transmitters and links them to an online source for stock trading. The plant is hence trained in the market economy and, depending on its success of investment, is rewarded according to its own vital values: water and light.

Nicolas Deshayes, System Sustained, 2008. Cement, Vitamin C and...

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:05:38 -0400

Nicolas Deshayes, System Sustained, 2008. Cement, Vitamin C and steel.

Lawrence Malstaf, Nemo Observatorium, 2002. A video of a...

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:05:16 -0400

Lawrence Malstaf, Nemo Observatorium, 2002. A video of a simulation of a typhoon, to be experienced individually on a chair in the centre of the storm.

From the See Through series,...

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:27:00 -0400

Helga Steppan- All My Things/white

Helga Steppan- All My Things/black

Helga Steppan- All My Things/yellow

From the See Through series, 2004.

http://www.re-title.com/artists/cv/helga-steppan.asp

Jorge Macchi, La Ascension. A collaborative with Edgardo...

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:13:07 -0400

Jorge Macchi, La Ascension. A collaborative with Edgardo Rudnitzky for the Argentine Pavillion, Venice Biennale 2005.

"I think it’s quite a good thing to do, but it’s stupid for other people to do it, or to buy it from..."

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:54:00 -0400

“

I think it’s quite a good thing to do, but it’s stupid for other people to do it, or to buy it from me. What matters is the feeling. I discovered it’s a great feeling to pick out a point on the map and to search for the place for three days, and then to find there are only two trees standing there, and a dog pissing against the tree. But someone who tried to buy that from you would be really stupid, because the work of art is the feeling, and he couldn’t buy that from me.
… … … … … … … .

I must say I don’t see how to sell these kinds of ideas. If someone can use them he can take them. Selling is not a part of art.

”

- -Jan Dibbets, Dutch Conceptual Artist