Photos For Tino

Ben Davis of ArtNet writes about Tino Sehgal.  Good piece to be read in conjunction with the more general NY Times article from 2009 and the one from 2007. Photos For Tino – artnet Magazine

Artspeak of the Day

Here’s a delicious nugget of artspeak. Let’s hope it’s a translation problem.

DIANE CARR: Cold Comfort

Diane Carr – a painter I particularly admire – is back with another gallery show. December 9 – 11, 2009 at Gallery SATORI, 164 Stanton St, New York, NY

“The New Spirit of Collecting” by Paco Barragán

Collectors have achieved a central role in contemporary art, not that the spirit of today’s collectors has less or nothing to do with yesteryear’s philanthropist or maecenas.

Florian Slotawa at Nordenhake

Nothing new here but I’m a sucker for nostalgia. From the press release, “Florian Slotawa has ripped out pieces of his studio’s walls and transferred them to the gallery space. During the duration of the exhibition, the physically displaced architectural pieces are layered against the storefront window, through which the gallery space opens onto the [...]

Whitney Ponders Problem of Replication in Modern Art

“How do you acquire or display a work of performance art that exists only in the form of an instruction sheet? What should conservators do about works that are deteriorating because they were made from unstable materials, such as neon, or sharks? If you want to exhibit a huge work of conceptual art that is [...]

Whitney Website Redesign

A review of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s relaunched website, whitney.org

Bad Political Art: “Go Get Your Shinebox”

The gall. From the press release of an upcoming show at the Brooklynite Gallery titled “Go Get Your Shinebox”: With the global economic downturn and the hardship it has caused blue-collar workers throughout, we find it fitting to explore the world’s simplest way to make a living- SHINING SHOES. We are planning an exhibition around [...]

Claes Oldenburg: Conservation of Floor Cake

The Museum of Modern Art’s blog blasted onto the scene a couple of weeks ago and has been pumping out smart, solid content since.  Case in point: this “behind-the-scenes” dissection of a Claes Oldenburg sculpture.  Keep track of the MoMA blog; there are good things afoot. MoMA | Claes Oldenburg: Conservation of Floor Cake (Week [...]

Map as Art

The exhibition presents a diverse group of work in a variety of media, all of which use mapping concepts to explore uncharted territories both formal and intellectual.

Mai Ueda, Family Dinner in a Parallel Universe

“Artist Mai Ueda invites a selection of her friends–musicians, fashion designers, and artists–to perform, dine and play music at the same time. A not-to-missed neo-fluxus event that will recall the Fluxus Dumpling dinner staged by Maciunas in 1971 in SoHo.” Emily Harvey Foundation 537 Broadway, 2nd Floor Saturday, November 14 7:00pm FREE via Performa

“Scenarios: Scripts to Perform ” by Richard Kostelanetz

This massive anthology collects scripts in the form of notes, instructions, drawings, graphs, charts, and more from artists of varied backgrounds and styles whose shared interest is in the performative. With contributions from Marina and Ulay Abramovic, George Brecht, John Cage, Peter Frank, Philip Glass, Dan Graham, the Living Theater, Claes Oldenburg, Rachel Rosenthal, Gertrude [...]

Early Computer Artist Mark Wilson

“While a computer program may use a complex series of mathematical algorithms, the visual artist generally uses simpler procedures. But the process is similar whether the algorithms are simple or complex. Artists like Larry Poons, Sol LeWitt, and Jackson Pollock sometimes used structured visual procedures—or algorithms—to generate their images.” Good interview with early computer artist [...]

Maria Eichhorn: The Artist’s Contract

Between 1996 and 2005, Maria Eichhorn conducted interviews with artists, gallery owners and others–including Carl Andre, Michael Asher, Paula Cooper, Hans Haacke, Jenny Holzer, Adrian Piper, Robert Ryman, John Weber, Lawrence Weiner and Jackie Winsor–about sales of artworks, speculation, the role of collectors and museums and artists’ rights. via Amazon.com: Maria Eichhorn: The Artist’s Contract [...]

Bruce High Quality Foundation University

The Bruce High Quality Foundation – the precocious little collaborative than can – is launching an arts education university to redress the “problem” of arts education today

Jerry Saltz Discusses Lack of Female Artist Representation in MoMA’s Collection with Ann Temkin

Jerry Saltz recently wrote a letter to MoMA articulating his grievances, suggesting remedies, and indicating that hundreds of his “fans” on Facebook found the indiscrepency alarming.

Shattered Art by Brock Davis

Shattered Art by Brock Davis via Toxel.com

Daniel Lefcourt at Sutton Lane

New show up by Daniel Lefcourt.  One sentence in the press release is a glory of artspeak: “Meaning is simultaneously constructed and evaded, deflected and defined.“  HA!  Anyway – good stuff in that mid-60s Minimal vein.  More at his website: http://www.certainlynot.com/daniel/main.php Sutton Lane: Exhibitions.

Younger Than Jesus – The Blog

The New Museum’s first triennial exhibition, The Generational: Younger Than Jesus, presents work by fifty artists under the age of thirty-three. On view April 8 – July 5, 2009.

This blog features related articles, multimedia, and interviews about this Millennial generation.

Five Questions

Thanks to Andy Horwitz for interviewing me on his terrific blog Culturebot.

Dr. Anthony Berlet :: The Plastic Arts

Plastic surgery as art at Apex Art. More>

DCKT Contemporary – Exhibition – William Swanson

DCKT Contemporary – Exhibition – William Swanson. Could be a good show.

FLUXCONCERT 20090220-21

FLUXCONCERT 20090220-21 is a two-evening performance of historic Fluxus event scores written by Fluxus pioneer George Brecht.

Music for the Williamson Tunnels, 2008

Music for the Williamson Tunnels, 2008. Audio double-CD, edition of 1000, September 2008. A limited edition compilation by Alan Dunn and Jeff Young inspired by The Williamson Tunnels in Liverpool, featuring historical pieces alongside new compositions around the theme of artists’ uses of the sound of dripping water.

Jeremy Deller Calendar

I’m pleased to announce the launch of a calendar I designed for the New Museum’s current exhibition It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq: A project by Jeremy Deller. The show looks promising so take a peek at the speakers and if you’re in New York, drop on by.

Tehching Hsieh

“We will stay together for one year and never be alone. We will be in the same room at the same time, when we are inside. We will be tied together at the waist with an 8 foot rope. We will never touch each other during the year.”  Artist Tehching Hsieh performed this piece with [...]

Chris Burden: Documentation of Selected Works 1971-74

Nice compilation of Chris Burden’s work in video form: U B U W E B – Film & Video: Chris Burden.

Some Thoughts on Clyfford Still

Some thoughts I had about Clyfford Still while looking at one of his color field paintings at MoMA

Edward Winkleman Interview

Gallerist Ed Winkleman discusses a range of topics related to art and business in this highly recommended hour-long interview.

The Szpilman Award

The SZPILMAN AWARD is awarded to works that exist only for a moment or a short period of time. The purpose of the award is to promote such works whose forms consist of ephemeral situations. Some highlights from this year’s award and past: C5 Casino: The group of artists C5 marks a roulette wheel on [...]

Hammer Museum Website Redesign

The Hammer Museum website is a knockout that weaves together many threads of programming into a cohesive and compelling visitor experience.

SFMOMA Website Redesign

The San Francisco Museum of Modern art (SFMOMA) has redesigned their website, sfmoma.org, after more than 8 years. The new site takes few risks, adhering to conservative and time-tested user interface and design standards. As a result, it’s a success – head and shoulders above most of the museum websites in its class.

Of course, it’s not perfect but first with the good and then with the bad:

New Work: Art From The Workers At The New Museum

Lynne Pidel, a gallery attendant at the New Museum has kindly organized a show of works by many of its employees.  There was no “curating” either artists or pieces.  The only criteria for inclusion was whether or not one worked at the NewMu.  Most of the artists are from Security or Visitor Services.  There are [...]

Event Scores Performance at Issue Project Room

There’s a performance of Fluxus event scores this coming Thursday, October 22, 2008 at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn.  I’ll be in the audience eagerly watching.  Join me, will you?  Info here: Issue Project Room 232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor Thursday, October 23 at 8:00 pm Fluxus scores interpreted by Bradley Eros, Lary 7 and [...]

New Drawing

Perry Garvin, [Title TBD], 2008 Paper, tape, wood, graphite, colored pencil, headphone cable 11″ x 8.5″

Francesco Longenecker

Francesco Longenecker is a young painter (b. 1981) in New York with a promising show of new paintings at Rare Gallery.  Here are some selections.  More here.

FLUXCONCERT 20080925-27 Video

Video of FLUXCONCERT 20080925-27: five overlapping performances in rumination on love, loss, and human bonding.

John Milton Ensor Parker

John Milton Ensor Parker is a painter working out of Brooklyn.  After investigating his very thorough (and well designed) website, I was only really taken with these pictures (above).

Elizabeth Peyton Minisite

I’m pleased to announce the launch of the minisite I designed and built to accompany the Elizabeth Peyton exhibition at the New Museum.  Features include an audio slideshow, interactive timeline of Peyton’s life and career, and an essay by the show’s organizer Laura Hoptman.  Special thanks to Amy Mackie and Nick Hasty.

Sarah Braman and Joel Shapiro

Lord knows I’m not a Joel Shapiro fan.  I find his post-minimalist sculptures downright offensive.  His anthropomorphized geometries appropriate the “look” of minimalism without retaining any of a good minimal sculpture’s finest attributes: aloofness, mystery, and ambiguity.  Shapiro’s sculptures are too immediately accessible, too easily read.  And all within the visual framework of a movement [...]

FLUXCONCERT 20080925-27

This Friday and Saturday is FLUXCONCERT 20080925-27, an instruction-based performance that I wrote and directed.

Creative Cartographies

Check out a show full of smart-looking work curated by my friend Jeanne Gerrity: Creative Cartographies at Brooklyn Arts Council. From the release: “Influenced by the organization inherent in cartography, the twelve Brooklyn-based artists in BAC Gallery’s latest exhibition, Creative Cartographies, present viewpoints both personal and political, mapping their own thoughts, journeys, and observations. Collectively, [...]

Sol LeWitt Painted Over at SFMOMA

The SFMOMA’s two massive Sol LeWitt atrium wall drawings – the last works still up from his retrospective in 2000 – are being painted over to make room for an upcoming Martin Puryear installation.

It doesn’t sadden me that they’re no longer on view. Because the instruction set is the kernel of the work and can lead to infinite authentic resurrections, the piece is simply in one less place. What’s more poignant to me is that after eight years the exhibition that changed the course of my personal, artistic, and professional life has finally concluded.

New Kristine Moran

Regular readers will know I’m simply mad about painter Kristine Moran.  Here’s a painting she made on view at a group show she is in at Anna Kustera Gallery.  Terrific, terrific.

Meet John McCracken

John McCracken will be talking and signing books at David Zwirner in New York at 11AM this Saturday, September 13.

Sol LeWitt at Mass MoCA

Mass MoCA has launched a minisite in advance of Sol LeWitt’s 25 year wall drawing retrospective opening there in November.  Don’t look too hard or it will give away the surprise!

An Artist’s Retinue

The history of art shouldn’t take such an artist-focused perspective. While it makes constructing a historical narrative easier (the “Great Man” theory of history), it overlooks the importance of the artist’s vast retinue of supporters that made his/her achievements even possible. For nearly every “important” artist there has been the supportive gallerist (Daniel Kahnweiler, Virginia [...]

Panel Discussion with Seth Siegelaub, Robert Barry, and Lawrence Weiner

For those interested in 1960s Conceptual Art, I highly recommend listening to this panel discussion with Seth Siegelaub, Lawrence Weiner, and Robert Barry at MoMA in November 2007: Seth Siegelaub Panel at MoMA November 2007 They discuss how they met, their involvement in what we now call Conceptual Art, Siegelaub’s publications, and how the art [...]

Wendingen: A Journal for the Arts, 1918-1932 | Peter Blum Gallery

Promising show coming up at Peter Blum: Wendingen: A Journal for the Arts, 1918-1932 | Peter Blum Gallery From their press release: “Wendingen, meaning turnings or upheavals in Dutch, was a monthly publication organized by the Amsterdam art society Architectura et Amicitia. The first issue was published in January 1918, with a limited edition of [...]

More Sol LeWitts In Process

There’s a good set of photographs showing the installation progress of a number of Sol LeWitt’s currently in process at MassMOCA.  Very encouraging, all of this.  I can’t wait for the opening.

New Drawings

Some new drawings I’ve completed in the last month or so.

Graphs

Some nice sculptures from Josh Callaghan based on charts and graphs.  All works from 2008. More here. Very Concerned, Somewhat concerned, Not at All Concerned, wood, paint, 4″x12″x50″ World Poulation, 0AD-Present, aluminum, enamel Global Tobacco Production, 1950-Present, steel, concrete

New Drawings

Some new drawings I made.  Just $100 each.  Priced to move! Perry Garvin, “HEB533″, 2008 Paper, tape 11″ x 8.5″ Perry Garvin, “LBD945″, 2008 Paper, tape 11″ x 8.5″ Perry Garvin, “HEB533″, 2008 Paper, tape 11″ x 8.5″ Perry Garvin, “BMD307″, 2008 Paper, tape 11″ x 8.5″

Diebenkorn Retrospective

Terrific news for those Diebenkorn fans out there: a retrospective of the Ocean Park series will be debuting at the Orange County Museum of Art in 2009. From their release: “Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series, 1967 to 1985 Newport Beach Oct 11, 2009 – Mar 14, 2010 Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series, 1967 [...]

Diebenkorn of the Day

And while we’re on Diebenkorn, for those living in Northern California, be sure to check out a little show of his work at Stanford.

Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing In Progress

a scribble M’s doing, originally uploaded by herm007. Nice Sol LeWitt wall drawing cooking along at MASS MoCA for their upcoming retrospective of Sol LeWitt wall drawings.

“Art” news

Why oh why is this “art” news?  Looks like the media still gets a cheap thrill out of tsk-tsking a sexually controversial woman.  Sigh. Controversial millionaire artist Tracey Emin reveals she is frightened of dying alone and childless | Mail Online.

The Kriegsmann Files

Some pretty amazing vintage publicity photographs found in an alleyway in Venice, California.  The photographer is James Kriegsmann, one of the most famous publicity photographers of the 20th century.  A lot of the pictures in this Flickr set are compelling not just because the subjects look so… well… unusual but because they are so earnest, [...]

Holli Schorno

Holli Schorno is pretty terrific.

Andres Serrano Into Poo

The debacle that is Andres Serrano continues: “Andres Serrano’s upcoming fall exhibition is already making headlines, such as the New York Post’s “A Show to Hold Your Nose For.” Debuting at Yvon Lambert’s New York and Paris locations in early September, “Shit” features new large-scale color photographs of a variety of excrement, produced by animals [...]

Documentation of FLUXCONCERT 20080613

I started FLUXCONCERT in 2007 with the mission of presenting instruction-based performance work. We had our second official show on June 13, 2008: FLUXCONCERT 20080613, an instruction-based musical performance in 13 movements. If you didn’t get a chance to see the show you can now watch the full 40 minute piece or download the audio [...]

Cubes and White

Now here are two shows with themes fiercely congruent with my sensibilities. A show about cubes. A show about white.

Peter Allen Hoffmann

Some fine landscapes by Peter Allen Hoffmann over at Freight and Volume.  Lots more pictures here.  Press release here.

Flux Concert in England

I’m pleased to see another group put on a Flux Concert.  This one was in England on June 27, 2008.  Differing from my group, FLUXCONCERT in America, their venue was a church and presented more of a performative installation than a straight ahead performance. Good photos but I wish they had video. More here

On Curatorial Laziness

“Second Stage” is a music show from National Public Radio with a mission that differs from its manifold peers: it only plays musicians not signed to record labels. Producer Robin Hilton scours CDs sent from musicians all around the country and podcasts a few selected tracks each day. It’s a rare opportunity to listen to [...]

Alec Soth: Niagara

Buffalo, New York used to be a boom town.  The Erie Canal opened in 1825 connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic and Buffalo was one of its biggest beneficiaries.  Home to steel plants, grain mills, and railroad intersections, wealth boomed.  In 1900 it was the 8th largest city in the country. Now it’s 46th. [...]

Note to Emerging Artists Who Want to Get Seen

An open letter to emerging artists on how to get seen.