A lot of the thoughts that I thought last year never made it to this site. I’m going to be posting them periodically as though they were still fresh — unedited and un-updated. And maybe with some context. This one’s a review I pitched to an art mag that didn’t quite make it.
Tommy Hartung
Anna
On Stellar [...]
On September 6, 2001, net.art pioneer Wolfgang Staehle began live-streaming images of Lower Manhattan over the internet for a show at Postmasters gallery. With a new image of the same scene posted every four seconds, the project was intended to be a study in “eventlessness.” Then something happened.
The Goethe-Institut is showing the video in real-time [...]
Even though I’m Northeast born and bred, I love me some L.A. And when I saw the exhibition Greater L.A., a survey of artists living and working in Los Angeles, I left wondering: Is Los Angeles the most important city in America right now?
Thankfully, I got to speak with exhibition co-curator Joel Mesler [...]
In honor of the New Museum’s upcoming show Ostalgia, let’s spend a few minutes with the baddest Frau aus der DDR, Miss Nina Hagen.
A few weeks back, I had the pleasure of going on a Gallery Week walking tour hosted by the Whitney’s Margot Norton. The tour hit up a handful of the LES’s best galleries, but what stuck with me the most was Hilary Harnischfeger’s delicious handmade sculptures at Rachel Uffner.
In the age when things are [...]
Luis Dourado makes images just like the ones I would make if I made images. (via Dazed Digital)
It’s no secret that I have some serious love for Vena Cava. Well just the other day, the lovely ladies’ blog pointed me to 9-eyes, an amazing project by artist Jon Rafman. To create these images, Rafman scours the (virtual) globe via Google Street View. The results are some beautiful, some scary and some downright [...]
Spent my (very windy) Saturday at Mary Boone checking out nothingtoodoo, the latest from Terence Koh. Koh has said this piece is all about peace, so I couldn’t have picked a better time to swing by: early evening, dead silent, pristine white, the artist lying motionless across the floor. I settled in for a while, [...]
Kazuko Miyamoto Untitled, String Construction, Installation at 597 Broadway, New York, 1978
I’ve probably seen Kazuko Miyamoto about a zillion times at her L.E.S. gallery onetwentyeight, but I never knew about her work until now. The Japanese artist works in dialogue with the likes of Sol LeWitt and Joseph Beuys, and her gallery shows portraits of [...]