My latest gallery client, Keith Talent Gallery in London, has moved to a new location, and launched their new website powered by ArtCat.

• Contemporary Confections: Red Velvet Cupcakes and Banana Pudding: Talking to Gabriel J. Shuldiner
  James and I have one work by Gabriel
  tags: gabriel-shuldiner interview artist art

This is a VernissageTV video of a performance by Rachel Mason at Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland. In this clip she performes “Dzhokhar Dudayev (Chechen Wolfes)”. Visit the VernissageTV website for more information and more video.

Here is my quick video of Flora Wiegmann‘s performance during the preview of the Whitney Biennial as part of the “Animal Estates” project of Fritz Haeg. Click the screen icon on the lower right for a bigger version. She’s a wood duck!

Visit this New York Times article for more information on the artist.

Click here if you don’t see the video above.

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Good stuff. Check out his blog and flickr stream for more.

• Montague Projects Blog
  artist Julian Montague has a blog`
  tags: art artist blog
• The Playgoer – "Subsidiary Rights"
  Did you know the contract Roundabout Theatre Company offers for new plays it premieres claims 40% of all the play’s subsequent "subsidiary rights" for 10 years?
  tags: theater nyc economics roundabout
• One culture and the New Sensibility: GIVEN ENOUGH EYEBALLS: Kendall Bruns
  Annette Monnier curates a show in Philadelphia
  tags: art philadelphia

I got an email about this over the weekend. Check out B. Blagojević’s post on the ArtCal Zine and NEWSgrist for more information.

Kim Jones, Untitled, 2001-2007
Acrylic, Ink on Color Photograph, 18 × 12 inches

Today is the last day for the Kim Jones exhibition at Pierogi. I recommend a visit if you can fit it in today, as the painted photographs in the back room are some of my favorite works I’ve ever seen by him. I think there is a bit of William Blake in these magical works.

[image from Pierogi’s website]

Dancers in Mark Morris’s production of “King Arthur” at New York City Opera (Richard Termine for The New York Times)

Here is a reminder that the $25 tickets program continues at NYC Opera. Check the website for schedule and details. We’re going to see Purcell’s “King Arthur” (with costumes by Isaac Mizrahi), which is frankly somewhere in between a masque and an opera. We fell in love with it after watching a DVD of a Salzburg production. Ignore the bitchy “I don’t like my opera productions to be too innovative” comments on Amazon.

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installation view

Julika Rudelius
Economic Primacy, 2005
two channel video
17:56 min., color, sound
edition of 7

James and I saw this video last week as part of the “Bare Market” exhibition and I keep thinking of it. The description from the press release is below.

In Julika Rudelius’ two-channel video Economic Primacy, an all male cast of Dutch CEOs share their thoughts about power, money, and success. Interviewed using a hidden earpiece, they respond to Rudelius’ questions over the phone while she is situated in another room. Set in a generic office space of Rudelius’ own construction, the intensity of focus and sense of observation are penetrating. The blankness of the office tells of a certain lofty separation, perhaps out of touch, from the rest of society. With this framing in double-screen, she heightens the candid nature of the conversations. Views on the role and importance of money as the ultimate measure of love, image, and success follow with snide quips on class and race.

The man on the right in the installation shot talks about how good money is as an objective measure, even for love. He speaks of asking a woman how much money it would take to make her leave her boyfriend.

Much of the discussions end up on the subject of the modern welfare state at some point, with these CEOs talking about people who don’t work hard enough. One thing that shocked me was hearing the man in the top image mentioning what his monthly salary is. It’s surprisingly low, and is more in the range of what a corporate lawyer with a few years of experience earns in New York. Our CEOs would laugh at the thought of such a salary.

I just realized that I first saw the artist’s work in an open studios event for the international studio & curatorial program (iscp) at Elizabeth Foundation. It was work from her series “Forever.” See this Time Out NY review by Lauren Cornell for information on that project.

All photos are courtesy of Thierry Goldberg Projects. The artist also has a website.