This is what the canvas looked like after Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen‘s re-enactment of “Anthropometries of the Blue Period” (1960) by Yves Klein. Go here to see my full flickr set. Unfortunately I ran out of space on my camera before she did Yoko Ono’s “Cut Piece.” I also added one more video at blip.tv.
Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen recreates Shigeko Kubota’s 1965 performance “Vagina Painting” at her opening at Renwick Gallery. Click the screen icon below the image to make it bigger. This was one of 13(!) recreations in addition to her performance of her piece “The Artists’ Song” in a three hour time span. She is hardcore.
Yes, that guy in the yellow shirt in the background really is working his Blackberry the entire time. I was standing near him earlier and heard him raving about security prices in after-hours trading.
I will be adding some images to a flickr set when I have time to edit them a bit, but here is one of her reenacting Janine Antoni’s “Loving Care”, 1992-1996.
Click here if you don’t see the video at the top of the post.
It’s time to brave the cold and support one of these two wonderful art non-profits.
DUMBO Arts Center Silent and Live Auction
David Humphrey, Landscape Kitties, 2004
The d.a.c. benefit reception begins tonight at 6pm, with a live auction at 8pm that includes the David Humphrey painting above in the impressive roster:
Ivin Ballen, Sarah Beddington, Christo, Andrew Eutsler, Tolland Grinnell,
Mimi Gross, Mary Heilmann, Christopher K. Ho, David Humphrey, Kristian
Kozul, Thomas Lendvai, Jessica Levine, Guy Richards Smit, James Siena,
Nicolas Touron Claes Oldenburg, Liselot van der Heijden, Lawrence Weiner,
Robert Whitman, Peter Young, Purvis Young, Daniel Zeller, Balint Zsako
Visit the website to view all of the works. You can bid on the excellent silent auction online.
Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, The Artist’s Song, 2007
Corrected: The Elk Gallery show opens Friday.
Who could have expected it? There are 2 openings I can’t wait to go to tomorrow night, not on the LES or in Chelsea or Williamsburg, but in Soho! One is the inaugural show, titled The Cult of Personality: Portraits and mass culture, of artist Peter Scott’s new gallery called Carriage Trade. As the gallery’s about page tells us:
Through presenting primarily group exhibitions, carriage trade will function not as a means to promote the careers of individual artists, but to provide contexts for their work that reveal its relevance to larger social and political conditions prevalent today. A project of the artist / curator Peter Scott, whose exhibitions have attempted to highlight this relevance over the value of any given artist’s work within the hierarchy of the art market, these projects will intentionally combine well known with lesser known artists, and historical pieces (60’s, 70’s, 80’s) with very recent work. Originally influenced by the approach of magazines like The Baffler and Harper’s which combine fact based readings with editorial commentary, Scott’s curatorial approach often integrates relevant found material as a means to broaden the scope of an art exhibition by positioning the “evidence” of everyday experience in direct relation to an artist’s mediation of social conditions.
Some themes to be addressed in upcoming shows include issues of propaganda in mass media, the effect of neo-liberal policies on the built environment and social relations, as well as the concept of “mistaken identity” and likeness within the realm portraiture. The location of Soho, a neighborhood that could be seen as a now historical model for the intense gentrification taking place in cities everywhere, provides an appropriate setting for addressing the cyclic nature of urban transformation, (Soho enjoyed a previous incarnation as a high-end shopping district in the mid -1800’s during America’s Gilded Age) due to seismic shifts in economic relations.
Peter Scott made one of my favorite things I’ve ever seen at the Brooklyn Museum — the “Suspect” piece at the 2004 exhibition “Open House.” Read this review by Stephen Maine on artnet.com for a description.
The second is an opening with a performance by Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen whose work James and I saw in Miami at the NADA art fair. It’s at the Renwick Gallery.
Correction: Opening Friday
The third is the exhibition “Dropped Frames,” described as a “A Collaborative Experiment in Film,” at Elk Gallery. We’re interested in anything that includes Andres Laracuente and Elizabeth Huey. Admittedly, this one is kind of between the LES and Soho.
[image above is from the invitation JPEG I received from Renwick Gallery.]
Paddy Johnson has written an article for the ArtCal Zine about the ArtCal survey results.
Libby and Roberta encourage artists to sign up for the Culture Pundits artists program. Wouldn’t you rather have your images show up on smart culture blogs rather than next to trashy gossip? Also, our footers on the images are much more subtle. Here is an example for Jonathan Podwil:
From Roebling Hall’s press release for the Doug Young show opening this Friday:
Doug Young has exhibited widely in New York and Chicago. In 2001 he was awarded the Guinness Book World Record for the longest nonstop banjo performance in history—24 hours total.
For all of the “things would have been perfect with Gore” people responding to news of Ralph Nader’s announcement, I would like to remind them that the VP candidate was Joe Lieberman. I might have voted for Gore, but there was NO WAY I could have voted for him once Lieberman became the VP candidate. That man is a wacko war-monger, and he serves as the head of John McCain’s state campaign in Connecticut.
Here is a nice item from Think Progress:
On the 2/12 edition of Bill Bennett’s radio show, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) explained that he was supporting Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) for president because he believes that withdrawal from Iraq would “abandon” the country “to the killers” and “empower them to come after us again.” “McCain will never let that happen,” claimed Lieberman.
“The guy has been almost always right on the big issues of foreign policy over the last twenty years,” said Lieberman. “That’s why I want him to be my president,” he added.
Also, read this post by Howie Klein on Huffington Post on Lieberman’s homophobia, reporting that he “sided with Jesse Helms on removing federal money from public schools that counsel suicidal homosexual teens that it’s OK (or ‘an acceptable lifestyle,’ in Lieberman’s and Helms’ disapproving parlance) to be gay.”
Letting the Democratic Party know that they have your vote, no matter what kind of candidate they choose for us, is stupid.
James already wrote about this, but here are my photos taken the same day. This is part of the “Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today” exhibition opening next week at MoMA.