Midden (installation detail), 2006
ink on cut paper

This is in a good group show called DRAW*ING (dro’ing) n.

I wrote about an installation the artist had in Gallery Joe’s room at Scope in March 2005.

Here are two painting highlights from Twist It Twice, curated by Franklin Evans, at Moti Hasson. These were on either side of one corner of the room.

Wendy White
Faintly with Rays, 2006
acrylic and spray paint on canvas
24 × 46 1/2 inches

The artist has a solo show coming up at Sixtyseven, and is in a group show at a new LES gallery called V&A.

Paul Pagk
untitled, 2005
oil on linen
24 × 25 inches

[bottom photo from Moti Hasson’s website, top one by me]

Reto Boller
Untitled (AC-06.2), 2006
Acrylic lacquer on aluminum
30.7 × 38 × 0.2 inches

I saw this in a group show titled I may be some time… at James Nicholson. It was my favorite piece, and made me very annoyed that I missed his solo show at the gallery. Here is an installation shot from that show:

plus a Brooklyn Rail review.

John White Cerasulo
Untitled, Near Litchfield, 2005
watercolor on paper
26 × 19 inches

This watercolor was in Air, a group show curated by Amy Sillman, at Monya Rowe.

Simone Huelser
Untitled, 2006
Color copies, wheat paste
Dimensions variable

This was in a group show at Hudson Franklin titled Best Played with a Straight Face. According to the gallery, the artist photographs different buildings, digitally manipulates them, has color copies produced and then wheat pastes them to the wall to achieve the pattern she wants.

[All photos courtesy of the respective galleries.]

From Crain’s NY:

A major public art project will be unveiled in January as part of the mayor’s plan to draw more tourists to New York City during the winter months.

Artist Doug Aitken plans to create a “cinematic art experience that will directly integrate with the city’s architecture, while enhancing and challenging viewers’ perception of public space.”

The project, which will be filmed entirely in New York City, will be projected on the facades of The Museum of Modern Art from Jan. 16 through Feb. 12.

While I’m recommending music, this show on BBC Radio 1 is one of my favorites, especially for the mini mixes.

I barely know what Grime is except by example, but my current gym listening consists primarily of a podcast I found at grimetime.de, from Berlin. Check it out.

Related: How cool is it that the BBC has a magazine called collective that writes articles on things like grime?

James Hopkins, Consumption and Consequence, 2006

This was one of my favorite pieces in a smart group show at James Cohan Gallery titled A Brighter Day.

Related: Click opera on shelves and art. While you’re there, check out his excellent post on the White House’s purposefully middlebrow (at best) graphic design. It’s dirt style without the irony!

Two items from other blogs:

• James on all of the Democratic politicians in New York saying Israel can do whatever it wants to Lebanon, including its civilians
• Tom Moody on Daily Kos saying he’s not interested in writing about what’s going on in the Middle East

The former are “old school” politicians, and people like Markos Moulitsas Zúniga of the Daily Kos are supposedly the next wave. If acting as if our government’s foreign policy in the Middle East has nothing to do with our lives is considered an appropriate position for Democrats, I don’t see much point in getting involved to help them get elected. As Tom Moody says, New Yorkers who were here for 9/11 have a bit of trouble acting as if our lives have nothing to do with our government’s activities in foreign countries.

If they win, we get people like Hillary Clinton as leaders? Some win. Even Rupert Murdoch is throwing fundraisers for her.

The only person whose campaign interests me right now is Jonathan Tasini. He is challenging Hillary in the New York Democratic primary. People like Atrios and Daily Kos are all over Joe Lieberman’s challenger, but have been silent on this one. Appararently they think Hillary Clinton — pro-Iraq War, pro-PATRIOT ACT, anti-gay marriage — is just fine.

I just saw this image on Christopher Reiger’s blog:

Red-spotted Newt (Notophthalmus viridescens viridescens)

along with others he took on a visit to the Monongahela National Forest in eastern West Virginia. Check out this post for his thoughts and more photos.

We spotted some lovely drawings of such creatures by him at the recent Salon de Expace #3 at AG Gallery.