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:
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.
Check out this LA Times article:
Thousands of Americans whose vacations and business trips to Lebanon have degenerated with sickening speed into stints in a battle zone remained stranded here under Israeli bombardment Monday, their frustration and anger mounting because the U.S. government hasn’t gotten them out faster.
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The frustration has been intensified by news that other countries have already pulled many of their citizens out of Lebanon, efficiently and free of cost. A ferry chartered by the French government carried about 800 of its citizens and several dozen Americans to Cyprus on Monday. The U.S. military evacuated about 60 Americans by helicopter Sunday and Monday.
Other nations have packed people into rented tour buses and driven them over the mountains to Syria. The U.S. State Department has warned Americans against traveling to Syria.
The main U.S. evacuation plan involves a Pentagon-contracted cruise ship, the Orient Queen, due to arrive in Lebanon today to ferry people to Cyprus. The ship can carry about 750 passengers for the five-hour trip. Defense Department officials said other private ships were likely to be hired as well.
Americans have been told to wait for a telephone call that could come in hours — or days. They’ve also been told they can’t board a ship unless they’ve signed a contract agreeing to repay the U.S. government for the price of their evacuation.</blockquote>
Israel is effectively a client state of the U.S. in the area, and receives more of its foreign aid budget than any other country. Couldn’t Bush tell them not to bomb the capital city while the U.S. is trying to evacuate Americans?
Related: this brilliant blog post from Huffington Post on the focus on pretty long distance shots of explosions rather than dead bodies, plus a letter from Beirut by Walid Raad.
