ooga booga - frederick seidel
This is the most tender, most savage collection yet from "the most frightening American poet ever" (Calvin Bedient, Boston Review).
the forever now: contemporary painting in an atemporal world @ moma
La Noche Mary Weatherford c. 2014
If you invite someone to dinner, why, then would you not speak to them at the table?
i.e - Smith treats his larger body of work as a single, ongoing work of art, in which each series of paintings is related to the next. He works with sets of generic subject categories - both abstract and figurative - and uniform canvas sizes. These restrictions on content and format offer him a standardized framework for an unlimited number of possible compositions while simultaneously freeing him from having to make certain decision each time he produces a painting.
Wall text at the Modern
henri matisse: the cut-outs @ moma
Matisse at the Hotel Regina, Nice c. 1952
Exactitude is not truth.
-HM
swan lake @ bam
The Mariinsky Ballet, with Oxana Skorik, in Swan Lake at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. CreditJulieta Cervantes for The New York Times
touch and go: a memoir - studs terkel
Studs Terkel and Mike Royko
And every evening at sun-down
I ask a blessing on the town
For whether we last the night or no
I'm sure it's always touch and go.
- Dylan Thomas
chris ofili: night and day @ the new museum
The Upper Room; Mono Oro c. 2002
Read Roberta Smith's review of the show
gogol bordello @ terminal 5
mr. turner
Directed by Mike Leigh c. 2014
Cinematography by Dick Pope
american women rebuilding france @ the newberry library, chicago
The book mobile in France was one of the most enduring and popular legacies of the American Committee for Devastated France, produced with the assistance of the New York Public Library (Franco-American Museum, Chateau de Blerancourt)
sadeh21 @ bam
Ohad Naharin is one of the most original choreographic minds of our time—a modern guru whose pioneering dance language, Gaga, uses bodily self-awareness to produce constant, fluid motion and an unthinkable elasticity.
Rooted in this practice is Sadeh21, a collection of movement studies by Naharin and his Israeli-based Batsheva Dance Company. Eighteen dancers—backed by music by Autechre, Brian Eno, Angelo Badalamenti, and others—deploy their controlled, pliant bodies in a staggering range of abstractly interpersonal scenarios. Exchanged kisses, distant screams, and beaten chests collude with sinewy solos and gender-bent line and club dancing to create devastating constellations of human pathos, humor, and beauty.
olafur eliasson on how to do good art - nyt
independent projects fair
It was good to see the big boys getting a little more honest and finding the work of this man...
marc riboud @ the rubin museum
Jaipur, India 1956
Witness at a Crossroads chronicles French photographer Marc Riboud’s journeys across Asia during the mid-1950s and 60s, a period of great cultural and political transition in the region. More than one hundred arresting black-and-white photographs offer glimpses into everyday life in Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, China, and Japan, illuminating tensions between tradition and post-war modernity.
portrait in contemporary photography @ klompching gallery - brooklyn
Without Me #14 Unique print Odette England 2011
One of the small gems in DUMBO. I had an excellent grilled cheese downstairs and was taken by the work of Odette England.
wilco @ the capitol theatre
water liars @ bowery ballroom
pina bausch @ bam
Photo by Oliver Look/NYT
“Kontakthof” 1978 Tanztheater Wuppertal founded by Pina Bausch
watch out for the wax
Nancy Crampton © 2005A
Issue 1 coming March 21, 2015...
obsolescence @ art house productions - jersey city
Figure Study Fourteen was included in this group exhibition organized by Curious Matters.