Everybody was there: the wrong guide to New York in 2004.DIDN'T SEE BUT HEARD IT WAS GOOD Stephan Dillemuth performance @ Reena Spaulings and Gavin Brown's enterprise at Passerby; Amar Kanwar @ Peter Blum; Tara Mateik @ Reena Spaulings; "The Dreamland dream·land n. 1. An ideal or imaginary land. 2. A state of sleep. Noun 1. dreamland - a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination dreamworld, never-never land Artist Club" (Creative Time) @ Coney Island; Iran do Espirito Santo Iran do Espirito Santo (b. 1963) is a prominent Brazilian artist, based in São Paulo. His works are included in major international collections such as MOMA in New York. He has exhibited at the Venice Biennale and the Bienal de São Paulo. @ Sean Kelly; Black Dragon Society For the fictional version, see . For the US Navy ship called the "Black Dragon", see . The Black Dragon Society ( @ apexart; Derrick Adams @ Triple Candie; "presence: 25 Nights of Individual Performance Events by Various Artists" (curated by Michael Mahalchick) @ Canada; Peter Caine @ ATM: David Wojnarowicz @ Roth Horowitz; Ilya and Emilia Kabakov @ Sean Kelly; Alix Pearlstein @ Salon 94; Ed Ruscha talk @ the Whitney; Brian Jungen @ Triple Candie; "Counter Culture" @ New Museum off-sites on the Bowery; Julianne Swartz @ Josee Bienvenu Gallery; "Blind Dates" @ SculptureCenter; Rosson Crow @ Canada. MADE IN HEAVEN Donald Judd @ Van de Weghe and PaceWildenstein: boxes of moonlight; Joseph Beuys @ Gagosian; Alighiero e Boetti @ Barbara Gladstone; Gordon Matta-Clark @ David Zwirner; the real cutup cut·up n. Informal A mischievous person; a prankster. ; Jeff Wall @ Marian Goodman; Jeff Koons @ C & M Arts; the whole kitsch and caboodle ca·boo·dle n. Informal 1. The lot, group, or bunch: donated the whole caboodle. 2. A crowd or collection of people. ; Willem de Kooning @ Gagosian; Cindy Sherman @ Metro Pictures: clown torture; Ed Ruscha @ the Whitney; witty wonders from anagrams an·a·gram n. 1. A word or phrase formed by reordering the letters of another word or phrase, such as satin to stain. 2. anagrams (used with a sing. to gunpowder and all the parking lots on the Sunset Strip; Vito Acconci @ Barbara Gladstone; "Before the End (The Last Painting Show)" (curated by Olivier Mosset) @ Swiss Institute; Hans-Peter Feldmann @ P.S. 1 and 303; Chris Burden (curated by Josh Baer) @ Zwirner & Wirth; the original Jackass jackass: see ass. ; Philip Guston @ the Met; Yang Fudong @ Trans>area; David Wojnarowicz @ P. P. O. W.; Agnes Martin @ Pace Wildenstein; Andy Warhol @ Anton Kern. I LOVE AMERICA AND AMERICA LOVES ME William Pope.L @ The Project and Artists Space; "American Idyil" @ Greene Naftali; Felix Gmelin @ Maccarone Inc.: found in translation; "Majority Whip" (organized by Kathy Grayson and Laura Tepper) @ White Box; Art Works for Hard Money auction @ Gavin Brown's enterprise at Passerby, and America Coming Together and ARTS PAC auction at Phillips, de Pury and Company; Daniel Joseph Martinez @ The Project; Martha Stewart's Unabomber cabin; "Power, Corruption and Lies" (curated by Adam McEwen and Neville Wakefield) @ Roth Horowitz; Andrea Bowers @ Sara Meltzer; Freedom of Expression National Monument (Creative Time) @ Foley Square; The People's Guide to the Republican National Convention; the who, what, where, why, and when; "The Freedom Salon" @ Deitch Projects: politics is the new black; "Propaganda Hospitality Suite" @ LUXE luxe n. 1. The condition of being elegantly sumptuous. 2. Something luxurious; a luxury. [French, luxury, from Latin luxus. Gallery; September issue of Artforum; "Building the Unthinkable" @ apexart; Steve Mumford's "Baghdad Journal": minority report from artnet's first embedded artist; "Election" @ American Fine Arts; The Liberty Fair: community Spiritual America; "The Presidency" @ Exit Art; "Face Off" @ Ronald Feldman; "Democracy is Fun?" (organized by Michele Thursz and Defne Ayas) @ White Box; Richard Serra's self-produced "Stop B S" posters (distributed by United for Peace and Justice United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) is a coalition of more than 1,300[1] international and U.S.-based organizations opposed to what they describe as "our government's policy of permanent warfare and empire-building. ) @ the march against the RNC RNC Republican National Committee (US) RNC Republican National Convention RNC Radio Network Controller RNC Royal Newfoundland Constabulary (provincial police force) and his "Stop Bush" billboard above The Park on Tenth Avenue in Chelsea: a picture tells a thousand words. SEXY BEAST Hilary Harkness @ Mary Boone; Terry Richardson @ Deitch Projects: hard-ons and titties and bears, oh my!; Timothy Greenfield-Sanders @ Mary Boone: what do Salman Rushdie and Jenna Jameson have in common?; Richard Kern @ Feature; Robert Longo @ Metro Pictures; Will Cotton @ Mary Boone; Andrea Fraser @ Friedrich Petzel: sex sells literally--and some say metaphorically. LONG TIME NO SEE Charles Long @ Tanya Bonakdar; Dieter Roth @ MoMA QNS and P.S. 1: one man's trash is another's treasure; Jon Kessler @ Deitch Projects; Lee Bontecou @ MoMA QNS; Atsuko Tanaka @ Grey Art Gallery and Paula Cooper; body electric; Sturtevant @ Perry Rubenstein; Jonathan Borofsky @ Rockefeller Center (Public Art Fund); back in the high life again; James Angus @ Gavin Brown's enterprise: Mark Tansey @ Gagosian; Welcome back MoMA! ARRIVALS ... Tracy Williams, Ltd.; Betty Cuningham Gallery; Perry Rubenstein Gallery; Haswellediger and Co.; Tony Shafrazi, Kent Gallery, Roebling Hall, Bellwether, and Sixtyseven move to Chelsea; Donna De Salvo, Elisabeth Sussman and Joan Simon to the Whitney; Debra Singer to The Kitchen; Matthew Higgs to White Columns; e-flux video rental; Brooklyn Museum of Art's new entrance and plaza. AND DEPARTURES Kenny Schachter to London; Maria Prather, Debra Singer and Lawrence Rinder from the Whitney; David Platzker from Printed Matter; Ace Gallery from Soho; Fred Wilson and Michael Rovner to PaceWildenstein; Mike Kelley and the Kippenberger Estate to Gagosian; Stefania Bortolami and Amalia Dayan from Gagosian; Michael Lieberman from Lombard-Freid; Billy Kluver, 1927-2004; Leon Golub, 1922-2004; Richard Avedon, 1923-2004; Helmut Newton, 1920-2004; Edward Krasinski, 1925-2004. TERMINATED "Terminal 5" @ JFK (curated by Rachel Ward); shut down; Grand Street ceases publication; Debs & Co. closes; Rirkrit Tiravanija Untitied 2002 (he promised); concert featuring Gang Gang Dance Gang Gang Dance are an experimental music group based in Brooklyn, New York City, and signed to the independent label the Social Registry. The group has become well known within the New York indie-rock scene for its distinctive sound that has been variously referred to as , Chocky, White Magic. Dead Meadow, Gavin and Delia, Hisham Bharoocha, Octis, Avey Tare and Deakin from Animal Collective gets shut down by the noise police; The Armory Show pulls a Giuliani and shuts out several local galleries. NATURAL DISASTERS Marc Quinn @ Mary Boone: marble amputees so disgusting they kept us coming back to see if they were still there; Hurricane Frances floods Twenty-fourth Street galleries Luhring Augustine, Andrea Rosen, LFL LFL Lower Flammable Limit LFL Lutherans for Life LFL Lingerie Football League LFL Like for Like (comparison of sales) LFL Libertarians for Life LFL Lucasfilm Limited LFL Lot for Lot LFL Looking for Love , Ramis Barquet, Mike Weiss, and Stellan Holm and forces Jeffrey Deitch to move the Terry Richardson show to Wooster Street due to an impending im·pend intr.v. im·pend·ed, im·pend·ing, im·pends 1. To be about to occur: Her retirement is impending. 2. collapse of his neighbor on Grand Street; "Open House; Working in Brooklyn" @ Brooklyn Museum of Art Brooklyn Museum of Art, museum in the borough of Brooklyn, N.Y. Its predecessors were the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library (1823), the Brooklyn Institute (1843), and the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (1890). ; "Crude Oil Painting" @ White Columns: literal take on art made with or inspired by oil; Michal Rovner @ Pace Wildenstein: written in stone. OOPS I DID IT AGAIN Sam Taylor-Wood @ Matthew Marks; Joseph Kosuth @ Sean Kelly; Sean Landers @ Andrea Rosen; Candida Hofer @ Sonnabend; not that we're complaining; Louise Bourgeois @ Cheim & Read; ditto; Tony Feher @ D'Amelio Terras: ditto; Andreas Gursky @ Matthew Marks: ditto. SO BAD IT'S GOOD? "Julian Schnabel: Sculpture" @ C & M Arts: Idiota, he declared as he conquered Dia, sort of; Martin Honert @ Matthew Marks; Ashley Bickerton @ Sonnabend; Completion? Is it over, Ashley? FOLKADELIA Angelo Filomeno, Simon Periton, Philip Taaffe, Francesco Vezzoli @ Gorney Bravin + Lee; fine stitching; Christian Holstad @ Daniel Reich; Beatriz Milhazes @ James Cohan: local color; Dearraindrop @ Deitch Projects: doyouthinktheydropacid?; Tyson Reeder @ Daniel Reich; "The Collage Project" @ Bergdorf Goodman; "Curious Crystals of Unusual Purity" (curated by Bob Nickas and Steve Lafreniere) @ P.S. 1; Devendra Banhart @ Roth Horowitz. DRAMA QUEENS Jamie Isenstein @ Guild and Greyshkul: private dancer (to "Staying Alive" on a player piano); Marina Abramovic's students @ P.S. 1; topless ladies on skis!; Brice Dellsperger @ Team; Matt Mullican @ Tracy Williams, Ltd.; Robin Rhode @ Perry Rubenstein; "Adaptive Behavior" @ the New Museum; Katarzyna Kozyra @ Postmasters; why can't I be you? FABLES OF THE RECONSTRUCTION Oliver Herring @ Max Protetch; Erica Baum @ D'Amelio Terras; Cheyney Thompson @ Andrew Kreps: ushering in banality; Rachel Harrison @ Greene Naftali; reuse, refuse, recycle; Anri Sala @ Marian Goodman; Manfred Pernice @ Anton Kern; Robert Beck @ CRG CRG Centre for Research on Globalisation CRG Council for Responsible Genetics CRG Contingency Response Group CRG Citizens for Responsible Government CRG Corporate Renaissance Group CRG Columbia River Gorge CRG Consulting Resource Group CRG Columbia Resource Group ; Thomas Demand @ 303; Francis Cape @ Murray Guy; Marepe @ Anton Kern: losing my religion; Ann Craven @ Gasser Gas·ser , Herbert Spencer 1888-1963. American physiologist. He shared a 1944 Nobel Prize for research on the functions of nerve fibers. & Grunert: birds redux. BACK TO THE FUTURE Continuous Project #4, Monika Spruth's no. 1 of Eau de Cologne eau de Cologne (ō də kəlōn`), dilute perfume [commonly called cologne in English] introduced c.1709 in Cologne, Germany, by Jean Marie Farina. (from 1984); giroup exhibition selected by Clarissa Dalrymple and Nicole Klagsbrun @ Nicole Klagsbrun; Joel Sternfeld @ Luhring Augustine; "Seventies Color Photography" @ Marianne Boesky; that was then, this is now; George Condo @ Briggs Robinson; Andy Warhol Dollar Signs @ Van de Weghe: the rich are getting richer. LIFE IN THE WOODS Verne Dawson @ Gavin Brown's enterprise; Erick Swenson @ James Cohan; Ugo Rondinone @ Matthew Marks; Michelle Segre @ Derek Eller; Yelena Yemchuk @ Dactyl dactyl /dac·tyl/ (dak´til) a digit. dac·tyl n. A finger or toe; digit. dactyl a digit. Foundation; animals are people, too; Loretta Lux @ Yossi Milo Milo, athlete of ancient Greece Milo (mī`lō) or Milon (mī`lŏn), fl. 500 B.C., athlete of ancient Greece, b. Crotona. ; Giuseppe Penone @ The Drawing Center; ornamental education. FAR AWAY SO CLOSE Johan Grimonprez @ Yvon Lambert: 1-800-Dial-New-Guinea; An-My Le @ Murray Guy; Tony Just @ Gavin Brown's enterprise; Stan Douglas @ David Zwirner; concrete jungle; Corinne May Botz @ Bellwether; haunted dollhouse; Franz West @ Lincoln Center (Public Art Fund); Andy Goldsworthy on the roof of the Met; room with a view; Tim Davis @ Bohen Foundation; Min Kim @ ATM Gallery; Richard Misrach @ PaceWildenstein; Anna Gaskell @ Casey Kaplan: tainted winter wonderland; Katherine Bowling @ Green-berg Van Doren. OF LOVE AND OTHER DEMONS Of Love and Other Demons (Spanish: Del amor y otros demonios) is a novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez, first published in 1994. The novel is the fictional representation of a legend the author was told by his Grandmother as a child; of a 12 Elizabeth Peyton @ Gavin Brown's enterprise; Matthew Cerletty @ Rivington Arms: drawn from life; Hernan Bas @ Daniel Reich: boys' life; Justine Kurland @ Gorney Bravin + Lee: Roe Ethridge @ Andrew Kreps. I'LL BE YOUR MIRROR Kutlug Ataman at·a·man n. pl. at·a·mans A Cossack chief. Also called hetman. [Russian, from South Turkic, leader of an armed band : ata, father + -man, @ Lehmann Maupin: mothman prophecies; Collier Schorr @ 303; Christian Jankowski @ Maccarone Inc.: imitation of life; "Reflecting the Mirror" (curated by Karina Daskalov) @ Marian Goodman; Hanna Liden @ Rivington Arms; Sissel Kardel @ John Connelly Presents; Diane Arbus @ Grey Art Gallery; freaks and geeks Freaks and Geeks is an American television series, created by Paul Feig and produced by Judd Apatow, that aired on NBC during the 1999–2000 TV season. Although the show, considered a comedy-drama, garnered much critical acclaim and a devoted cult following, repeated ; Katharina Sieverding @ P.S. 1 and Salon 94; take a look at me now; Karel Funk @ 303; Wolfgang Staehle @ Postmasters; Louise Lawler @ Metro Pictures: Shirana Shahbazi @ Salon 94 and Trans>area. SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT Slater Bradley @ Team; Whitney Biennial: Sue de Beer, Dave Muller, Hernan Bas, Slater Bradley, Banks Violette; "The Infinite Fill Show" (curated by Cory and Jamie Arcangel) @ Foxy Production; Bjorn Copeland @ Daniel Reich; "Drunk vs. Stoned" @ Gavin Brown's enterprise at Passerby, coproduced by General Store: intoxicating in·tox·i·cate v. in·tox·i·cat·ed, in·tox·i·cat·ing, in·tox·i·cates v.tr. 1. To stupefy or excite by the action of a chemical substance such as alcohol. 2. inspiration plus a gift shop. KING OF COMEDY Tim Lee @ Cohan and Leslie; Adam McEwen @ Nicole Klagsbrun: tomorrow's news today and other deadpan gestures; Richard Prince talk with Chrissie Iles @ the Whitney: Best audience question: "If Richard Chamberlain smashed up your car hoods would they still be sexy?": Chivas Clem @ Maccarone Inc.; Lutz Bacher @ American Fine Arts and Participant Inc.; Seth Price @ Reena Spaulings: folded glass plus a special appearance by a young Richard Serra wearing an untamed afro; Olav Westphalen @ Maccarone Inc.; Gilbert & George @ Lehmann Maupin: all my life I gave you nothing and still you ask for more. MONSTER'S BALL Alex Bag @ Elizabeth Dee; down with Halliburton, up with Wicca; "Scream: 10 Artists X 10 Writers X 10 Scary Movies" (curated by Fernanda Arruda and Michael Clifton) @ Anton Kern: neo-goth, Cream style; Whitney Biennial: Aida Ruilova, David Altmejd, Sue de Beer, Amy Cutler, Banks Violette; Adam Putnam @ Artists Space; Steven Parrino @ Team; David Altmejd @ Andrea Rosen: werewolf in London meets The Dark Crystal; Naomi Fisher @ Lombard-Freid; Peter Friedl @ Sara Meltzer; Bettina Sellmann @ Derek Eller; Ena Swansea @ Gasser & Grunert: the dinner party after; "Comic Grotesque" @ Neue Galerie; Andrew Guenther @ Perry Rubenstein. GERMAN RENAISSANCE Albert Oehlen @ Luhring Augustine; Daniel Richter @ David Zwirner; Christoph Ruckhaberie @ LFL; "Clara-Park" (curated by Christian Ehrentraut) @ Marianne Boesky; neo-Rauschenberg; Georg Baselitz @ Gagosian: folkadelic forebear fore·bear also for·bear n. A person from whom one is descended; an ancestor. See Synonyms at ancestor. [Middle English forbear : fore-, fore- + beer, : Thomas Eggerer @ Friedrich Petzel; Hannah van Bart @ Marianne Boesky: doll parts and fakelore; Thomas Scheibitz @ Tanya Bonakdar; Bendix Harms @ Anton Kern: neo-German folkadelic. SLEEPERS William Eggleston @ Cheim & Read: he knows his chickens; Suburban House Kit @ Deitch Projects; Jan Mancuska @ Andrew Kreps: the writing's on the wall; Cannon Hudson @ Oliver Kamm 5BE; "Hard Light" @ P.S. 1; Zilvinas Kempinas @ Spencer Brownstone brownstone, red to brown variety of sandstone. Its unusual color is caused in some instances by the presence of red iron oxide which acts as a cement, binding the sand grains together. ; Patterson Beckwith @ American Fine Arts; Shellburne Thurber @ Participant Inc.; "Future Noir" @ Gorney Bravin + Lee: born from Blade Runner (plus an electric octopus video to rival the Discovery Channel); Peter Coffin @ Andrew Kreps; Christopher Knowles (curated by Matthew Higgs) @ Gavin Brown's enterprise; Halsey Rodman @ Triple Candie; Jeremy Deller "The Uses of Literacy" @ Gavin Brown's enterprise. SPACE ODDITY Craig Kalpakjian @ Andrea Rosen; Ricci Albenda @ Andrew Kreps: color my word; Lothar Baumgarten @ Marian Goodman; Aernout Mik @ The Project: slow and low, that is the tempo; Pablo Vargas Lugo @ Massimo Audiello; Type A @ Sara Meltzer; "Nippon Time Recycled" (curated by Eric Mezil) @ Yvon Lambert; Hubbard/Birchler @ Tanya Bonakdar; Spencer Finch @ Postmasters; Changha Hwang @ Massimo Audiello; Jonah Freeman @ Andrew Kreps: your friends and neighbors; Jennifer Pastor @ the Whitney. VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR Jesper Just @ Perry Rubenstein: Danish redux of the Beaver Trilogy; Olaf Breuning @ Metro Pictures; Rodney Graham @ 303; the medium is the message; Annika Larsson @ Andrea Rosen; Pipilotti Rist @ Luhring Augustine: sugar and spice sugar and spice “what little girls are made of.” [Nurs. Rhyme: Mother Goose, 108] See : Children , not everything nice; Jane and Louise Wilson Jane and Louise Wilson (born 1967) are British artists, often known as "The Wilson Sisters", as they are twin sisters who have exhibited and worked together throughout their career. Their work includes large multiscreen video installations and photo-pieces. @ 303; Paul Pfeiffer @ Gagosian and The Project; Andrea Ray @ Suite 106; Judith Eisler @ Cohan and Leslie: as seen on TV. UNSOLVED MYSTERIES Simon Starling @ Casey Kaplan: steel tax, Brancusi, and a moped moped: see motorcycle. made from a bicycle and a chainsaw; Eve Sussman @ Roebling Hall and the Whitney: being Diego Velazquez; Trisha Donnelly @ Casey Kaplan; witchy woman; Matthew Brannon @ John Connelly Presents; Paul Etienne Lincoln @ Alexander and Bonin; Johannes Wohnseifer @ Casey Kaplan. FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING "Now Is a Good Time" (curated by Dean Valentine) @ Andrea Rosen; Tim Lokiec @ LFL; Glenn Brown @ Gagosian; history of art (on drugs); "She's Come Undone" @ Greenberg van Doren: watching their figures; Laura Owens @ Gavin Brown's enterprise; Brian Calvin @ Anton Kern: son of Alex Katz paints hipples; Dana Schutz @ LFL; David Humphrey @ Brent Sikkema; Carroll Dunham @ Barbara Gladstone; Seonna Hong @ Oliver Kamm 5BE. IT'S A MAD WORLD Justin Lieberman @ LFL; Lily van der Stokker @ Feature; Delia R. Gonzalez and Gavin R. Russom @ Daniel Reich; Christoph Buchel @ Swiss Institute; Tal R @ LFL; Ward Shelley @ Pierogi pie·ro·gi also pi·ro·gi n. pl. pierogi also pirogi or pi·ro·gies A semicircular dumpling with any of various fillings, such as finely chopped meat or vegetables, that is often sautéed after being boiled. ; Kirsten Deirup @ Guild and Greyshkul: Victorian poltergeist poltergeist (pōl`tərgīst) [Ger.,=knocking ghost], in spiritism, certain phenomena, such as rapping, movement of furniture, and breaking of crockery, for which there is no apparent scientific explanation. ; Tony Oursler @ Lehmann Maupin; Bjame Melgaard @ Reena Spaulings. SIZE MATTERS Franz Gertsch @ Gagosian: big Patti Smith, Ground-hog Day-style; Nigel Cooke @ Andrea Rosen; Ai Weiwei @ Robert Miller: get a load of that huge chandelier!: Ellen Gallagher @ Gagosian; Richard Deacon @ Marian Goodman; Picasso, Bacon, Basquiat @ Tony Shafrazi: security guards for the gallerist who spray-painted Guernica?!; Aleksandra Mir's big umbrella @ P.S. 1; Francesca Woodman @ Marian Goodman; Kurt Lightner @ Clementine Clementine forty-niner’s drowned daughter; “lost and gone forever.” [Am. Music: Leach, 236] See : Grief ; Caio Fonseca @ Paul Kasmin; Christopher Wool @ Luhring Augustine. CARAVAN OF DREAMS
The Caravan of Dreams was a performing arts center located in the central business district of Fort Worth, Texas during the 1980s and 1990s. Yutaka Sone @ David Zwirner; Carsten Holler @ Casey Kaplan; in through the out door; Anna Galtarossa @ Spencer Brownstone; "They Think I'm One of Them" @ Guild and Greyshkul; Jeppe Hein @ P.S. 1; John Bock @ Anton Kem; "The Game Show" @ James Cohan: ping-pong anyone?; Rudolf Stingei Plan B @ Grand Central Terminal; Justin Lowe @ P.S. 1. TALES FROM THE CRYPT Amy Cutler @ Leslie Tonkonow; AA Bronson @ John Connelly Presents: rear-end rubdowns for the masses; Daniel Heimbinder @ Clementine Gallery; Daniel Hesidence @ Feature; Jim Lambie @ Anton Kern; John Miller @ Metro Pictures; Michael Wetzel @ John Connelly Presents; St. Clair Cemin @ Brent Sikkema. LET'S GET TOGETHER "Establishing Shot" @ Artists Space; "Colony" and "Sprawl" (curated by Emily Wei and Haan Chau) @ Hudson Clearing; "I Am the Walrus walrus, marine mammal, Odobenus rosmarus, found in Arctic seas. Largest of the fin-footed mammals, or pinnipeds (see seal), the walrus is also distinguished by its long tusks and by cheek pads bearing quill-like bristles. " (curated by Jan Avgikos) @ Cheim & Read: send in the clowns; "Where Do We Go From Here" @ Tanya Bonakdar; "The day after I destroyed the women, I wished I had not destroyed them" @ Oliver Kamm 5BE: violent undertones; "Slouching Towards Bethlehem For the Angel episode, see . Slouching Towards Bethlehem is a 1968 collection of essays by Joan Didion and mainly describes her experiences in California during the 1960s. It takes its title from the poem "The Second Coming" by W.B. Yeats. " @ The Project: the grateful dead of hippie culture; "Trunk of Humours" (curated by Kathy Grayson) @ Deitch Projects; "When the lights go out ..." @ Cohan and Leslie; "Despite the Sun" @ Foxy Production. NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK New Kids on the Block (later NKOTB) was a boy band that enjoyed enormous success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Assembled in Boston in 1984 by producer Maurice Starr, the members consisted of brothers Jordan and Jonathan Knight, Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg, and Danny Matt Johnson @ Taxter and Spengemann; Rinko Kawauchi @ Cohan and Leslie; I'll show you fear in a handful of dust; Gedi Sibony @ Canada; Marco Boggio Sella sella /sel·la/ (sel´ah) pl. sel´lae [L.] 1. a saddle-shaped depression.sel´lar 2. s. turcica. sella tur´cica @ John Connelly Presents; Lars-Erik Fisk Fisk , James 1834-1872. American railroad financier and speculator who attempted in 1869 to corner the gold market with Jay Gould, leading to Black Friday, a day of nationwide financial panic. @ Taxter and Spengemann; Mika Rottenberg @ P.S. 1: porn stars turn fingernails into cherries?!; Kent Henricksen @ In the Kitchen; Paul Chen @ Greene Naftali: apocalypse now; Lucas Ajemian @ Priska C. Juschka; Tomory Dodge @ Taxter and Spengemann; Marc Handelman @ Lombard-Freid. KING FOR A DAY "Let the Bullshit Run a Marathon" (curated by Nate Lowman) @ Nicole Klagsbrun: the spawn of Cady Noland; "I, Assassin" (curated by Slater Bradley) @ Wallspace; "Always Already Passe" (curated by Chivas Clem) @ Gavin Brown's enterprise at Passerby: Fifth International, the next generation; "Minimal Artists try to make Something look like Nothing and Conceptual Artists try to make Nothing look like Something, or is It the Other Way Around?" (curated by Jonathan Monk) @ Yvon Lambert; "Tokyo Girls Bravo" @ Marianne Boesky and "Gallery Swap: Galerie Emmanuer Perrotin" @ LFL (both curated by Takashi Murakami): hello kitty; "None of the Above" (curated by John Armleder) @ Swiss Institute; "Last one on is a soft jimmy" (curated by Kelley Walker) @ Paula Cooper. SOCIAL WORKERS Harrell Fletcher @ Christine Burgin and Guild and Greyshkul; Whitney Biennial in Central Park with Public Art Fund: Dave Muller Chemeless (A Carnival of Sorts); Cildo Meireles @ Galerie Lelong: concrete poetry; Rirkrit Tiravanija's Untitled 2002 (he promised) @ the former Ace gallery; Kerry James Marshall Kerry James Marshall (October 17, 1955- ) is an artist born in Birmingham, Alabama. He grew up in South Central Los Angeles and now lives in Chicago and teaches at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago. @ the Studio Museum in Harlem The Studio Museum in Harlem is an American fine arts museum in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, New York. It was founded in 1968 as the first such museum in the U.S. ; Anton Vidokle @ Massimo Audiello; Julian Opie @ City Hall Park (Public Art Fund); Dave Muller @ Murray Guy. HISTORY LESSONS Miroslaw Balka @ Barbara Gladstone; look back in anger; Benjamin Cottam @ Gasser & Grunert; "Repeat Performance" @ Artists Space; "Beginning Here: 101 Ways" @ SVA SVA School of Visual Arts SVA Severe (Thunderstorm) Advisory SVA Statens Veterinärmedicinska Anstalt (National Veterinary Institute, Sweden) SVA Shareholder Value Added ; "Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China" @ the ICP (1) (Internet Cache Protocol) A protocol used by one proxy server to query another for a cached Web page without having to go to the Internet to retrieve it. See CARP and proxy server. and Asia Society; "Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art from 1951 to the Present" @ the Guggenheim; William Kentridge @ Marian Goodman; Nari Ward @ Deitch Projects; Ana Mendieta @ the Whitney; Mark Leckey @ Gavin Brown's enterprise: in the belly of the rabbit; Dominic McGill @ Derek Eller; Neil Jenney, Ree Morton, Sylvia Plimack Mangold @ Alexander and Bonin; On Kawara @ David Zwirner: days like these; "Based on a True Story" @ Artists Space. THE HARVEY EFFECT "California Earthquakes" @ Daniel Reich: Jerry Saltz's termites, Harvey's treats; "Deliver us from Evil" @ Matthew Marks; Dana Schutz, Amy Sillman, Kara Walker @ Brent Sikkema; "Le Cabinet des Collages" @ D'amelio Terras; Benjamin Degen @ Guild and Greyshkul; "Happy Days Are Here Again" (curated by Andre Schlechtriem) @ David Zwirner; the son also rises; "Incantantions" @ Metro Pictures; "The New Romantics" @ Greene Naftali; Philippe Perrot hits New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ; Rob Thom @ LFL. MATERIAL WORLD Kirsten Hassenfeld @ Bellwether: amazing with paper and scissors scissors Cutting instrument or tool consisting of a pair of opposed metal blades that meet and cut when the handles at their ends are brought together. Modern scissors are of two types: the more usual pivoted blades have a rivet or screw connection between the cutting ends , but can she type?; "Happy Medium" (curated by Meghan Dailey) @ Clementine; Phoebe Washburn @ LFL and P.S. 1; "Semi-Precious" (Public Art Fund) @ MetroTech Center; "Surface Tension" @ Lombard-Freid: loved that puking phoenix by Jennifer Cohen cohen or kohen (Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. ; Brice Marden @ Matthew Marks: million-dollar marbles!; Gareth James @ American Fine Arts; Jessica Jackson Hutchins Jessica Jackson Hutchins-Malkmus (b. 1971) is an American artist. She is the wife of former Pavement band member, Stephen Malkmus. The Portland Mercury reported in September 2006 that "her ceramics (steeped in a California funk attitude), papier-mache sculptures, and @ Derek Eller; Chris Hanson and Hendrika Sonnenberg @ Cohan and Leslie; Jessica Rankin @ The Project; "Hung, Drawn, and Quartered" (curated by Miriam Katzeff) @ Team; Michael Mahalchick @ Canada; Shirley Tse @ Murray Guy. NEW YORK STATE OF MIND Carnegie International: New Yorker Laura Hoptman brings the Big Apple--and Henry Fonda--to Pittsburgh; MoMA in Berlin: Upon closing MoMA mounted posters thanking Berlin! Or was it Berlin thanking MoMA?; Daniel Guzman @ Lombard-Freid and Trans>area; Barbara Probst @ Murray Guy; Peter Wegner @ Henry Urbach Architecture. COMMON PEOPLE Geniuses: sculptor and painter Judy Pfaff and folk artist Aminah Robinson received MacArthur Grants; Biennial Boon: Raymond Pettibon was awarded the 2004 Bucksbaum Award, with a sum of $100,000; Boss man; Rirkrit Tiravanija won the $50,000 Hugo Boss prize The Hugo Boss Prize is awarded every other year to an artist (or group of artists) working in any medium, anywhere in the world. The prize is administered by the Guggenheim Museum and sponsored by the Hugo Boss clothing company. (shortlist included: Franz Ackermann, Rivane Neuen-schwander, Jeroen de Rijke and Willem de Rooij. Simon Starling, and Yang Fudong); Lineman: The Drawing Center honored Richard Serra: in his acceptance speech he recited his "alphabet of drawing"; Wrap Stars: Christo and Jeanne-Claude Christo (born Hristo Yavashev, Bulgarian: Христо Явашев) and Jeanne-Claude (born Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon) are a married couple who create environmental installation art. received the 2004 Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award from the International Sculpture Center. HOUSEHOLD NAMES Richard Prince, Christian Holstad, Larry Gagosian, John Currin (is a Republican), Cady Noland, Ed Ruscha, Harvey Shipley Miller. RISKY BUSINESS Bought by Louise McBain. Modern Painters and Gallery Guide; Sold by MoMA: Giorgio di Chirico's The Great Metaphysician met·a·phy·si·cian n. One who specializes or is skilled in metaphysics. , (1917), Jackson Pollock's Number 12 (1949) $11,655,500, and works by Chagall, Dubuffet, Leger, Magritte, and Picasso at Christie's May sales; Records: Pablo Picasso's Boy with a Pipe (1905) $104,000,000; Jeff Koons's Jim Beam J.B. Turner Train (1986) $5,495,500; Richard Prince's My Name (1987) $747,200; Keith Haring's Untitled (People) (1985) $624,000; Maurizio Cattelan's The Ninth Hour (1999) $3,032,000; Christopher Wool's Untitled (1990) (Run Dog Run Dog Run) $848,000; Takashi Murakami's Flower Ball (2002) $624,000; Ed Ruscha's Damage (1964) $3,591,500; Willem de Kooning's Standing Figure (1969) $3,479,500; 36 works of Richard Prince at Christie's, Sotheby's, and Phillips in November sales. Caught; two Whitney ticket-takers in $850,000 ticket scam. Guilty: Thea Westreich and her company, Art Advisory Services, Inc., for failing to collect New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. sales tax on over $5 million in art sales: Beginning: Fernwood Art Investments and Artist Pension Trust The Artist Pension Trust (APT) is a for-profit organization that was started by entrepreneur Moti Shniberg, economist Dan Galai. Former SFMOMA and Whitney Museum director David A. Ross in 2002 was its founding President. : trading in futures. End: "Collection (or How I Spent a Year)" @ P.S. 1: what Bob Nickas bought over a year. FORECASTS Andrew Guenther @ Perry Rubenstein; Daniel Lefcourt @ Taxter and Spengemann; Bruce Conner @ Barbara Gladstone: Toni Basel, Cool Hand Luke and Devo!; Keith Edmier @ Friedrich Petzel: Katharina Fritsch @ Matthew Marks; William Kentridge @ the Met; Ken Price @ Matthew Marks; "Origins of Harold" @ Deitch Projects: "Small: The Object in Film, Video, and Slide Installation" @ the Whitney. I HEARD I WAS THERE Rachel Harrison's postopening karaoke party: "Now is a good time" afterparty @ Andrea Rosen; kicked out; Terry Richardson party @ the Maritime Hotel: Whitney Biennial after party @ the Maritime; prom all over again and the cute guy from Amores Perros was there; Timothy Greenfield-Sanders opening @ Mary Boone: the freaks come out at night. [square] Compiled by Ali Subotnick, Massimiliano Gioni, and Maurizio Cattelan. (See Contributors.) P.S. Though not in New York physically, Gregor Schneider's identical twin house project in London, Die Familie Schneider, was so haunting it followed us back on the plane. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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