Category Archives: Chelsea Galleries
An open letter to Ed Winkelman, SVA, Dan Cameron, or anyone in a position to help artists speak Truth to Power: we do need “A New Currency”
No wonder artists have a hard time writing statements. Rebelling against the need to write is the only self-defense/self-preservation mechanism they have left in a system that seeks to compartmentalize them. Do you want funding? [asks the foundation] Explain how what you do fits in with our criteria for what’s worth $. Want me to [...]
Critic writes half-ass artist’s statement on a paper bag at Cafe Grumpy
My friend (if he still is my friend), Kurt Strahm, seems worried that I may not be able to hack writing artists’ statements in 15 minutes at Winkelman this Wednesday; so, I offer to write him one on the spot—only he’ll have to wait ’till after I use the rest room. He insists (to toughen [...]
i will attempt to write artists statements—in real time, at #hashtagclass
You may think it’s hard to endure writing or reading artists’ statements; so please take heart that I’m now turning statement writing into an endurance piece. We shall see if I can come out standing.
Read about the show on the blog, or just come to Winkelman Gallery in Chelsea. I was inspired by Lucy van [...]
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Roberta Smith: WooHoo! Crowd-hungry museums, following “latter-day Postminimalism” get their comeuppance
In the New York Times, Sunday. As you prob know. RS sounds off masterfully on the subject of why museum solo shows of work by contemporary artists all feel cool, distant, alike. Or, rather, “part of a big-box chain featuring only one brand.”
…What’s missing is art that seems made by one person out of intense [...]
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busy photo dealer, Pamela Schoenberg, in this month’s “Photograph” mag
Gotta love the cover of this month’s Photograph, to which I contribute. It’s an image by French photographer Denis Darzacq, courtesy of Laurence Miller gallery, as described by Lyle Rexer. On my end, I got to talk to a swell photo dealer, Pamela Mayers Schoenberg, her profile excerpt, below:
Want to get a job done? Ask a [...]
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A good press release for a really good painter: Bill Jensen (at Cheim & Read)
Press releases tend to be poorly written, rarely telling me what I really need to know about a particular show or artist. That said, this new one for Bill Jensen (an amazing painter’s painter) was pretty swell.
It’s not trying to be scintillating, but it is informative. Excerpt:
Jensen is also inspired by Taoist philosophy, Chinese [...]
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buy photos for very little money in….Chelsea
Alan Klotz. My former professor. A real Photo Maven. And, a guy who just happens to have a photography sale every year, same time, same place. 511 W. 25th Street (his gallery).
This is fine art photography, guys. The stuff you invest in for the long term.
Since times are sooo hard right now, I can only [...]
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Rolling homage
This, by Iván Navarro, whose show is coming up December 10 at Paul Kasmin, Chelsea.
This, by way of explanation, from Kasmin’s press release:
“Die” (2009) is the second of Navarro’s sculptures to respond to the American sculptor Tony Smith’s famous six-foot steel cube, “Die” (1962). Smith’s sculpture was designed to match human scale; he claimed that [...]
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[#hashtag] Class Dismissed. Everyone gets an A for Effort. Well, Almost Everyone.