It’s not often that I cite the Los Angeles Times (or update, for that matter), but this article speaks as to the obstacles and successes gallery owners face in LA:
Sales have all but dried up for many L.A. area dealers, quite a few galleries have closed and others have downsized. But in a period […]
July 29th, 2009
Categories: Los Angeles, Hollywood, Urban, LA, Architecture, Business . Author: ian l.c.v. . Comments: Comments Off
Extended until January 25, 2009.
Sincerest apologies for the hiatus since the end of October. In my primary capacity as an independent curator, November was creation and crunch time for the show I co-curated with Omar Lopez-Chahoud at the Dumbo Arts Center. Only recently, following the curatorial talk, has there been time to get back […]
December 16th, 2008
Categories: Urban, Installation, DUMBO, Curator, Latin America, Sculpture, Architecture, Group Show, All-media, New York, Brooklyn, Performance . Author: ian l.c.v. . Comments: No Comments
(ARTINFO) Marc Chagall Window Vandalized; Seven Indicted in International Art-Fraud Schemes; Basel Rejects Claim from Heirs of Persecuted Art Dealer; Permit for Oil Drilling Near Spiral Jetty Denied; (NYTIMES) Russian and Rich: Art’s New Tastemaker; (ARTFORUM) Sugar Rush — Terence Koh’s Asia Song Society opening reception; Cory Arcangel live and the opening of the new […]
August 19th, 2008
Categories: Installation, Power players, Art Star, Music, Asian, Moscow, Links, DUMBO, Celebrity, Party, Controversy, Stolen, All-media, New York, Brooklyn, Architecture, Profile, Opening . Author: ian l.c.v. . Comments: No Comments
Today marks the closing of British artist Mike Nelson’s A Psychic Vacuum, the sprawling installation in the old Essex Street Market space on Delancey Street on the Lower East Side. It’s an ambitious project that manages an eeriness and subtle care and respect for the otherworldly and absolutely mundane in the daily lives of residents […]
October 28th, 2007
Categories: Closing, British, Lower East Side, Installation, Architecture, New York . Author: ian l.c.v. . Comments: No Comments
The NYTimes reports on Creative Time’s endeavour for historical preservation:
Among the things New York City does exceedingly well is erase its own past, even the more durable parts, like the old Pennsylvania Station or the Third Avenue El. So when it comes to a more fleeting kind of history, a lot of imagination is […]
May 2nd, 2007
Categories: History, Architecture, New York, Participatory . Author: ian l.c.v. . Comments: No Comments
The NY Times has extensive coverage (incl. audio slide show and video) on the New Museum of Contemporary Art’s new space on The Bowery.
Amongst the short history lesson on the museum and a bit about naming toilets (The Jerome and Ellen Stern Restrooms), the article talks about the continued dedication (through its board member […]
March 29th, 2007
Categories: Architecture, New York, Museum . Author: ian l.c.v. . Comments: No Comments