Thanks to Artkrush for bringing this Washington Post article and the work to my attention. Not being a Klimt scholar, though definitely an admirer, I’m interested to hear that Beethoven Frieze (1902), the permanent, too-racy-for-early-20th C.-audiences work at Secession, gets a contextual reboot by Swiss artist Christoph Büchel.
The idea of moving a local sex club, […]
February 27th, 2010
Categories: Austria, Installation, Controversy, Masters, Painting . Author: ian l.c.v. . Comments: Comments Off
New York-based French artist Michel Auder will open his first Berlin solo show titled Heads of the Town today, Friday, February 6 at Aurel Scheibler. Borrowing liberally from his friend, the poet Jack Spicer, Auder interprets the title My Vocabulary Did This to Me to produce new work that “remains self-referential in its treatment of […]
February 6th, 2009
Categories: Installation, Berlin, Sound, Solo Show, Celebrity, Opening, Masters, New York, Video . Author: ian l.c.v. . Comments: No Comments
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
Thanks to Dazed & Confused for pointing out this Paul Fryer installation that was up for the duration of Frieze.
At the Church of the Holy Trinity Marylebone, Paul Fryer replicates the heavens and earth to demonstrate man´s megalomaniacal folly.
He [] displays the consequences of man´s hubris with a figure of a child-sized angel trapped in […]
October 27th, 2008
Categories: Installation, London, Sculpture, Art Fair . Author: ian l.c.v. . Comments: 1 Comment
In a bout of self-promotion (which I hope to keep to a minimum), I wanted to inform our readers that the show that Alex and I curated and have been working on for so long is finally open. The reception for the LouvreFRITOS will take place tomorrow, Friday, October 3rd at Cuchifritos gallery/project space from […]
October 2nd, 2008
Categories: Lower East Side, Collective, Installation, France, Urban, East Village, Retrospective, History, Sculpture, Group Show, Opening, Performance, Museum, New York, Photography, Paris, Painting . 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
The giant 120-foot waterfalls the city is installing under the Brooklyn Bridge are ready to view tomorrow, June 26. They’ll be up for a couple months and should prove a lovely sight whilst walking across that less pretty bridge (the Manhattan one). The image above is courtesy of Gizmodo, who have more of the story […]
June 25th, 2008
Categories: Urban, DUMBO, Environmental, Installation, New York, Bio-art . Author: lynette c . Comments: No Comments
This weekend is your last chance to peek at London (or Brooklyn) from the giant optical devices installed on Fulton Ferry Landing and near the Tower Bridge, respectively.
On display since May 22, the telescope-like devices have been open every hour of the day. The brainchild of Alexander Stanhope St. George and realized by his great-grandson […]
June 13th, 2008
Categories: British, DUMBO, Closing, Installation, Brooklyn, London, Technology . Author: lynette c . Comments: No Comments
If you’re in New York this weekend, there is no shortage of art-related events to immerse yourself in. Here are three worth checking out:
Electric Windows - May 17-18
24 street artists converge in Beacon, NY, for live painting and the installation of their work on the exterior of a 19th century factory building. It’s worth the […]
May 14th, 2008
Categories: Music, Graffiti, Urban, DUMBO, Installation, Festival, Group Show, New York, Design, Lecture, Painting . Author: lynette c . Comments: No Comments
On April 18th, 2008, a pipe near the corner of 2nd Ave and east 9th Street poured pixelated water onto the pavement in what looks to be the work of an anonymous urban installation artist (though I suppose it’s possible that someone simply forgot to shut off the city’s 8-bit water supply.) The brevity of […]
April 24th, 2008
Categories: East Village, Installation, Sculpture . Author: alex k. . Comments: No Comments