Zak Smith’s latest solo exhibition at Fredericks & Freiser gallery opens this Friday, October 10. From the press release:
Midnight in the Empire features compulsively dense abstract works, a grab bag of drawings and paintings on different subjects, as well as the latest installments of “Girls In The Naked Girl Business”–Smith’s ongoing series of portraits of […]
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 […]
In case you hadn’t heard, the 2008 CONFLUX Festival begins tomorrow:
Starting September 11th, over one hundred local and international artists will transform New York City streets into a laboratory for exploring the urban environment at the Conflux Festival. Located in Greenwich Village at the Center for Architecture (a.k.a. Conflux HQ), the four-day event includes art […]
MSNBC.com has a piece on 798, one of the massive art spaces in Beijing gaining worldwide notoriety and dripping with a hip, trendy sheen unseen in the New York art world in recent times. More impressive is the sheer size of the space, owing to its previous life as a munitions factory.
(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 […]
As part of the opening of intransit, the summer group show curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud, performance artist Micki Pellerano parted the literal swell of people to deliver a riveting staged sacrifice, of sorts, steeped in mysticism and ritual.
See the Flickr slideshow here.
See another performance on video after the jump.
Beginning this week, two opportunities to view works by a large, diverse, and (judging by the names I recognize) excellent selection of artists, c/o curator Omar Lopez-Chahoud. Artist as Publisher opens tonight at The Center for Book Arts, notably featuring works by members of maverick Chilean collective La Nueva Grafica Chilena (LNGCh) [see a sample […]
Memoirist, novelist, editor, champion of irreverence, and ubiquitous tastemaker Dave Eggers has organized a show at Apex Art that features a who’s-who of contemporary artists who share his sense of humor. Many of his choices are quite well known, having become as exposed and “hip” as he is, and some have lent their vision to […]
Korea Society presents an exhibition of Korean toys from the 1970’s and 1980’s:
[Toys] represent the anxieties of the society that produces them and the fantasies of the generation that plays with them. The futuristic toy robots and svelte plastic dolls of Korean childhood capture a society hurdling headlong towards economic prosperity and a generation of […]
From January 17-February 16, Cueto Project presents the work of Brooklyn-based artist Fritz Welch.
Welch’s solo show, entitled “Under Your Wet Blanket,”:
deals with two ongoing conceptual themes for the artist: Revolution Blues and Vampire Blues. The former refers to a fundamental interest in activist occupation of space and direct political action. The latter is concerned with […]
