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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 […]
Opening this weekend in the Lever House (Park Avenue and 54th Street) lobby is Damien Hirst’s latest, and quite ambitious, piece titled School: The Archaeology of Lost Desires, Comprehending Infinity, and the Search for Knowledge. The $10 million installation was purchased by the owner of Lever House, Aby Rosen, (who also owns the Seagram Building […]
The LE Gallery will present new works by Nicholas Di Genova in a show titled Birds Are Terrifying Creatures, which opens tomorrow — Friday, September 7th, 2007 — in Toronto.
Di Genova’s style is illustrative, obsessive, fantastical, and natural all at once. His first set of limited edition prints (30 sets of the 6 prints […]
Independent curator, Omar Lopez-Chahoud, has put together the group show titled I Died for Beauty, which opens tomorrow night at the Newman Popiashvili Gallery:
The underlining concept of the show is based on the idea of personal transformation as a liberating, powerful change from one state of being to another.
The process of transformation requires the […]
Tonight, join me for Paolo Chiasera’s opening at Amy Smith-Stewart’s (previously of Mary Boone Gallery) new space, called, as you may have guessed, Smith Stewart. This is the gallery’s second exhibition, which finds its home on the Lower East Side, comfortably situated on Stanton between Forsyth and Eldridge streets.
