Beautiful Young Men Dancing to Music: Brennan Gerard, Ryan Kelly
Review of a performance by Ideological Formation at Mount Tremper Arts in the Catskill Mountains
The Next Great Reality TV Winner: Bravo’s Work of Art
Work of Art: The Next Great Artist is the best attempt so far to bring the art world to mainstream media. It earnestly tries to make the process of making art and discussing its merits and shortcomings more accessible to the general public, or at least, the reality TV demographic. The show has a diverse … Continued
Pablo Bronstein at the Met, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bronstein appears to want to draw classical buildings as though he were at work in a perpetual ancient regime.
The Blue Rider in Performance at the Miller Theatre, Columbia University
“Black has an inner sound of nothingness bereft of all possibilities…”
— Vasily Kandinsky, On the Spiritual in Art (1910)
The Painter Sam Francis, a film by Jeffrey Perkins
‘The Painter Sam Francis’ 85 minutes Shot on 16mm, Super 8, Hi-8, DV ©2008 Body and Soul Productions Showing at Anthology Film Archives, New York, through September 17 The film biography “The Painter Sam Francis” might be better called “What Happened to Sam Francis?” It reinforces all the standard cliché’s of the outsized artist’s life. … Continued
A TOPICAL PICK FROM THE ARCHIVES: Ariane Lopez-Huici
A film review from 2009 coincides with the artist’s show at Hionas Gallery
Brooklyn DIY: A Story of Williamsburg Art Scene 1987-2007 directed by Martin Ramocki
In Julian Schnabel’s film Basquiat, the title character, exemplar of the flameout credo of the East Village, is assisting an artist-installer at the Mary Boone Gallery. This mediocrity, played by Willem Da Foe, attempts to counsel the hero about the benefits of a reliable day job. Basquiat replies that someday he would show on those very … Continued
