Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: and/or, architecture, art, center, childhood, contemporary, installation, jonathan horowitz, leandro erlich, long island city, morale, p.s. 1, pool, projecting, queens, spooky, swimming
The P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City is one of my favorite places. As a former school building, the architecture invokes childhood nostalgia at once dreamy and institutionally spooky – a prime backdrop for a museum or as a friend would, say, “projecting.”
Currently, “Jonathan Horowitz: And/Or”, a higher profile exhibition, features “subversive” pop cultural references mingled with politics, consumerism and celebrity. Including a quote from Jane Fonda about not being a “dime a dozen” blonde bombshell, but rather a citizen with a cause. Otherwise, she’d be “dead like Monroe.”
However, if you’re strapped for time, visit the swimming pool by Leandro Erlich, an extensive installation of a transparent pool and deck ceiling, where visitors can hang out below the transparency in a luminous bungalow “under” the water that makes one feel cradled in an unnaturally dry, non-buoyant – but morale boosting – environment.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: aliya naumoff, animalania, art, ASPCA, east village, fashion, fuse, gallery, photography
Photo: Robin Schwartz
Lovers of art and living creatures collaborated to deliver, Animalania, an exhibition of quirky vintage animal photographs curated by fashion photographer, Aliya Naumoff. Among the show’s contributing artists are Danielle Levitt, James Iha, Kristin Schaal, Spike Jonze, Karen O and Nick Zinner. All proceeds from the show will be donated to the ASPCA (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals). Awhile ago I wrote a piece about another ASPCA-related event.
Animalania is on display at Fuse Gallery through March 14. The works can also be viewed online here.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: art, bikes, black label, braddock, pennsylvania, secret project robot, swoon, transformazium, williamsburg
Black Label crafter bikes and gallery scenesters littered Secret Project Robot (also Flux Factory’s former location) Saturday night for “Art Makes Eye Contact”, a benefit for Swoon’s Transformazium project in Braddock, PA. As a follow up to the acclaimed Swimming Cities of the Switchback Sea endeavor this summer, Transformazium will transform a church space, incorporating artistic collaboration, surrounding resources and the community itself. Besides the vegan-friendly BBQ were “raffle strippers” – or, a boy and a girl who circulated the opening completely naked if not for the raffle tickets on their bods. The raffle included a trip for two to Braddock with accommodations and a walking tour, fine tattoos and works by Swoon and Barry McGee.
Notable rogue taxidermist, Nate Hill, also made an appearance, dressed in a milkman ensemble (complete with mini milk jugs and carrier).
October’s jampacked. Lookout:
Tue (Oct 14) - Films made in/about Braddock @ Secret Project Robot, 210 Kent, BK
Sat (Oct 18) - Dance Party, 10 pm @ Secret Project Robot
Sat (Oct 25) – Black Label BIKE KILL
Thur (Oct 30) – Flux (Farewell) Halloween Party (a k a the last.party.ever before the building’s leveled), 38-38 43rd St. in Long Island City
Fri (Oct 31) – Nate Hill’s unveiling of E.V.E. (the feminine to A.D.A.M.) at 915 Wyckoff Ave. in Ridgewood, Queens
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: art, center, fluorescent, long island city, rocks, sculpture, yellow
If you’ve been to SculptureCenter in Long Island City, you’ve probably noticed the fluorescent yellow-green rock lawn outside the building. The experience is remarkable in the sense that I felt like I was in one of those black and white cult movie posters with a neon graphic splashed across the surface. Anyhow, while there, I encountered this artist who attempted to fix a half-botched wheatpasting job to no avail. Poor guy – though, perhaps, an interesting performance piece while he alternated one arm versus the other to keep the thing up.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: art, deitch projects, hudson, long island city, photography, sea, soup, swimming cities, switchback, swoon, the polaroid kidd, tod seelie
Swoon’s remarkable floating sculptures, which were well worth the wait, arrived to a welcoming band and packed pier at Deitch Studios on Sunday. An irreverent crew member named Stephen stumbled onto the platform and jokingly balked, “What’s all this?”
“It’s Soup!”
The exhibition also had a piece featuring Soup, friend and subject throughout photographs by Tod Seelie and The Polaroid Kidd.
Photo: Luna Park
Photo: Tod Seelie
Waiting…
More waiting…
A bit more…(I like this guy)
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 10, art, canada, christopher lee, deitch studios, dracula, fashion, fundamentalist church of jesus christ of latter-day sai, human trafficking, javier bardem, naomi watts, ny daily news, olympics, oprah, sarah palin, swimming cities of the switchback sea, swoon, t magazine, viceland
Photo: Marie Losier
AGENDA:
Marie Losier OUTTAKES at Luxe Gallery on Sunday, September 7th
Docking of Swoon’s Swimming Cities of the Switchback Sea project at Deitch Studios in Long Island City on Sept 7th.
OH Canada: The underdog of human trafficking (VICE)
Oprah would love to have Sarah Palin on her show, but not until after the election. Sorry, Pals. (NY Daily News)
Gallery of Vampires in Movies. All time favorite: Christopher Lee as Dracula (NY Daily News)
In T Mag:
Javier Bardem Interview
Olympic attire in the vein of iconic designers: “10″
Photo essay inside the community known as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Slideshow of Naomi Watts’ “Many Selves”
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: art, artist, artsy, boats, cities, doing stuff, floats, flux factory, going places, long island city, miss rockaway armada, project, queens, swimming, switchback sea, swoon
Photo: bluecinema
Tonight’s agenda: a one-hour play aboard the floating sculptures sponsored by the much-loved, Swoon, as part of her “Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea” project. As you may recall, the Going Places (Doing Stuff) tour paid a brief visit to the docked pieces upstate for a sneak peek a couple weekends ago – which was, to say the least, a pleasant surprise since we didn’t know where were headed on the tour (a k a the point of it all). The project will make its way along the Hudson River and open at Deitch Studios in Long Island City, Queens on Sept. 7th.
Tonight:
Riverside Park Pier 1, 70th St. and Hudson River
8pm, FREE
Previous collaborations by Swoon:
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: art, book, carla bruni, christopher ciccone, german art, guy ritchie, madonna, men's fashion, men's lib, obama, photography, shorts, spite, tell-all, vanity fair, vice, viceland
Carla Bruni as a modern Jackie O, Sarkozy’s femininistic equal. (Vanity Fair)
Excerpt from Christopher Ciccone’s tell-all about sister Madonna and Guy Ritchie’s relationship. With a twinge of spite but nevertheless humorous. (Times Online)
It’s finally ok for men to wear shorts. Obama as “Progress”, while men’s shorts as the next step in Men’s Lib?
(NYT)
German Pre-War Paintings at MoMA: Expressionistic and vibrant. (“Kirchner and the Berlin Street”)
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: american artist, art, art world, bravo, fashion, salvador dali, sarah jessica parker, show, statue of david, television, tim gunn, tv
Remember Sarah Jessica Parker’s guest appearance on “Project Runway”? Well, she’s back. This time, Bravo will host SJP’s new show, “American Artist”, an art world’s version of “Project” that encompasses among other mediums, painting and sculpture.
Hm…imagining a modern interpretation of the Statue of David juxtaposed with a shadow box by an edgy, nuvo Salvador Dali. Well, when wasn’t Dali edgy? But you get the idea. The possibilities are infinite (like “black-hole” infinite) especially in classifying art, let alone “good art”. This should be interesting.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: art, brooklyn, gallery, miss rockaway armada, opening, photography, suckapants, tod seelie, williamsburg
One of my favorite photogs is having his first solo opening tonight at the Cinders Gallery in Williamsburg. He documented possibly the most innovative arts & crafts movement of modern day Lost Boys & Girls: last year, a group of artists from every nook & cranny around the country got together to assemble a raft made out of garbage & scraps. The raft made its way down the Mississippi and the project was dubbed The Miss Rockaway Armada.
Tod Seelie (a k a Suckapants) was there to capture it all.
Cinders Gallery
103 Havemeyer St.
between Hope and Grand
Williamsburg, BK
