In my opinion, the true test of a good magic trick is that after it’s performed, you don’t want to know how it’s done. Questions about magic tricks are like money—it’s a good feeling to have them jingling contentedly in your pocket. When I went to watch the Glenn Kaino/Ryan Majestic magic show at the Slipper Room the other night, I really didn’t have a clue what I was in for.
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The Fishbowl Carnival: Glenn Kaino & Ryan Majestic @ the Slipper Room
November 20, 2009 – 1:30 pm
An Odd Couple
November 18, 2009 – 4:02 pm
Anyone that can get to the UCLA Hammer Museum soon is in for a treat. Two strong yet very different shows share the upper level. Heat Waves in a Swamp: the Paintings of Charles Burchfield (October 4–January 3, 2010) is an abbreviated retrospective curated by Robert Gober and Cynthia Burlingham. In another well designed space hangs The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis (October 24–February 7, 2010).
Portraiture of the Artists
November 13, 2009 – 4:43 pm
Shakespeare and Company, the legendary English-language bookstore on Paris’s Left Bank, recently got a facelift. Several faces, in fact. Fourteen illustrated portraits of the Lost and Beat Generation writers who once frequented the store—and its predecessor—now adorn the staircase wall leading up to the second floor library of the bookshop. An interview with Badaude—the illustrator Joanna Walsh—with a slideshow of her mural as a work-in-progress.
News Digest - Week of November 9
November 10, 2009 – 1:50 pm
It was another busy week in the art world, with Dia announcing plans to return to New York City, the Impressionist and Modern auctions, and a plethora of other developments.
Read on for ArtWeLove’s news digest, now also available in email form—bringing a comprehensive roundup of the week’s art developments to your digital doorstep. If you aren’t signed up, simply click here. As always, we welcome your feedback at editorial@artwelove.com.
Pam Joseph Wunderlust @ Francis Naumann Fine Art Gallery
November 6, 2009 – 1:23 pm
When I think of Pam Joseph’s work, I imagine standing before Bernini’s classic sculpture Pluto and Proserpina, with Pluto wrestling a naked Proserpina, while behind it as backdrop is a Victoria Secret billboard advertisement, the golden cleavage, faceless head thrown back in pleasure, blown ten-stories high in technicolor.
David Ryan
October 28, 2009 – 4:05 pm
David Ryan’s flamboyantly colored sculptural paintings are both economical and obsessive, creating an effect that interviewer Ryan Spencer describes as “Minimalism on mushrooms.” He’s currently showing work at Davidson Contemporary on Fifth Avenue.
Christina McPhee
October 26, 2009 – 3:11 pm
Throughout the ’80s, Christina McPhee used drawing and painting to investigate landscape and its relationship to time through work at archaeological and geological sites. By the mid-’90s, she began new media explorations of human technology and the environment by mining traumatic memory patterns and what they might uncover about geomorphologies in sites such as the San Andreas Fault. Her current exhibition Tesserae of Venus at Silverman Gallery in San Francisco imagines a world simultaneously on the verge of destruction and regeneration.Lothar Osterburg at Lesley Heller Gallery
October 19, 2009 – 4:27 pm
At a first glance, Lothar Osterburg’s photographic works can be visually disorienting given the textural presence of their surfaces. This is because these are photogravures, prints—that is, works on paper—rather than photographs.
Suzanne Fiol, 1960–2009
October 16, 2009 – 4:55 pm
Suzanne Fiol, the founder and artistic director of Issue Project Room as well as a prominent figure in the New York art world for over twenty years, died on Monday, October 5th, in Manhattan. She was 49 years old.
Double Feature, Cinema and Painting: Angela Dufresne and Amy Longenecker-Brown
October 9, 2009 – 12:33 pm
Frame, time, narrative, action—is this the language of painting or cinema? Whether it started with Barthes, Bacon, Buñuel, or (cut to slow motion) Warhol; and whether the screen is silver, silk, or canvas, the developments and history of the two media are undeniably intertwined. In an attempt to unravel the ties, BOMB On the Inside: On the Scene presents a two part series in conversation with Angela Dufresne and Amy Longenecker-Brown. From their painter’s perspective, film means painted surface and celluloid…ever viscous and visceral.
A Conversation with Allan McCollum and Josiah McElheny
October 5, 2009 – 11:53 am
Our friends at Art:21 are hosting a screening and conversation this Tuesday, October 6, at 6pm. Be the first to catch the premiere of their new Season 5 episode, Systems. Click through for more info.
Carter at Salon 94 Freemans
October 1, 2009 – 11:00 am
Salon 94 Freemans recently opened for the season with an exhibition of new black-and-white pictures by the artist Carter. The images, made large-scale by tiling laser printouts, variously depict elegant interiors, figures, and marble sculptures.
Roadworks: Experimental Printing with Heavy Machinery
September 30, 2009 – 1:58 pm
Christine Lagorio reports from the San Francisco Center for the Book’s annual street-printing event.
Dread Scott
September 23, 2009 – 4:45 pm
On the occasion of Dread Scott’s public art project …Or Does it Explode? in Philadelphia, the artist exchanged emails with BOMB Managing Editor Nick Stillman. Scott’s provocative work challenges pedestrians in Philadelphia’s bustling Logan Square to consider the fate of local high schoolers will be on view through November.
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