Sarah Hromack

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Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:57:14 -0500

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+ Art History Poster (Swiss Miss)

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:27:15 -0500

Hosted by Michael Connor and Claire Hamilton of Marian Spore,...

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:51:32 -0500

Hosted by Michael Connor and Claire Hamilton of Marian Spore, Radiovisual is a new podcast about contemporary art in New York City. The first episode covers Jeffrey Deitch’s appointment to MOCA; the demise of Williamsburg’s Monkeytown; and the 10th issue of Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journal, published as an extended exhibition/publication/performance series at/by White Columns. Notable: “Quick and dirty” reviews of Omer Fast, Patti Smith and Steven Sebring, and Bruce High Quality Foundation’s latest exhibitions. While the cadence was a bit awkward at points, yes—even if it wasn’t, Connor’s script reads like it was written for a print audience—I believe the medium has critical potential. (Oh, and bonus points to Hamilton for going on record over her fascination with Thurston Moore’s teeth. Cute.)

Alexander Kosolapov, The History, 1985, Acrylic, canvas....

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:52:00 -0500

Alexander Kosolapov, The History, 1985, Acrylic, canvas. 50” x 80”

Alex Katz in the AM on the UES

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:03:10 -0500

Alex Katz in the AM on the UES

“I guarantee that any woman blogging about anything...

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:05:00 -0500

“I guarantee that any woman blogging about anything remotely political or gender-related (or sometimes just anything) has the same ‘schizo’ experience—laudatory comments one day, abusive comments the next, and the constant pressure to be ‘nice.’ So maybe blogging—even mainstream blogging—isn’t so very distant from zine-ing or punk-rocking—maybe it does represent a thread, however distant, of the Riot Grrrl legacy.”

+ Quiet Riot (New Yorker) (And also, this.)

IDEA BANK

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:02:32 -0500

IDEA BANK : “Idea Bank is a monthly catalog of ideas. Presented as efficiently as possible,...

Holiday fun from Pentagram: What Type Are You? (I’m...

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:36:00 -0500

Holiday fun from Pentagram: What Type Are You? (I’m Archetype Van Doesburg.)

[PS: Try ‘character’ as the password.]

An APB from Light Industries

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:15:00 -0500

Well, aren’t we getting servicey in the new year … Call for Submissions and...

PA from a plane. Delta flight 6563 from JFK to PIT, 23 December...

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:58:00 -0500

PA from a plane. Delta flight 6563 from JFK to PIT, 23 December 2009. Merry Christmas, all.

And so, here’s this week’s tricks: Francesco Bonami...

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:54:00 -0500

And so, here’s this week’s tricks: Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari read the list of artists for 2010, the Whitney Biennial. Produced by Pierce Jackson and the Education department for whitney.org. Fun.

"One understands a city from its opening lines, the first things strangers ask you at a party. In New..."

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:02:28 -0500

“One understands a city from its opening lines, the first things strangers ask you at a party....

Taken by MGG outside of the Hammerstein Ballroom on 24 November,...

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:13:32 -0500

Taken by MGG outside of the Hammerstein Ballroom on 24 November, 2009.

Literal, self aware: The Pixies Doolittle tour, in summary.

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:33:00 -0500

Literal, self aware: The Pixies Doolittle tour, in summary.

Now that we’ve all expended our monthly allotment of...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:30:00 -0500

Now that we’ve all expended our monthly allotment of brilliance …

+ I hope that you made it to at least one Performa event while the rest of us were martyring ourselves for the Internet. I just might rally after all for Mike Kelley’s festival at the Grammercy Theater, Fantastic World Superimposed on Reality: A Select History of Experimental Music. Also tomorrow night, AFC’s Paddy Johnson is competing in the World Series of ‘Tubing, Eyebeam’s Performa bit. They call it a “high-energy, augmented reality game show;” to her, it’s a “hi-tech gong show of YouTube curation.” Who’s the writer here, anyway?

+ The one-two punch that is Posyttypography swung by the Cooper Union this week to celebrate their new book, Lettering & Type, which was recently published by Princeton Architectural Press. Well played, Bruce; well played, Nolen.

+ Online newness: Paper Monument published a new set of capsule reviews today. As someone who finds art reviews largely insufferable (including those I’ve written, I might add) I’m glad to see PM keeping a healthy sense of perspective on the form; looking forward to this series’ future. Also, Mary Walling Blackburn has a new piece up in Afterall’s online edition, Everywhere only a touching: Breaking and Entering Richard Serra’s pseudo-Bellamy in the South Bronx. “We wonder what, exactly, can release us from our inviolable faith in the permanence of objects. Can we undo that perception without setting everything afire, without uprising, without turning objects to dust?” One would hope. And also: Covers, Joy Garnett’s paintings made paperback.

+ Project Projects’ Prem went on record with Artforum to discuss the making of MATRIX/Berkeley: A Changing Exhibition of Contemporary Art, a collaboration between PP and curatrix Liz Thomas published to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Berkeley Art Museum’s Matrix program. I’ve been hearing about this project for a good, long while now, and after having a quick gander at the finished product a few weeks back, I think that PP/BAM did a rather formidable job of manhandling 229 projects’ worth of printed matter.

+ Sure, it launched over a month ago and yes, it is still good. Tomorrow, Now, Forever is a time and space-based project by Ex-Corporation, the experimental design practice of Angie Keefer and Aaron Gemmill, that effectively renders geographic displacement by capturing live webcam images of the sun rising around the world and displaying them with geographic and temporal coordinates specific to each user. According to the image above, for instance, it is 23:25 at my house in Brooklyn, and 06:25 in Marsa Alam, Egypt, where the sun is rising 6001 miles away as I type these very words.

Spotted on 14th Street, en route from a grueling day in Chelsea....

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:01:00 -0500

Spotted on 14th Street, en route from a grueling day in Chelsea. A little perspective, perhaps.

“Dear Arts Administrator” is a commercial made by...

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:05:00 -0500

“Dear Arts Administrator” is a commercial made by W.A.G.E. (Working Artists and the Greater Economy) to promote standards of payments for artists by United States art institutions.

Paul Chan’s “Sade for Sade’s Sake”...

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:39:00 -0500

Paul Chan’s “Sade for Sade’s Sake” installed at Greene Naftali

w.org

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:45:00 -0500

And then, the Whitney Museum got a new website: Introducing the new whitney.org, a year-plus-long...

"I don’t believe in the unique artist or the unique work of art. I believe in phenomena and in men..."

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:49:17 -0400

“I don’t believe in the unique artist or the unique work of art. I believe in phenomena and in...