Tracey Baran at Leslie Tonkonow, and a memorial grant
Tracey Baran Ivy 2001 UPDATE: The silent auction for the SVA Tracey Baran Memorial grant has been extended through Friday, October 2nd, for all unsold lots. The fine works which remain are bei...
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Franklin Evans at Sue Scott Gallery
Lately Franklin Evans has, as the Sue Scott Gallery press release says, "used his studio as his primary subject", wowing any visitors lucky enough to have been able to stop by. Fortunately for ma...
Obama addresses UN; we watch "Save the Green Planet"
</p> </a> spotted as I left MoMA yesterday afternoon: the Presidential truck speeding east on 53rd Street with the Obama party securely ensconced, heading back to the Waldorf from t...
Jason Hanasik at +Kris Graves: "He Opened Up"
Jason Hanasik Steven Two-Faced 2007 digital C-print Jason Hanasik Steven's self-portrait #2 2008 digital C-print Jason Hanasik Steven's photograph of a man carrying two bottles of piss 2008 dig...
High Line grasses in the rain
I don't know whether I was more struck by the fact that the High Line was almost deserted yesterday (on a Saturday!) or that it was suddenly looking very autumn-ish as we introduced it to some visi...
the real lie in Obama's health care speech
Leonid Osipovic Pasternak The Night before the Exam 1935 let them finally offer care to everyone I'm old enough to remember a little bit about the fuss over Harry Truman's National Health Insuran...
Bruce High Quality's "L'eau De Vie" on X Initiative roof
three stills from the installation for the screening of Bruce High Quality's "L'eau De Vie" Barry and I had seen the film several years ago, through the good offices of Filip Noterdaeme, but last ...
Obama is a disaster for the hopes of real progressives
Roy Lichtenstein Hopeless 1963 Obama is a disaster, and I say that because his failure may mean that the kind of reform which could have saved America may never be possible again. His time appear...
Port Authority strews 9/11 junk around the country
Dennis Klingensmith of Prospect Hill Cemetery in York, Pa., prepares to haul away a beam that will become part of a memorial. Recipients of the wreckage pay for transporting it. - NYTimes caption ...
Jacques Vidal and Noel Anderson at the "Blood Drive"
Most of the art and the clinic equipment had been removed or pushed aside last Wednesday evening at Zach Feuer Gallery when Jacques Vidal and Noel Anderson began their performance in the now-darken...