Triplecanopy, a smart new pub with contributors culled from n + 1, Artforum, et al, launches today at Gowanus Studio Space in Brooklyn. See especially Basic Instinct: Poems, taken verbatim from Descriptive Video Service (audio versions of films created for the visually impaired) and rearranged into verse:
“Now a white horse gallops through a dawning blue sky, // its mane fluttering in the wind. / It sprouts wings and soars up and over a golden triangle / enclosing the words TRI STAR PICTURES.”
Let’s face it. Times are tough in the U.S., economically speaking, and it will be interesting to see the outcome of sales at the art fairs this weekend in New York (the barometer of the art market). There’s signs that we’ve reached a saturation point, and it’s a feat of endurance to attend them all. So which one to attend? There are fairs for the blue chip buyers and galleries (the Armory), with a steep price tag to match ($30 to get in - Six Flags Magic Art Fair), there are the younger fairs like Volta NY and Pulse where the focus is on the up-and-coming ($10 and $15, respectively).
And then there’s the Dark Fair - a two-day event at the Swiss Institute that takes place without the use of natural or electric light: “An international selection of galleries and artists will display work custom to these conditions, using candlelight, flashlights, oil lamps, work that glows in the dark, light sculpture, battery powered film and video, and unplugged performances.”
Sounds intriguing, like art for the impending apocalypse perhaps? And at $5, this fair is your best bet for the present dark age (of thinning wallets).
Where: Swiss Institute (495 Broadway, 3rd Fl, 212.925.2035). When: Friday, March 28 (6pm-midnight) and Saturday, Mar 29 (12-9pm)
Gavin Brown’s Passerby Bar and Gallery is closing it’s doors.
Artist, curator, Passerby-er Darren Bader said last night at The Armory Show there will be a farewell bash this Saturday night until closing.
It promises to be dirty, sweaty, messy, disco drunken and boozy.
Sounds perfect, hope it’s not signalling the proverbial final nail in the coffin of New York as dirtyfuntimes city. I don’t even want to think of the superchach, slick beacon of bridge and tunneler’s severe and violent emesis that will take it’s place.
“PULSE New York will take place at Pier 40 March 27th-30th and will coincide with The Armory Show. Pier 40 is located in Tribeca at West Side Highway at West Houston Street.
In its third year, PULSE New York will feature works in all media from over 70 established and emerging galleries”.
Useless Magazine will have a booth, come visit and bring some yummy snacks.
Out next week.
This.Hearts.On.Fire first tipped us off to this, a 3D screening of Bjork’s latest video and some behind-the-scenes artifacts from the video shoot on display (very Matthew Barney, eh?) at Deitch Studios’ new Queens location.
Supposedly, this is open to the public tonight only, says Gothamist. So see you in LIC?
March 13, 2008
4-40 44th Drive, Long Island City
7-9pm
Deitch Studios can be reached by taking either the E or V Train to the 23rd Street/Ely, the G train to LIC/Court Square or the 7 train to 45 Road/Court House Square. Walk down 44th drive to the water’s edge. Deitch Studios is located on the left hand side.
Popped by the opening the other night, worth a look and the Journal Gallery is a nice little space in itself.
From The Journal:
“The journal Gallery is proud to present “He Who Talks Loud Saying Nothing”, the first New York solo exhibition by Linus Bill.
“He Who Talks Loud Saying Nothing” incorporates a series of Linus Bill’s latest work, black and white, cameraless photographs, made over the course of a 6 month stay in Paris. To create these images, Bill has drawn onto photographic paper with self-modified pocket-lights. The result, 28 unique pictures, displays Bill’s continued interest in the theme of portraiture. Made in the months leading up to the birth of his first child, these pictures offer a personal glimpse into the unknown. In addition, Bill will present several color prints that relate to works seen in his 2006 publication “Piss Down My Back and Tell Me It’s Raining” (Nieves).”
Two of my favorite things, dancing and eating, artist Agathe Snow tackles in her life-as-art work. One of the artists behind Chop Shop, as part of this year’s Whitney Biennial she’ll be hosting a couple of performance-based projects at the Armory, the Biennial’s new annex this year. The first is her version of a dance-a-thon, Stamina: Gloria et Patria, starting this Sunday, March 9th. After you’ve won that contest and burned about a million calories, check out her gypsy feast, Abat-Jour, that she’ll be producing in collaboration with another Biennial artist, Rita Ackermann.
Stamina, via Whitney.org, March 9-15:
“Snow holds daily dance sessions throughout the Armory over the course of a week, culminating in a twentyfour- hour dance marathon in the Drill Hall. Visitors are issued time cards to record their participation, and at the end of the week the winner—whoever has danced the longest—is announced. Time cards are available at the Armory Information Desk and at the Information Desk in the Museum Lobby.”
Abat-Jour, March 23, 2008:
“Ackermann and Snow host a gypsy-themed feast, in which food, drink, and decoration—as well as the guests themselves—become materials in the work of art. A play on the French word for lampshade, Abat-Jour refers to bajour, a traditional gypsy confidence game. Using bartering and chance as a central themes, Ackermann and Snow explore issues related to gender, community, and celebration. At 9:30 pm all visitors are welcome to dance in the dinner hall. Please visit whitney.org/biennial for registration information. ”
[Image courtesy Chop Shop.]
Alexander works with us at Useless Magazine, we like him!
Opening reception for:
News from the World
featuring new work by
Patrick Cleandenim, Lola Schnabel, & Alexander Haring
Tuesday, March 11th
6-8p.m.
The Cooper Union School of Art
Foundation Building
Houghton Gallery
2nd Floor
7 East 7th Street
New York, New York
The show will be on view from March 11th-15th
Layne [Crispin Glover] in “River’s Edge” [1986]
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Ritchie White [Matt Dillon] in “Over The Edge” [1979]
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