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Video I took of walking through Oiticica’s Penetrável...

Wed, 09 May 2012 21:48:10 -0400

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Video I took of walking through Oiticica’s Penetrável Filtro [Filter Penetrable], 1972. This is a multi-sensorial work that can be better experienced through both photo and film.

There was orange juice halfway through but I don’t know how to document taste.

Top: Helio Oiticica- Penetrável Filtro [Filter Penetrable],...

Wed, 09 May 2012 21:20:00 -0400

Top: Helio Oiticica- Penetrável Filtro [Filter Penetrable], 1972 (outside view)

Bottom: View from inside the Penetrable through a mesh curtain and orange filter. On the left you can see Oiticica’s Penetrável PN1 [Penetrable PN1], 1960.

This is the first time these works have been shown in new york, thanks to Galerie Lelong. The show is open till June 16th.

Lucio Fontana- Spatial Environment in Black Light- 1949 Please...

Sun, 06 May 2012 13:36:00 -0400

Lucio Fontana- Spatial Environment in Black Light- 1949

Please go see Fontana’s Ambienti Spaziali exhibition at the Gagosian (May 3- June 30). Some works, such as this, have never been shown in the US. I took these pictures, so I apologize for the poor quality.

Review of the show by Roberta Smith in the NYT.

erasing: Spector | Harvey Quaytman via Crude Vessels

Wed, 02 May 2012 22:43:10 -0400

erasing:

Spector | Harvey Quaytman

via Crude Vessels

theanimalblog: Freshly shaved alpacas are seen at Alpaca-Land...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:38:17 -0400

theanimalblog:

Freshly shaved alpacas are seen at Alpaca-Land farm, in Goeming in the Austrian province of Salzburg. Picture: Kerstin Joensson/AP

what a sight

Thom Andersen and Noël Burch- Red Hollywood- 1996 Got to see...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:34:05 -0400

Thom Andersen and Noël Burch- Red Hollywood- 1996

Got to see this film at Light Industry a couple nights ago. Here’s the introductory text from their website:

Thom Andersen and Noël Burch’s revelatory documentary about films made by “Red” Hollywood—screenwriters and directors who were communists, ex-communists, or sympathizers named by the House Un-American Activities Committee—offers a radically different perspective on a key period of American film history. An elaboration of Andersen’s 1985 essay of the same name, the film draws on extensive research by the filmmakers, as well as interviews with some of the blacklisted artists (Paul Jarrico, Ring Lardner Jr., Alfred Levitt, Abraham Polonsky) and clips from 53 films spanning numerous genres, bringing to light a mostly forgotten canon of works that raised challenging questions about war, race relations, class solidarity, women’s labor, and even the studio system itself. As described by Andersen and Burch, “The victims of the Hollywood blacklist have been canonized as martyrs, but their film work in Hollywood is still largely denigrated or ignored. Red Hollywood considers this work to demonstrate how the Communists of Hollywood were sometimes able to express their ideas in the films they wrote and directed.”

All films about crime are about capitalism, because capitalism is about crime. I mean “quote unquote,” morally speaking. At least that’s what I used to think; now I’m convinced. - Abraham Polonsky

Photo on the left courtesy of Ed Halter’s twitter.

Bebo y Cigala- Lágrimas Negras (Black Tears)

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:38:14 -0400

Bebo y Cigala- Lágrimas Negras (Black Tears)

Obsesion- Se Busca Hip Hop: The Global Voice of Revolution?...

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:21:54 -0400

Obsesion- Se Busca

Hip Hop: The Global Voice of Revolution? Listen to podcast here.

Ernest Hemingway and Fidel Castro, June 11, 1961 “The...

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:46:00 -0400

Ernest Hemingway and Fidel Castro, June 11, 1961

“The first time I went back to Havana after Castro’s triumph, I was introduced to him by Ernest Hemingway….He said, ‘You know that this revolution in Cuba is a good revolution.’ Well, I knew that it was a good revolution, because I had been to Cuba when Batista was in power….He was a horrifying sadist. The United States, in my opinion, made a drastic error. If only they had appreciated the possibility of a détente. Castro was, after all, a gentleman, and well educated. It would have been quite possible for Cuba to have been drawn amiably into our orbit where Cuba naturally belongs, but our State Department chose instead to oust Mr. Castro. Consequently, we made an enemy of Cuba and Cuba turned toward Russia for support. This had not happened when I met Hemingway. Anyhow, Hemingway wrote me a letter of introduction to Castro. Kenneth Tynan and I went to the palace. Castro was having a cabinet session at the time….After about a three-hour wait, the door was thrown open and we were ushered in. Castro greeted us warmly. When Kenneth Tynan introduced me, the Generalissimo said, ‘Oh, that cat,’ meaning Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which surprised me—delighted me, of course….Then he proceeded to introduce us to all of his cabinet ministers. We were given coffee and liqueurs and it was a lovely occasion.”

-Tennessee Williams, excerpt from his Memoirs (1975).

Stan Douglas- Kung-Fu Fighting, 1975- 2012 This photo is...

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:13:05 -0400

Stan Douglas- Kung-Fu Fighting, 1975- 2012

This photo is exhibited opposite of Capoeira, 1974 @ David Zwirner

Stan Douglas- Capoeira 1974- 2012 This exhibition at David...

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:10:28 -0400

Stan Douglas- Capoeira 1974- 2012

This exhibition at David Zwirner is fantastic. It closes the 28th (along with the shows I’ve already posted about) so you should see it this weekend if you can.

Jacqueline Humphries- Untitled- 2012 Exhibition @ Greene...

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:04:24 -0400

Jacqueline Humphries- Untitled- 2012

Exhibition @ Greene Naftali 508 w 26th

Caio Fonseca- Pietrasanta C11.53, 2011- mixed media Exhibition @...

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:53:00 -0400

Caio Fonseca- Pietrasanta C11.53, 2011- mixed media

Exhibition @ Paul Kasmin Gallery 293 10th ave

perpetual-inventory: Joel Sternfeld, Looking East on 30th...

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 19:56:58 -0500

perpetual-inventory:

Joel Sternfeld, Looking East on 30th Street on a Late September Morning, September 2000

stagnantpond: Richard Serra

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:22:42 -0500

stagnantpond:

Richard Serra

nevver: Andy, Mick, and Keith

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:42:36 -0500

nevver:

Andy, Mick, and Keith

Jack Whitten- Delacroix’s Palette- 1974

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:13:04 -0500

Jack Whitten- Delacroix’s Palette- 1974

Gerhard Richter- Abstraktes Bild (Abstract Painting)- 1990

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:11:00 -0500

Gerhard Richter- Abstraktes Bild (Abstract Painting)- 1990

Edward Weston- Tina on the Azotea- 1924

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:28:19 -0500

Edward Weston- Tina on the Azotea- 1924

Tina Modotti- Telephone Wire Composition- Mexico, 1925

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:27:17 -0500

Tina Modotti- Telephone Wire Composition- Mexico, 1925