MACO and Mexico City’s Contemporary Art Scene
Well, what a trip! I was thoroughly enjoying myself in Mexico City before the insane Swine Flu virus caused everyone to don masks and flee all public places. I had no idea what a large contemporary art scene Mexico City has before my trip there. My whirlwind tour [...]

The MoMA Junior Associates entered the Prospect Heights studio that Oliver and Peter share to find a long and narrow immaculate space with Peter’s paintings along the sides and Oliver’s work on the walls at the far end. Oliver, originally from Germany, looked like he had stepped out of a John Currin painting. He has [...]

Damaged Romanticsm: A Mirror of Modern Emotion
In conjunction with The Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, Grey Art Gallery at NYU has a wonderful exhibition on display until April 4, 2009. The show stems from the premise of the following quote from Thomas L. Dumm’s Resignation:
“One ethical task of critical thinking might be to steer us [...]

The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989
The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989 is on view at the Guggenheim Museum though April 19, 2009. While there were some aspects of the show I found annoying such as the Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg section and the heavy emphasis on West Coast artists, overall I [...]

MILK
I saw the film “Milk” last night. I don’t want to build the movie up too much because there have been thousands of people who have fought valiantly for their rights throughout history–what makes Harvey Milk, a supervisor in San Francisco in the late 1970s any different? But Gus Van Sant’s direction and Sean Penn’s [...]