Archive for the ‘Performance’ Category

Ushio Shinohara at Ethan Cohen Fine Arts

If you don’t know about Ethan Cohen and his gallery, you should. In 1987, he was the first gallerist in New York to show Chinese Contemporary Art. And despite the downturn because of the economy, he is still promoting his Asian artists. Currently, he has a show of Ushio Shinohara’s work, a Japanese artist, born [...]


Performa 09

I managed to squeeze in three performances though hundreds have been taking place across the city for the past couple of weeks. The performances run until November 22nd so I highly encourage you to check at least one out.
Talk Show by Omer Fast
What a pleasant surprise! I went to this performance because it was taking [...]


Mierle Laderman Ukeles

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Ukeles was a name I had never heard of before I went to hear this artist speak at Ronald Feldman Gallery. Born in Colorado in 1939 she lived in NYC in the 60s and became an artist in order “to be free.” Jackson Pollock, Marcel Duchamp, Mark Rothko all influenced her as she began her [...]


Mark Leckey: The Long Tail

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I am not sure how to categorize the performance/lecture I saw by Mark Leckey last week at the Abrons Arts Center on the Lower East Side. Based on an existing theory about the internet, the former Turner Prize winner begins explaining that his interest in the subject came about when he encountered a photo from [...]