The Astonishing Egg: 2012

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

There's No Place Like Home (And That's Probably for the Best)

I caught up with artist Olaf Breuning and got a preview of his new film, Home 3, his wacky homage to New York that stars his friend Brian Kerstetter as a spastic tourist. The film is the third in a series—all of them dark, funny explorations of the line between barbarism and civility—the second of which was a favorite at the 2008 Whitney Biennial. Read more about it here.

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Monet's Gardens, In NY

GIVERNY AT THE HOLE

Have you seen Monet's gardens? They're in New York! This week, I profiled Kathy Grayson, owner of The Hole, for The Observer about this show, for which artists E.V. Day and Kembra Pfahler created the Giverny gardens at The Hole replete with real and fake grass, a bamboo grove, water lilies (de rigueur!), a Japanese bridge, a pond, and misty pond atmosphere. By all appearances, it looks like Grayson is giving Jeffrey Deitch a run for his money. You can watch how the whole show came together on her blog...

Friday, March 16, 2012

A Week of Clifford Owens

Clifford Owens: Anthology (Kara Walker Detail). Image courtesy On Stellar Rays.

At the start of Armory week, I interviewed Clifford Owens about his plans for his last performance of his residency at MoMA PS1. My report on that interview, and the unexpected turn of events following it, are reported in the following pieces for the Observer.

Clifford Owens and Kara Walker: An Epilogue with RoseLee Goldberg
'You Know You Want it Baby': Clifford Owens is Joined by Kara Walker in His Last Performance
Kara Walker Withdraws Involvement from Clifford Owens Performance
Will Clifford Owens Force a Sex Act on an Audience Member at MoMA PS1 on Sunday?

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Waiting for Luhring Augustine

Luhring Augustine Bushwick

With Chelsea gallery Luhring Augustine opening for programming in Bushwick, local artists contemplate big changes. I spoke to artists and curators in Bushwick and Chelsea for Capital New York and attended the panel at The Bogart Salon where they hashed out some of the issues.

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Pretty Vacant

Klara Liden @ Reena Spaulings 1/22

Reena Spaulings smelled like pine trees. It was the opening of Klara Liden's show Pretty Vacant and there was a room full of trees that, it seemed, had been collected from the street after Christmas. Some were still covered in tinsel. They were very dry and people were accidentally knocking them over. A young man holding a beer said he thought that was probably the point and that he imagined all the trees falling down like dominoes. There was a leather couch in the center on which a woman was covertly breastfeeding her baby. Another woman walked in with a dog. Then Jeffrey Deitch walked in, stood in the center of the trees, and looked around. I wondered why he was in New York. He was in a pink shirt, tweed jacket, and nude round-framed glasses.