December 2010
16 posts
I am not an Art Blogger. So here's my Top 10 Art...
i am not an art blogger. i am not a critic. i’m a lanky white guy, pushing forty years old, with a love of the fine arts, who lives in nyc and has access to the web.
#10 Size DOES Matter - Flag Arts Foundation...
hand picked (supposedly) by the big curator himself, Shaquille O’Neal, this cool show at Flag Art Foundation was a great surprise. we attended on a lark, to laugh at it and because we were already gallery hopping in the area, but left with one of my favorite art memories from 2010. i have serious doubts as to how “hands on” the seven footer was with the actual curatorial...
#9 Robert Rauschenberg - Gagosian Gallery
those of you who know me, know i’m a sucker for anything Rauschenberg or Motherwell, so it’s not a stretch for me to love this show. what makes is worthwhile for everyone is the expanse of the work, from 1950 to 2007, all jumbled together like a combine of its own. and some of it is FOR SALE!!! a great review by Holland Cotter here.
#8 Marina Abromovic - The Artist is Present at...
i have never been a huge fan of performance art, mostly because i had not been exposed to it very often and certainly not at the level of Abromovic. while the recreations of some of her more famous work fell flat, the accompanying original video, pictures and props were a great introduction to the artist life’s work. i only wish i had waited around long enough to sit across from her.
#7 Urs Fischer - Marguerite De Ponty at New Museum
while i found some of the work in the show to be a little too “jokey” for my taste, i absolutely loved the screened mirror cubes. by far the best show i saw at New Museum this year. let’s not talk about the failed Skin Fruit, an experience most of us would like to forget.
#6 Antony Gormley - Event Horizon at Madison...
i didn’t get it till i was eating Shake Shack one day and spied a ghostly figure through the tree branches. standing on the edge of a rooftop, the shape could have been a modern day gargoyle or a suicide jumper. then i began to spot more and more of them, hovering around the park. i had read about the piece being at Madison Square, but nobody told me where, and discovering it the way i...
#5 Abstract Expressionist New York at MoMA
the Abstract Expressionist artists and era, are alone what made me fall in love with modern and contemporary art. so this was an easy one. what struck me most were the elegant early Motherwell’s (one pictured above) and especially Elegy to a Spanish Republic #1! NUMBER ONE PEOPLE! (it is in the smaller lower gallery, don’t miss it!) the show is up until April 25
#4 William Kentridge - The Nose at The...
The Nose at the Metropolitan Opera was mind-blowing. i am not a fan or student of opera in any way. in fact, i don’t care for it at all. but Kentridge’s staging of Dmitri Shoshtakovich’s The Nose was a visual spectacular of set design, staging, costuming and projections. this, in conjunction with his Five Themes retrospective at MoMA, made for a surely unprecedented glimpse...
#3 John Baldessari - Pure Beauty at The...
it was a tweet from Paddy Johnson of Art Fag City that first piqued my interest about Baldessari and the Pure Beauty show at The Met. here is a link to her review. regretfully, before this show, i was only familiar with Basdessari’s work in a passing sense. that has changed forever. aside from the scope of amazing work, the curatorial staff at The Met gave the show room to breathe and the...
#2 Superflex - Flooded McDonald's at Peter Blum...
this roughly thirty minute film by the Superflex collective was a suffocating beauty. it was not a far reach to connect hurricane Katrina and the Indonesian Tsunami with this microcosm of corporate America, completely crafted to scale, from scratch, then slowly drowned. Time Out NY Review here.
#1 Tino Sehgal - This Progress at The Guggenheim
the best show i saw in 2010, and one of the most memorable art experiences of my life was This Progress by Tino Sehgal. the work only lived for a short six weeks on the upper east side of manhattan. i cannot imagine it anywhere else. the perfect synthesis of concept, execution and space (a naked Guggenheim). it equally haunts and inspires me today as much as the day after i...
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