December 27, 2010. On Christmas night, in the freezing cold before the blizzard hit New York City, crochet artist Olek and her band of enablers managed to fully clothe the famous bronze statue of a charging bull that stands in Bowling Green Park in downtown Manhattan. A potent symbol of Wall Street capitalism, the bull [...]
You Killed Me First, installation view, 1985. James Romberger – artist, gallerist, writer and collaborator with David Wojnarowicz during the salad days of the East Village – was prompted by the current censorship of “A Fire In My Belly” to pen an eloquent analysis and remembrance of his friend. Wojnarowicz’s Apostasy http://www.tcj.com/hoodedutilitarian/2010/12/wojnarowiczs-apostacy/ is an essential [...]
Aside from being an extremely well known name, “Tom Wesselmann Draws” is a very beautifully installed exhibition. This exhibition has some art historical significance as well. Case in point being Andy Warhol’s works from the same period that are still very much in demand as was seen during Art Basel Miami Beach. This is primarily [...]
David Wojnarowicz “A Fire in My Belly” Original from ppow_gallery on Vimeo. December 16, 2010. The above is taken from the Vimeo page of PPOW Gallery and from the archives of NYU’s Fales Library. It represents two segments, of approximately 13 and 7 minutes, that David Wojnarowicz shot and edited on Super 8 in 1986-87, [...]
Frank Gehry: New World SymphonyOriginally uploaded by VernissageTV Didier Didier My friend, Heinrich, from VernissageTV, took pics of the new building going up in Miami by Frank Gehry. I haven’t had a chance to see its current progress, but I did see it several months ago when it was virtually a shell, a framework of [...]
One of the biggest disappointments of Art Basel Miami Beach had to be the Flagler Island project. Why? After being invited (invite only), with a guest if one so chose, and fighting through the HELL that is Miami-to-Miami Beach rush hour traffic, we are all informed that the 4 p.m. starting time was moved several [...]
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