Diane Meyer - carless in LA

Diane Meyer Without A Car in the World: 100 Car-less Angelinos tell stories of living in LA



www.dianemeyer.net

Shahzia Sikander

came across this video of Shahzia Sikander talking about one of her works and it will interest especially Taylor

Lower East Side Gallery Tour

download LES Gallery Map  

Today's tour starts at the PERFORMA hub

THEN....
Matter of Fact: Photographs by Gerald Dearing & Steve Pyke

BLT Gallery 270 Bowery, 2nd Floor

BARBARA ESS

Thierry Goldberg Projects 5 Rivington St.

Tracey Emin

Lehmann Maupin, 201 Chrystie St.

 A Square, Photographs by Hosang Park

Jen Bekman Gallery

6 Spring Street, between Elizabeth St. and Bowery

 Group Show: The Map as Art

Christopher Henry Gallery    127 Elizabeth Street (broome)

Bryan Zanisnik : Dry Bones Can Harm No Man

SUNDAY 237 Eldridge Street

Tommy Hartung, The Ascent of Man

On Stellar Rays 133 Orchard Street  (delancey/rivington)

 Erin Shireff -Landscapes, Heads, Drapery, and Devils

Lisa Cooley – 34 Orchard

Liberty & The Land

featuring works by Benny Andrews and William Villalongo

Cuchifritos 120 Essex Street, Delancey / Rivington

(inside the Essex St. Food Market at the South end of the building)

Exhibitions to See!!

Toluca Editions: 6 Projects
@ Josee Bienvenu Gallery

 529 West 20th Street, 2nd floor

(between 10th & 11th Avenues)

Chelsea

 


  

Bill Viola : Bodies of Light

James Cohan Gallery, 533 W 26th St, (between 10-11)

The exhibition spans two decades and includes the NY premiere of Pneuma (1994/2009) a video/sound installation, and several flat-screen pieces from the Transfigurations series, Viola's newest body of work, which originated with Ocean Without a Shore, created for the 15th C. Church of San Gallo during the Venice Biennale in 2007. 

Robert Frank

October 29 - December 5, 2009

@ Pace MacGill Gallery

32 E. 57th St (at Madison Ave) 9th floor

and early Robert Frank @ Robert Mann Gallery

210 11 Ave between 24/25th streets, 10 floor

AND DON"T FORGET Aborginal Art exhibit Icons at the Desert at the Grey Art Gallery -
a MUST see.

More links

Lyn Hershman Leeson
and the living blog by Lynn Hershman Leeson




Living Magazine Cover & Spread - Outside Magazine from Alexx Henry on Vimeo.





Laundromat washers and dryers all over New York City have been bombed with flyers inviting curious customers to call The Dirty Laundry Line and anonymously “air out” their dirty laundry. Listen to what’s being aired out here.













AND new projects posted on Multimedia Links

Housing is a Human Right multimedia Project

CECUT Project on Tijuana Maquiladora Industry
by Krzysztof Wodiczko, Adam Whiton, Sung Ho Kim

Shepard Fairey and Fair Use

 Is There "Hope" for Shepard Fairey?
How does fair-use law work, anyway?By Tim Wu, Slate, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009

Shepard Fairey Obey Giant Site

Links inspired by your projects

Ellen Gallagher














Cassette from My Ex: Stories and Soundtracks of Lost Loves shares sixty hilarious, nostalgic and heartbreaking stories stories all about crushes and mixtapes.

SMITH is the home of Six-Word Memoirs and a vibrant community of storytellers.

HERESEIS A feminist publication on Art and Politics, 1997-1992
published by the Heresies Collective.








***Check out Featured Slideshows on Art 21 site**
here you can look at artist work by topic

more to come.....

PERFORMA 09

PERFORMA 09 is a biennial dedicated to performance providing audiences with a highly selected overview of the most outstanding work and, at the same time, showing the relevance of live art as an innovative and important contemporary form.  NOVEMBER 1 - 22, see calendar.


Try to see some of the events - many are free.

The Hijinks of the YES MEN

The Yes Men

"SPECIAL EDITION" NEW YORK POST from The Yes Men

More Info about the 9.21.09 NY Post Heist
(you can download a copy here)

Yes Men blog includes interviews
READ the FAQs section before their Oct. 5 visit

The Yes Men’s Andy Bichlbaum Arrested at ‘SurvivaBall’ Demo



and here is a preview of their new movie The Yes Men Fix the World

Robert Frank

Looking in Robert Frank's The Americans
Interesting interactive online resource developed by the National Gallery in DC
MET exhibition dates: September 22, 2009–January 3, 2010 

READ: Road Show
The journey of Robert Frank’s “The Americans." 
by Anthony Lane, New Yorker, September 14, 2009

Robert Frank's Elevator Girl Sees Herself Years Later

Another NPR story where Robert Frank speaks

Robert Frank's America by Philip Gefter
in The Daily Beast, September 17, 2009

Bowery Artist Tribute

check this out:
Bowery Artist Tribute at The New Museum

a related project: Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems by Martha Rosler

more Uptown and Downtown Shows to See

UPTOWN:
Sally Mann: Proud Flesh

Gagosian Gallery
980 Madison Avenue (77th St)
until Oct. 31

Lothar Osterburg: Upstairs

Leslie Heller Gallery
16 E. 77th  St, ground floor
(between Madison & 5th Ave)
until October 17





DOWNTOWN:

Intersections Intersected: The Photography of David Goldblatt @ The New Museum, 256 Bowery
Over the last fifty years, David Goldblatt has documented the complexities and contradictions of South African society. His photographs capture the social and moral value systems that governed the tumultuous history of his country’s segregationist policies and continue to influence its changing political landscape. MORE

Top 4 Must See Shows in Uptown & Chelsea

Nicolai Howalt:

Car Crash Studies

September 10th - October 24th 2009

Bruce Silverstein

535 W 24th Street

New York, NY 10011

ph: 212 627 3930

This is one of two shows that Bruce currently has on exhibit, the other being Todd Hido's landscape series 'A Road Divided'. Nicolai Howalt is a young Danish photographer who lives and works in Copenhagen. His work is considered primarily documentary, where his previous series include 'Boxer' which documented young boys before and after a boxing match along with 'How to Hunt'. 'Car Crash Studies' is a photographic study of cars that have been involved in severe and potentially fatal accidents. What particularly attracted me to the photographs was that although they are documentary, they are perceived as abstract. The most interesting pieces were the very large 70inch prints of the cracks in the paint on the damaged cars. These particular photographs have a distinct connection to Aaron Siskind's peeling paint photographs, wherein the subjects loose their origin and rather become a composition of shapes and lines.

Anthony Pearson

September 11th - October 10th 2009

Marianne Boesky Gallery

509 West 24th Street

New York, NY 10011

ph: 212 680 9889

This is Anthony Pearson's first solo exhibition in New York. His work is very conceptual and combines bronze sculpture and photography. I have seen his work before at Lisa Cooley Gallery and Harris/Liebermann Gallery both on the LES last year and have become a big fan. This show is composed of two series: Flares and Opaques. The Flares are orb like photographs that are the result of light leaking in his camera, while the Opaques are solarizations of the backside of his bronze sculptures. What interests me is that his work could be interpreted as paintings or silkscreen prints, but are in fact photographs.

Alfred Gescheldt:

Photographs 1949-1979

September 10th - October 24th 2009

Higher Pictures

764 Madison Ave.

New York, NY 10065

ph: 212 249 6100

At 85, this is Alfred Gescheidt's first solo exhibition in New York. He is known for his genius technical skills in collage, montage and retouching all before Photoshop, as well as for his humor. His work has been reproduced through advertising, postcards, album covers, magazines, etc. Gescheidt is famous for a series/book he did called '30 Ways to Quit Smoking' where he illustrated the Surgeon General's Report on Smoking in 1964. The exhibition is divided into three parts: the smoking series, his nudity series from OUI Magazine and other selected works. Thank you Kim for this incredible exhibition and for introducing me to Alfred, a man with such an imagination.

Elements of Wonder:

Group Show

August 4th - 24th 2009 (the show is still up???)

Danziger Projects

534 West 24th Street

New York, NY 10011

ph: 212 628 6778

This is a small group show of ten images that took its title 'Elements of Wonder' as the central theme. Danziger Projects states that the goal of this exhibition was to express "how the element of wonder so often manifests itself in photography". By including photographers from the last 130 years such as Julia Margaret Cameron, Annie Leibovitz, Adam Fuss (photograph on the right), Sze Tsung Leong, Mario Giacomelli, Edward Weston, etc. they have done just that. Each photograph is about a different type of 'wonder' which was what particularly attracted me to the show. Be it wondering how Adam Fuss created his photogram, or Sze Tsung Leong's Parisian landscape from his 'Cities Series' where one wonders, do we really live in a world where this exists. Making one wonder is something I try to push with my photography.

The Adventure Begins

Some Museum/Gallery Suggestions to see this week:

Dan Graham @ the Whitney

• read/listen/watch - Dan Graham on UbuWeb

Richard Avedon and John Wood at ICP

Icons of the desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya at the Grey Art Gallery
**This is a truly inspiring exhibition - an absolute MUST SEE this semester.
Related exhbition at the NYU 80 Washington Square East Gallery down the street from the Grey: Nganana Tjungurringanyi Tjukurrpa Nintintjakitja: We Are Here Sharing Our Dreaming, link to more information about these artists

P.S.1 - lots of fantastic exhibitions - only up for a few more weeks. For those of you interested in experimental video, Kenneth Anger a must see

Roam around Chelsea - I recommend all the shows from Time Out's Chelsea Top Ten
check listings before you go - see ArtCat, ArtLogs, TimeOut links on right. Here are some of my suggestions.

And if it is sunny on Sunday: This World & Nearer Ones on Governor's Island
While there, look for the Sculptors Guild at Governor's Island exhibit

Post information and reactions to what you saw on the blog
(and photos if you took any)