Here’s the press release, a Time Out New York pick, Haberarts.com review, Huffington Post feature and Artillery Magazine review on my latest curatorial endeavor, Crazy Lady, a group exhibition up now through October 8 at Schroeder Romero & Shredder Gallery. I’d planned to explore the theme further through a performance night, as well as film and literary components […]
I first came across the animated shorts of Belgian filmmaker, Raoul Servais (b.1928), while doing research for an SVA lecture on Surrealism. My Bing video search led me to Harpya (1979), an eery, circular story about a lonely, forlorn man and a harpy. Harpies are the legendary bird-women/winged spirits of Greek mythology who, at Zeus’s […]
As someone who has yet to send a tweet, the (by now) signature Twitter performances of Man Bartlett intrigue me. Like Rob Pruitt, a self-professed technophobe, whose 2008 solo exhibition at Gavin Brown, iPruitt, featured iPhone photos taken over the course of a year, and the YouTube aesthetic of video artists Ryan Trecartin and Kalup Linzy, there’s something brazen […]
WORDS HAVE POWER “Linguistic reclamation, also known as linguistic resignification or reappropriation, refers to the appropriation of a pejorative epithet by its target(s)….Laying claim to the forbidden, the word as weapon is taken up and taken back by those it seeks to shackle – a self-emancipation that defies hegemonic linguistic ownership and the (a)buse of […]
Here’s my Time Out New York interview with artist Marilyn Minter — meeting her, visiting her studio, and talking about her work restored my faith in painting (no small feat)! Enjoy! From her 1969 series of black-and-white photographs showing her own drug-addled mother lying about the house in negligees and curlers, to her recent Times […]
In honor of Black History Month, I give you Ralph Waldo “Petey” Greene, Jr. Ultimate rabble-rouser and raconteur, tellin’ it like it is (the rare homophobic comment excluded, obviously). I’ve yet to see Don Cheadle’s portrayal of Greene in Talk to Me (2007), but plan to, even if I’m likely to feel like Under Cover Black Man, who […]
