Holland Cotter’s essay on art and race.
Some accompanying images on nytimes.com.
Category: art
blogging about ‘In the beginning’
C-Monster blogs about his session with Bert Rodriguez, as part of In the Beginning.
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Stuart Bailey and David Reinfurt are Dexter Sinister.
Here is one of their transmissions, produced by John Russell, Clement Greenberg is a conceptual artist. There is a pdf.
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Miami Herald profiles Wendy Wischer
Fabiola Santiago, of the Miami Herald, writes about Wendy Wischer, who has a solo show, n-s-e-w, currently at David Castillo Gallery.
I have not seen this exhibition, yet.
some whitney biennial press
KH has posted and commented on some of the whitney biennial press. Here are some links.
Jerry Saltz for the New Yorker magazine.
Carly Berwick for the New York magazine.
Leslie Camhi for the Village Voice.
Holland Cotter for the New York Times.
Peter Schjeldahl for the New Yorker.
Claudia La Rocco for wnyc news.
Simon Houpt for the Globe and Mail.
Alexandra Peers for Conde Nast’s Portfolio.com.
And one about/of Bert Rodriguez.
whitney biennial opening night
I didn’t see much the first night.
The exhibition continued at the Park avenue Armory, a spectacular place.
the whitney biennial
I really enjoy the show; works by Leslie Hewitt, Rashawn Griffin, Amanda Ross-Ho, John Baldessari, Walead Beshty, Ellen Harvey, William Cordova, Heather Rowe, Rachel Harrison, Rita Ackerman, DJ Olive, Gardar Einarsson, Louise Lawler, Olaf Breuning, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Neighborhood Public Radio and Michael Queenland were especially memorable.
There is plenty of blog (flickr), magazine and newpaper coverage.