My solo show at Newman Popiashvili gallery, Blck, Red & Tang opens May 15, 7 p.m.
504 West 22nd Street
212.274.9166
You are invited.
Category: nyc
Brett Sokol’s “Miami Art Machine”
New York magazine features a piece by Sokol, on Craig Robbins and his ‘Art + Research’ an University of Miami parterned venture.
This area will also be home to his new program, headily named Art + Research. If all goes according to plan, it’ll open in September 2009 with eight-to-twelve “resident artists”—who will receive full scholarships, studio space, housing, and stipends. They hope to expand it later. The University of Miami–operated venture already has an impressive roster of New Yorkers onboard. Founding faculty include artists Liam Gillick and Rirkrit Tiravanija, both of whom teach in Columbia’s M.F.A. program; Yale instructor Steven Henry Madoff; and White Columns gallery director Matthew Higgs (they will all squeeze Miami tutorials into their current gigs). Former Columbia art-school dean Bruce Ferguson consulted on it. And for added star power, sitting on the board of Robins’s nonprofit Anaphiel organization to guide the school are former Whitney director (and Robins’s cousin) David Ross, John Baldessari, and ex–Art Basel director Sam Keller. Robins will kick in $2 million to help fund Art + Research for its first four years, and the University of Miami has promised to help raise another $2 million.
Unlike at Columbia and Yale, there won’t be any formal M.F.A. degrees awarded to those who complete the two-year program, which will revolve around a topical theme that changes with each entering biannual class. Accordingly, don’t expect to see the “resident artists” hunker down in front of easels and live models. “Most art is conceptually based now. It’s art based on an idea,” says Madoff. “It didn’t turn out that the twentieth century’s most influential artist was Picasso. It turned out it was Duchamp … We don’t need to do foundation courses, how to draw, how to sculpt … You don’t need three credits for American Art History From 1945 to the Present.”
I wonder if and how this project will benefit any Miami artists.
The article has a little sidebar of story on the second page. I find it amusing.
Brett Sokol’s “Three Miamians in the Whitney…”
The article is here
Being tapped for New York’s Whitney Museum Biennial — a sweeping survey of ”where American art stands today” — isn’t an instant ticket to art-world fame and fortune. But it is the next best thing. Just ask Miamians Hernan Bas, Dara Friedman, Luis Gispert and Mark Handforth, all of whom saw their international profiles, as well as their artwork’s price tags, soar in the wake of their inclusion in Biennials over the past decade.
The trend should no doubt continue for this year’s selectees: William Cordova, Adler Guerrier and Bert Rodriguez. Three is a record number for Miami, more than any other burg outside New York and Los Angeles. And for those seeking a quick indicator of this city’s post-Art Basel status, it’s a sea change from the 1980s and ’90s, when the only South Floridians to receive the Biennial’s curatorial nod were (posthumously) Carlos Alfonzo and Felix Gonzalez-Torres.
And another quote:
… Adler Guerrier’s untitled (BLCK — We wear the mask) mines the same turbulent era of U.S. history as Cordova’s piece but to a much more engrossing — and poignant — effect. Guerrier wondered why there hadn’t been a forceful artistic response to the 1968 riot that tore through Liberty City. So he created BLCK, a fictional art collective whose faux-vintage posters and sculptures sprawl across a wall while an old TV set plays news footage of civil-rights marches being superseded by Black Power protests. Hampton appears onscreen, as does Mark Rudd, one of the prominent Anglo radicals Hampton dismissed as a ”masochist” for courting violence.
Guerrier is just as conflicted by such dueling impulses, and he quotes and riffs on the period’s insurrectionary slogans in BLCK’s placards even as he ultimately rejects them in favor of a more nuanced strategy.
The Topic Is Race; the Art Is Fearless by Holland Cotter
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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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.