Simon and Jessica kissing in the pool, Avignon, 2001 © Nan Goldin If you’re in the Boston area, you have until tomorrow to see “People Take Pictures of Each Other” before it closes at LaMontagne Gallery. The title of the show is borrowed from a song written by Ray Davies for his band The Kinks. [...]
L: Entrance to Women’s Bathroom, Mercado Flores Magón, Naucalpan, Mexico State, 2005 R: Entrance to Men’s Bathroom, Retiro Train Station, Recoleta, Beuneos Aires, 1987 © Jim Dow If you’re in the Boston area tonight, don’t miss photographer and Museum School professor Jim Dow‘s opening for Capital Architectures, photographs from Buenos Aires and Mexico City. Jim [...]
Self-Portrait in My Room, NYC, 1983 © Nan Goldin Brian Clamp was kind enough to send me a few images (one of them above) from the new show opening at ClampArt in New York on September 6, Friends from the Boston School. A 1995 exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston grouped Nan [...]
Yesterday I was able to stop into the Museum of Modern Art to see Present Tense, the exhibition of photographs by JoAnne Verburg. What I knew of Verburg’s work before visiting MoMA was very minimal. In fact, I hadn’t even heard of her until Alec made a post last October which described her as another [...]
Cocoa Beach I, Florida, 1983 © Mitch Epstein Easy Rider: Road Trips Through America Yancey Richardson Gallery 535 West 22nd Street, 3rd Floor New York, NY July 11-September 8, 2007 Opening reception: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 Featuring the work of Jeff Brouws, Tim Davis, William Eggleston, Mitch Epstein, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Allen Ginsberg, Frank [...]
Meat ‘n Potatoes, July 2007 © Rotating Gallery Rotating Gallery is a project realized by my friends and photographers Grant Willing and Alana Celii. The gallery, aiming mostly to exhibit photographs, collage items, and an array of found art objects, has operated out of Grant and Alana’s apartment in Brooklyn, New York since February 2007. [...]
Gallery Hopper’s June Gallery Crawl © Google Maps Todd Walker is amongst the plenitude of names I failed to mention in my Friday recap post — another face in the crowd at the ANAP opening. While I didn’t have a chance to talk with Todd, he was pointed out to me. Todd is the man [...]
Friday night was a busy one with the opening of A New American Portrait at jen bekman, Zoe Strauss‘ closing party for If You Reading This at Silverstein, and Paolo Pellegrin‘s Double Blind reception at CVZ Contemporary all happening in the same evening. Somehow, due to the timing of these events, I managed to attend [...]
Gary, Llano, TX (from the series “Almost Naked”) © Shen Wei Opening Reception: Friday, June 22, 6-8pm A New American Portrait Curated by Jen Bekman + Jörg Colberg On View: Friday, June 22 – Friday, August 3, 2007. Gallery Hours: Wed-Sat, Noon-6pm Participating Artists: Christine Collins, Jen Davis, Benjamin Donaldson, Amy Elkins, Peter Haakon Thompson, [...]
Morning, and Melancholia #12, 1997 and Morning, and Melancholia #1, 1999 © Laura Letinsky Yesterday, the last day before it was to come down, I stopped in to see the in(habitations) show at Judy Ann Goldman in Boston. The exhibition, curated by Tom Morrissey, featured the work of Frank Armstrong, Stephen DiRadio, Laura Letinsky, and [...]
