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Harry Dodge, Masked-Unmasked
I'm at the Harry Dodge screening at The Kitchen. The first video starts. Onscreen, someone wears a mask with a cube affixed to its forehead. There's no telling if it's a man or a woman, but the mask suggests the ugliness of a dude, and the perverse, uncouth way this person speaks also seems masculine. It's probably Harry. The person describes a film to the camera, walking us through it like a director would with his cinematographer. There's a lot of talk about a "super nice carpet" and a description of a photo of a woman with a "sperm-covered head," and the way it would look when her "perfect pink tongue" pops out. Film talk, like "POV" and "cut!" is thrown around. Lots of elements of the imaginary film are described as "beautiful" and "lovely" and "fuckable" but all you see is a person in a drab room in a hideous mask, its lips removed to reveal the narrator's lips moving. The video, called Unkillable (2011) goes on like this for about 15 minutes.
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The Lookout: A Weekly Guide to Shows You Won't Want to Miss
With an ever-growing number of galleries scattered around New York, it's easy to feel overwhelmed. Where to begin? Here at A.i.A., we are always on the hunt for thought-provoking, clever and memorable shows that stand out in a crowded field. Below is a selection of current shows our team of editors can't stop talking about.
This week we check out Taryn Simon's utterly absorbing research-based photo series at MoMA, Charles Long's touch-activated sound sculptures installed in Madison Square Park and Pier Paolo Calzolari's technically complex two-gallery survey at Pace and Marianne Boesky.
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Before the Scenes With Richard Maxwell
"Wait, where are you going?" theater director/writer Richard Maxwell asked a few museumgoers leaving his rehearsal at the Whitney Museum Thursday afternoon during his five-day residency on the museum's fourth floor this week. "This isn't a lounge," he joked to another couple seated on the floor watching.
Most theater rehearsal spaces are dingy places. Maxwell's rehearsal space is impossibly grand: 4000 square feet of landmarked modernity designed by one of the most renowned architects of the twentieth century.
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The Lookout: A Weekly Guide to Shows You Won't Want to Miss
With an ever-growing number of galleries scattered around New York, it's easy to feel overwhelmed. Where to begin? Here at A.i.A., we are always on the hunt for thought-provoking, clever and memorable shows that stand out in a crowded field. Below is a selection of current shows our team of editors can't stop talking about.
This week we check out several decades' worth of Sheila Hicks's woven sculptures and hanging textiles at Sikkema Jenkins, Sylvan Lionni's beautifully crafted paintings of mundane objects at Kansas, and Jacqueline Humphries's alluring metallic canvases at Greene Naftali.
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French Photo Fest Flourishes in Beijing
Although city officials are unwilling to lend formal sanction or support, "Caochangdi PhotoSpring—Arles in Beijing," which returned for its third annual edition in the Chinese capital on Apr. 21, endures. The photography festival takes place under the aegis of the Croisements Festival of French Culture organized by the French Embassy in Beijing and is co-presented by Les Rencontres d'Arles. It is the pedigree of these partnerships that allows PhotoSpring to survive as the only independent among more than 50 photo summits that regularly take place in China. This alone makes it important, according to Christopher Phillips of the International Center of Photography in New York, who was among several foreign curators and photographers at the official opening.
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Oil on Canvas, Courtesy Hauser & Wirth
The colorful, phantasmagorical canvases of Jakub Julian Ziolkowski are full of imaginar
