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At Radio City, Antony is a Shaman
An enraptured audience stood applauding and whistling for five full minutes, without a curtain call or encore, following "Swanlights," Antony and the Johnson's performance at Radio City Music Hall Thursday night, commissioned by New York's Museum of Modern Art. For some 90 minutes, Antony, his distinctive vocals complemented by a coordinated light show and evocative sets, delivered new arrangements (by Rob Moose, Nico Muhly and Maxim Moston) of songs selected from the course of his career.
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Dean Valentine and Craigslist Sex at Art LA Contemporary
The crowd gathered outside of Santa Monica's Barker Hanger last Thursday for the preview of Art Los Angeles Contemporary (ALAC) was heavy on volunteers. Dressed in matching white workman jumpsuits, these young men and women were arranging blocks of dry ice into ziggurats and laying out flares for a restaging of Judy Chicago's Disappearing Environments (1968/2012), an installation that shrouded the fair's entrance in red-lit fog. Displayed out of its original context—Century City, the L.A. neighborhood then rapidly rising with finance and entertainment high-rises—any hint of its original critique was relinquished.
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PST Causes Explosions Over Los Angeles
It's rare for a rifle to be shot at an art event, Chris Burden notwithstanding. The mechanical violence of gunfire seems anathema to the presumed humanism of the arts.
Yet the resurrection of French sculptor, painter, and performer Niki de Saint Phalle's 1962 "tirs" was somehow amusingly gun-centric. Titled for the French verb tirer (to shoot), the re-performance was part of this month's Performance and Public Art Festival, held in conjunction with the vast Pacific Standard Time shows sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum and LA><ART .
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Da Vinci Show Causes Lines, Surprises
"Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan," at the National Gallery in London [through Feb. 5], restricts itself to the commissioned esthetic output of the scientific innovator. Nonetheless, the show is full of surprises and accomplishments. Here, specifically, is why Ludovico Sforza, the powerful Duke of Milan, named Leonardo the official artist of the Milanese court.
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Bearing Witness: A Week of Performance at CANADA
"I, Bear," a week of performances at CANADA Gallery on the Lower East Side, is a musical series with video, or more precisely, a leisurely party with video and, eventually, some music.
The performances occur in the gallery's back room, where looped video is projected on one wall as well as on a piece of fabric suspended from the ceiling. The video includes footage by Black Dice, Young Chung, Cecilia Dougherty, Leah Gilliam, EE Miller & Bernardine Mellis, Aimee Worms Hirschberg, My Barbarian, Nguyen Tan Hoang and Tony Stinkmetal. A set of Stinkmetal's videos are also being shown in the front room.
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Mixed Media, 212 x 66 inches, Courtesy the artist.
Artist Kirstine Roepstorff was born and trained in Denmark, but lives and works in Berli
