Tag: art
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Brooklyn’s Jose Parla
Loving Jose Parla. The enigmatic Brooklyn painter has been called a “raconteur,” a conceptual documentarian, a “transcriber.” Parla’s work, which I wish we had on our walls and hopefully, one day, will, uses markings and layers of distress to chronicle the passing of time and neglect across their surfaces. The work is beautiful, cerebral, emotional. Like, say, Cy Twombly, it feels…
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Make More Sense Than The Next Guy: The Radical, Inevitable David Shrigley Retrospective
“There are many, many Shrigleys out there; some of them are mutants – others are not wholly viable, still more may be necessary in their own strange way, but there is only one essential Shrigley.” – Will Self, The Guardian UK The David Shrigley is about to not be our little secret anymore. As if…
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Yayoi Kusama’s “Obliteration Room”
Gotta gotta gotta love Yayoi Kusama. Always have, always will. My friend Ben Austin’s feed reminded me about Kusama’s simple yet striking new show at GOMA. Here’s an excerpt from thisiscolassal, showing what the installation looked like when she started, and what it looks like after Kusama gave thousands of colored stickers to thousands of kids at…
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Bill Cosby Wearing A Sweater Of Bill Cosby Wearing A Sweater Of…
I love coming home to my wife wanting to show me what’s going in the knitting world. Last night, she showed me Andrew Salomone‘s work. The guy hacked his electornic knitting machine and found a way to knit images he uploads from his computer. Dude’s got mad skillz. Salomone recently showed his stuff at the Maker Faire in Queens,…
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Our First Scratch Art Gallery Opening, Featuring Andrea von Bujdoss
We here at Scratch have walls. They’re white. We’ve invited an emerging artist to put her art on them and tell us about it. The artist is Andrea von Bujdoss. If you’re in our hood right now, come say hi and see Andrea’s work… Here’s some of von Bjdoss’ work that I like a lot:
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William Hundley: Everything’s Better With A Cheeseburger
Photographer William Hundley makes it increasingly difficult for us to ignore the call of Five Guys, In-N-Out and Shake Shack at feeding time. Or, like, any time.
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RIP Cy Twombly
We’ve lost Cy Twombly, who made us think and feel. Great memories of the first time Jordana showed me his work on the wall of a friend’s house, and how challenged I felt to find my way more deeply in. When up close, the more time you spend with a Twombly, the more it reveals…
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Finally, A Bicycle That Gets You Into The Subway
I knew today would be a good day, and it has been. Started with passing this crafty NYC gem on 42nd Street…
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The Quilt Show At The Armory
We went to see the Folk Art Museum’s latest show at the Park Avenue Armory, “Infinite Variety,” yesterday. Made me realize we should try to do a concert in this armory, eventually. What a space. You can see from the photo how well lit this exhibit was, even captivated both our 2 year-old and…
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Erik Benson At The 2011 New York Armory Show
If you’re in town, check out paintings by Erik Benson at this year’s Armory Show, March 3-6. My favorite, which I think show’s Erik’s confidence and restraint. And the power his work has when he pulls back… About Erik Benson (courtesy of Edward Tyler Nahem Gallery): “Erik Benson makes paintings that are informed by fragments…