The Sweet Vanished Past

..this is an article from January 8th that makes for interesting reading.

In Love With Reality Truly, Madly, Virtually by Michael Rush

Quick Hits

IRREDUCIBLE: Contemporary Short Form Videos at the Bronx Museum of the Arts.
Thru 2/26.

El Museo del Barrio's Bienal: The (S)files / The Selected Files
Fourth survey of art by emerging Latino and Latin-American artists. Thru 1/29.

Frequency at the Studio Museum of Harlem. Works by 30 emerging black artists. Thru 3/12.

Maria Elena González: Internal DupliCity . Thru 3/4.
and Maria Elena González: Supine Tendency. Thru 2/17.

WILLIAM KENTRIDGE: The Magic Flute: Drawings and Projections at the Marian Goodman Gallery. Thru 2/25.

Constructing Realities: Photography / Film / Video / Internet at PaceWildenstein. Thru 2/4.

View Nine: I Love My Scene / Scene 1 . Thru 2/25.

Breaking and Entering: Art and the Video Game . Thru 1/28.

David Hammons, The Unauthorized Retrospective . Thru 2/12.

Michael Joo at the Bohen Foundation, 415 West 13th Street, 212-414-4575, Chelsea

Chip Kidd at Cooper Union. Thru 2/4. Article at Metropolis Magazine.

Speak: Nine Cartoonists. Thru 2/25.

The Non-Manhattan Project

Andrea Zittel: Critical Space opens to the public on Thursday, January 26th.

It runs through May 27th at the New Museum of Contemporary Art / Chelsea556 West 22nd Street (at 11th Avenue) NYC 10011

On Thurs. 2/2, 6:30-8PM Andrea Zittel discusses her work with New Museum Curator Trevor Smith. This event will take place at New York University's Steinhardt School of Education, Einstein Auditorium, Barney Building, 34 Stuyvesant Street (between 2nd Avenue and 3rd Avenue). Free!

Here's an article from New York Magazine.

Zittel also has a website .

She's interviewed by BOMB here .

Portrait of the Artist as a Paint-Splattered Googler

The New York Times has an article on painter Dana Schutz . You can see more of her work here. Ms. Shutz will also have a show this winter at The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University. “Dana Schutz: Works from 2002-2006” is curated by Rose interim director and curator Raphaela Platow, and will be exhibited from Jan. 19-April 9, 2006, in The Rose’s Lois Foster Wing.

Brandeis University is 9 miles west of Boston.

The New Yorker

The New Yorker's Art listings for January 18 thru the 31st are now available.

Robert Rauschenberg: Combines

Mark Stevens Reviews Robert Rauschenberg: Combines , now at the Met. The show runs December 20, 2005 thru April 2, 2006.

Art Forum has images from the opening.

You can also find a New York Times Review Here.

The current issue of Modern Painters contains an interview.

A 1-minute, 43-second video clip of Robert Rauschenberg speaking about "Monogram" and the origin of combines can be found here.

One Art

"SculptureCenter presents "one art", a new project by internationally renowned artist Anya Gallaccio. Commissioned through SculptureCenter's Artist-in-Residence program, this is be Gallaccio's first solo exhibition in an American museum."

"For "one art", Gallaccio will fell and disassemble a tree and then reconstruct it with all the engineering required to support it visible. The tree, a weeping cherry killed when contractors erroneously cut its root system, will reach into SculptureCenter's fifty-foot-high clerestory

The New York Times and John Haber have reviews

Anya Gallaccio's "One Art" continues through April 3 at the Sculpture Center, 44-19 Purves Street, Long Island City, Queens;(718) 361-1750.

Drawing Center

The Drawing Center has two exhibitions going on thru February the 11th.

Persistent Vestiges: Drawing from the American-Vietnam War and Acute Zonal Occult Outer: Selections Winter 2006

Cultural Elite 2005?

New York Magazine's Mark Stevens reviews the NY Art world in 2005.