Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography

Mark Stevens reviews the Snap Judgments show at the International Center of Photography. Thru May 28th.

More Quick Hits

Neo Sincerity: The Difference Between the Comic and the Cosmic is a Single Letter at ApexArt through 4/8.

The Garden Party at Deitch Projects through 4/29.

SURVIVOR at Bortolami Dayan (through April 1, 2006)
a group exhibition that questions the endurance of art, not with respect to posterity but rather the weather. ...the space lacks a ceiling... No attempts at conservation by the gallery staff or the curator will be made for the duration of the exhibition. Who will survive? “Survivor” includes works by Cecily Brown, Dan Colen, Jessica Craig- Martin, Meredith Danluck, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Roe Ethridge, Angus Fairhurst, Piero Golia, Ignacio Gonzalez-Lang, Rachel Harrison, Jonathan Horowitz, Jacqueline Humphries, Jane Kaplowitz, Sean Landers, Hanna Liden, Nate Lowman, Adam McEwen, Jack Pierson, Rob Pruitt, Mika Rottenberg, Dash Snow, Emily Sundblad, Eric Wesley, and Aaron Young.


CAO FEI: Hip Hop Fukuoka, 2006 --single channel video -- 7 minutes
Cao Fei: Hip Hop at Lombard-Freid through 4/8.

Peter Fischli and David Weiss at Matthew Marks galleries (526 West 22nd Street and 523 West 24th Street) through 4/22.

Also at Matthew Marks, Nan Goldin: Chasing a Ghost (Through 4/22)



Trenton Doyle Hancock: In The Blestian Room at James Cohan through 4/15.

The Story of an Artist: Daniel Johnston, A Retrospective at Clementine through 4/15.

Quick Hits

The Bronx Museum of the Arts presents AIM 26 March 23-July 2, 2006

The third part of Agnes Martin's retrospective is on view at DIA:BEACON.
To the Islands (Works from 1974-1979) will run through June 26, 2006.



Joëlle Tuerlinckx: Drawing Inventory at the Drawing Center through April 22, 2006

Kara Walker at the Met: After the Deluge through July 30, 2006. ALSO, Sikkema Jenkins & Co. presents recent work by Walker, including Walker’s second film project, Eight Possible Beginnings… (Through April 1)

Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Early Impressions at Museo del Barrioro through May 21

Pierre Huyghe's This is Not A Time For Dreaming (a filmed puppet play) at Marian Goodman through April 8



Ernesto Caivano GAMES FOR A BLACKOUT MACHINE at Guild and Greyshkul through April 8

And don't forget
Goya's Last Works , David Smith: A Centennial and Andrea Zittel: Critical Space .

Radical Meek

Another review of the Whitney Biennial, this time by Mark Stevens.

Tara Donovan

Tara Donovan: New Work (March 11, 2006 — April 22, 2006) at PaceWildenstein.
More work here and here.

Biennial

A review of the 2006 Whitney Biennial byMichael Kimmelman. More info here.

The recent past

Reviews of two recent New York shows

"The Art Show" (From February 23 through 27). Ken Johnson's review from the New York Times.

"The Armory Show" (From March 10 - 13). Reviews by Holland Carter and Randy Kennedy.

An alternative to market driven art?

Holland Cotter thinks so. Check out The Collective Conscious.

Groups mentioned

Otabenga Jones & Associates (The Houston, Texas group’s members are Dawolu Jabari Anderson, Jamal Cyrus, Kenya Evans, and Robert A. Pruitt, four African American artists, each of whom will be shown separately, as well as in the group they form together as Otabenga Jones & Associates at the Whitney Biennial. More info here and here.

The Center for Land Use Interpretation here.

Critical Art Ensemble, website and interview. More info here.

Os Gemeos

Charles Runnette writes about the Brazilian artists Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo (other wise known as Os Gemeos [The Twins]).

Their website is here.

And interviews are here and here.

The Compulsive Line: Etching 1900 to Now

The Compulsive Line: Etching 1900 to Now is showing at the MOMA through April 17th.
Grace Glueck has a review.

17 Ways of Seeing

What Does Islam Look Like? by Holland Carter discusses the current MOMA show Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking (through May 22). A review from ArtNewsOnline appears here.

Goya at the Frick

The Frick Collection's exhibition Goya's Last Works is reviewed in the New York Times and in New York Magazine. Through May 14, 2006. More reviews can be found here and here.

The Moon and the Son

John Canemaker's Oscar winning film is discussed in the New York Times article "Careful, These Cartoons Pack a Punch" and here.

An interview with Canemaker about the film can be found here.

He is the director of the animation program at New York University Tisch School of the Arts.

Blue Velvet's 20th Anniversary

David Lynch's film Blue Velvet reaches its 20th anniversary this year. Terrence Rafferty writes an appreciation. Another can be found here .

Polar opposite reviews from 1986 can be found here and here.

Artur Barrio at Moore College of Art----Only three more days

Artur Barrio - Actions after Actions is on display for three more days (thru March 19th) at the Goldie Paley Gallery at Moore College of Art. There's a review in the New York Times.

The show is Barrio's first North American exhibition of works.

Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 10am-5pm
Saturday and Sunday 12noon-4pm
Admission free