Tag: gallery

Perfect Pie

Hales Gallery, 20th St and Eleventh Avenue, New York

Last weekend we went down to the Zwirner Galleries to see Hilton Als’ exhibition on James Baldwin, long a hero of mine for The Fire Next Time and Go Tell It on The Mountain. Watching old YouTube videos of him in debates or on talk shows is another good way to see his rhetorical brilliance displayed and enjoy watching his white interlocutors squirm. Unfortunately we went down on the last afternoon and the place was packed (with old white people) making it almost impossible to appreciate the exhibit. In particular it was hard to get to the tiny explanatory placards here and there to understand the context, so we abandoned it and went into a number of other Chelsea galleries.

I confess to a certain Philistinism when it comes to this kind of work (Richard Slee’s Perfect Pie at Hales Gallery).

Cloacal Captures

While in Seattle we took the ferry to Bainbridge Island and visited the historical museum. Bainbridge Island was host to a vibrant Japanese community and was the source of the first internees during WWII. They had an exhibit of portraits by Ansel Adams who later felt like his work had been misused for propagandist purposes.

Also, an exhibit of a local portrait photographer’s work in the bathroom… (space was at a premium, I guess)

Bainbridge Island, Washington

Art from the Side

Spring Street, New York
Spring Street, New York

This is the side view of 2 artworks that are made up of items embedded in layers of lucite (perspex), creating a an interesting 3-dimensional effect when viewed from the front. I can’t remember the name of the artist or the gallery and couldn’t recover them on the web.

This Great Diverse City—How Should We See It?

I’ll have a number of pictures in the show, “This Great Diverse City—How Should We See It?” opening March 31st and running through September at the Terrain Gallery at 141 Greene St. New York, NY 10012.

The opening will be Thursday, March 31st from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. Hope to see you there!