On February 22nd, 2011, SCORES FOR THE CITY…
…the latest freely distributed print project by The Llano Del Rio (masterminded by Robby Herbst) describes, charts and maps (see the print side here) a certain special Los…
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On January 23rd, 2011, TWO BIG NAKED MEN WITH LONG FLOWING CAPES…
…greeted me as I was passing through Michelangelo‘s Piazza del Campidoglio this morning – Castor and Pollux, or Dioskouroi, twin cavalieri sons of Zues.
On January 22nd, 2011, A BRIGHT FLUORESCENT ORANGE WORK UNIFORM…
…is one of the best Italian street fashions around these days (since much of what we see the Romans wearing is so conservative, subtle, elegant, restrained, and even…
On January 20th, 2011, MARCO RAPARELLI…
…will present the series of ink on paper portraits he has been working on for the past four months while in residence at the American Academy in Rome…
On January 9th, 2011, CESARE PIETROIUSTI…
…the Rome-based Italian artist (b. 1955) who is admired by all of my Italian artist friends, has an audio piece which I encountered today in a hallway gallery…
On January 8th, 2011, ‘DO ASK, DO TELL’ BY LISA ANNE AUERBACH…
…is the new knitted scarf by the L.A. artist (see her website) who has been including provocative political messages (like ‘Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition‘ or…
On January 3rd, 2011, THE MAREMMAN SHEEP…
…were looking at us as we were attempting to visit the Niki de Saint Phalle sculpture park of Il Giardino dei Tarochi which was closed, but the sheep…
On December 21st 2010, THE X INITIATIVE YEARBOOK…
…is the book just out from Italy’s Mousse Publishing, which documents the one year of exhibitions, installations, projects, and events at the temporary non-profit art space spearheaded by…
On December 15th, 2010, MARINELLA SENATORE…
…engaged in a thoughtful dialog with curator and critic Laura Barreca at MAXXI this evening about the videos she shepards entire communities of hundreds of local collaborators –…
On December 3rd, 2010, IL MACRO (MUSEO D’ ARTE CONTEMPORANEA DI ROMA)…
…tonight officially opened the stunning new wing designed by the charismatic/punk French architect Odile Decq (who I spent some time with last year while in residence in Oxfordshire…
On November 27th, 2010, JOAN JONAS TALKS AT MAXXI…
…which is the dramatic new Zaha Hadid designed ‘Museum of 21st Century Art’ (surrounded by an unfortunate expanse of endless shadeless tree-free unwelcoming concrete which seems to function…
On November 25th, 2010, FEDERICA SCHIAVO GALLERY SHOW BY BHAKTI BAXTER…
…a Miami friend, opened tonight starting with a talk/performance about ‘nothing’ in the apartment above the gallery where Roman flea market vases were casually displayed on the floor…
On November 24th, 2010, SCREENING OF VIDEO BY KAREN YASINSKY…
…a fellow American Academy fellow this year – was a real pleasure, the highlight of the day, a 3.5 minute video she made in 2009 inspired by one…
On November 13th, 2010, THE BERLIN TIERGARTEN MEMORIAL TO HOMOSEXUALS PERSECUTED…
…under Nazism by Berlin based artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset (whose place I happen to be staying at this week) provides a poetically uncomfortable public moment as…
On October 15th, 2010, THE DEPART FOUNDATION…
…the innovative contemporary art foundation with an international bent recently founded in Rome by Pierpaolo Barzan (which just co-produced the show “Hungry for Death” at the American Academy…
On October 5th, 2010, LECTURE IN DEN HAAG…
…this evening at the wonderful Stroom – described as “an independent foundation established in 1989 as is a centre for art and architecture with a wide range of…
On August 15th, MEDAL DAY AT MACDOWELL COLONY…
…and the gentle masses descend on the typically peaceful retreat for an afternoon – plus a three hour open studio with visits from curious locals, tourists, and art…
On August 7th, 2010, THE STAFF GARDENS AT THE ALDRICH MUSEUM…
…which were planted in the early spring as a part of the “Something for Everyone” show at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut – are now…
On July 22nd, 2010, SURPLUS SEMINAR…
…is something organized by Red76 and Sam Gould, whom I just visited on my last day in Minneapolis, at the Walker Art Center where they are staging the…
On July 3rd, 2010, MACHINE PROJECT…
…had a board meeting today, and we discussed an upcoming Fall benefit event on the heals of last year’s fantastic gathering at “Mister Jalopy’s secret lair, accessible only…