Archive for September, 2007

Morgan Falconer On Aleksandra Mir At Mary Boone, New York

Willem de Kooning once suggested that he wanted his early paintings to look a little like copies of tabloid newspapers crumpled up in the city gutter, signalling his wish that his pictures should capture something of the sassy, stylish and hard-boiled patina that the New York tabloids had been associated with ever since they first found their voice in the 1920s and 1930s. Now, over half a century later, Aleksandra Mir has been put been under their spell and has begun a project which plays homage to them by reproducing a selection of their covers, by hand, in poster-sized tableau, all strident with black marker pen. mirbeardsTINY.jpg

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Blanca Casas Brullet At Galerie Francoise Paviot, Paris

Marta Casas Brullet, 'Croquis' Blanca Casas Brullet (b. 1973, Mataro, Catalonia, lives and works in Paris) has made projects starting with things that could be seen as leftovers of...

Karl Haendel At Harris Lieberman, New York

'I Need Work' is the first New York solo exhibition of Los Angeles-based artist Karl Haendel. Haendel's monochromatic graphite drawings combine a virtuoso technical ability with an interest...

Stan Douglas At The Kunstverein Stuttgart

Still from Stan Douglas's 'Journey into Fear', 2001 Still from 'Klatsassin', 2006 The Württembergische Kunstverein and the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart are currently showing the first comprehensive exhibition of the works of...

Elsa Salonen: Saatchi Online Critic's Choice By Lupe Nunez-fernandez

Elsa Salonen, 'Her Illness Changed Her Way (To Comprehend)', 2007. Elsa Salonen, a young Finnish artist based in Bologna over the last few years, makes video work whose subject...

Patrick Parise Wins September Your Studio Competition

Patrick Parise, 'Fire Storm' SEPTEMBER 2007 WINNER SELECTED BY BARBARA POLLACK Patrick Parise, from the US, is the winner of the September Your Studio competition. The critic Barbara Pollack chose...

Gary Hume Limited Edition

White Cube is offering a new Gary Hume print based on a painting in his exhibition 'American Tan', at White Cube Mason's Yard, which closes on 6...

'one Must Be So Careful These Days' At Alma Enterprises, London

Brian Catling, still from performance. Yaron Lapid, 'The New Zero'. Emanuel Almborg, 'The Other Man'. 'One must be so careful these days' and not trust that anything one sees is as...

The Ny Art Book Fair

Ed Ruscha, 'Little Mexican Church in a Windowsill', 1970/2007 Digital pigmented photograph 10 x 10 inches (image size 6 1/2 x 8 inches) Edition of 20, accompanies Benefit Preview ticket This weekend,...

Morgan Falconer On Collier Schorr At 303 Gallery, New York

At the heart of Collier Schorr's new show is a tale so perfectly situated at the crux of all her interests that one wonders why we haven't heard...