Yesterday was the opening for the Columbia University MFA Thesis exhibition at the Fisher Landau Center for Art in Long Island City. It was put together by über-curator Anthony Huberman and was totally worth the double subway ride. Check out our favorites above, or see it for yourself (through May 23rd).
Fisher Landau Center for Art
3827 30th Street
Long Island City, NY
Alert: Opening tonight! You’d Make A Great Homosexual, described by the curators as “a joint exhibition tackling difficult subjects such as rainbows, triangles, and glitter” and featuring the work of Smarties Tatiana Berg and Greg O’Malley.
Heck yes! The show runs through April 24, and the opening is tonight from 7-9pm at:
The Loading Dock
170 Tillary St
Brooklyn, NY 11201
File this one under future party themes:
Berlin-based artist Hans Hemmert (the guy who made that balloon tank you keep seeing on the internet) filled a room with various-height stilts so that each guest could become exactly 6 feet tall. BOOM: Equal-height cocktail party time.*
This is obviously lovely and silly and is called “Level” (go figure). It’s from 1997 so we’re not exactly breaking news here. The point, though, is the many future party themes this suggests: the everyone-is-wearing-lobster-hands party? The blindfolded-but-also-wearing-headphones-that-make-it-sound-like-you’re-underwater party? Dream on, people, and dream big.
*This would also allow me to finally fulfill my dream of standing eye-to-eye with 6-foot Smartie Andrew, instead of craning my neck upwards as he dispenses his sage design advice. Le sigh.
So, last weekend I did that hilarious thing at a gallery opening. You know, where first you confuse a piece trash for a sculpture, and then confuse an actual sculpture with a piece of trash. Ha ha ha ha ho ohmyGOD contemporary art, I LOVE IT when you painfully confirm all those things my mom says about you.
Apparently I wasn’t the only one confused. Moments later the crowd ceremoniously parted, giving me a perfect view of a little dog lifting its leg and pissing on the above sculpture. Not kidding. I’m very, very sorry to say I don’t know whose piece it is, or what the title was– but gentle jury, please know that I tried to stop it. Cue the slow-motion outreach and open-mouthed horror: “NOOOoooo…….!”
Wow.
But don’t take that one (doggy) critic’s opinion: Kidd Yellin’s “The Kings County Biennial” is an uneven but sprawling and fun show featuring some top-notch mid-career artists’ work, and it runs through Feb 28. A few pics after the jump.
Last Friday was the opening of RISD Exposé, a pop-up store in downtown Providence that is dedicated toward current RISD students slinging their art and design work like there’s no tomorrow. Here are a few standouts from the show.
Tonight from 6-9pm at Sebastian + Barquet (544 w. 24th st., NYC) is the opening for what looks to be a pretty serious show of Donald Judd’s furniture work. Be there or be square (see what I did there?). In case you miss it, the show runs until Christmas. Yeah angles!
Jerry Magni & Liz Kinnmark
Last weekend was the magnificent dual birthday party of bffs Liz Kinnmark and No Smarties cofounder Leslie Ruckman. The party was held at Design Glut HQ, a.k.a. their rambling Brooklyn apartment, and the theme was Noir. Hit the jump for more giant scissors, black cheesecake, naked ladies, and eventual drunken but stylish slumber.
Tatiana Berg, Big Rock Candy Mountain, oil/glitter/gimp on canvas, 2009
Those of you in the D.C./Baltimore area should be aware that Friday, August 21 is the opening of CHROMATOSE at Nudashank Gallery, featuring the likes of Smartie Tatiana Berg along with a slew of talented others (such as Erik Parker & Darren McManus, pictured below).
Friday, August 21
Nudashank Gallery
405 W. Franklin St.
3rd Floor
Baltimore, MD 21201
more info at nudashank.com
Erik Parker, New Freedom, acrylic on canvas, 2008
Darren McManus, Monad 1, acrylic on wood, 2007
With Design Week coming up here in New York, there will be a traffic jam of parties, shows and events between Brooklyn Designs and ICFF. This event; however, has promise to be a must see.
If you’re in New York I hope to see you there!
The Scout has a writeup about the first droog store this side of the Atlantic, which opens today in Soho:
Commodity design objects in glass cases, one-offs and artist proofs scattered about the floor. No furniture stages, white walls, or moody gallery lighting. According to designer & Droog collaborator Jurgen Bey the Droog retail space is a sketch: a blueprint for upending expectations. To that end the space succeeds; it feels more like a studio than a store, let alone a gallery.
If you’re in New York you should totes go check it out. The address is 76 Greene Street, between Spring and Broome. You know, where everything else is. They’re open until 7.
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