Author Archives: mauri
Lionel Maunz at Bureau Inc.
Lionel Maunz January 12 – February 9, 2014 Bureau Inc. 178 Norfolk Street New York City bureau-inc.com
Todd Chilton at Feature Inc.
Todd Chilton January 11 – February 16 2014 Feature Inc. 131 Allen Street New York City featureinc.com
Muted Beauty: Russell Tyler at DCKT Contemporary
Russell Tyler’s Solo show at DCKT in the LES returns back in the direction of bad painting but stops midway at a comfortable apex. He has come a long way since I first saw his work at Freight and Volume in 2010. I remember clearly thinking about Kim Dorland when I saw Tyler’s paintings at […]
Rosalind Nashashibi’s The Painter and the Deliveryman
With The Painter and the Deliveryman Rosalind Nashashibi offers a play on motifs, causality and narrative. Arriving at Objectif Exhibitions in Antwerp, the visitor is greeted by the emptiness of the ground floor gallery, a spacious white-walled and concrete-floored contemporary art space with large windows overlooking a small courtyard. The two 16mm films that give […]
Keith J. Varadi’s Top 5 Exhibitions of 2013
Keith J. Varadi is an artist, writer, and curator currently based in Los Angeles. He is a co-founder and member of the collective, Picture Menu. Here are his selections for the best shows of 2013: 1. Larry Bamburg, BurlsHoovesandShells at Simone Subal Gallery, New York Jerry-rigged ecosystems, towers constructed from bones and gold, and artificial earth compositions […]
COIL Festival 2014
Coil is Performance Space 122’s annual winter performance festival showing remarkable contemporary performance from local, national and global artists. Full of textured, contemplative, grounded, rigorous, and always very live performance. Featuring: Reid Farrington Tyson Vs. Ali World Premiere Theater 3-Legged Dog Production Commissioned By Ps122, Co-Presented With 3-Legged Dog January 3 – 25 (Extended) Mac […]
Robert Wilson’s Life and Death of Marina Abramovic
Marina Abramovic, Yugoslavian performance artist famous for her long durational works once said, “The only last thing an artist can control—his own funeral.” She in fact wrote her last will and testament in which she wants three coffins to be buried in three different countries, and her memorial ceremony to be a celebration of life […]
Leah Oates Talks to Danny Simmons Jr. of Curate NYC
Leah Oates: You are one of the creators and founders of Curate NYC. How did the idea for Curate NYC take shape and how do you envision Curate NYC growing in the future? Danny Simmons Jr.: Curate NYC took shape when Brian Tate my partner and fellow founder of Curate NYC saw a request for […]
Nina Zivancevic Floats On By In Gabriela Arnon’s Pyramid Lake
On a cold and busy post-holiday season night in which we turn around looking for a friendly face, or for a sign of humanity in this high-techno dehumanized big-city flow…I’m closing my eyes and opening my ears to Gabriela Arnon’s sounds coming from her third, newly released album “Pyramid Lake”. This extraordinary singer, songwriter and […]
