The Shortlist for the Turner Prize has just been announced and I was pleased to see David Shrigley’s name on it. I am particularly fond of his nature-interventions but be sure to check out more of his work on his website below. 
David Shrigley, Fallen Tree 1996. 
David Shrigley, H Is for Hello 1999.
David Shrigley, Lost 1996.
David Shrigley, Diana 1998. 
David Shrigley, One Day A Big Wind Will Come 1997.
David Shrigley’s Artist Website Here.
Street by James Nares is currently on view at The Met. This clip only provides a small glimpse of the magic, intrigue and personality that the artwork possesses. I never thought watching a stranger do something as mundane as typing a text or carrying groceries could ever be so captivating or nuanced, but Nares in a span of a week in 2011, manages to perfectly encapsulate the diverse fabric of people that make up New York City, and makes every moment just as dramatic as the next. In his own words, “I wanted the film to be about people. All it needed were magical moments, and there are enough of those happening every moment of any given day.” This piece is a must see.
James Nares Artist Website HERE.
Another clip of Street HERE.
I went to the Jonas Mekas exhibition at MUAC in Mexico City. The films, photographs and poetry were so mesmerizing I had to share. His films are stunning, his words- moving.
“These are not memories. These are real – every detail you see in the films is real – memories are gone but the images are here and they are real, right there in front of your eyes – and I like it! I like what I see!’ - Jonas Mekas, Artist Website Here.
Jonas Mekas
Holy Fools (Allen Ginsberg, Norman Mailer) 2012
Jonas Mekas
Holy Fools (Andy Warhol) 2012
Jonas Mekas, The Beauty of Friends Being Together Quartet 2007
Jonas Mekas, Walden: Diaries, Notes and Sketches 1969
Jonas Mekas, This Side of Paradise 1999, Kennedy family holiday in Montauk, New York, 1972 
Jonas Mekas, Walden: Diaries, Notes and Sketches 1969
Jonas Mekas, excerpt from A Requiem for the XXth Century 2000. Read the entire poem HERE.
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I went to AIPAD this weekend and although I thought it was so over-hung it was hard to focus, I did discover a lot of new photographers. Here are a few that caught my eye. 
David Graham, Wildwood, NY from Almost Paradise. Artist Website HERE.
Karine Laval, Poolscape #1 (Dominican Republic) 2009. Artist Website Here.
Andy Freeberg, Metro Pictures from Gallery Desks in Chelsea. Artist Website Here. 
Tabitha Soren, Pratt Drive, Filmore from Uprooted 2005. Artist Website HERE.
As I mentioned, I finally saw MoMa’s Cindy Sherman Retrospective last week at the Dallas Museum of Art.
Here are some installation shots, I snuck with my camera phone.
I am in Dallas for a couple days and got the opportunity to visit The Warehouse, which houses curated works from the Rachofsky and the Rose Collections. It was truly amazing to see such an incredible collection up close and the current exhibition Parallel Views: Italian and Japanese Art from the 1950s, 60s and 70s offered an interesting distinction not only between Italian and Japanese art, but also with American movements.
Check out the Rachofsky Collection Website Here.
Rachofsky Warehouse Installation View.
Kishio Suga, Soft Concrete 1970/2012 @ the Warehouse
Mario Merz, Untitled 1969 @ the Warehouse
Visited some galleries in Chelsea this week.. This is what I saw.
Adrien Ghenie @ Pace Gallery. Learn More Here. 
Arman, Untitled from Cycles 1995 @ Paul Kasmin Gallery
Arman, Slow Motion 1995 @ Paul Kasmin Gallery. See More Here. 
Will Ryman, Bird 2012 @ Paul Kasmin Gallery. More Info Here.
sock monkey in Jean-Michel Basquiat new work @ Gagosian
Miroslaw Balka, The Order of Things 2013 @ Gladstone Gallery.
Graffitti in Chelsea. 
Tameka Norris & Hans Berg, Bang Your Little Drums 2013 @ Zach Feuer Gallery 
Tameka Norris & Hans Berg, Installation Shot @ Zach Feuer Gallery
Flipping through a Stephen Shore book @ Aperture Gallery.
Miroslaw Balka, The Order of Things 2013
Like most people in the artworld, I spent the past week marathoning through all the art fairs in New York. It was exhausting. Here is some of what I saw (I apologize for the lack of titles.. I was on sensory overload.)
Tobias Bernstrup, Hope 2012 @ Armory.
Helen Frankenthaler opening @ Gagosian
Rachel Rossin, Holy See 2013 @ the Spring Break Art Fair
Rooftop lounge @ Independent Art Fair
Cat Sculpture @ Volta Art Fair
Jung Lee @ Armory
work by Mark Jenkins @ Volta (Artist Website Here)
Airan Kang @ Armory. 
David Kramer @ Armory. 
Jonathan Marshall, Every was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt (For Kurt Vonnegut) 2012-2013 @ armory.
Peter Liverside, Etc, 2011
Fred Wilson @ Armory. 
Scott Reeder @ Armory. 
Self Portrait through Chiho Akama mirror @ Volta
Barbara Kruger @ Armory
Justin Lieberman, Photo Cameras @ Armory.
Day’s End Lounge @ Armory.
An unexpected 6 day weekend led to a spur of the moment trip to Washington D.C. to see Art. Will be posting more soon but until then here is a glimpse of my art filled day yesterday through instagram! [follow me on instagram here too!]
Mark di Suvero, Are Years What? (for Marianne Moore) 1967. On view @ Hirschhorn Sculpture Garden
Dan Graham, For Gordon Bunshaft 2006. On view @ Hirschhorn Sculpture Garden
Barbara Kruger, Belief + Doubt 2012. On view lower level of the Hirschhorn 
Ai Weiwei, Cube Light 2008. On view at the Hirschhorn 
Roy Litchenstein, Brushstroke 1996. On View at the Hirschhorn
Chuck Close, Obama I and Obama II 2012. On View at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Nam June Paik, Electronie Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii 1995. On view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Nam June Paik, Megatron/Matrix 1995. On view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
(view of) John Everett Millais, Orphelia 1851-1852. On view at the National Gallery of Art.
Claes Oldenburg, Typewriter Eraser, Scale X 1999
Roxy Paine, Graft 2008-2009. On view at the National Gallery of Art.
The Exhibition Entrance is made out of QR codes that lead to artist making art utilizing the internet.
Exhibition Website Here. 
Paolo Cirio’s Street Ghosts
Wafaa Bilal’s 3rdi
{This man surgically inserted a camera into the back of his head that took a photograph every minute, which got automatically uploaded to his site.}
James Coupe’s Panoptic Panorama #2: Five People in a Room
{The camera records you then loops it on the screens and matches the loop with twitter posts that fit your demographic. Me and Danielle just liked to take pictures of us taking pictures}
Video camera that records people in gallery for Panoptic Panorama
Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico’s Face to Facebook
Last week I attended Aperture Gallery’s opening for their newest exhibition: Photography featuring work by Stephen Shore, William Eggleston, Nan Goldin, Martin Parr, Terry Richardson and Ryan McGinley. All photographs in Photography were taken with a Fujifilm X-series camera. In an age where photographic production sprawls across so many different types of processes and equipment, I think it was incredibly interesting to see these major players neutralized and to see how each utilized the same tools. It was especially exciting to see new work by Stephen Shore. His mastered eye manipulates California lifestyle through snapshot documentation creating images that are full of complicated and subtle narrative, showing a world where everything can and should be questioned. Nan Goldin’s poetic and sad capture of memory, felt effortlessly whimsical, fleeting with heart-break. I stood in front of her work the longest just soaking in her melancholic self-reflection. Terry Richardson’s stark and blown out still lifes of bountiful bouquets of flowers, in context with Martin Parr and Ryan McGinley, seemed untrustworthy.. the perfection, deceitful. William Eggleston, whose work I was most intrigued to see, left me surprisingly disappointed. The prints, from the father of color photography are muddy, forcing me to question if they were C-Prints that were stored wrongly, causing the colors to shift. But then again, maybe his off-putting colored photographs of iconic Americana, (as the press release calls them) are part of the greater narrative. The colors are no longer vibrant with life, rather the “Glory” promised by the construction trailer only provides a dull alternative to our failing culture. All the color has alas, faded.
New work by William Eggleston on view currently at Aperture Gallery. [photosource]
New work by Stephen Shore on view currently at Aperture Gallery. [photosource]
New work by Terry Richardson on view currently at Aperture Gallery [photosource]
Photography is open at Aperture Gallery in Chelsea until Febuary 9. You can also read an interview with the curator Ken Miller Here. Go check out the work for yourself. It certainly is something seeing such powerful photographers in this intimate space.
Nan Goldin @ Aperture Gallery for exhibition Photography. 
Stephen Shore installation shot of Photography @ Aperture Gallery.
The past couple days I have spent a ridiculous amount of time on the website Learningtoloveyoumore.com. The website was a public art project by artists Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher from 2002-2009 where assignments were posted to the site with detailed instructions for anyone to complete and submit. “Like a recipe, meditation practice, or familiar song, the prescriptive nature of these assignments was intended to guide people towards their own experience.” Although the site no longer takes submissions, it still encourages people to participate and I think the longer you spend on it the more motivated you will be to complete an assignment. Good Luck!
Here are some of my favorite assignments and submissions.
Anne Marijn Koppen, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Eloise, Sydney, Australia
Rachel Johnston, London, UK
Jo Hylton, Arlington, Texas USA
Elena Pizzetti, Torino, Italy
Mona Miclea, CJ, Romania
MARB, Boston, Massachusetts USA
