Feed

Andrew Russeth

By Andrew Russeth 9/26/11 11:45am

Art

Art dealer Daniel Reich.

Dealer Daniel Reich Closes Chelsea Space, Plans to Relocate [Updated]

Art dealer Daniel Reich, who began operating his gallery out of his tiny Chelsea apartment on West 21st Street in 2001, has announced that he is closing his current base of operations, on West 23rd, and will reopen at some point in the future at a new location.

“While our 23rd Street location was very successful,” Mr. Reich said in a letter sent to his mailing list, “we will scale back for a term and then do a space with more the feel of the time–however that is manifest.” He did not set a timeline for that transition to a new location. Read More

By Andrew Russeth 9/23/11 3:15pm

Art

7 Photos

"Stage Right, Stage Left" (2011) by Sarah Crowner.

Great Leaps: Sarah Crowner at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery in New York

Paintings have behaved oddly this year.

At MoMA, Jutta Koether’s became props for interactive events and then morphed into sculptures; at Friedrich Petzel, pieces made jointly by Stephen Prina and Wade Guyton disappeared after only one day; and at Carriage Trade, a series of monochromes were attributed to a nonexistent artist, their origin never quite explained. And then there is the case of Sarah Crowner’s beautiful and peculiar new show at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, on the Lower East Side.

“I like the idea that a painting can have other functions, depending on how the viewer interacts with it,” Sarah Crowner told The Observer, as she stood in her studio in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn. “A painting,” she said, “could be an environment for a performance.” She spoke quickly and seriously, as if she had thought this out and was enthusiastic about the possibilities of her choices. Read More

By Andrew Russeth 9/23/11 8:52am

Art

David Elliot.

Ukraine Announces a Biennale, Names David Elliot Director

The proliferation of international art biennials continues. Culture officials in Ukraine announced that the nation will debut a biennial in Kiev, Ukraine, in May of next year. Leaders have selected a seasoned curator, David Elliot, who organized last year’s Sydney Biennale, as artistic director of the event, which will be held in the capital city’s National Culture and Art Museum Complex. Read More

By Andrew Russeth 9/22/11 12:11pm

Art

11 Photos

Clarina Bezzola, When I Walk Alone in the Streets, Sept. 22, 2011

Artist Clarina Bezzola Walks the Streets

Yesterday evening in Times Square a white van pulled up across the street from Duffy Square, at 47th Street and 7th Avenue. A few men, accompanied by police officers, swung open its back doors, revealing inside a gigantic sculpture of a forearm, its fingers tipped with long red nails. They gingerly pulled it out and placed it on the sidewalk.

A woman appeared, wearing a red dress, with a wide hem, and bulky, fake, tan breasts covering most of her chest. There were teeth, also fake, in between those breasts: a mammary dentata of sorts. The woman was Clarina Bezzola, a Zurich-born artist featured in the Austrian Cultural Forum’s current show, “Beauty Contest.” She was here to perform a work called When I Walk Alone in the Streets. Read More

By Andrew Russeth 9/22/11 8:58am

Art

"Lenin" (1938) by Alexej Konstantinovich Nesterenko. (Photo: Wikipedia)

Museum of Socialist — né Totalitarian — Art Opens in Bulgaria

“It was high time to put communism where it belongs—in a museum,” Bulgarian culture minister Vezhdi Rashidov told a crowd yesterday at the opening of the museum’s new Museum of Socialist Art, which features a selection of paintings, sculptures and statues that glorify men like Lenin, Stalin and the nation’s former dictator, Todor Zhivkov, who held office for 44 years. Read More