by Artcards Review on May 21st, 2011
Guy Dill
Popular criticism of art fairs is hardly new, the supermarket like conditions and the favoring of blue chip, easy to sell work over experimental emerging artists. SF Fine Art Fair is no exception. The exhibition space was adorned with all of the requisite Picasso, Miro, Lichenstein, Warhol, Stella, and Calder. The environment was for the most part quite conservative. However, there were some gems for the dedicated viewer.
by Cielo Lutino on March 6th, 2011
"Misty Discovery," courtesy Angell Gallery
With the musical successes of Arcade Fire, Feist, and Do Make Say Think, Canada has been steadily shedding its second-country status and gaining better cultural traction globally. (Don’t know the last example I cited? Focus instead on the almost equal valuation of the Canadian and American dollars, and you’ll realize just how much our neighbor to the north has accomplished in recent years. In fact, the Canadian dollar is projected to surpass its American counterpart in value over 2011. Ouch). Canada pops up in insidious ways, too, with record labels sporting names like Secretly Canadian and, closer to home, the Ontario bar in Williamsburg.
Still, all that hoopla doesn’t mean Cannucks actually want to be in their own country. At least that’s the impression artists Catherine Bolduc and Alex McCleod leave. Both are showing at this year’s PULSE or, more specifically, IMPULSE, the second-floor exhibition that features work made in the last two years. Represented by Gallery SAS and Angell Gallery respectively, the two offer works about imaginary worlds and in the process invite viewers to consider the points at which reality and fiction meet to create the environments we inhabit internally and externally.
by Helen Homan Wu on March 5th, 2011
"Steven-Circle-Green" 2010, Thomas Dozol (courtesy of NP Contemporary Art Center)
Join us on a gallery walk in the Lower East Side this Sunday, March 6th, as a wrap up and recap to this week’s art events. Led by Artcards editors, who are also independent curators, Helen Homan Wu and Howard Hurst. The tour offers an exclusive opportunity to engage in conversations with gallerists, curators, and the art. We will also be attending the closing party of Thomas Dozol’s All Together Now (Studies for a Missing Utopia)! exhibition at NP Contemporary Art Center. Being a native LES New Yorker, I wanted to start the tour with a slightly exotic touch, going for dim sum brunch on the brim of Chinatown. Sign up here, or if you have questions, contact me at Review@artcards.cc.
Tour Details:
March 6th, 2011
Sunday, 1PM
Brunch in Wing Shoon Restaurant
165 East Broadway
10 1/2 Galleries
Starting at Reena Spaulings Gallery and ending with Jen Bekman Gallery.
by Artcards Review on February 28th, 2011
David Drebin. Gotham City, 2010. Courtesy of Contessa Gallery
We’ll be busy running around this week, attending events, giving tours and covering Armory week. The Armory Show opens on March 3rd at Piers 92 & 94. Surrounding the main fair is a cluster of other fairs including Volta, Pulse, Scope, Fountain and countless art events and parties. To enhance your visit to PULSE and the Lower East Side galleries, Artcards editors will be leading tours. Sign up here or to request more info contact help@artcards.cc. To navigate easily around the fairs, just build your map like we do on the Artcards platform. Come out and party with us on March 1st! Artcards is presenting a big Opening Event “Sonic Architextures” at White Slab Palace with a highly interesting program, including live 3-D Anaglyph portraits by artist Maximus Clarke, screenings of experimental filmmakers Rey Parla and Peter Gregorio, and music performances by the emerging duo MERCE.
by Artcards Review on January 28th, 2011
Rachel and Friends, 2009 ©Alex Prager, Courtesy of the Artist and Yancey Richardson Gallery
Art enthusiasts have been anticipating this week’s VIP Art Fair – the first virtual art fair – with mixed opinions from all sides of the game. Fair booths and lounges have been translated on to the comforts of a (lonely) screen. An online art fair definitely saves all the legwork and on airfares, but without this pumping physical action, it filters out all the fun. In the midst of this virtual fair, we pulled a few highlights for those who don’t feel like becoming a registered VIP. If you’ve been to the fair, we’d like to hear your comments.
by Helen Homan Wu on December 7th, 2010
China Chow with Adrien Brody at Nada fair
Have I seen enough art in the last four days of Art Basel Miami? Restless during the day, by night we were trying to figure out which parties to attend. Although I was trying to stick to my mission, which was to cover the fairs, events, and to socialize, I also took out some time to walk around the streets of Wynwood and the Design District. And even stumbled into a really gorgeous piece by the Belgium street artist Roa. It was impossible to see all the fairs and attend everything that I was invited to (sorry if I missed your performance), but was still overloaded with what I did get to see. I had a lot of fun, especially traveling with the Artcards team and finally meeting our Miami editor Brinson in person. We all really enjoyed the hospitality of the Grand Beach Hotel, had breakfast by the ocean, swam, and dipped our overworked bodies in the jacuzzi.
by Howard Hurst on December 5th, 2010
Photos by Carissa Pelleteri for Artcards Review
The tone at Basel on Friday was solidly optimistic. The mega galleries were out in force. Hauser and Wirth had a breathtaking late work by Louise Borgouise and drawing and sculpture from art star Paul McCarthy that were of particular note. Gagosian gallery had a similar spread, showing works by star studded gallery favorites Serra, Koons, Hirst and Warhol. White Cube was showing the YBAs in all their glory, but even here the tone seemed markedly less conspicuous than usual. A new, sparkling cubic zirconium filled gold vatrine by the king of bling, Damien Hirst, seemed awkwardly out of place.
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