The Pseudo-Nym Project makes a toast to life, at least in the artists’ perspective. Inspired by Rrose Sélavy – one of Marcel Duchamp’s pseudonyms, the artists in this group show lay completely anonymous until the closing reception. I can understand the playful freedom that the artists and curator gets under the mysterious curtain. Wasn’t that how the dadaists played the game? The Pseudo-Nym Project opens at the Invisible Dog on October 2nd. The only small leak about the artists is that they’ve been shown in The New Museum, Venice Biennale, The Tate Gallery, Istanbul Biennial, The Whitney Museum, and Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. For those who are just as curious as I am to see who’s behind the show, stop by the opening party and celebrate with the artists.
Image courtesy of The Collective Zazazozo for Pseudonym Project / The Invisible Dog
Art critic Jerry Saltz invites you to email “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Art from an Art Critic but were Afraid to Ask (and maybe aren’t that eager to hear).”
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Art from an Art Critic but were Afraid to Ask (and maybe aren’t that eager to hear).
Ask New York Magazine’s Senior Art Critic, Jerry Saltz, anything you want about art, art careers, art dealers, prices of art, why critics write about artists, how critics are edited, what makes a good dealer, a bad dealer, how to get back at snarky critics, how to behave around critics, what’s up with reality TV, what makes a curator good, bad, or worse. Ask Jerry Saltz anything in his new New York Magazine Vulture column, Ask the Art Critic. Starts the week of September 20. Tough love; my two-cents; advice; admonitions; suggestions; information; misinformation; good guesses; opinions; warnings; and more to get irked about. Three or four selected questions will be answered per week.
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While those donning 6-inch heels are running around NY fashion week in Chelsea and SoHo, coincidentally art folks in kicks and flats are running around New York Art week. It’s not officially NYAW but September 9th marked the beginning of another exciting season in the art world, the biggest gallery week of the year. Artcards team has been working doubletime to list our picks and shows, completely unfiltered for our readers. From hi-brow Chelsea on Thursday to the Lower East Side on Sunday, the openings were a huge fiesta, and I was lucky to experience both sides of the horizon. There are lots of photos in this post, so it may take a minute to load, but scroll down for more.
Justin Adian and Rhiannon Kubicka at Blackston Gallery
Just received this in my mailbox. Thought I’d share it with our readers. Nurture Art is a warm and tight community, with a decent space in E. Williamsburg. Check them out if you haven’t already.
This Saturday’s Warm Up event at PS1 MoMA will be a good one. The line-up includes Animal Collective, Blondes, Prince Rama, Oneohtrix Point Never, CFCF, and Babe Rainbow. The set starts from 2PM to 9PM. See the full schedule here.
Yesterday was Mr. Marshall McLuhan’s birthday. Anyone who read the cult classic The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects knows that Marshall McLuhan is the godfather of philosophical media analysis. He did deep studies about how the media could effect an individual, and although those theories were written in the 60s it can easily by applied to what’s happening now. This video interview is a good introduction to Mr. McLuhan’s work and would perhaps inspire us to question our own role in today’s machine-obsessed world.
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