Run on the Bank
Urs Fischer installation inside a former branch of Chase Bank on Delancey Street
Bodega Nights
Coffee cups for “Bodega Nights”. An art event in local Bushwick bodegas. The design is based on recently discovered Mayan murals in Mexico which are unique in that they depict daily life. The event was put on my the Center for Strategic Art and Agriculture
Conditions on the Ground
Today I installed a new piece called “Conditions on the Ground” at Proteus Gowanus (opening Saturday). For this group show “Battle Ground” I was invited to create something, inspired by the Battle of Brooklyn (1776) to be placed in this set of drawers/file cabinet from the library of the Brooklyn Museum: I decided to …
Value Added: Artists’ Perspectives on the Meaning of Worth, Opens 3/20
Value Added: Artists’ Perspectives on the Meaning of Worth opened on Wednesday. There is some really great work in it, including my piece Pay Dirt: Transforming the Economy. In 2008, troubled by the world-wide economic crisis, I wanted to see what happened if I composted shredded US Currency in my worm bin. After about six …
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Last Address by Ira Sachs
Last week I popped in at the opening of the NLE Curatorial Lab show “Gathering Place” on West 8th Street. It was packed so unfortunately I didn’t get a great look at the work. But there was one room with a video screen that wasn’t too crowded. On the screen Ira Sachs’s Last Address was playing. …
Berlin: On the way to the movies
While in Berlin, I didn’t get to the Stasi museum as planned. Or the Pergemon Museum. My longest bike rides were at night when I couldn’t really see anything. I only had one sausage the entire week I was there! But I did spend several hours at the Gemäldegalerie. I had originally planned to just …
She Went Back to Dolls After That
Rosemarie Trockle at the New Museum What I liked best about the Rosemarie Trockle show at the New Museum was the almost baffling diversity of work. A lot of it I didn’t really get into or didn’t get at all. And some of it I liked a lot. I appreciated also the inclusion …
Off Center
Off Center, December 2012 For the month of December Husk considered the new Barclays Center in Downtown Brooklyn. The project “Off Center” was part of 3-art.org‘s monthly online exhibit of work made by teams, duos and collaborators. Follow our conversation about this controversial new arena and the area surrounding it here.
Event of a Thread at Park Ave Armory
At the foot of a giant
View from where I was sitting on the couch. Discovering Columbus, Columbus Circle
Alighiero Boetti and Frank Moore shows
On Thursday, before Huck went running toward a flight of stairs, tripped and fell into a wall which broke two bones in his arm, and required an ambulance, 9 hours in the ER, sedation (morphine), two attempts at resetting the bones, I visited NYU’s Grey Gallery during lunch to see Toxic Beauty: the Art of …
Wall Text
The American Folk Museum has curated a show Compass: Folk Art in Four Directions that is currently on display at the Southstreet Seaport Museum. I thought it would be a fun thing to take Huck to. And it was — a great collection of objects, paintings and drawings many of which he responded to. Huck liked …