Word: artisticness
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...question for this Biennial, which runs through June 1, and for art at large, is whether lessness can amount to more than that. Without question, there's a tumbledown, slacker spirit among some of the 81 artists that Huldisch and Momin have selected. Yet they also chose just enough work in which the materials may be humble but the ambitions are larger. New York artist Heather Rowe has adapted ideas from the late Gordon Matta-Clark, who sawed entire houses into parts to expose their strange and poignant innards. Rowe builds her own wooden frameworks, embedded with shards of mirrors...
...over to the Park Avenue Armory, a Victorian brick pile a few blocks from the museum that offers room after room of wood-paneled chambers with brass chandeliers and mounted moose heads. In other words, it's a party space. In one of the oaky rooms, the Los Angeles artist Eduardo Sarabia has opened a tequila bar. He made the blue-and-white-ceramic bar stand. He made the bottles. He even made the tequila. The press materials explain that it's not just a bar but an installation that "celebrates collaborative dialogue and community." In other words...
...Helen Molesworth, the first Houghton Curator of Contemporary Art, the retrospective examines the past 20 years of Davey’s career as a photographer. In the same way that Davey’s camera contemplates objects that are often overlooked, Molesworth sheds light on a lesser-known artist of our time with “Long Life Cool White,” the first major survey and museum exhibition of Davey’s work. “Moyra’s an artist I feel has not gotten fair notice or the commercial success I think she deserves...
...least, home is long gone, if it ever existed at all.“Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!” is a triumph—quite possibly the band’s finest—a highly mature, surprisingly organic step in a promising new direction for an artist now in his fourth decade of music-making. Cave hasn’t broken away from the Bad Seeds’ traditions. On the contrary: the album sounds like a natural, albeit bold, progression from the supercharged “Abattoir Blues.” But it took an injection...
...right: fish, scientists, film history, and “extraterrestrial beasts.” Include a car chase and Jessica Alba in leather and it’s a perfectly good summer blockbuster. The “science” article ends with an interview with the Swiss artist who created the alien, H. R. Giger, apparently just to make sure he doesn’t have a secret background in ichthyology...