17/05-NY7 Who is reading anyway?
Didn't do much yesterday in terms of exhibitions/performances, but I did check out the dances and ballet program at Lincoln Center by paying it a visit, yet fallen asleep in bed waiting for the CUNY arts program after midnight, and missed a day entry. So I better begin early, right after another episode of one of my beloved TV programme: Whose line is it anyway?
Today, I started off to the Asia Society for tickets for Eiko and Koma’s Sunday Cambodian Stories. It starts from Friday, but might clash with NY city ballet, while Sat I will be in Philadelphia for an art criticism conference.(this meant I will need another trip for its museum, for the Duchamp collection of course!). Its phone (212)517-ASIA turns out simply to be the corresponding key 2742, but since I was personally there, I went to the few sixties something streets galleries. Sometimes it is a joy to look at photos, just for how they present a subject you don’t know much about, with the press release helping you learn to spot a few photographic specialities. The one on Israel art is rather boring, another one has a theme of East meets West, but not of the modern/exotic sense, for it pick Japan new generation such as Murakami, Nara, Mr etc. to go along the pop masters.
I got off actually at Hunter College Metro station, but the early video show is over, the BFA still setting up. But I happened to walk by the venue for the International Fine Art Fair, and with a reporter pass, see the not very show with not many great works but leaving me some thoughts on different things. With the same simple return trip, I am able to read the articles from New Yorker (one article on the debt Martha Graham Dance Company got into) that I took yesterday at ACC from my dc. Just like reading from a palm pc!
Back for lunch and set off again in the afternoon for Tribeca galleries and the Apex’s curator talk. I have prepared more time, but arrived there to find only that Ethan Cohen show curated by Pan Xing Lei and of Chinese Artists here have already ended, contra to what has been announced in the Gallery Guide. So I walked around to other galleries there and found them luckily more interesting than my previous poor impression on a very cold and wet morning last year. Art in General has fun by installing some work in the lift, while another work just like a lift inside the gallery. Without lift, the Artist Network situated few floors above a Chinese Sweat-shirt Factory. Didn’t notice Tribeca and Soho were so closeby before, just separated by the Canal St. (China Town).
Dietch Projects is interesting (though Saltz didn’t with his latest article in VV on a reconstruction of Cady Noland) with Dan Colen recreation from a photo of someone’s else piece. Even GAS is more like it this round with a show (of Cals Art students?) calling Object Lessons, with a nice series by a certain Peter Cho on speech visualized in a line writing form. Another artist group playing on Egg certification in US, grade AAA, AA etc…, just well fit with another artist that produce a chart for analysis of applause patterns.
The talk at Apex over re_dis_trans was a bit slow in gear, and didn’t move very far, but the new work the turkish artist did, related to site, particularly his quote on Polanyi on land, is quite inspiring. And it has a political edge which matches with my image of Apex. The little Warsaw group’s work too, is quite another version of Lin TZ of Singapore proposal for Venice, skipping the bureacracy bargaining, leaving everything to debate after the event. Wang Jian Wie’s documentary without much gimmick (or does it, with the starting shot of a Mao’s statue infront of the commercial neon advertisments), did not attract me to stand there to watch for a whole 40 mins! (who could, really?)
What good are all these notes for readers other than a diary record for myself, especially compare it with what I read of Tin Lam on London, I don’t know. But I do bumped into a pretty good magazine store at broadway just north of Grand Street, which half side of it a café. But it don’t have even Yishu, surely have no art magazines in Chinese!
Today, I started off to the Asia Society for tickets for Eiko and Koma’s Sunday Cambodian Stories. It starts from Friday, but might clash with NY city ballet, while Sat I will be in Philadelphia for an art criticism conference.(this meant I will need another trip for its museum, for the Duchamp collection of course!). Its phone (212)517-ASIA turns out simply to be the corresponding key 2742, but since I was personally there, I went to the few sixties something streets galleries. Sometimes it is a joy to look at photos, just for how they present a subject you don’t know much about, with the press release helping you learn to spot a few photographic specialities. The one on Israel art is rather boring, another one has a theme of East meets West, but not of the modern/exotic sense, for it pick Japan new generation such as Murakami, Nara, Mr etc. to go along the pop masters.
I got off actually at Hunter College Metro station, but the early video show is over, the BFA still setting up. But I happened to walk by the venue for the International Fine Art Fair, and with a reporter pass, see the not very show with not many great works but leaving me some thoughts on different things. With the same simple return trip, I am able to read the articles from New Yorker (one article on the debt Martha Graham Dance Company got into) that I took yesterday at ACC from my dc. Just like reading from a palm pc!
Back for lunch and set off again in the afternoon for Tribeca galleries and the Apex’s curator talk. I have prepared more time, but arrived there to find only that Ethan Cohen show curated by Pan Xing Lei and of Chinese Artists here have already ended, contra to what has been announced in the Gallery Guide. So I walked around to other galleries there and found them luckily more interesting than my previous poor impression on a very cold and wet morning last year. Art in General has fun by installing some work in the lift, while another work just like a lift inside the gallery. Without lift, the Artist Network situated few floors above a Chinese Sweat-shirt Factory. Didn’t notice Tribeca and Soho were so closeby before, just separated by the Canal St. (China Town).
Dietch Projects is interesting (though Saltz didn’t with his latest article in VV on a reconstruction of Cady Noland) with Dan Colen recreation from a photo of someone’s else piece. Even GAS is more like it this round with a show (of Cals Art students?) calling Object Lessons, with a nice series by a certain Peter Cho on speech visualized in a line writing form. Another artist group playing on Egg certification in US, grade AAA, AA etc…, just well fit with another artist that produce a chart for analysis of applause patterns.
The talk at Apex over re_dis_trans was a bit slow in gear, and didn’t move very far, but the new work the turkish artist did, related to site, particularly his quote on Polanyi on land, is quite inspiring. And it has a political edge which matches with my image of Apex. The little Warsaw group’s work too, is quite another version of Lin TZ of Singapore proposal for Venice, skipping the bureacracy bargaining, leaving everything to debate after the event. Wang Jian Wie’s documentary without much gimmick (or does it, with the starting shot of a Mao’s statue infront of the commercial neon advertisments), did not attract me to stand there to watch for a whole 40 mins! (who could, really?)
What good are all these notes for readers other than a diary record for myself, especially compare it with what I read of Tin Lam on London, I don’t know. But I do bumped into a pretty good magazine store at broadway just north of Grand Street, which half side of it a café. But it don’t have even Yishu, surely have no art magazines in Chinese!
posted by jaspar at 9:51 PM
3 Comments:
hi, jasper. i am wong wai yin. i am always reading. how are you?
"fine, thanks", is sth I keep answering people here who really bother to ask how are you when you walk in a shop or gallery, but not really I guess expecting you to answer anything other than fine, thankyou.
but I heard that you are not going to stay and teach, hope you could do more works then? looking forward really.
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