October 5, 2004
Around town, around the world
I've imported the data I backed up to my external hard drive and am (almost) fully back in business. This weekend's trip to Chicago was fruitful, but before I talk about that, here's some information from the calendar:
Wednesday brings the opening of LFL's second show of the season, which features LA-based artist Rob Thom (associated with Black Dragon Society) and Justin Liberman, who, if memory serves me correct, just went through the Hunter MFA program. In this week's Village Voice, Jerry Saltz reviewed Phoebe Washburn's second solo, which just came down at the same gallery. Also in New York on Wednesday, Jennifer Pastor's The Perfect Ride, a three-part artwork she has spent many years making, will go on view at the Whitney (the opening reception takes place later in the month) and, at 4:15, Linda Alcoff presents a paper titled "Identity Politics: A Defense" at CUNY's Graduate Center.
Out in LA, Glenn Phillips, a fellow at the Getty Research Institute, presents a selection of Brazilian video art made between 1973-1983. Click here for the Getty's October schedule, which includes more information about the event.
In London, LA-based painter Lari Pittman presents new work at greengrassi and Tate Modern opens "Time Zones: Recent Film and Video," which has a spot-on selection of young artists who are just now receiving their first US museum exposure (Yael Bartana opens a show at MIT List Visual Arts Center next week; Yang Fudong is showing 5 Films at the Renaissance Society in Chicago, Anri Sala is getting some of his first US museum exposure at the Art Institute via James Rondeau's focus exhibition series, etc.). It seems, from afar, that Jessica Morgan, formerly of the ICA Boston, is really hitting her curatorial stride at the museum.
On Thursday in London, the Hayward Gallery opens "Eyes, Lies, & Illusions," which "explores a treasure house of optical wizardry, from magic lanterns, shadow theatre, tricks of perspective and anamorphic images, to kaleidoscopes, flipbooks, zoetrophes and other early forms of animation" and includes contemporary artists. Across town at the Whitechapel, Chris Kraus talks about the LA art scene on the occasion of her new book Video Green. Stateside, Thursday brings the opening of "Plan 9," Steven Parrino's new exhibition at TEAM Gallery and a discussion between Brian Eno and Todd Haynes at CUNY's Graduate Center. Up in Boston, the MIT List Visual Arts Center opens exhibitions by John Coplans, Cerith Wyn Evans (in conjunction with the MFA Boston), and the aforementioned Yael Bartana.