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Matt Saunders at Harris Lieberman

By Fintan Boyle | Published: June 5, 2010
Matt Saunders has installed a multiplex of sorts at Harris Lieberman on Vandam Street and therein he is screening a restored homage to the lost cities of Weimar Germany. The geography of the gallery, as organized by Saunders, elicits the notion of the trawling, mobile spectator: partitions, columns, low podia, interior windows as screens doubling [...]
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Jim Nutt “Trim” and Other Works

By Fintan Boyle | Published: May 21, 2010
Jim Nutt’s current show of paintings and drawings at David Nolan resembles nothing so much as portraits, from observation, of the artist Orlan. I suspect this observation will not be distressing to either of the artists in question. Nutt has been torquing the represented body for a little longer than Orlan has been using representations [...]
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She: Marina Abromovic at the Atrium of the Museum of Modern Art ( The Artist is Present )

By Rick Romanov | Published: May 5, 2010
Well it might be a stretch.  She must think those people standing and walking around are looking.  She’s kind of still there.  All those people thinking she’s got something — just looking straight ahead.  That long dress.  That little plinth she’s standing on.  That kind of white greasepaint.  That pharaoh getup. Wait a minute.  No plinth [...]
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Jennifer Cohen at Salon 94

By Ephraim Birnbaum | Published: April 25, 2010
JENNIFER COHEN at Salon 94 Apparently, ballet originated as a dance interpretation of fencing. And Jennifer Cohen’s clever merging of ballet imagery (she has a background in dance) and sculptural tropes is indeed a series of feints and parries. At first glance, this body of work seems simply to valorize and memorialize, with [...]
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Lean at Nicole Klagsbrun.

By Fintan Boyle | Published: March 29, 2010
In the end Bas Jan Ader is most remembered for disappearing. Before that it was falling. Off a roof or into a canal, from Los Angeles to London to Amsterdam he would fall. It all had a Buster Keaton hapless, sad sack quality to it. And indeed one of my favorite of his video pieces [...]
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The Armory Show

By Fintan Boyle | Published: March 7, 2010
Top of the wish list? That the Armory show would just go away. Alas, you dreamer it will not. At 12 years of age it is a snotty adolescent poised to outlive many of us. Indeed with 243 galleries and many thousands of art works smeared over two piers (with an asthma inducing climb [...]
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Clarie Fontaine at Reena Spaulings

By Christopher Freed | Published: February 24, 2010
Foot hits floor.  The whoosh of a vacuum cleaner startles.  The vacuum is hooked up to the gallery gas meter.  Writ large, “Greve humaine” or “human strike” is spelled out with over 50,000 unburned matches.  The matches are coated with flame retardant.  Checkmate.  Alarming possibility of gas explosion is deflected by the reassuring deferral of [...]
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John Miller at Metro Pictures

By Howard Foster | Published: February 24, 2010
“Middle of the Day” is a long-term project.  John Miller has been taking pictures of the middle of the day since 1994.  They document Miller’s location between the hours of noon and two –wherever he may be as a typically nomadic professional artist.  These hours were apparently chosen as the “down time” of our contemporary [...]
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Laurence Hegarty at Fountain Miami, Sara Nightingale Gallery

By Bridey Schufli | Published: February 24, 2010
These are the particulars of Laurence Hegarty’s recent installation at Miami:  a white   cow laps contentedly at a blue plywood puddle collecting under a blue plywood drip from the ceiling; a motley crew with migratory urges—a priest on wheels and three wheeled piggy banks—clusters nearby, overlooked by a bank of cardboard movie cameras; off [...]
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Doug Biggert at White Columns

By Fintan Boyle | Published: February 17, 2010
The romance of the road has been an American cultural staple for much of the last century. In its romantic coinage it has been less young frontiersman going west to settle the for spacious land and more drifter, beatnik or hippie aimlessly ricocheting from place to place. In this latter guise the road has also [...]
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