Friday November 3rd Opening Reception for Janette Beckman's "Legends of Hip Hop" silkscreen prints Come by 212 Arts 6-9.30pm
240 E 4th Street
Barbara Kruger
Barbara Kruger (b. 1945) is an artist who works with pictures and words. Her photography, immersive room wraps, public installations and multi-channel videos engage issues of power, pleasure, desire, disgust, money and mortality. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The Hammer Museum, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Guggenheim Museum, and the Broad Art Foundation among others. Her critical writings have focused on images, culture, and the world of appearances. She is a Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Kruger lives in Los Angeles and New York.
Image credit: Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Whose?), 2017. Archival pigment print, 30 x 80 inches. Courtesy of artist
Events with this artist
where to go:
Various Locations, NYC Streets
Barbara Kruger’s wrapped school bus can be seen driving around Manhattan and parked outside various Performa venues throughout the Biennial. Grounded in activism, feminism and community, Kruger’s signature text is reproduced on a large-scale vinyl format, covering the bus’s forty–foot-long shell.
Free
Performa 17 Biennial Hub
427 Broadway
New York, NY 10013
Barbara Kruger's first live performance.
$5
Untitled (Know, Believe, Forget)
Billboard at 10th Avenue and 17th Street (Viewable from the High Line).
Barbara Kruger uses her instantly recognizable—and frequently appropriated—visual style of delivering highly charged, terse phrases in white Futura Bold font over red blocks to deliver messages around consumerism and feminism inside a skate park, and other public places.
Free
Barbara Kruger at Coleman Skatepark
Monroe St, New York, NY 10002
Monroe Street at Market Street
The skatepark is located in Coleman Square Playground which lies on the border between Chinatown and the Lower East Side.
Created in partnership with NYC Parks and skate park designer Steve Rodriguez, Barbara Kruger will employ her signature effects and strategies to broadcast messages that engage issues of and ideas about power, desire, adoration, contempt, and capital at New York’s most popular skatepark underneath the Manhattan Bridge.
Free
Shepard x Tavis (Click on post to watch video)
Rae going live tonite!
“The RAE Show” = LIVE 24 hours, 7 days a week
“The RAE Show” = From Halloween to Thanksgiving in NYC
“The RAE Show” = From the mundane to the insane
“The RAE Show” = Like nothing the artist has done before
Brooklyn artist, painter and assemblage sculptor, RAE (aka RAE BK) will be confined to living inside the windows of his unique 'storefront stage' in Manhattan's Lower Eastside, NYC.
“The RAE Show” will feature a continuous look at an artist at work, at life and at times.... asleep in his own bed. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for about a month the public will be able to view RAE in eccentric headdress disguises, creating sketches, painting, drawing on the walls and banging away at sculptures made of found materials. The line between the process of making art and performance art will be completely blurred, inside a space only RAE could dream up.
The second component to “The RAE Show”, will be the performers and NY-centric characters joining him periodically throughout his stay. Animals, musicians, DJs, bizarre performers, and people doing mundane things will simultaneously occupy space within this “street-level theatre”, creating unusual juxtapositions RAE has long envisioned. This continuous cycle of art and life will play out live to an audience of New Yorkers as they pass by as well online to viewers worldwide as it’s live-streamed at www.rae-bk.com
Last screening was part of a spectacular installation, expect something great this time as well.
Painters painting.
Eclectic lineup for sure.
Deitch Projects (18 Wooster Street) has a new Kenny Scharf show called "Inner and Outer Space" on view from October 21 to December 22. Look for new paintings and assemblage works using discarded plastic objects, TV backs etc. Scharf is currently based in LA, but is in NYC for the MoMA Club 57 exhibition opening on October 31.
While supplies last...
One for the collection
Two of my favorite dudes on the scene
Always bringing the visual stimulation
And she's just my type
Jonathan LeVine Projects is pleased to present Made To Stay, a solo exhibition of new work by Dutch artist Eric Basstein in what will be his debut solo show at the gallery.
“One of the biggest challenges facing a painter and his paintings is the test of time. Does it last, will it leave a mark, is it made to stay or will it fade away?” –Eric Basstein
Basstein’s paintings blend contemporary and historical references to create bold compositions that transcend figuration. Anthropomorphic silhouettes, which for this new body of work are taken from stills of ice hockey players, are overflowing with pop culture iconography, creating a collage-like composition that blur the line of abstraction.
Basstein is fascinated by the parallels between art and music, influenced by the likes of Velasquez, Caravaggio and Francis Bacon, as well as hip-hop by A Tribe Called Quest, MF Doom and Madlib. Similar to the way modern music is created by combining samples, paintings are constructed by building layers of imagery. Basstein’s process mimics this approach by appropriating and merging imagery from fashion magazines with comic illustrations and subjects from classical paintings. The end result is a graphic fusion of elements that play with perspective and society’s connection to popular culture.
A little shoot with the legendary Janette Beckman
Limited edition patches and pins by some of NY's finest.
Ai yo
Public Art Fund will unveil Ai Weiwei's unprecedented 300+ site exhibition Good Fences Make Good Neighbors across New York City's five boroughs.
Join us this Wednesday evening from 5:30 to 6:30pm at the Washington Square Arch for a special public preview of the exhibition with Ai Weiwei, our Director & Chief Curator Nicholas Baume, and other passionate friends and supporters of the exhibition.
Let us know if you can come, and share the event with your friends on Facebook!
And in case you missed it... Ai Weiwei took a walk around Washington Square Park with The New York Times, while gearing up for the opening of #GoodFences, the premiere of his new documentary Human Flow, and the opening of his curated film series (in partnernship with Wang Fen) at the Guggenheim, revealing: "I'm hopelessly in love with this city.”
Much love for these guys
Lakwena and crew finishing up the Bowery Wall
Finally getting some much needed diversity on the wall after the David Choe fiasco
My kind of show
GIFC: GOT IT FOR CHEAP
Monday, September 25th, 2017
5-9PM
The Hole
312 Bowery
New York City
Come check out original works on paper by over seven hundred artists!!! All works are size 8.5 x 11" and priced $30. First come first served; no previews, reserves or discounts!
OH MY GOD SO MANY WORKS ON PAPER I CANT HANDLE IT!!!!!
Organized by GIFC, these exhibitions have taken place around the world and this is the 2017 New York City incarnation. Seriously over seven hundred artists from unknown to well-known; including some of our buddies, too: Kembra Pfahler, Jeanette Hayes, Morgan Blair, Julie Curtiss, Josh Reames, Peter Demos, Andrew Jeffrey Wright, Kate Klingbiel, Juni Figueroa, Eric Shaw, Graham Wilson, Johnny Abrahams, Alison Blickle, Royal Jarmon SO MANY MORE OMFFFFGGGGGGG
