As the storm approaches, here’s a helpful list of what New York-area museums will be closed for the big storm on Saturday and Sunday we are receiving word that almost ALL New York museums will be closed on Saturday and Sunday. We highly advise people to not attempt to visit the city’s museums during this weekend’s hurricane.
August 26, 2011
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Considering the Images in “The Glass Ceiling”
Photographer Jill Greenberg’s show “Glass Ceiling” at Clamp Art presents outtakes from one of her commercial editorials and plays them off as feminist art, but are they?
Posted inOpinion
Stephen Colbert on Art Redux
There’s nothing like an entertaining compilation of art-related Stephen Colbert banter to brighten up your pre-hurricane Friday. Enjoy.
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An Adventure at Best, An Art Project At Worst
Biking down the boardwalk in the Rockaways, Queens, I glanced behind me at the storm clouds approaching fast. Thunder ripped loudly, and lightning began to flash with increasing regularity. My friend and I had been riding for 15 miles already. We were on our way to Boggsville Boatel and Boat-In Theater, part of art collective Flux Factory’s summer-long extravaganza, Sea Worthy. The show features artists making work “about, around and on the waterways of New York City,” and includes water excursions, processions and boat-building workshops.
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Why So Serious? A Marriage of Theory and Commerce
So, I have to be honest, I don’t know if I am totally sold on the whole group show thing. It makes sense within the scope of the art center, alternative space or museum, but I sometimes question its benefits in the commercial art world. I think the point of the theoretical, thematic or art historical exhibition, should ideally, be just that, an end into itself. What I am suspicious of are the sorts of “group show” exhibitions that serve as a thinly veiled gathering of gallery stable artists.
