Even if you haven’t wandered up to 5th Avenue at 89th Street recently, chances are you’ve heard whispers of something unusual afoot. That something is courtesy of performance artist Tino Sehgal, whose ephemeral pieces rely on empty space and spectator involvement. One such piece in his current solo show at the Guggenheim, titled “The Kiss,” involves a couple embracing on the floor of the rotunda in a “changing, slow-motion, amorous” entanglement. We at Flavorpill love staging elaborate photo shoots in museums and decided to reinterpret Sehgal’s performance piece in five New York City art institutions: The Metropolitan Museum, New Museum, Rubin Museum, P.S.1, and the Brooklyn Museum. Could we choreograph the same magic?
Play voyeur and peep our exclusive slideshow after the jump.
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Fred Tomaselli may be best known for amassing and using copious amounts of pills and herbs in his paintings. But the Brooklyn-based artist is a collector at heart — acquiring, archiving, and assembling not only pharmaceuticals, but also images of flowers, feathers, anatomical illustrations, and other ephemera. In his classically beautiful and psychedelic paintings, he painstakingly rearranges his objects; from afar, individual items are barely distinguishable, but up close, the details are mesmerizing. Read More »
Last week we showed you pics from the Hernan Bas opening at the Brooklyn Museum, and even sat down to interview the artist. So you can imagine our eyebrows were raised when we came upon this loaded charge in Ken Johnson’s review of the retrospective in the New York Times:
“At 31, Mr. Bas, who lives in Miami, is an artist of modest achievement, his career so far more promising than accomplished. So why is he the subject of a big, splashy retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum? That the exhibition was organized by and first appeared (in 2007) at the Rubell Family Collection, a private museum in Miami where Don and Mera Rubell exhibit their holdings, raises some red flags concerning relations between public museums and private collectors.”
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Gallerists and collectors came as far as from London, Los Angeles, and Miami to celebrate Hernan Bas: Works from the Rubell Family Collection at the Brooklyn Museum on Thursday night. Flavorpill’s Paul Laster was there to capture Bas’s friends and supporters on film. CLICK HERE to see a photo gallery of his night.
Related post: Exclusive: Miami Native Hernan Bas Brings Decadence to Brooklyn Museum
Hernan Bas recently bought a house in Detroit. During an interview at the opening of his solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum last night, the Miami native wouldn’t divulge much more than that. But, when asked about the trademark decadence of his work in relation to the imploding economy, Bas referenced a giant plastic panther that he keeps on his Detroit lawn. He smiled at the interviewer and asked “how fucking decadent is that?”
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This morning we hit the press preview for The Black List Project: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and Elvis Mitchell, an exhibition of photographs of prominent African Americans (Serena Williams, Chris Rock, Colin Powell, Toni Morrison, Russell Simmons, Al Sharpton, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Sean Combs, and many other A-listers from politics, the arts, sports, religion, and business) which opens tomorrow at the Brooklyn Museum.
You might have caught their HBO documentary Blacklist: Volume 1 when it aired back in August; if you didn’t, you can DVR it tomorrow night at 5 p.m. EST.
While we’ll be posting a video interview with Mitchell (a noted film critic whose show The Treatment has aired on KCRW since 1996) later, after the jump check out a review of the exhibit from Laval Bryant, a cashier for visitor services at the museum.
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