Vernissages | Hudson,"CUTS" at Museum of the Imagination

 

Jaanika Perna in front of her installation

vernissages | NYC, Lower East Side, February 10

Come & Get It! @ Hendershot

 Juergen Teller @ Lehman Maupin

 Shannon Wright @ Mulherin + Pollard

 Jared Clarkt @ Mulherin + Pollard

camminando & vernissages | NYC February 9

Some of my evening views of Eleventh Avenue

  "Bling!"  @ Jim Kempner Fine Art

"Happenings: New York, 1958-1963" @ The Pace Gallery

James Croak "Chandelier Mistaken for God" @ Stefan Stux Gallery

 Walk length: 11.3km

Vernissages | Ouattara Watts's Vertigo and Full Moon

In a full moon night and a scene reminiscent of a 2K reading of the " Bonfire of Vanities" (or out of "Ugly Betty" world) Ouattara Watts: Vertigo opened at an unusual art venue,—a warehouse between West Village and Tribecca, 560 Washington Street. I have to admit, that in spite of the crowd of the sfaccendati, the large scale paintings of the Cote d’Ivoire-born artist were intriguing —or perhaps my fascination with numbers and symbols made them look so...

Events| NYC February 2

Latitude 40.73N | Longitude 74.75W
SunRise: 07:05:33  EST | SunSet: 17:14:10 EST
At 9pm EST, 36° F feels like 28° Wind from NNW at 12 mph

Strolling along Tenth Avenue

 Luka Finesein Phase Transitions @ Hosfelt

"Using frost, foam, food, glitter, viscous liquids and molten metal, German artist Luka Fineisen presents ambitious sculptural works that explore moments of becoming. This exhibition is the premiere of Fineisen's work in the United States."Phase transitions" is the term used in thermodynamics to describe the shifts between solid, liquid and gaseous states of matter. At a literal level, this is what Fineisen represents in her work - tipping points - the transitional moments when a substance changes from one condition to another. While playing with formal sculptural concerns of modernism and post-minimalism, she explores movement, evanescence and potential..."

 Alec Soth Broken Manual @ Sean Kelly

 Fré Ilgen ShapingPresence at Sundaram Tagore

 Zimoun Volume at Bitforms

Walking playlist

"Skateway" Dire Straits

"Personal Jesus" Depeche Mode

“Beat It”   Michael Jackson

"The Whole of the Moon" Waterboys

"You Are a Tourist" Death Cab for Cutie

“Push It”  Salt n Pepa

Walk total length: 7.2 miles

camminando & vernissages | NYC, February 1

A summary of my meanderings from natural to urban sites

 

Windows at Bergdorf Goodman

Tony Cragg's sculptures (reminiscent of the Chinese scholar rocks)

@ Marian Goodman Gallery

This walk covered 5.38km