Interview with a (very likeable) Smartypants

I am so impressed with this interview of the artist William Powhida by Paddy Johnson (aka the ArtFagCity blogger) that I simply have to repost it. Powhida is known as a bit of an artworld smart-ass, perhaps best known for his "How the New Museum Committed Suicide with Banality" for the November 2009 cover of the Brooklyn Rail. He also co-curated #class with Jennifer Dalton in 2010, which was a fascinating (and fantastically idiosyncratic) freeform event series in Winkleman Gallery in Chelsea (one of the events was one of my colleagues, Zoe Sheehan-Saldaña, gift-wrapping, in her handmade paper, things that gallery visitors randomly brought in).

Discussing everything from struggling to career shame, the interview is smart questions, even smarter answers.

The Overlay

Loving this logo design for an upcoming show at Sean Kelly Gallery titled Memories of the Future.

Please don't play the piano, darling

A charming little note sits atop the artwork piano in this piece by Brent Green: Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then. Up only for another week at Andrew Edlin Gallery in Chelsea.

Top image, Suzanne Dell'Orto. Bottom image Andrew Edlin Gallery.

The artwork is an installation of a recreation of a house built by Leonard Wood, who kept building and building his house in the hopes that it would cure his wife.

Fascinating installation, and video installations features some music by the Sacred Harp Singers At Liberty Church (who are Shape-Note singers, fascinating if you don't know about it, click this link).
One of their songs appears on the Cold Mountain soundtrack.

Chelsea Gallery Jaunt: Joan Linder

Had a chance to see the Joan Linder show at Mixed Greens. Unbelievable...the artist has hand drawn all her mail and the contents of her desk...down to the patterning inside the envelopes.

The real nature of art

Had the opportunity to check out a bunch of gallery openings a few weeks ago. Here is my editorial, speaking of staying power and calls of nature.