This is what I knew: 1. Most of the artists I love best were “discovered” in America at the Armory Show in 1913. 2. It cost $40. Damn. 3. It’s on the piers on the west side. I have been to Chelsea Piers now, with my kids, to take them ice skating. On these huge […]
Read More The Armory Show IMore from the Contemporary side of things. The first piece came from origami, and I loved the colors. All of them were squares and played with ideas of folding without using any actual folding (Alyson Shotz). Next were some African masks by Romuald Hazourme, made out of containers for liquid– gasoline, we would think of […]
Read More Armory Show IIStarting here with a typewriter typing a long white bed sheet. Well: a glossy, waterfalling scroll of paper. Lovely, and I forgot to get the artist’s name again. A color photo with color I was mad for. Whether that was real or induced color, environment, I don’t know. Or care. (Robert Polidori.) Two human […]
Read More Armory IIILast of the Contemporary: a cycle of water glasses. Iron hoop, three spots for water glasses. It reminded me of a piece I saw at the New Museum the week before, a water glass with a sign that says, “At night this water turns black.” Ha. See how you are water, and how delicate it […]
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