Something’s happening north of the New Museum on Bowery, specifically two people in polar bear suits pushing giant ice cubes down the street, seemingly planning to do this until they melt. A New Museum rep tells ANIMAL, “Really? Cool. I have no idea what that’s about.” Yet, it looks very, very familiar… (Photo: Austin Horse/Twitter) Read more »
Mixed signals much? NYC would love you to visit Carsten Höller’s “Experience” exhibit at the New Museum, promoting it on their website as the top event of the season. Yet, officials they say the sensory deprivation Psycho Tank is against the health code and the slide might be “unsafe.” Buzz killers. Read more »
Oh hey, good news! The New Museum’s is tearing up some holes in their floors/ceilings to lodge a 102-foot-long, twisty turny, giant plastic tube in there, courtesy of German artist Carsten Höller. For Höller’s previously installed slide at Tate, visitors got baseball helmets and elbow pads, but “they got bumps and bruises anyway.” Read more »
The New Museum’s current show The Last Newspaper is an ode to and a mauling of the death-bed-ridden newspaper medium. Highlights: a re-performance of William Pope.L’s Eating Wall Street Journal from 2000 when he slowly chewed and ate a newspaper, updated for 2010 with a slew of assistant in uncouth Barack Obama masks, nibbling away. Also: Hans Haacke’s updated piece News regurgitating RSS feed into analog, tap tap tap. “The Last Newspaper,” Group Show, Oct 6 – Jan 9, New Museum, NYC
Ugo Rondinone’s big Hell, Yes! art sign won’t be garlanding the side of the New Museum on Bowery much longer, rumor has it. Come early November, it will be nixed and a million dollar steel and lacquer Rose sculpture by Isa Genzken will tower 30 feet high out of the sidewalk. Will it please the art critics? Will it amuse the E. Vil. boozies?
New Museum’s ‘Skin Fruit’ by the numbers: 35/50 artists are male, 0/50 are from Latin America or Africa.
As Hrag Vartanian reports, last week’s banner plea, “Please, New Museum, Show My Work” was the work of “the immaterial art emperor” Marc-Antoine Léval. The French artist dropped similar banners last year asking asking François Pinault to buy his work, but it’s not clear if the billionaire art collector did. |Hrag Vartanian|
During the press preview for the New Museum’s triennial exhibition, “Younger Than Jesus,” someone hung a giant banner stating “Please, New Museum, Show My Work” on the facade outside. “It was soon removed, but across the street a painting with the same plea was seen on the ground.” The perpetrator is unknown making this apparent PR stunt a flop. |Video by Loren J. Munk via Hrag Vartanian|
The New Museum recently opened “After Nature,” an exhibit that “explores visions of the end and the wilderness of the future.” The multi-media exhibit features a bevy of artists across multiple disciplines and is described by art fags as “Part dystopian fantasy, part ethnographic museum of a lost civilization that eerily resembles our own.” The show focuses on “a story of abandonment, regression, and rapture—an epic of humanity coming apart under the pressure of obscure forces and not-so-distant environmental disasters.” Think of it as the artistic version of that popular ‘Earth Without People‘ feature from Scientific American or even the similar article by Discover years earlier. The exhibit runs through September 21 and there’s also this tremendously uninspiring online exhibition.
Art: Maurizio Cattelan, Untitled, 2007. Taxidermied horse skin, fiberglass resin, 118 1/8 x 66 7/8 x 31 1/2 in
Photo: |Matt Semel|
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