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Squelettes se disputant un hareng-saur (Skeletons fighting over a picked herring) by James Ensor
Planning to get to the James Ensor exhibition at MoMA as soon as I can.
Also, as much as I am looking forward to seeing the design show Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge while I am up there, there is no need to call a chair fierce.
Before I get off topic, so easy for me today it seems: Ensor’s work led me to think about the paintings of Hernan Bas who shows with Lehmann Maupin—the outpost is located just next door to the Jen Bekman Projects office. Flavorwire interviewed the painter back in February, during his show at the Brooklyn Museum.
Of course, the next obvious leap for my mind was this year’s Pulse NYC fair favorite Allison Schulnik, whose paintings were a highlight and high seller at the fair. (We were named Best Installation at Pulse by AFC with the work of Beth Dow. Off topic again, I know.)
If you have not been out to Governor’s Island, you need to go. Plus, Fridays through Sundays, Creative Time presents This World and Nearer Ones, featuring 19 works by international contemporary artists. There is a great death of the art world zombie video piece by The Bruce High Quality Foundation in the old movie theater.
Help, nicely packaged.
Loving Edgar Martins’ Accidental Theorist series of beaches at night. Makes me think of William Lamson’s work.
AFC reports on the auditions for what I am convinced will be a horrible nightmare, the art reality TV show.
To send you off into the weekend with some good tunes, Grace Jones live footage set to Williams’ Blood from her most recent album. The living legend/artist will be performing one show only next week at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom.
