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BAM Silent Auction to Launch March 18

2010-03-10T20:08:22Z

POST BY PADDY JOHNSON

Walead Beshty, 3 Sided Picture (MBY), January 11th 2007, 2008, Valencia, California, Fujicolor Crystal Archive, Color photographic paper, 14 x 11 inches, Unique, Courtesy of the artist and Wallspace, New York. Opening Bid: $2,200

Damn! BAM’s Silent Auction offerings this year are really good. Hope Atherton, Julie Heffernan, Deborah Kass, Dana fucking Schutz - they really landed some great artists for their upcoming benefit March 18-28. The whole catalogue can be viewed here and can be viewed in person at in the Peter Jay Sharp Building lobby at 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, but rest assured, I’ll be posting closer to the auction’s closing. Today I leave readers with the warm and fuzzy Terence Koh below. Nothing says giving like an anal bone probing.

Terence Koh, Untitled, 2010, Digital C-print, glue and black glitter, 17 x 13 inches, Edition 5/30, Courtesy of the artist and Peres Projects, Berlin and Los Angeles. Opening bid: $600.00

Full auction details and press release after the jump.

BAM is proud to announce the sixth annual BAMart Silent Auction, featuring works from internationally renowned as well as emerging local artists. This 11-day event begins March 18. A cocktail reception will take place on March 27 from 3 – 6pm, with special guests Andrew Andrew and participating artists scheduled to attend. Bidding closes Sunday, March 28 at 8pm.

Works for auction will be on public display in the Peter Jay Sharp Building lobby at 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, from March 18 – 28 (noon to 11pm). In addition and concurrently, a selection of works will be on view in Bergdorf Goodman’s famed Fifth Avenue windows as well as exhibited throughout the third floor.

Art can also be viewed online at BAM.org/auction. Bidding will be done online, enabling interested parties to participate from any location, 24 hours a day. There will be bidding kiosks installed both at BAM in the Peter Jay Sharp building lobby, available noon to 11PM daily, and on the third floor of Bergdorf Goodman which will be available during regular store hours, Monday-Friday 10-8, Saturday 10-7, Sunday 12-6. All proceeds from the auction benefit BAM and its programs.

Idiom Interviews Ann Liv

2010-03-10T17:10:44Z

Ann Liv Young, The Bagwell in Me, via pedro antunes

Pee in the Pan just keeps growing. Idiom interviews Ann Liv, the aggressive masturbating artist sparking much of last week’s controversy over P.S.1’s decision to pull the power on Brooklyn is Burning’s suite of performances. A few highlights below.

Idiom: Let’s start at the beginning. When did you start performing?

Ann Liv Young: When I was 3.

Also:

Idiom: Can you speak a bit more about the evolution of your work towards the more recent, edgier material, as you say? Was there a set of circumstances that inspired this shift?

ALY: For me everything that affects me and or affects the work inspired the shift. The shift is ongoing and continuous. In Melissa is a Bitch – my next big show at DTW – there was masturbation with turtles. The first time the curator saw the dress rehearsal she had a moment where she took me into her office and more or less directly asked for an explanation. I remember saying that I was really interested in the relationship between women and animals – hence me later doing Snow White – she didn’t really respond well.

Apparently, the curator later apologized and showed genuine appreciation for her work, convinced by the live performances.

Further into the interview Ann Liv talks about the piece, which frankly sounds like a cross between an ugly fight and performance, the word “art” slapped on for context.

Fresh Links!

2010-03-10T01:08:18Z

Welcome to the Mixed-Up, Dialed-Down 2010 Whitney Biennial - Page 1 - Art - New York - Village Voice

Well, it’s clear what Christian Viveros-Fauné likes and dislikes. Some of his picks seem off the mark to me though. Rashaad Newsome’s made better work, and Maureen Gallace is good, but not awesome. I also think there’s a lot more to Quaytman than “eye candy”

Fresh Links!

2010-03-09T23:08:07Z

Only Some Conspiracy Theories Welcome at Huffington Post - Huffington Post - Gawker

Gawker points out that Jenny McCarthy’s theories are A-okay at the huff-po

Fresh Links!

2010-03-09T20:07:53Z

Art Museums, Private Collectors, and the Public :: NewMuseum.org

New Museum hosts a symposium on private collectors and the public. Dakis Joannou and Jeff Koons aren’t speaking.

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2010-03-09T21:36:47Z

New Museum Ethics Quagmire Gets Its Own Unofficial Ad Campaign

What’s with the unsupported swipe at Bruce High Quality Foundation? This, while claiming a sticker reading “Cash for Your Warhol” over the New Musuem decked out in Koons patterning is a message with panache? That’s just absurd.

Posting Notice: ceci n’est pas un pénis Edition

2010-03-09T15:20:50Z

POST BY PADDY JOHNSON

Karl Tuikkanen, The New Large, 2008, 35 x 35 x 64 inches, Iron and Aluminium, Car paint, Stone, Nordin Gallery

I’m working on meeting a few outstanding deadlines today so we’re down for the count. Look forward to tomorrow’s post on The Volta Fair. Penis made from melted car aside, it exceeded initial impressions.

Fresh Links!

2010-03-08T22:39:30Z

Big Time : The New Yorker

Skin Fruit is out of vogue — it’s too glitzy. Peter Schjeldahl unearths a few themes I hadn’t noticed, but God his prose are thick. The piece is needlessly hard to read.

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2010-03-08T21:02:01Z

The Armory — ANIMAL

Best caption on florescent tubed collection of wood ever.

The Best Piece On Tino Seghal You’ll Read

2010-03-08T19:32:21Z

POST BY PADDY JOHNSON

The Guggenheim, New York

The Wall Street Journal SpeakEasy blog hosts the best piece on Tino Seghal I’ve read to date. It’s by the father of two kids participating in Seghal’s work at the Guggenheim. A few highlights:

In the evenings, I would ask them, did anyone say anything interesting?

“No, they all say the same things. Forward motion, change over time.”

The first few days were not encouraging. “People don’t understand the piece, dad,” my eldest son would said to me. “I ask them if they want to follow me and they say no and walk up the rotunda without me. Only five people said yes. I got like 20 nos.”

Also:

Kino, my eldest, told me that one guy said it was the sequential development of a society over a period of time. “That was hard to remember.” The best response they heard so far, the one that got them thinking, was “Progress is a myth”.

And perhaps the most profound observation about art I’ve heard in a very long time:

I asked them, “Is it art?”
“Sure,” they said.
“But there are no pictures, no sculptures.” I pointed out.
My youngest responded “Yeah, but it’s like spiritual. Not like that stuff.”

Does this generation no longer consider objects capable of transcendence? To read the full piece click here.