Summer about Town

I love the city when it is like it was Saturday: hot and steamy and with monsoon-like showers. Perfect weather to do some gallery hoping and to grab some tea with friends and/or family.
So here are some things to see:
The latest Walton Ford Exhibit is still up at Paul Kasmin Gallery in Chelsea, NY (through July 3rd, 2008) - around the corner from the Paul Fusco show at Danzinger Projects.
And there is beautiful photography (haunting portraiture by Julia Margaret Cameron , a Ville D'Avray landscape by Eugene Atget - that I love for sentimental reasons- and much more) to be seen at the Met through September 2008 in "Framing a Century".
The Louise Bourgeois retrospective has opened at the Guggenheim and through July 9th, 2008 the Film Forum will continue to show "Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress and The Tangerine".
Also on view until September is "Arctic Hysteria: New Art from Finland" at PS1 in Queens.

Soccer & The City

After the Germany-Turkey Game on the F train© Davide Corvallo

I don't care for sports. And luckily I am married to a man who doesn't care about sports either. However there is something alluring about the slow infiltration of soccer enthusiasm in the city of New York. While team sports can be divisive, in New York it is more likely to illustrate how people from different cultures get along for the most part.
During the world cup one could wonder from France to Germany to Italy to Argentina and hear tales from as far away as Thailand where monks would be watching the game. It was fun.


'Weltmeister der Herzen', 'Il Campioni' and all that © Nina Corvallo

Opening Reception for Paul Fusco @ Danzinger

Tonight is the opening reception for Paul Fusco's "RFK Funeral Train - Rediscovered":

Danziger Projects
521 West 26th Street
NY, NY 10001
6-8 PM

So on this occasion I wanted to take the opportunity to also direct your attention to two pieces about this exhibit. First up is James Danziger's blogpost titled "Pictures from a Train" and The New York Times' article by James Stevenson "R.F.K., R.I.P., Revisited".
This work is incredibly powerful and it absolutely restores my faith in the power of photography.
On a technical note, if you see these photographs take a look at that color and the quality of the images. Hard to imagine doing this with digital. Sorry to be pedantic, but after reading Emily's post yesterday, I am again very concerned that we will see the absolute disappearance of film sooner than later.

Paul Fusco @ Danzinger

Opening Today:

Paul Fusco
RFK Funeral Train - Rediscovered
June 6 - July 31, 2008
@ Danzinger Projects
521 West 26th Street
New York, NY

A book titled Paul Fusco: RFK (a follow up/ new edition to the well received 2003 RFK Funeral Train publication) with these photographs & others will be released late this summer by Aperture.

Shows in Town

Paolo Roversi
Pace/MacGill
32 East 57th Street
New York
May 21-June 14, 2008

Paolo Roversi prints are always full of beauty and artisanship.


Neil Folberg
Celestial Nights: Visions of an Ancient Land
Organized by Aperture
Yeshiva University Museum
15 West 16th Street
New York
May 11-August 24, 2008

I love the desert landscapes showing desert flora and the night sky.


Jeff Olson
North Woods II
Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art
511 West 25th Street
New York
April 17-May 31, 2008

I found this artist via Conscientious.

The Horse

Opening tomorrow at the American Museum of Natural History in New York is the exhibit titled simply "The Horse" - through January 4, 2009.


With the Horses (Cayo) © Corvallo

The Last Iceberg

There is something about the cold that I really like. I love all seasons , but I think if I lived in Southern California year round I would go a little bonkers. I love the crisp & clean air of a cold winter morning and the sound of footsteps on snow (ergo my love for Lisa M. Robinson's series Snowbound).
Camille Seaman (what a perfect name for this photographer!) exhibit Where There Should be Ice opened today at Candace Dawn Gallery in New York and will run through June 21, 2008.
If you cannot see the show in New York, take a look at The Last Iceberg on Ms. Seaman's site:
Hauntingly beautiful landscapes (or portraits as Ms. Seaman regards them) of icebergs, that on closer reflection reveal environmental tragedy --not unlike the desert work of Richard Misrach.

Ingwa Melero Sample Sale

Friday May 9th 11AM - 7:30PM
Saturday May 10th 11AM-6PM

@ Ingwa;Melero Inc
325 West 38th Street, #1504
(between 8th and 9th Ave)
New York, NY 10018

Walton Ford @ Paul Kasmin

Opening this Thursday:

Walton Ford
Paul Kasmin Gallery
May 8 - July 3, 2008
293 Tenth Avenue
New York, NY
212.563.4474

Yola Monakhov @ Sasha Wolf

Tonight, from 6- 8 PM is the opening reception for the exhibit of the work of photojournalist YolaMonakhov -- at one of my favorite venues Sasha Wolf Gallery.
Ms. Monakhov's images from Russia are the most compelling in this series.

Yola Monakhov
Once Out Of Nature
@ Sasha Wolf
10 Leonard Street
Tribecaa, NY
May 1- June 21, 2008

Jimmy

Downtown Today photographed by Mr. Corvallo

By Popular Demand

Some snapshots from the incredible exhibit of the work of artist Cai Quo-Giang at the Guggenheim New York:

Yossi Milo

Yossi Milo Gallery is one of my favorite galleries (Sasha Wolf is another). Yossi Milo's shows never disappoint and over and over I am amazed at the work exhibited through this venue. Much of the work selected for exhibition has elements of magical realism, like the wok of South African photographer Pieter Hugo, American artist Tierney Gearon or German talent Loretta Lux. Or the work of Norwegian Simen Johan which also crosses into the fantastical. Works exhibited are always beautiful sometimes in a cruel or tragic way. All work however is also firmly rooted in the life experience of the artists - whose origins and lives span the globe. Tierney Gearon photographs her family, Muzi Quawson examines contemporary America from an outsider's perspective and my latest 'find' Alessandra Sanguinetti work combines all afore mentioned elements in her work.
Currently on view at Yossi Milo: Horizons by Sze Tsun Leon - through May 17, 2008.

Todd Hido

If you are interested in contemporary photography and particularly American landscape and you are in New York tonight (-- and your are not going to hear Jhumpa Lahiri speak) you should go see Toddd Hido lecture at the Aperture Gallery - 547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor at 6:30 PM.

Momma's Man @ Moma

"Momma's Man" will be screening tonight at 6:15 pm at the MOMA.
And also tomorrow at 1 pm at the Walter Reade Theater -- as part of the new directors/new films 2008 series presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art in New York.
More about Azazel Jacbos's newest film can be found at: mommasman.blogspot.com

Jhumpa Lahiri Event

One of my favorite books is "The Namesake" and its award winning author Jhumpa Lahiri will be speaking & reading at Barnes & Noble Union Square on the occasion of the release of her new collection of stories "Unaccustomed Earth" -- next Tuesday April 1, 2008.

Old News: I Love Tea

I really do. The New York Times Travel section just highlighted some tea hot spots in New York in their article "Morning or Afternoon, There's a Kettle Brewing" by Seth Kugel.
Nice article, except that I disagree about that tea's main purpose is relaxation. Just as coffee for most people in the western world is integral to the morning routine, so tea can be integral to people's morning routine too.

Seals in Gotham

One of the reasons I love Redhook. Take a look at the video at the bottom of this Gothamist webpage:
gothamist.com/2008/03/15/video_of_the_da_177.php

Follow Up: Thomas Holton & Sasha Wolf

The New York Times yesterday reported in their City Section about Thomas Holton's work. The article is titled "Living Small" and was written by Bonnie Yochelson. It is accompanied by a slide show -- watch "2 Rooms on Ludlow" here.
Or even better if you are in New York, do visit Sasha Wolf Gallery and look at the actual prints of "The Lams of Ludlow Street", which will be on view through April 26, 2008. As I have written before this is noteworthy work, but Sasha Wolf also deserves credit.
Ms. Wolf has a keen curatorial eye and has added an outstanding exhibition space to downtown Manhattan. She is reviving more than one tradition by reintroducing relevant art to Lower Manhattan and by her choice to focus on quality documentary and post-documentary photographic work.
Read more about Ms. Wolf in The Tribeca Trib and the Downtown Express.

Close, Kurland, McGinness @ Danziger

Danziger Projects is currently showing three of my favorites in one group show: Chuck Close, Justine Kurland and Ryan McGinness. The show will be on view through April 5, 2008 at Danzinger Projects in New York. The press release states that the work is not necessarily thematically curated, though nature is a focus in all works. It's an interesting approach to group shows, that I think is not used often enough. Instead of exploring one issue only (which can produce outstanding exhibits) this group show captures the general Zeitgeist of contemporary visual art(ist)s by grouping together three currently relevant creatives.