Polaroids, Parrots and Picasso
Suhatcha's guide to sensational summer art
Suhatcha Panya
Issue date: 5/1/09 Section: Arts
Andy Warhol: "Everyone Will Be Famous for 15 Minutes"
Like every other New York dandy born after 1980, I'm a huge fan of Warhol. He allows me to dream big and in fantastic technicolor. This exhibition features Polaroids of indiscriminately famous faces. He wants you to know that everyone is a celebrity. Why thank you, Mr. Warhol-I am a star.
-At Baruch College's Sidney Mishkin Gallery, 135 East 22nd Street (until 5/22)
Pablo Picasso: "Mosqueteros"
I personally refer to this collection as "Dear ol' Grampa Picasso." It features the artist's work from the later part of his life. This stuff was made post mid-life crisis, in his old-people-don't-put-up-with-bullshit phase. Here we see a gentler, more personally vulnerable and intimate Picasso, but in no way has he lost his flare. His subjects are closer to himself than his earlier works, and he seems almost, dare I say it, sweet.
-At Gagosian Gallery, 522 West 21st Street (until 6/6)
AIKO: "Love Monster"
This is street art I would hang in my bathroom. But I've got really raunchy taste. I almost want to talk about how big into social representation AIKO is, but I don't give a shit about that when I actually look at her images-they're just sexy. Overwhelmingly sexy.
-At Joshua Liner Gallery, 548 West 28th Street (until 5/16)
Brucke: "The Birth of Expressionism in Dresden and Berlin"
It's about time everyone knew that I am sincerely in love with German expressionism. I first discovered artists such as Ernst Kirchner and Erich Heckel as a wee teen and I knew then and there that my overly-emotional tendencies could take me places. What raw, free, feeling! What courage! What intuition! It's beautiful!
-At The Neue Gallery, 1048 5th Avenue (until 6/29)
Hernan Bas: "Works from the Rubell Family Collection"
In The New York Times, art critic Holland Cotter said that Bas' paintings are "elements in a larger, continuous conceptual performance piece about being gay in twenty-first-century America. He understands that being 'gay' is a larger and more interesting category than 'artist' and one still embattled and historically underexplored. I value whatever he brings to that history." Well, that's Holland Cotter. I like Bas' work because it's awesome. How about that? Is that ok?! I'm sure whatever historical contribution he makes to gay history is great. I'm cool with that. But my love for him is more for the dynamic images themselves. I dig the way he takes classical and romantic imagery and dashes it with youthful pop and goth culture. You'll also see the influence of the literary world in his paintings-from Oscar Wilde to The Hardy Boys series.
-At Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway (until 5/24)
Nicolas Darrot: "Fuzzy Logic"
This exhibit features a parrot with an electric helmet and a mariachi skeleton on a horse. Enough said.
-At Cueto Project, 551 West 21st Street (until 6/20)
Like every other New York dandy born after 1980, I'm a huge fan of Warhol. He allows me to dream big and in fantastic technicolor. This exhibition features Polaroids of indiscriminately famous faces. He wants you to know that everyone is a celebrity. Why thank you, Mr. Warhol-I am a star.
-At Baruch College's Sidney Mishkin Gallery, 135 East 22nd Street (until 5/22)
Pablo Picasso: "Mosqueteros"
I personally refer to this collection as "Dear ol' Grampa Picasso." It features the artist's work from the later part of his life. This stuff was made post mid-life crisis, in his old-people-don't-put-up-with-bullshit phase. Here we see a gentler, more personally vulnerable and intimate Picasso, but in no way has he lost his flare. His subjects are closer to himself than his earlier works, and he seems almost, dare I say it, sweet.
-At Gagosian Gallery, 522 West 21st Street (until 6/6)
AIKO: "Love Monster"
This is street art I would hang in my bathroom. But I've got really raunchy taste. I almost want to talk about how big into social representation AIKO is, but I don't give a shit about that when I actually look at her images-they're just sexy. Overwhelmingly sexy.
-At Joshua Liner Gallery, 548 West 28th Street (until 5/16)
Brucke: "The Birth of Expressionism in Dresden and Berlin"
It's about time everyone knew that I am sincerely in love with German expressionism. I first discovered artists such as Ernst Kirchner and Erich Heckel as a wee teen and I knew then and there that my overly-emotional tendencies could take me places. What raw, free, feeling! What courage! What intuition! It's beautiful!
-At The Neue Gallery, 1048 5th Avenue (until 6/29)
Hernan Bas: "Works from the Rubell Family Collection"
In The New York Times, art critic Holland Cotter said that Bas' paintings are "elements in a larger, continuous conceptual performance piece about being gay in twenty-first-century America. He understands that being 'gay' is a larger and more interesting category than 'artist' and one still embattled and historically underexplored. I value whatever he brings to that history." Well, that's Holland Cotter. I like Bas' work because it's awesome. How about that? Is that ok?! I'm sure whatever historical contribution he makes to gay history is great. I'm cool with that. But my love for him is more for the dynamic images themselves. I dig the way he takes classical and romantic imagery and dashes it with youthful pop and goth culture. You'll also see the influence of the literary world in his paintings-from Oscar Wilde to The Hardy Boys series.
-At Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway (until 5/24)
Nicolas Darrot: "Fuzzy Logic"
This exhibit features a parrot with an electric helmet and a mariachi skeleton on a horse. Enough said.
-At Cueto Project, 551 West 21st Street (until 6/20)
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A Dandy
posted 5/06/09 @ 4:16 AM EST
Agreed. Warhol is a God. I'm definitely checking out that exhibit.
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