A Sky filled with Shooting Stars

I really don’t think I have ever met a more inspiring artist than Marina Abramović. She is only a few years older than me and I have followed her work like an awe-struck younger brother since I first became aware of her  work in the late 1970s. At every point in her career, from her [...]

 
For a lot of people, the new Rizzoli book about Kenny Scharf will seem a perfect match for his artistic personality: it’s big, it’s brash, it’s brightly colored, and it’s got a big-nosed, one-eyed cartoon character grinning out from the middle of it. 
Rarely can an artist have been so inextricably linked with a particular time [...]

 
 
Anyone who knows the what’s what in performance art acknowledges Tehching Hsieh as one of the great defining artists of the discipline. Having arrived here as an illegal immigrant from Taiwan in 1974, he made a series of five quite unbelievable year-long performances between 1978 and 1986, at least four of which were almost incomprehensibly difficult. [...]

 
 
I have written here several times about how highly I rate the Guggenheim’s current show “The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860–1989”.  I have called it “Exhibition of the Year!” and celebrated its “trust in the chance gesture and the unconsidered act … which for someone of my sensibilities is an utter delight.” But [...]

I have sung the praises of the Guggenheim’s “Third Mind” show repeatedly here on A Sky filled with Shooting Stars. What I haven’t mentioned here yet is the “Third Mind Live” series that continues through April 17, though I have already written about Meredith Monk and Laurie Anderson’s performances for Total Theatre in London. Last [...]

 
I’m happy to admit that Ann Hamilton is one of my favorite artists. And, as of this moment, she is the first artist to be represented twice in that long list of interviews in the left sidebar of this page. Ms Hamilton is one of the most intelligent and inquisitive individuals I have ever [...]

I have, for the first time in my life so far as I know, been Twittered. Or that should be “tweeted,” shouldn’t it? 
Down in the shadow of the New Museum, the Anonymous Gallery (underneath White Box at 329 Broome) is hosting little marvin’s ongoing performance installation, MAKE LOVE WAR.  (Yes, that’s how it is: all [...]