Catching up on tidbits
Awesome: Watch for an Amy Sillman exhibit coming to Houston's Blaffer Gallery in September, 2007. The show will be curated by Claudia Schmuckli.
- I saw three wonderful Doris Salcedos in California last week, at MCASD, SFMOMA and at the de Young. At a time when the American government tortures 'detainees,' has suspended habeas corpus, and at a time when the American vice-president openly treats torture as some kind of joke, Salcedo's work is particularly haunting and timely. Or how about this: I'd like to see the Hirshhorn invite Salcedo to come speak in Washington, ASAP. And invite the C-SPAN camera too.
- Speaking of the meaning of volume, I was in downtown LA on one of the immigration-reform protest rally days and didn't draw a link between the hundreds of thousands of people filling the city, and Salcedo or Rachel Whiteread. But after reading LATer Christopher Hawthorne name LA's 2006 immigration rallies as the "as the biggest architecture and urban-planning story to hit Southern California this year" I wish I had. Don't miss the essay.
- The de Young should still be ashamed of the way it installs Gottardo Piazzoni. There's no excuse for those bars.
- I didn't notice this until I posted it, but every museum show on my 2006 top ten list save one was in LA.
- Jerry Saltz is really, really mad that Dia has left Manhattan (for now, at least): "To ANYONE having ANYTHING to do with this reprehensible behavior, from the ex-director who in a very Bush-like move abandoned the institution after he shut it down, to all of the trustees, it is mind-boggling and heartbreaking that NOT ONE OF YOU openly protested or resigned over this negligent, irresponsible action." There's no question that Dia's disappearance from NYC and that Dia's current chaos is a key part of the Michael Govan legacy, on par with the success in Beacon.
- Most disappointing show I saw in LA/SF/SD: MOCA's Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture. Oh dear. A bit of wall-text was the harbinger of doom: One text started with the phrase "As you can see..." and went on to say that the relationship between a dress and a building was obvious. So I looked at the dress and I looked at the building... and the relationship or shared influence was not obvious, relevant, interesting or even vaguely notable. The show went downhill from there.
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