Trent’s Artsy Gift Guide
Despite its recent condofication, Williamsburg is still an artistic bastion at heart. Here some of the neighborhood’s holiday gift offerings for the aesthete in your life. Curated by Trent Morse
WORLD AIDS DAY: COULD WE HAVE STOPPED AIDS?
DECEMBER 1, 2011: WORLD AIDS DAY: COULD WE HAVE STOPPED AIDS? By Suzanne Loebl December First became “World AIDS Day” also called “A Day With(Out) Art,” in 1988. A New York Art Gallery…
“Stations Lost” — A two-man play at The Boiler
Fitzpatrick is one of those rare artists whose work is its own universe that he invites his patrons to inhabit. Fitzpatrick’s work is likely to draw comparisons to Henry Darger and Daniel Johnston, except Fitzpatrick isn’t crazy (at least not clinically.)
Trent’s Top Gallery Picks—October 2011
THE PEOPLE’S ART COLLECTIVE, “NO SLEEP ‘TIL BROOKLYN” The Bogart Salon, 56 Bogart St., through 10/17 At the center of the Bogart Salon, toys and trash make up a sprawling model of two…
Ground Control to Linda Griggs: long flight back from “cyberspace”
Is there such a thing as an altruistic person in our narcissistic art world? And, if there were a truly generous artist out there—a real artist, who still managed to promote his or her career while helping others—where or how would such acts of kindness take place?
Ai Weiwei Recognized by an American Scholar 25 Years Ago
… it was Gould who’d given the now infamously incarcerated Chinese artist Ai Weiwei his first-ever U.S. group show. To my reporter’s mind, interviewing him while sitting somewhere between the bronze rooster and bronze dog’s head of Ai Weiwei’s newest public sculpture …
Meredith Allen, Artist and Chronicler, 1964-2011
by Stephanie Cash 03/18/11 New York artist Meredith Allen died of cancer yesterday, March 17. As an artist and chronicler, Allen was a familiar face on the Williamsburg art scene in the 1990s, with…
