Nam June Paik: Live Feed: 1972 -1994 at James Cohan Gallery

Nam June Paik retrospect spanning just over two decades at James Cohan. Curiously, the following piece was included although the listed date is 2004.


TV Fish, 2004

Additional Paik not on view:





Video of & Stills from "Global Groove" (1973)


TV Story Board


Electronic Moon #2, 1969, with Jud Yalkut

Gallore

I didza Chelsea sweep last week. I read somewhere that galleries in Chelsea are closing at at a rate of one per week. Oh boy! Can't say I'm not glad to see the white wall stacks become the stuff archives are not made of.

I visited around fifteen pre-selected spots and there were all of two delicious sectors. We'll start with those.

Brendan Cass' New Nature at Stellan Holm Gallery:




Cass is making paint look edible again.

Simon Evans' Island Time at James Cohan Gallery:



Details from One Hundred Mix CDs for NYC

Everything else was mediocre to toilet paper. But there was salvage.

"Works on Paper" at Anna Kustera:


Tapestry 2, 2008

Foot to mouth when I saw these Mike Pare graphite drawings at Anna Kustera's "Works on Paper" show. I once criticized Pare for calling these geometric tapestries "Mandalas". And now he has made these Mandalas and calls them "Tapestries".

Nina Bovasso, "New Works on Paper" at BravinLee Programs:


Circle I, 2008.

Thomas Scheibitz "Missing Link In Delphi" at Tanya Bonakdar:


In Delphi

"The Collected Multiples of Cary S. Leibowitz" at Printed Matter:



After Allen Ruppersberg, I assume.

"Manzoni: A Retrospective" at Gagosian Gallery:


Achrome, 1961-1962

Not oft spoke of Piero Manzoni is texture obsessed. There's a Yayoi Kusama and a small Frank Stella to break up la mer zoni, for those who are not impressed.

"Al Held: Prints 1973-1999" at Pace Prints:



Ahh, the golden lining of a dark cloud of obsessive compulsions.

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p.s. Dear Chelsea, for fucks sake. Stop naming every show 'Works on Paper'.