what I saw in nyc other than Cartier
Bresson and Marina Abramovic

historic exhibitions:
Calder & Tanguy, L&M Arts
J Johns ink on plastic, Craig Starr
Anne Truitt, Matthew Marks
Vija Celmins, McKee Gallery
Tacita Dean's film of Merce
Cunningham performance at Dia Beacon, Guggenheim

50 Artists ...., Higher Pictures
Yuichi Hibi, L Parker Stephenson
Brody Condon's video, PS1 Greater NY

applause for Dallas (and FW)

the opera Moby Dick
Texas Collects at the Kimbell
Free Museum at SMU
Rebecca Quaytman, Kate Gilmore talks
food trucks

The Reading Room
text and image collide in unexpected ways
stay tuned .......

Armory Week in nyc

Independent art fair
ripple effect of Tino Seghal
Shostakovich's opera The Nose
Rosenquist flower collage

Dallas Art Fair 2

Andrew Misullo small paintings
Cordy Ryman's velcro painting
Sara van Der Beek photos
Dario Robleto's new book Alloy of Love
Katrina Moorhead drawing
Rebecca Solnitt drawing
Dallas booths looked good,
a welcome addition.

I highly recommend Cirque Banquista as a
New Year's Eve solution - cats doing circus tricks!
www.lonestarcircus.org

December report

Urs Fischer at New Museum

Beginningless Thought/Endless Seeing:
The Works of Stuart Sherman
80 WSE Gallery http://www.nyu.edu/

Avatar Agency
http://www.momentaart.org/

www.fixerscollective.org
www.proteusgowanus.com

Ree Morton
The Drawing Center
http://www.drawingcenter.org/

Rearrange the Tires
William Pope L does Alan Kaprow

http://www.hauserwirth.com/

The Provenance of Beauty
Foundry Theater

http://www.thefoundrytheatre.org/

Flowers & Questions
Fischli Weiss retrospective catalog

summer in the city

Tree Museum
a public art project to celebrate
the Grand Concourse/Bronx
718-408-2501 ext 9#

De Verontrustende Wereld
Sunday LES
http://www.horton-co.com/

Exhibition
211 Elizabeth Street
exhibition211.net

Dutch Seen
Museum of City of NY

Song Dong's Waste Not
Museum of Modern Art

Venice

I enjoyed the off-site pavilions as much
or more than the official ones:
http://www.sarahbrowne.info

http://www.querinistampalia.it/
Mona Hatoum's work subtly inserted
into this exquisite house museum

http://www.naumaninvenice.org/
the Carlo Scarpa designed IUAV site

Australian and Latvian
http://www.australiavenicebiennale.com.au/once removed
http://www.biennale.lv/

In-Finitum at Fortuny Museum
http://www.musieciviciveneziani.it/

the two extravagant Pinault "palazzos"
http://www.palazzograssi.it/

Derek Jarman films at X,
Elizabeth Dee's project space

Sophie Calle's "Take Care of
Yourself" at Paula Cooper

"Love Is the End of Art",
Momus w/Aki Sasamoto
at Zach Feuer

Leon Ferrari and Mira
Schendel at MOMA

Shazia Sikander Selects
(exquisite things) at
Cooper Hewitt

Ernesto Neto installation
at Park Avenue Armory

The Golden Legend by
Christopher Williams at
Dance Theater Workshop
this man deserves a MacArthur

Seven Pleasures: essays on ordinary
happiness, Willard Spiegelman

several weeks ago in LA:

Art of Two Germanys:
cold war cultures
this exhibition rewrites art
history & is only US venue
Franz West: To Build a House
You Start with the Roof

http://www.lacma.org/

Nine Lives: visionary artists from LA
http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/

Under Hand
http://www.culturalinquiry.org/
Plain Text Players
yin.arts.uci.edu/~players

desire line - an architectural term meaning
the path that people walk as opposed to
where the path is put.

New York again...

Piero Manzoni
Gagosian Gallery

Walker Evans Postcards
Metropolitan Museum

Rebus by Vik Muniz, MOMA

Fanfare, an exquisite performance at The Kitchen

Bruce Chatwin

restlessness, wandering, exile
among many other things

what I liked at the Dallas Art Fair

Sati Zech at Howard Scott Gallery
Hannelore Baron at Leslie Feely
Kiki Smith on silk at Pace
Jim Taurok, Ewan Gibbs at Lora Reynolds
meeting Michael Duncan & Jill Moser

solitary pleasures:

Unframed Originals
W.S Merwin

Of Montreal CD
"Skeletal Lamping"
see 1/26 New Yorker review

and the pursuit of happiness
Maira Kalman on the inauguration
http://kalman.blogs.nytimes.com/