Archive for July, 2008
Friday, July 4th, 2008
Sonic Youth July 4th / Museum Exhibition
Sonic Youth – River to River Festival free Fourth of July 2008 concert, Battery Park, NYC.
The Art Collectors thanks SY for rocking the Fourth of July rain away with a bit of the old school.
SONIC YOUTH ETC.: SENSATIONAL FIX
In more art related news, the traveling museum exhibition, Sonic Youth Etc. : Sensational Fix, has begun its international jaunt around the globe. The exhibit serves as a retrospective of the band’s many artistic endeavors over the past 27 years, and showcases collaborations with visual artists, filmmakers, designers and musicians, including Spike Jonze, Sofia Coppola, Richard Kern, Richard Prince, Gerhard Richter, Raymond Pettibon, Rita Ackermann, and Mike Mills to name a few. Click for more: Read the rest of this entry »
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Adam Wallacavage at Jonathan Levine Gallery
On view now at Jonathan Levine Gallery, Adam Wallacavage’s current New York exhibit is a gorgeous and inspirational testament to the artist’s unique craft and unarguable technical ability. Entitled Les Trésors de la Tanière de Neptune (The Treasures of Neptune’s Lair), the site-specific installation presents Wallacavage’s fully-functional, tentacle-laden chandeliers, immersed in a backdrop of the artist’s custom wallpaper. If only the average city apartment had ceilings high enough to warrant taking one home. On view June 28th – July 2. Submerge yourself after the jump.
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Olafur Eliasson – Take Your Time / New York Waterfalls
This week marked both the opening of Danish artist Olafur Eliasson’s New York Waterfalls, and the closing of Take Your Time, his dual museum exhibits held at MoMA and PS1. The Waterfalls are on view through October 13th. While all four can be seen from a few vantage points along the east side of lower Manhattan, an even better option may be to take advantage of the limited amount of free Circle Line boat tickets, which will get you up close and wet. Even with a simultaneous presence in six different New York locations at once (2 different museums and 4 waterfall locations), Eliasson hasn’t quite matched the transformative power of 2004’s Weather Project at London’s Tate Modern.