Barry McGee and Josh Lazcano, mural at Houston and Broadway, New York. Photos: 16 Miles [more]
I have no real interest in street art or graffiti, but I have to admit that the new mural at Houston and Bowery in New York, recently completed by Barry McGee and Lee Lozcano, is a stunning piece of work. [...]

Yoshitomo Nara, White Ghost, 2010. Photos: 16 Miles [more]
Yoshitomo Nara’s show at Asia Society doesn’t open until Thursday, but his outdoor installation on Park Avenue is already in place. The work, White Ghost, comprises two 12-foot-tall sculptures made of fiberglass and steel that face each other from pedestals on the median that runs along Park. [...]

Olav Velthuis’ Talking Prices: Symbolic Meanings of Prices on the Market for Contemporary Art, 2005, published by Princeton University Press
One of my great joys this summer was reading Talking Prices, journalist and sociologist Olav Velthuis‘ detailed study of how primary-market art dealers set prices for the art they show. To write the book, Velthuis interviewed [...]

Left: Sonny Smith and Chris Leon, Sonny’s Cosmoramic Jukejams. Photos: 16 Miles [more]

It took a decade, but someone has finally put together a collection songs that makes Stephin Merritt’s 69 Love Songs look a little bit underdeveloped. The man responsible for that feat is Sonny Smith, leader of the group Sunny & the Sunsets. Smith [...]

Thomas Houseago, Untitled (Red Man), 2008. Bronze, 156 x 60 x 48 in. Photos: 16 Miles [more]

Thomas Houseago, Untitled (Sprawling Octopus Man), 2009. Bronze, 101 x 84 x 60 in.
Ten giants currently fill the lawns and walkways of Manhattan’s City Hall Park. They are made of bronze and aluminum, colored pink, green, silver, or gold. [...]

Martin Creed, Work No. 878, 2008, at Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh. Photo: 16 Miles
“It is bad form, however, to cut in while the artist is doing a snow job on a potential buyer, buttonholing a critic or curator or licking the shoes of a more important artist.”
– William Grimes, “When Art Puts on a Party Hat: [...]

24th Street and 11th Avenue at 1:00 p.m. today. Photos: 16 Miles

Some of Dan Colen’s skateboard-ramps-turned-sculptures were unloaded this afternoon outside of the 24th Street branch of Gagosian. (Alex Gartenfeld had the story on that last month in the New York Observer.) Those hoping to redeem themselves after not skateboarding in Deitch Projects‘ skateboard bowl [...]

Still from Ken Okiishi, (Goodbye to) Manhattan, 2010, on view at Alex Zachary, New York. Photo: 16 Miles [more]
There is always a sense of sadness after watching a great work of video art in a New York gallery: barring a miracle, one is unlikely to see it again any time soon. We can snap photographs [...]

Mike Wallace at the Museum of Modern Art’s 1965 “The Responsive Eye” exhibition for CBS, Part 1
12:51 PM Update: Greg Allen, who originally came across the video, has done a massive, wonderful post about the history of the television program, its fabulous soundtrack, and the connection between MoMA and CBS.
I could list all of my [...]

Opening: Saturday September 4th, 2010, 7:00pm Venue: Studio Tommaseo, via del Monte 2/1, Trieste (Italy) Artists: Alterazioni Video, Gea Casolaro, Beatrice Catanzaro, Nemanja Cvijanović, Raphaëlle de Groot, Andrea De Stefani, Paola Di Bello, Nico Dockx, Johanna Domke, Andrea Galvani, Stella Geppert, Bernardo Giorgi, Alban Hajdinaj, Luzia Hürzeler, Valentina Miorandi, Ulrike [...]

SEPTEMBER 7 – OCTOBER 23, 2010 Artist Reception: Saturday, September 11, 2010, 4 – 6 PM. Pentimenti Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition with artist Jacob Lunderby. The show opens on September 7 and run through October 23, 2010. The artist reception will be held on Saturday, September [...]

Tauba Auerbach, Quarry, 2010. On view at 820 Washington Street, New York, as part of Whitney on Site.” Photos: 16 Miles

For an installation at the site of the Whitney’s future downtown branch, Tauba Auerbach has wrapped trailers and storage sheds near the High Line with high-resolution photographs of marble, transforming those temporary structures into huge [...]

Alexander Calder, Cactus provisoire, 1967. Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

The New York Times Magazine asked 13 photographs to use iPhones to take photographs to illustrate Robin Marantz Henig’s article on “the life of 20-somethings.” Highlights include LaToya Ruby Frazier and Curran Hatleberg, who paid a visit to MoMA P.S.1’s James Turrell room. [NYT]

Linda Yablonsky on Nathalie [...]

James Rosenquist, World’s Fair Mural, 1964. Oil on Masonite, 240 x 240 in. Courtesy of the Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis.
I still don’t have an answer to the question of who made the bizarre Warhol mosaic in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, but I did come across a strange little 1964 World’s Fair side story that involves art [...]

Serge Poliakoff, Orange et bleu, 1951. Oil on canvas, 39 1/3 x 31 1/2 in.
“French painting now seems timely in that the identifiably American notion of the ‘flatbed picture plane’ appears banalized, having exhausted most options left for abstraction,” artist Joe Fyfe writes in an essay accompanying “Le Tableau,” the group show that he has [...]

On Kawara, I GOT UP, 1970. Forty-seven photomechanical reproductions (postcards), 3/14 x 5 1/2 in. Photos: 16 Miles

We all go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for its blockbusters and its permanent collection, but the smaller shows that we happen upon are sometimes the most exciting part of a visit, Holland Cotter noted earlier this [...]

Mosaic in Passerelle Plaza, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, New York. Photo: 16 Miles
August 23 Update: New York City Department of Parks & Recreation spokesperson Vickie Karp and John Krawchuk, the department’s Director of Historic Preservation, have confirmed that the mosaics were installed about ten years ago and were restored last year. Mosaic maker Michael Golden [...]

Rachel Whiteread, Untitled (Pair), 1999. Bronze with cellulose paint. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. Photos: 16 Miles

“Work of Art = the Paris Salon,” Brooklyn Museum curators argue in their reality-television-curated exhibition, making every other show in the world a salon des refusés. [LACMA on Fire]
Also, Work of Art is already casting for its second [...]

Installation view of Antony Gormley, 6 Times, 2010. Photos: 16 Miles
For the past few months New Yorkers in the vicinity of Madison Square Park have been busy calling the police to report that metal body casts of Antony Gormley are preparing to jump off the roofs of various skyscrapers. (“Art is on ledge of insanity,” [...]

Susan Collis, Down to the Mother, 2008. Inlaid mother of pearl, dimensions variable. Photos: 16 Miles

Did someone spill milk on the floor of the Ingleby Gallery in Edinburgh? Has paint been splattered across the wooden boards with wanton disregard for the Iran do Espírito Santo on display in the room? Thankfully, no. Those marks are [...]