This week’s Instagrams of the art world saw plenty of openings, dark inscrutable narratives, and painted and “super-feminist” pets. And though there was a brief flurry of hype over Instagram’s video function, it hasn’t yet caught on in a big way in the art world. So, we’re sticking to stills for now. Here, Lena Dunham’s regram of her mom Laurie Simmons’s Instagram got 3349 ‘likes.’ Simmons’s original post of Jimmy Desana’s portrait of Debbie Harry at Salon 94’s “Party Picks” show got 592 ‘likes’ — not too shabby. Is this reverence or an instance of the artist ‘killing the mother’?
People came out to celebrate the unveiling of MoMA PS1’s “Party Wall” installation by CODA (Caroline O’Donnell), the winner of the Young Architects Program. It also celebrated MoMA PS1’s summer concert series Warm Up, which kicks off this Saturday.
Here’s a shot from inside the Party Wall, which is made of scrap material from Comet Skateboards.
Lamenting the loss of the ultimate art fetish object, the Metropolitan Museum button, which gets scrapped as of Monday. Time to stock up.
Art dealer Andrea Rosen gave us great #onthestreet style again.
People took in the Bruce High Quality Foundation retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum. Check out our interview with curator Eugenie Tsai about the show. Here’s a slideshow preview.
Visitor takes in Bruce Nauman’s “Yellow Room” at the Bronx Museum of the Arts’s excellent just-opened show “State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970,” the only exhibition from Pacific Standard Time to make it to the East Coast. Also on view are early works of Martha Rosler, Paul McCarthy, and a video of Chris Burden’s infamous piece “Shoot.”
Have you seen The Cat Show at White Columns yet? Curated by Rhonda Lieberman, this is a spectacular show that brings together works of art by tons of great artists including Elizabeth Peyton, Mike Kelley, Olaf Breuning, Elad Lassry, Frances Stark, Marilyn Minter, Ryan McNamara, and so many more) along with specially designed objects in the zen cat environment (which included a Rob Pruitt-designed “Zen Kitty Tray,” as well as an installation by McNamara, and some unique kitty rugs among other unique pieces). This weekend is one of the best times to check it out as there will be live cats in the Cats-in-Residence program — the centerpiece of the show — one of several ongoing adoption events during the show that will occur during gallery hours of 12-6pm today and tomorrow (Friday and Saturday June 28-29). Check it out!!
Here’s a work by Laura Owens from The Cat Show.
The Bronx Museum hosted a performance, “War Games,” by Darryl Sapien on Sunday afternoon.
Another shot from “War Games.”
We don’t know anything about this except that it is one of the best things we saw all week.
Andrew Kuo’s post is just in time for the horsey days of summer in the Hamptons.
Kyle DeWoody got a happy face thanks to art collective Friends With You.
“Junkies’ Promises,” a show curated by light artist Ivan Navarro, opened at Paul Kasmin gallery. Here’s a piece by Deborah Kass.
Aaron Bondaroff had a pink-tennis-balls-in-cars motif last week.
Bjarne Melgaard had a series of scary posts, like this one, tagged #home.
Kathy Grayson snapped this pic of the cover of Italian Vogue bearing Venice Biennale director Massimiliano Gioni.
A little after the hullabaloo in Venice settled down, Hrag Vartanian took this stunning shot there.
Here’s artist Judith Bernstein, the Cat Lady of the Month (back in 2007), with her cat, Pooie, next to one of her enormous cunt paintings. Pooie is male and a “super-feminist.” Art dealer Mara McCarthy, whose L.A. gallery, The Box, reps Bernstein was presumably checking out some new work for Bernstein’s September show.
A shot from “Party Picks,” the Jimmy Desana show at Salon 94, which just opened. Johanna Fateman’s piece on Desana and his collaboration with dominatrix Terence Sellers in the first issue of Apology magazine is great.
Some arty peeps were at the Francis Upritchard opening at Anton Kern.
Bill Powers gave a shout-out to artist Roe Ethridge whose exhibition at Harper’s Books opens on July 12.
— Rozalia Jovanovic
