GOESONSABBATICALTHANK YOU !
I've learned to never say never, so let me say this. On November 1st the Douglas Kelley Show List is taking a sabbatical. There may be still be the occasional email list from time and time when I feel uninspired (to recommend shows that I think are in need review or am paid to tout some tarted up hussy of a dog show), but other than that I feel it is time to give myself a rest from ALL this. I've interfered in your social life long enough.
In the future I'm going to be more like a normal person and walk around the galleries during the day. I did that last Thursday and I saw three delightfully disturbing shows... ..shows that you might have missed?
1. Airtight Plan for Killing: Adam Stennett, Ryan McGinness, Damian Loeb, and Nate Lowman [Sometimes contemplative, sometimes political, always slightly elusive, the work involved centers on figuration while placing emphasis on signs, tension, and the concept of the crucial moment] at Buia Gallery, 541 W. 23rd St., 6-8 (The Adam Stennett mouse, and Nate Lowman, paintings are the best, even though the Ryan McGinness super technicolor power booter gross out college barfomatic video that you can set your watch to is something you don't see every day? Not that you would, but it is interesting.)
2. The United States Of America vs. Alfredo Martinez, Curated By James Fuentes at The Proposition, 559 West 22nd St., 6-8 The only forger I know of who is doing hard time at Riker's? I think he may have at long last found oeuvre in the portraiture of men of color painted with instant coffee.
3. The fantastically brilliant Reynold Reynolds triple screen war movie melange at I-Beam on 22nd St. (Like 20 war movies boiled down to pure nasty visual splendor and hackneyed absurdist agony. He's in something tonight- see list. I was very impressed with this video.)
Thank you very much, see you on the round about, and remember I will always Love YOU so,
Sincerely yours,
DK
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Tuesday October 28
Paradigms: Patty Chang, Patrick Joluey, Reynold Reynolds, Chloe Piene & Karen Yasinsky at Longwood Art Gallery, Cuny 450 Grand Concourse (#4 train to 149), 7:30
White Box 2nd Annual Benefit Auction at James Cohan Gallery, 533 W 26, 6-9pm, $50, 1.212.714.2347
The Public Art Fund: "Tuesday Night Talks" With Tom Sachs For information, call the Public Art Fund at (212) 980-4575. 6:30 p.m. $5
Talk: Barry Diller at 92nd Street Y, Lexington (92), 8pm, $25,
A HOME FOR HERE BENEFIT PARTY with Eve Ensler, James Lescene, Basil Twist. Art with an exhibition of artwork shown at HERE Arts Center, curated from the past 10 years by Lisa Levy, Rudy Speerschneider and Ellen Staller Tickets:$100 ph: 212-868-4444 or www.here.org, 8pm
Wednesday October 29
Max Blagg And Glenn O'Brien, the editors of Bald Ego invite you to celebrate the publicationof the second issue at Deitch Projects, cocktails and hors d'oeuvres (courtesy of Indochine), 18 Wooster Street, reading by contributors, 7:30 sharp
Lauren Bacall, Candice Bergen, Joel Grey, Douglas Kelley, Mike Nichols, and Diane Sawyer invite you to attend: The Affordable Art Fair, New York Private Preview to benefit FRIENDS IN DEED, Featuring Contemporary Art Under $5,000 at Pier 92 at 52 nd Street & 12th Avenue, 6-9pm
"Hell's Kitchen: NY's Notorious Mid-West Side Neighborhood" - architectural historian Joseph Zito gives a slide talk about the area's pre-Old Law tenements, brownstones, French flats & early apartment buildings. NYPL Science, Industry & Business Library, 188 Madison Ave @ 34th St, Murray Hill (#6- 33rd St. sta, etc) Q? 212.592.7000, 5:30PM
exhibition #20 Curated by Reed Anderson, #20 w/ works on paper by Hisham Akira Bharoocha, Bjorn Copeland, Scott Wolniak, and Andrew Jeffrey Wright at Champion Fine Art, 281 North 7th Street, Brooklyn, 6-8 PM
Opening Reception Alwan For The Arts, A Non-for-profit Organization Dedicated To The Promotion Of The Arts From The Arab World And Iran, Is Pleased To Announce The Inauguration Of Its New Exhibition Space With Emna Zghal's Print Series "The Prophet Of Black Folk", Alwan For The Arts Is Located In The Financial District At 16 Beaver St. Between Broad And Broadway Streets. Subway: 4,5 To Bowling Green; N, R To Whitehall; 2,3 To Wall Street; J,M To Broad Street; 1,9 To South Ferry.6-8 Pm
"Emergence and Diversity" a subset of the digital photography exhibition, "A Day in the Life of Africa" at the United Nations public lobby gallery. Organized by Minoru Matsuzaki of Olympus America, Inc; curatorial and exhibition design by Koan-Jeff Baysa. Ribbon cutting ceremony at 5PM
Eye Wash at Remote Lounge, 327 Bowery at 2nd Street, 9pm-1am (four acts of live video and audio collaboration)
Thursday October 30
Jeremy Blake Autumn Almanac at Feigen Contemporary 535 West 20th Street, 6-8
strange-worlds, curated by Tracy L. Adler at The Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, 5:30-7:30
'Wolfgang Tillmans at Andrea Rosen Gallery, 525 West 24th Street, 6-8
Walter Andersons, videos by Michelle Grabner, Brad Killam & David Robbins at Ten in One Gallery 526 W. 26th St. 6-8
Anthem Gallery Presents Painting By Ricardo Francis Sculpture By David C. Terry 41 Wooster Street, Betw Broome and Grande St., 6-9
Oct 30 - Nov 2, 2003 - The Affordable Art Fair New York. Pier 92, NYC, Hours: 11am -7pm daily
Jonathan Lasker: Drawing and Painting Sperone Westwater
Conversation With Maurice Sendak discusses his art's engagement with the Holocaust and in particular his production of Hans Krasa's children's opera Brundibar. Jonathan Weinberg, moderator at The New School, 66 West 12th Street (Between 5th and 6th) 6:00 p.m. $10
Blind Spot Photography Lecture: Charles Traub, Director, Siskind Foundation, discussing the publication of Aaron Siskind 100 at The New School, 66 West 12th Street (Between 5th and 6th) 6:00 p.m. $10
Friday October 31
Mark Lombardi at Drawing Center, (25 Remarkable Diagrammatic Drawings, "Global Networks" Maps All Kinds Of Unsavory Global Secrets And Nefarious Webs Of Corporate, Military, Political, And Underworld Connections Worthy Of James Bond. It's Enough To Make Anyone Paranoid) 35 Wooster Street, 6-8
The Swiss Institute - Contemporary Art Halloween Party with the first ever Swiss Look-A-Like Contest
Joel Meyerowitz at Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery, 120 Eleventh Avenue, 6-8
Indoor Gallery: Meighan Gale, Balancing Act, -Recent photography, catalogue available. This show is traveling from Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Iowa at Black And White Gallery 483 Driggs Ave., 6-9
Outdoor Gallery: Anita Glesta: Site-specific sculptural installation
The Directors Of Bloomsbury Book Auctions And The Americas Society invite you to A champagne reception and lecture to celebrate the upcoming landmark auction of books, manuscripts, and related material by the seminal Argentine writer JORGE LUIS BORGES (1899-1986)The Algonquin Hotel, 59 West 44th Street, Lecture by Dr. Donald Shaw, University of Virginia RSVP Americas Society (212) 277-8352 literature@as-coa.org - 7:30
Saturday November 1
Recent Books By Rainer Ganahl at Printed Matter, Inc., 535 West 22nd St., 5 - 7 pm
Fast Forward: Twenty Years of White Rooms, curated by Lauren Ross This exhibition celebrates the twentieth anniversary of White Columns presenting White Rooms, solo exhibitions by artists unaffiliated with a commercial gallery. The program, started in 1983, introduces the work of unknown artists to the public and gives participating artists an opportunity to show work free from the pressures of the commercial market. In its twenty year history, White Rooms have identified and helped launch the careers of some of the country's most significant artists at White Columns, 320 West 13 Street, [entrance on Horatio Street] 7 - 9 p.m
memento Soledad Arias and Madeline Djerejian curated by Berit Fischer at CUCHIFRITOS Gallery / Project Space 120 Essex Street, 4-6pm.
Nikki S. Lee at Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, 535 West 22nd Street, 6-8
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Douglas Ward Kelley is perhaps best known from his four year run as a fixture on MNN. In addition to hosting a weekly art & entertainment show featuring celebrity interviews and art videos, D.K. has hosted the DKS Top Ten Countdown, consistently one of the MNN's highest rated shows. D.K. also hosted DKS special event programming from live Armory SHow coverage to the DKS Insane Inspiration Awards.
Prior to joining DKS on MNN, D.K. spent nearly five years entertaining his hometown audience of New York City' neighbors, as host of his imaginary high energy all night show, DKS FOREVER. DK, a fine arts major at Cooper Union, began his broadcasting career at age fifteen at MNN in New York. While he has moved over to television full-time, D.K. returns to his first passion of radio whenever he is able as a featured personality on New York City's top rated shows whenever he can slip past the guards.
In addition DK can be seen weekly on NOT-ART TVs entertainment show "Chelsea & Brooklyn At Large" and heard occasionally nationwide as an on-air personality on NotSoSirius Satellite Radio's Not-US-2. He has become a fixture on New York City television as well, interviewing art's biggest stars for MNN flagship arts show, The Douglas Kelley Show and served as a special correspondent for the internationally syndicated Smele-Tele-Pictures shows OVERRIPE and "THE PANOPTICON! Tabloid News Live." He continues to host various art specials including the worldwide television/web production of "ArtBarTabAid" from Rudy's serving as the U.S. counterpart to London Grocho Club "ArtBarTabAid" host Damian Hirst and is stars in Zwarner/YBA's forthcoming worldwide television production of "CURB LANE SPEEDER." D.K. served as the celebrity spokesperson on Vip Trevel's nationwide media tour launching of YBA, the Home Game, and he is featured in the coffee table book Artthrob, 500 Hundred Years of Beautiful Lecherous Artists.
In his spare time D.K. putters about in his studio for charity, mumbling to himself for celebrity causes.
Douglas Ward Kelley is represented by Lamont Cranston at ICBM (310) 555-4270.
Visit D.K. Kelley's web site: http://dks.thing.net
