Here is what is coming on the next of Hyperallergic Weekend (April 19 & 20, 2014). John Yau pays a visit to the Logan Square studio of Chicago painter Leslie Baum: “The fragment, which is one of the touchstones of Baum’s approach, conveys the possibility that there is no whole. It also suggests that the artist probably believes that we are born into a shattered world and that we will likely shatter it further. It seems to me that Baum is drawn to fragments that resist identification, which I suspect is because she isn’t interested in either parody or citation, but in what might lie beyond them.” Thomas Micchelli reviews If Youre Accidentally Not Included, Don’t Worry About It, the first curatorial effort by maverick painter Peter Saul; if you’re familiar with “Saul’s decades-long history of plumbing the willfully outrageous, you’d rightfully expect that If Youre Accidentally Not Included would be a nonstop series of affronts. But while the work on display is uncompromising in every way, what stands out most about the show is its formal beauty and restraint.” Hyperallergic Weekend’s music critic Lucas Fagen is back with his April critical catalogue, sampling the efforts of Sun Kil Moon (“demonstrates why personal expression in itself is never enough”), Perfect Pussy (“a furious immediacy that will stick to your ears and tone up your muscles”), Todd Terje (“the ultimate collection of postmodern kitsch, sillier than a leisure suit but utterly definitive in its range and ability”), and Karmin (“a group so shamelessly, idiotically, robotically, crassly inane they alienated even me”). Guest writer Edward M. Gómez delves into the work of the Iranian-born artist Marzie Nejad, whose second solo show at Luise Ross Gallery in Chelsea will open next week: “Nejad’s theory-free, spontaneous work defies easy labels. A former nephrologist (kidney specialist), who spent many years working at a well-known Manhattan hospital, she is completely self-taught and also completely unassuming about her art-making, even at its most ambitious or audacious.” Guest writer Paul David Young discusses the latest from director/writer Richard Maxwell, who was included in the 2012 Whitney Biennial, “an unusual, though not undeserved, honor for a theater director. His Isolde, now running at the Abrons Arts Center, is a departure from his recent work, a surprisingly conventional play, which he presents in his customary flat, affectless fashion.” And Weekend Words samples the water.
Posted on: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 22:14:32 +0000
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