‘I Am Thinking How Happy I Am’: Lutz Bacher Brings 2012 Whitney Biennial to a Close
If you plan to visit the Whitney before June 3—and you should—please stop reading here. I don’t want to ruin what is waiting for you on the fourth floor. Read More
If you plan to visit the Whitney before June 3—and you should—please stop reading here. I don’t want to ruin what is waiting for you on the fourth floor. Read More
As one of my colleagues pointed out yesterday, there was no shortage of food-related art on the first day of Frieze New York. Darren Bader’s sculpture at Andrew Kreps Gallery generously offered guacamole out of a French horn (chips were in bags on the floor), and Gavin Brown—aided by actor Mark Ruffalo—was serving up hot Read More
Right now, there are two burritos sitting on a windowsill in a gallery at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City. About once a week, fresh burritos are brought in by a museum employee, and the old ones are discarded. Sometimes they are placed one on top of the other, and sometimes they are side by side. This is done in the name of art; chicken burrito, beef burrito is a sculpture by Darren Bader, part of his “Images” exhibition, which runs through May 14.
Though it sounds like a one-off prank, Mr. Bader’s burritos exemplify today’s most thrilling sculpture, which at the moment can be seen all over town, standing in stark contrast to the muscular, macho, hard-won objects of a John Chamberlain (whose Guggenheim retrospective is up through May 13). The new sculpture is deliriously playful, unstable (it changes over time: living, decomposing, collapsing, or threatening to) and frequently renewable. The readymade has returned in 21st-century rococo clothes, Duchamp’s legacy used for sinister, hallucinogenic and comical ends. Read More
