Artforum has “Scene and Herd.” The Wall Street Journal has “Heard and Scene.” To spare you “Seen and Herd,” this is just “The Buzz,” a new weekly column about the people and organizations in the Artlog community.
Group shows are a summer tradition, and this year one of our favorites is Pretty on the Inside at Paul Kasmin. Curated by Erik Parker, a “self-appointed archivist of postwar New York Art,” and Brooklyn-based street artist and designer KAWS, the show features several generations of bold and underappreciated American artists: Todd James, Tony Matelli, Joyce Pensato, Peter Saul, and Karl Wirsum.
We just missed a weekend of music at Mass MoCA. Their Wilco Sound Festival is over, but in August the Wassaic Project hosts its own festival in upstate New York with projects from curators like Eric Gleason of Marlborough Gallery, Risa Shoup of Bric, and Ryan Frank of the Granary.
Ryan McGinley, Tom (Golden Tunnel). Courtesy of OHWOW (Los Angeles).
In LA, OHWOW’s Post 9-11 show features Dan Colen, Terence Koh, Hanna Liden, Nate Lowman, Adam McEwen, Ryan McGinley, Agathe Snow, Dash Snow, and Aaron Young. Since 2008, has any other gallery done more to make a name for itself? Al Moran and Aaron Bondaroff founded the gallery in Miami with director Mills Moran and have since extended their reach to NYC and LA. With a veritable monopoly on the “young celebrity artist,” is it too soon to put to rest the “who will replace Jeffrey Deitch” question?
New NYC gallery Lu Magnus brings Central America to the city through its collaboration with Panamanian gallery and collective Diablo Rosso. Titled the Pleasure’s All Mine, the show features artists Jonathan Allen, Miky Fabrega, and Tofer Chin. The afterparty at Fig. 19, a charming little speakeasy through the back of Envoy Gallery (above Home Sweet Home), turned to hugs and joyous celebration when word spread that New York passed same-sex marriage, and many embraced Barbara Bush for her pivotal support.
Our friends at Art21 are back with an innovative new video project called New York Close Up. Wesley Miller and Nick Ravich’s short and compelling clips introduce young New York artists like Martha Colburn, Lucas Blalock, Rashid Johnson, Keltie Ferris, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Mika Tajima, Kalup Linzy, and Shana Moulton.
Trending this week
Artwork from the Venice Biennale is still trending on Artlog, along with Paul McCarthy’s Dopey #1 at LA’s Hammer Museum and Juanli Carrion’s new show at Y Gallery. (Don’t miss our interview with Juanli in the magazine).
User Artlogs
Edward Torres
This week we feature an artist and a writer, both focused on photography. Edward Torres’ photographs draws on “the study of various cities and their cultures," themes also apparent in the artwork Torres adds to his artlog".
Ana Roman-Callahan
Writer and performer Ana Roman Callahan told us, “if I see work that inspires me and propels me to create, I want to know and study that photographer. I respect the conceptual aspects of art, but I need a real voice or guttural emotion behind every medium.”
Two of the fourteen artworks in Ana’s artlog are by HuskMitNavn, an artist at Allegra LaViola Gallery. “What gets my attention with any photograph or piece of artwork is the feeling that I must know, be around, or explore the artist," Ana says. "If it makes me want to write, then the artwork has done its job. That is rare. HuskMitNavn’s work attracted me because it reminds me of my own creative process with writing: transport, movement, and experimentation.”
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