Arcangel, Pinard, Routson at Team Gallery [Photographs]

Jon Routson, Spinners [installation view], 2009. Photos: 16 Miles [more]

Arcangel, Pinard, Routson
Cory Arcangel, Guillaume Pinard, and Jon Routson
Team Gallery
83 Grand Street
New York, New York
Through July 31, 2009

No Bees, No Blueberries at Harris Lieberman Gallery [Photographs]

H. Mellin, Running Shoes, 2009. Photos: 16 Miles [more]


Left: John Baldessari, Raised Eyebrows / Furrowed Foreheads: (Violet Eyebrow and Green Skin), 2008.


No Bees, No Blueberries [installation view] at Harris Lieberman Gallery.



Guyton / Walker, Untitled (from the series: Guyton \ Walker: Empire Strikes Back), 2006.


Peter Simensky, Neutral Capital Collection II, 2007.


DAS INSTITUT (Kerstin Braestch and Adele Roeder), Untitled, 2008.


Heman Chong, Kryptonite, 2008.


Ann Craven, Hello, Hello, Hello, 2002.

No Bees, No Blueberries, curated by Sarina Basta and Tyler Coburn
Harris Lieberman Gallery
89 Vandam Street
New York, New York
Through July 30, 2009
Photographs: 16 Miles [more]

The Living and the Dead at Gavin Brown's enterprise [Photographs]

David Choi, Squirrel, 2009. Photos: 16 Miles [more]


The Living and the Dead [installation view] at Gavin Brown's enterprise.


Matthew Cerletty, David Brooks, 2009.


Rachel Feinstein, The Orphan, 2009.


ronkom, Economics 101, 2009.


Scott Penkava, Untitled (Portrait of Felix in NY), 2009.


George Condo, The Apparition, 2009.


Jerry Blackman, Untitled (To Amelia), 2008.


Rob Pruitt, Mark Rothko, 2008.


Nick Relph, 620 Fags, disallowed, 2009.

The Living and the Dead
Gavin Brown's enterprise
620 Greenwich Street
New York, New York
Through August 7, 2009
Photographs: 16 Miles [more]

Shopping for Tauba Auerbach [Updated]

Tauba Auerbach-designed ad for Comme des Garçons from Vanity Fair, October 2008.

Luxury good manufacturers have long been smart about selling products at a variety of price points to attract different types of consumers. At Coach, for example, you can start out with a cheap key chain (like this cute $38 lobster piece that Jeff Koons may want to examine) and work your way up to their more epic, expensive handbags (like, say, this decadent $6,000 garden set).

Most artists have been slower to embrace this paradigm completely. You could always buy a painting (the highest price), a drawing (the middle), or a print (the low), and maybe a cheaper artist book, but things have started to become a bit more interesting. Hirst has expanded high (maybe too much so) and low, releasing products to meet almost any price point. David Shrigley has a massive series of books and postcards that seem omnipresent at museums and book stores around the world. Artists are catching on.

Tauba Auerbach, whose work is crisp and wonderful, is working this model perfectly. She's appeared in shows around New York for the past few years (New Museum, The Journal Gallery, The Drawing Center), has a solo exhibition scheduled at Deitch this year, and has been involved in all sorts of great things. It would have been smart to start buying two years ago, but here's what's available now.

1. Advertisement. $0.00

The image at the top is an advertisement from October 2008's Vanity Fair. Dig up a back issue, slice out the page, and pin it up to your wall. If you want to disguise your new poster's origin, you can easily chop out the Comme des Garçons references.

Effi Briest's Mirror Rim 7" designed by Tauba Auerbach.

2. Record Covers. £3.50 ($5.75) or $15.00

Auerbach has a few nice record covers floating around. The Effi Briest (super dark and danceable, featuring a member of Psychic Ills) Mirror Rim 7" is sold out, but the Long Shadow record is still available and almost as cool. She also produced a beautiful three-layer silkscreen for Glasser's Apply (clear vinyl) record. There's a fun video of its elaborate construction. Bonus: If you get tired of the art, you'll own some nice songs.

3. Books. $30.00 $21.46 or $60.00 42.00

Take your pick. How to Spell the Alphabet and 50/50 are both published by Deitch, about 100 pages, and gorgeous. They're also relatively cheap at Amazon. A solid buy if you're getting more serious or don't have a ton of money to spend.

Badges for sale at Partners & Spade. Photo: 16 Miles

4. Badge. $25.00

These quirky little badges, released to commemorate the release of How to Spell the Alphabet, are available at Andy Spade's new pop-up store, Partners & Spade. It's a fun little trinket to pin to your wall or, if you're feeling especially bold, wear out to an opening: You're a winner.

5. T-Shirt. $100.00

I missed these when I stopped by Asia Song Society's pop-up store, Everything Must Out Going!, but Ms. Auerbach apparently had some shirts printed in partnership with Comme des Garçons. Like the records, you're getting two things for the price of one: a new shirt and a pleasant new picture to enjoy. You can't really do both at once, and you need to make the tough choice about whether to actually wear (and wash) the shirt, but it's still a solid deal.

6. Print. $1,200.00

[Greg.org has a great post about the mechanics of producing the Paulson Press series.]

Anyone, as Dave Hickey says, can be a looky-loo: "They paid their dollar at the door, but they contributed nothing to the occasion - afforded no confirmation or denial that you could work with or around or against." Buying a print, at least, you're throwing some more money at the issue, taking on some risk, and investing in the artist. Her very crisp aquatint at Park Life is sold out, but Paulson Press appears to have some available. There's some Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, and Tibor Kalman all thrown together and made really fresh.

7. Original. $8,000.00

There's a little bit of a digitized abstract-Richter feel in Static 11 (2009) from the Brooklyn Queens show at The Journal Gallery. Four figures for a nice, big photograph isn't a bad deal. They'll be more expensive after the Deitch show opens: buy in now.

Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe, Black Acid Co-op , at Deitch [Photographs]

Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe, Black Acid Co-op [installation views], at Deitch Projects. Photos: 16 Miles [more]



















Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe, Black Acid Co-op
Deitch Projects
18 Wooster Street
New York, New York
Through August 15, 2009
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Sarah Oppenheimer's 610-3356 at The Mattress Factory (While It Lasts)

Sarah Oppenheimer, 610-3356 [installation views from fourth floor], 2008. Photos: 16 Miles [more]

A locked, glass door sits to your right when you emerge from the elevator on the fourth floor of Pittsburgh's incomparable Mattress Factory. Peering through the glass, you can just discern the outline of Sarah Oppenheimer's 610-3356. When I first saw the piece on Tyler Green's Modern Art Notes (Part 1, Part 2), it seemed completely unreal. I could barely process that the hole in the floor was providing a window view of Pittsburgh's North Side.

Oppenheimer's masterpiece bores through the fourth floor of Mattress Factory and, using plywood, frames a view of the local community through one of its third floor windows. A very helpful gallery attendant unlocked the door for us and let us see the work up close. It's elegant and arresting, taking a Gordon Matta-Clark-esque cut and filling it with clean, crisp architecture.

Mattress Factory is best known for its Yayoi Kusama mirror rooms (which are both freer and quirkier, though a bit more dated, than the one at Gagosian this year) and James Turrell light pieces, all strong works that transform galleries to create completely-encompassing simulations. 610-3356, composed of a careful cut in the floor, some plywood, and a view out of an open window, provides a perfect counterbalance to these complex constructions. It has the potential to be an institution-defining installation. Unfortunately, it won't last forever. Leftover from Mattress Factory's Inner and Outer Space show, which closed at the beginning of this year, it is scheduled to come down at the end of the year. While we were told that it may stay up a bit longer, the wood is deteriorating and the museum eventually plans to remove it. See it now.

View from the third floor.

View from the third floor, off to the side.

Sarah Oppenheimer, 610-3356, 2008

Through December 31, 2009

The Mattress Factory Art Museum

500 Sampsonia Way

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

[more photographs]

Opie Remembers Youth, Childish Hates Art, Minter Parties, etc. [Collected]

Richard Woods, wall and roof and door, 2009 in New York's City Hall Park. Public Art Fund. Photo: 16 Miles [more]

"Our big idea of fun in the 70s was to get stoned and drive from Poway, which is North County San Diego, up to Los Angeles to look through the trash of stars."

- Catherine Opie, interviewed by Vice

• Thee Headcoatees were great. Billy Childish's National Art Hate Week: less great.
• Partying with Marilyn.
• MAN on new Spiral Jetty developments.
• Fun Baldessari, sleek Eve Sussman & Rufus Corporation.
• Thomas Campbell: less regal than Philippe Montebello.
• Dan Graham's favorite NYC architecture. [via C-Monster]
• Dasha and Roman no longer?
• Beautiful Bassman photographs.
• "Snow's tragedy was that even his death was just another pose." [via Hrag]

As Long as it Lasts at Marian Goodman Gallery [Photographs]

Guido van der Werve, Nummer Acht (#8) everything is going to be alright [Video still], 2007. Photos: 16 Miles [more]


As Long as it Lasts [Installation view] at Marian Goodman Gallery.


Olivier Babin, Our Most Beautiful Years (Nos Plus Belles Années), 2008.


Gerhard Richter, 876-12, 2002. Reflection: Olivier Babin, Our Most Beautiful Years (Nos Plus Belles Années), 2008.


Gabriel Orozco, Obit: "Hawaiian Air Owner", 2008.


Olivier Babin, Perfect Day, 2007.


Olivier Babin, Perfect Day, 2007.


Pawel Althamer, Skin, 1997.


Lawrence Weiner, Built to maintain the inner edges of a cul-de-sac, 2009.


Tacita Dean, Mario Merz, 2002.

As Long as it Lasts, curated by Tom Eccles
Through August 28, 2009
Marian Goodman Gallery
24 West 57th Street
New York, New York
Photographs: 16 Miles [more]