“It’s All American” at NJMOCA

Monica Bonvicini, White, 2003. Fluorescent lights, broken safety glass, aluminum corners, base, cube: 26 x 26 x 26 in. Photos: 16 Miles [more]

"It's All American," at the New Jersey Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Alex Gartenfeld and Haley Mellin.


Josephine Meckseper, American Leg, 2010. Mannequin leg in black hosiery, glass dome on pedestal, 30 x 18 x 15 in.


Sterling Ruby, 4 Stack of Leather Husbands, 2009. Leather, fiber fill, zippers, formica, and wood, 58 x 79 x 31 in.


Matt Sheridan Smith, Silver Bread, 2010. Two pieces: silvercast, 10 x 4 in.


Rob Pruitt, Espirit de Corps..., 2010. Concrete, denim, dimensions variable.


Martin Soto Climent, Parabolic Dust, 2008. Plastic blinds, dimensions variable. David Adamo, Four, 2008. Wooden bats, chips, dimensions variable.


Right: Peter Coffin, Sculpture Silhouette (M. Cattelan “Love Lasts Forever," 1999), 2010.


Grayson Revoir, Table Fornication, 2010. Wood, hardware, 39 x 77 x 115 in.


Brendan Fowler, May, 2010 (Accident/The Wood That Fell On Me In My Studio May 20 2010 #'s 6–8) Wall, 2010. Archival inkjet, frames, plexi, lumber, stain, 125.375 x 84.5 x 4.75 in. Martin Creed, Work no. 915, 2008. Boxes and magnets, 96 x 30 x 30 in.


Polly Apfelbaum, Miss America, 2010. Synthetic sequined fabric, dimensions variable.


Asbury Park, New Jersey

Free Beer at X, Animals and Artists, Maya Lin, etc. [Collected]

Tom Marioni, FREE BEER (The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends Is the Highest Form of Art), 1970-79. Photo: Steve Rhodes

"With more than one thousand beer cans to be consumed in the course of one evening, the performance creates an instant community: as beer cans are emptied, Martin Soto Climent will alter them with a slight crush and places them on the floor in a formation."

- Press release for Martin Soto Climent's performance at X.

• Visitors to the Martin Soto Climent's performance on June 23 will consume many beers, reminding us a bit of Tom Marioni's FREE BEER... piece shown at SFMOMA recently.
• Winkleman suggests that people interested in art are also curious about animals, referencing the charming art collectors Herb & Dorothy Vogel, who are in a new film.
• "At Storm King I'm working with the idea of what happens when those waves go above your head." - Maya Lin, interviewed by Time critic Richard Lacayo. She's working on a video for Times Square.
• "Is négritude viable or historically spent?" Voice critic Martha Schwendener at Exit Art's Négritude. [via MAN]
• "The oldest art show in the world." [via Amy Goodwin]
• I want to look at John Wesley paintings all day long.