Ryan Trecartin, Trash Can Art, the Sumi Ink Club in Brooklyn, a 24-Hour McCall Film, etc. [Collected]

Anicka Yi, Midcentury Olfactory Brutalism, 2010. Light box, transparency paper, potato chips, ground Cheetos dust, 24 x 21 x 5 in., in "Belief & Understanding" at Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, through July 28, 2011.

• In advance of his upcoming show at MoMA P.S.1, Ryan Trecartin is showing sections of his four-part piece Re'Search Wait'S online. Rhizome and DIS Magazine have posted pieces, and The Awl and Huffington Post will follow up later this week. [Rhizome, DIS Magazine]
  
  
• Are public garbage cans the hottest thing in art right now? Klara Lidén has a trove of them at the Venice Biennale, David Bernstein is doing a performance with a New York bin at Sommerkampf in Piermont, New York, and L&M is showing a pioneering example, the 2003 Jeff Koons Walrus Seal Trash Cans at Art Basel. [Contemporary Art Daily, Sommerkampf, Art 42 Basel]
  
  
• Related to the above: Kim Levin's ARTnews cover article, "Talking Trash," on the history of detritus and rubbish in modern and contemporary art. [ARTnews]
  
  
• Robert Morris and Olivie Mourgue. [YHBHS]
  
  
• Richard Prince on photographer Miroslav Tichý, from a book of Prince's essays that will be published in September. [Los Angeles Review of Books]
  
  
• On Mark Fisher's recent explication of hauntology, Ariel Pink, and a lot more, at NYU. [Rhizome]
  
  
• Jamie Sterns writes precise, honest classified ads for art-world jobs. [Ya Ya Ya]

Calendar

• June 15: Herbalife is a controversial L.A.–based nutrition and weight-loss company with annual sales of more than $2.7 billion. A multi-level marketing company that some have accused of being a pyramid scheme, it is also, according to DIS Magazine, "the premiere commercial cult." At 7 pm, at the current location of Gresham's Ghost, DIS presents "a re-contextualization of the official Herbalife dance performed by tweens and choreographed by Richard Kennedy." [Gresham's Ghost]
  
  
• June 15: A postcard for Demetrius Oliver's Argentum piece, available at the Studio Museum in Harlem, reads, "To observe this work gaze at the Harlem River after sunset." Below this text it lists four dates: March 19, April 18, May 17, and June 15. There is a full moon tonight. [SM]
  
  
• June 16: With the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling 4-3 yesterday that the state's new collective-bargaining law can go into effect, it sounds like a good time to watch Native Land, the 1942 documentary by Leo Hurwitz and Paul Strand about labor struggles and American fascism. Skip work, if you can. It's at the Museum of Modern Art at 1:30 pm. [MoMA]
  
  
• June 18: The Sumi Ink Club, the itinerant drawing project initiated by Sarah Rara and Luke Fischbeck, the founders of the estimable Lucky Dragons, visit Rawson Projects, drawing together 12 pm to 6 pm. [RP]
  
  
• June 18: At noon, The Artist's Institute and Light Industry present Anthony McCall's Long Film for Ambient Light (1975) at Dia:Chelsea, 535 West 22nd Street, 5th floor. It runs until noon the next day. The work was first shown at the Idea Warehouse, a performance space created by Alanna Heiss's Institute for Art and Urban Resources at 22 Reade Street in 1975, the year before the opening of Heiss's next major project, P.S.1. "The work used no actual film or projector," McCall wrote of the piece. "Three distinct elements combined to form the ‘film,’ and no one of these was regarded as prior to the other two." Light Industry has a stunning archive of documents relating to the piece. [LI]
  
  
• June 19: "Ryan Trecartin: Any Ever," opens. [MoMA P.S.1]

SoHo v. Berlin, Wave Hill, Public Art in Times Square, etc. [Collected]

Installation views of Meghan Gordon, Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh would have liked to explore the Palisades, 2011, at Wave Hill in the Bronx, through May 8, 2011 Photos: 16 Miles [more]

• Michael Kimmelman compares 1970s SoHo and contemporary Berlin. "Lately, in the former East Berlin, a private club for upwardly mobile art types, of the sort that used to be anathema to Berliners, has opened," he writes. "It’s called ... Soho House. The club could be anywhere in the world, anywhere the new rich live. That’s its point. [NYT]
  
  
• As long as it lasts... is a temporary tattoo parlor in Berlin that offers works by Lawrence Weiner, Cao Fei, Christian Jankowski, Dr. Lakra (thank goodness), and others. [Arratia, Beer via ROLU]
  
  
• Van Hanos chats in his Harlem studio with Alex Hubbard and Ryan Kitson. [The Highlights]
  
  
• Never miss a film screening in New York ever again. [Alt Screen via @AviZenilman]
  
  
• Classic Throwback: "For a six-year run beginning in 1987, Christian Leigh was one of the most visible — and ambitious — independent curators in the international art world. Then he vanished." — Alexi Worth, 2003 [Artforum]
  

The exhibition is inspired, in part, by the belief of some that a lengthy set of murals in Wave Hill's Ecology Building may have been painted by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh. Others say it was Howard McCormick. Another inspiration: an underground tunnel on the Wave Hill estate.

• May 4 and 5: "Is Basic Instinct 2, routinely derided as a cine-atrocity, a Lacanian reworking of Ballard, Baudrillard and Bataille in service of the creation of a 'phantasmatic, cybergothic London'?" Mark Fisher at NYU. [K-Punk]
  
  
• May 6 and 7: Liz Magic Laser and company perform on the TKTS stairs in Times Square. [LML]
  
  
• May 7: Van Hanos at West Street Gallery. [WSG]
  
  
• Through May 7: Jules Marquis, the nom de plume of Colin Snapp and Daniel Turner, has a video playing on American Eagle Outfitters' video screen in Times Square every 15 minutes, at 5:40, 17:10, 37:05, and 52:05 after the hour. [Nuit Blanche]
  
  
• May 13: Artist Joshua Abelow, the man behind Art Blog Art Blog, has temporarily acquired an exhibition space in Chelsea, and will be hosting fortnight-long shows there. Up first is "Gold Records," a group show of artists assembled by curator Jon Lutz that appeared on his late blog, The Old Gold. Expect Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Stacy Fisher, Jaime Gecker, and others. [ABAB]
  

Gordon has lined the walls with hand-painted wallpaper, styled on circa 1865 designs.


Just outside the Sunroom Project Space housing Gordon's work there is an exhibition of work by a trio of hallucinogenic masters: Terry Winters, Philip Taaffe, and Fred Tomaselli. A few blocks away, a train station with art by Dennis Oppenheim.