Greater New York 2005 is an exhibition displaying the new work of more than 100 local artists, selected by curators from P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and The Museum of Modern Art.
Artist Peter Coffin gave each of a team of artist friends a $100,000 wad of counterfeit WPS1 "munny" and sent them out to deal with the dealers. The gimmick cut both ways as the artists found themselves detected,... Read More
On this second day of his scheme, artist Peter Coffin gave another team of artists $100,000 of genuine bright yellow WPS1 "munny" and sent them out to deal with the dealers. Some were drawn to the weirdest stuff while... Read More
A phone call by the P.S.1 team from the WPS1 Armory Show booth to the cell phone of Clarissa Dalrymple as she wanders the P.S.1 halls assessing and caressing the installation and artists in anticipation of the opening of Greater New York 2005.
David Weinstein, sitting in the VIP Lounge at the WPS1 Armory Show remote site, calls P.S.1 Curatorial Assistant Lumi Tan as she haunts the fair's brimful arena, thrusting her mobile phone into the hands of artists in... Read More
P.S.1 curatorial assistant Sarah Kessler spends 15 minutes on her mobile with David Weinstein as she attempts to gently ambush artists in mid-installation and get them to reveal what's up and what's not during the... Read More
Another of our roving correspondent reports as Mr. Weinstein attempts to
visualize both world peace and the condition of P.S.1, under siege by the
160-plus artists installing the Greater New York Show, as described by... Read More
Alanna Heiss spent one day of twenty away from the corridors and galleries of P.S.1 where the
Greater New York Show was taking form, and she spent it with us to hold court on the front porch of the massive Armory Show... Read More
Pattie Lee Becker presents her Tales from the Animal room series, Within an Eye or How Mr. Luck Met Wanda Blank, and Can't Find the Bottom. She supports her
narratives with hand-crafted puppets dolls, creating a lively... Read More
Tamy Ben-Tor's video works and live performances create cultural ground zeros. Her alertness to any moral, ideological, political and artistic cliché, combined with a classic sense of comedy, results in a body of... Read More
I abandon sculpture, engraving, and painting to dedicate myself entirely to song. (Pablo Picasso to Jaime Sabartés, April 1936.). A reading celebrating the publication of The Burial of the Count of Orgaz & Other Po.