The Whitney Biennial 2010 Part III

James Kalm wraps up this extended report from the 2010 Whitney Biennial with a stroll through the second floor, lobby galleries and a glimpse out into the sculpture garden installation designed by Theaster Gates. Includes views of work by: Robert Grosvenor, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Hannah Greely, Nina Berman, Dawn Clements et al.

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[caliclips]

I've been mulling this over- juror-curator. The juried show is the artist submitting work for consideration so the curated show must then be someone inviting artists whose work they feel is significant. Is that correct? If so that makes the curated show so much more a product of the curator's tastes, as opposed to someone selecting the best of what has been randomly submitted. From your comments on Part III it sounds like the curator thing hasn't been working all that great for the Whitney.

[jameskalm]

@caliclips "Bingo".

[MrWowforever]

mr kalm congratulations on your show @ Derek Eller :) looks good

[jameskalm]

Hey Wow,

it's at Daniel Weinberg in LA, unless someone came in my studio and took work to Eller without me knowing it. (Sounds like a good idea for a show anyway.)

[eenkjet]

it's all starting to look the same. let's just lose the names and just say "by a new york artist".

[jameskalm]

Except that many of these artists are not "New York artists".

[MrWowforever]

hey mr Kalm ....hows about Steve Dibenedetto, Stanley Whitney, Donna Nelson, Inka Essenhigh, Tomory Dodge, Laura Owens, Charles Seliger, John Lasker, John Polypchuk, Dana Schutz.........i'll get back to you with the rest :)oh, and Loren Munk and Steven Charles too:)

[3idiot3]

do you complain from a distance about an art world you won't even try and crack? do you have excuses why? do you take no personal responsibility? your not bored, your boring.

[Whatever3114]

Jim lutz was good. I hear a return to painting...jokers! Why? Can't draw or paint or sculpt,then, are they artists...? Funny how everyone who visits museums rushes off to see the 'boring' likes of Van Gogh, Cezanne and even Pollock or Picasso ever wonder why? Because it's visual and almost always understandable. The art curators are generally 99/100 of the time students of art but rarely artists. Talent ....you can't study it. This is arty farty and more like plain Farty

[Whatever3114]

I have to agree with the criticism here. There seems to be a total absence of quality technique, is it just ideas as basic as they may be that is considered art today? Can the curators stop the intellectual brain drain and just consider a tad bit of harmony, color, technique. Time to be true about artistic creation. Why throw in architecture, video, photography and while you're at it industrial recuperation...back to basics please!

[unidentifiableart]

If your in NY union square plaza steps this sunday 11 at 3pm exactly BE PART of the group show for the first unidentifiable art movement the first movement to be defined by nothing. bring your art and be part of the movement

watch video on this channel for more info

[superkeitai]

@jameskalm, do you have a top10 of your favorites per month???

[f0rTyLeGz]

Thanks James I appreciate the glimpses you give us into the NY galleries.

[d1artbob]

Way too many pieces look like the first step in the process of coming up with a senior thesis show. So unchallenging, yet with a germ of an idea that might be developed. Of course, since development implies standards rather that self-celebration, this might not be an option. Thank you, post-structuralists.

[MrWowforever]

@jameskalm oops...congratulations all the same....i like the small ones a lot, very intimate and lovely. :)