CHRIS BURDEN "Extreme Measures" at the New Museum

Super happy to have caught this show, as it only has one day left!

I've been a fan of Burden since I read about his 1971 "Shoot" work, which will be included in my upcoming book. The exhibition was extra fun, as I was being given a couple of insider facts by artist James Hyde, Max's best friend Silas's dad. James also perfectly described a lot of the show, as if if was from the imagination of twelve year old boy.

“The Big Wheel,” from 1979, joins a large, rusty cast-iron flywheel (eight feet in diameter, three tons in weight) with a 1968 Benelli 250cc motorcycle. The bike is run for 4 minutes, and the back wheel gets the big wheel spinning. When the bike is tuned off, the wheel still silently spins for another 90 minutes.  

"All the Submarines of the United States of America" From 1987 is 625 small, handmade, painted-cardboard submarines, suspended on monofilaments from the ceiling, representing all the submarines built by the United States Navy up to 1987.

“Porsche With Meteorite” 2013 Suspended from opposite ends of a graceful, telescoping beam of steel are a beautifully restored 1974 Porsche, and a small meteorite that ways nearly 400 pounds. (photo from museum site)

“Tale of Two Cities.”, uses tons of sand, live plants, live bullets and 5,000 toys. My fave 2 two were the model Concord and the Thunderbird Two, bottom right of this photo (both very important to me as a British kid)

Silas & Max in front of seven foot L.A.P.D. Uniforms, apparently with live rounds in the guns. 

NY Times Review here. 


MORE LOVED ART FROM MIAMI AT DIFFERENT FAIRS 2013

Rammellzee


Reinhard Voss


Matthew Day Jackson


Henrietta Harris


Michael Johansson


Brainfarts


Bridget Mullen


Gabriela Gutierrez


Anthony Lister


BAST & FAILE


Robert Moskowitz


Soshiro Matsubara


Amy Ellingson


Duane Michaels


Dondi White

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SOME LOVED WORKS AT ART BASEL 2013

Do Ho Suh (Polyester fabric)

Gavin Turk

George Condo

Robert Longo (6 foot high graphite drawing)

Mike Kelley

Clare Rojas

Yan Pei Ming

James Rosenquist (only $2,000,000)

Christian Marclay

Miriam Cahn

Peter Saville (Unknown Pleasures) sculture 

Jack Pierson




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SWOON STUDIO VISIT

Natalie Kates kindly invited Eve & I to an open house at Swoon's studio in Red Hook. Eve didn't want to go at first but once there she got stuck in, and I couldn't drag her away.

Photo op with Swoon as we were about to leave.


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DARKSIDE AT MANA IN MIAMI 12/5/13

Too minimal for some of what felt like 5,000 packed into MANA but for me, perfect! Wonderfully refreshing in this age of EDM with it's hyper sensory overload sound & visual production. This just shows what real talent can do. I don't think the BPM's went over 110 the whole night, and screwed down to about 70 at times. Less IS more.

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KAWS IN TWO NYC LOCATIONS

The scale KAWS is now working in is almost beyond comprehension. The first photo with Max in is from Mary Boone gallery on 24th St, and the two below with Eve in are from Galerie Perrotin on 73rd & Madison.

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