Stephen Truax

Photo: Can I Get a Witness, 2011, at ART BLOG ART BLOG. Photo courtesy of Brandon Mitchell.

ART BLOG ART BLOG, organized by Joshua Abelow, consisted of 10 exhibitions from May 13 through October 29, 2011, in New York.

The democratization of power in the New York art world is a direct result of young artists and curators self-publishing on the Internet using blogs and social media. This phenomenon has never been more visible as when artist Joshua Abelow turned his blog, ART BLOG ART BLOG, into an alternative exhibition space in Chelsea. The result was comparable to any other major commercial venue in the area; Abelow mounted a rigorous schedule of ten exhibitions from May to October 2011, and so, an opening approximately every two weeks.

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Photo: Can I Get a Witness, 2011, at ART BLOG ART BLOG. Photo courtesy of Brandon Mitchell.

Jeremy Shaw’s solo exhibition Best Minds, organized by Klaus Biesenbach, was on view at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens, New York from September 10 through October 10, 2011

A curious room-sized 3-channel video surrounds the viewer in the eerie green-black light found in night-vision goggles and video surveillance in Canadian-born artist Jeremy Shaw’s Best Minds at MoMA PS1. The grainy images taken with a handheld camcorder recall Nauman’s multichannel video surveillance of his studio at night, and are paired with the slow, ambient The Disintegration Loops, 2002, sound recordings of deteriorating tape reels, composed by William Basinski.

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