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Video Part 2: Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?

Posted by James Stevens on May 15, 2008

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Brad Mehldau Trio: Live at the Village Vanguard Part I

Amazing, creatively brilliant, just a few words that describe pianist Brad Mehldau's approach to music as a soloist or with his jazz trio. This approach was clearly evident tonight at the Village Vanguard, as Brad produced music of mystic qualities with his trio which consists of Jeff Ballard on drums and Larry Grenediar on upright bass. Olympian status is definitely a goal of any musican(s), last night's performance proved that Brad and his trio are not only on a high Olympian level but that they deserve a gold medal. But who said that it is a contest? Well, let's talk directly about the show and not talk around it. The acoustic trio started with a rendition of Paul Simon's "50 ways to Leave Your Lover," which the bassist Larry Grenediar played a solo mid-tempo intro. After Larry played solo for about a couple of minutes, Jeff Ballard, the drummer joined along with the groove. Thereafter Brad followed and joined in as well. The trio on this song displayed a l

Art Comments Interview with James Fuentes

written and edited by Jeff Grunthaner and Peter Duhon in New York If the sense of beauty has anythin g to offer us , then we have to bracket the kind of moralism that reduces pleasure to utility, considering instead the utopian potentials delineated by works of art as intimations of new societal relations . It’s both par adoxical and frustrating that m ost galleries are shell s. Your typical art-intoxicated night out resembles nothing less than ghostling swarm s of embryos darting in and out of galleries, as though to incarnate themselves by inhabiting some momentary carapace , be com ing a kind of hybrid species physically bra nded by the sites they’ve visited . Economics play a heavy hand in this. Whatever aspirations artists and curators come to NY with, they inevitably get caught on the pneumatic grid of money, w hich c onfines their ambition s like an ether, inverting their intere st in art into to that form of interest rese

New Work by Elizabeth Peyton in New York

Fascinating work, please enjoy! Lara New Work by Elizabeth Peyton November 20, 2020 – February 20, 2021 Gladstone 64 #contemporaryart #art #portraiture #portraits #uesnyc #ElizabethPeyton @GladstoneNYC

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