The hotel only has dial-up in the rooms, so posting won't happen too often, or be very link-ish.
On Saturday we went to some of the Chung King galleries. Highlights:
Brad Borevitz's video titled PornoCopia: 10 Machines for Fucking Your Eyes Out and 1 Romantic Interlude, which uses wacky image manipulation, like screens which break into geometric "shards" with the original source material being hard-core gay porn. Good soundtrack too of various mixed music. At 4-F gallery.
Terence Koh at Peres Projects. You may know of his previous "incarnation", asianpunkboy.
Rosson Crow, Andrew Guenther, and LoVid at The Happy Lion.
We also went to the minimalism show at MOCA, which was very good. We spent so much time there we didn't make it to sixspace, but we did have drinks with Caryn, Sean, and their friend Mike later at the beautiful Millenium Biltmore.
After drinks we had dinner at The Standard Downtown's "coffee shop." I was surprised by how great the food was, given the over-the-top scene. They have a Calder mobile and a Jenny Holzer scrolling LED text piece in the lobby, along with a pool table and plenty of bouncers. Our waitress was like Suzanne Sommers's character on Three's Company, but maybe 10-15 years later. We loved her. At one point, when she started to pour more wine for us, we told her, "That's OK. We'll pour it." Usually, people are offended when we do that. This time, the response was, "Thank you! I appreciate that!"
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Updated: Oops, left off one great show: Tapestry From An Asteroid at David Kordansky, with some of the artists we know from NYC galleries like Foxy Production, Daniel Reich, and John Connelly Presents. I especially liked the sculpture by Sterling Ruby.
Cool post.... what did you think of that Chinatown area as a gallery destination, as the sum of its parts?
I really liked seeing all of it in one easy place. We never made it to any of the other galleries, so that was the sum of our gallery experience this time. We spent the rest of the time going to see architecture, and eating out. We also hit LACMA, which we both enjoyed. We're headed out to see the Hammer shows now. They're open until 9 on Thursdays, and it's free!
Oh, another thought. There were a lot more people whose work we've seen in NYC than I expected.