David Velasco
1000 WORDS: ART CLUB 2000
February 2013
IN THE YEAR 1993 you were about twenty years lighter, and everything was that much cooler. People were weirder and partied more (and better). We all stayed out a little bit later. Which is surely why that year got picked up as the ostensible… READ ON
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Echo Park
David Velasco on the Merce Cunningham Park Avenue Armory Event box set
December 2012
ONE OF THE BEST FILMS OF 2012 was not released in theaters or shown at any festivals or streamed on Netflix or anywhere really but is only available on DVD through a small San Francisco–based nonprofit art-film distributor. The Park Avenue… READ ON
FILM
Lucinda Childs
Lucinda Childs talks about her work with Judson Dance Theater
December 2012
The dancer and choreographer Lucinda Childs is one of the constitutive members of the group that came to be known as Judson Dance Theater in the early 1960s. Her extensive body of work as a choreographer includes such celebrated pieces as … READ ON
500 WORDS
Collins Calling
The 11th Art Basel Miami Beach
December 2012 MIAMI
I HATE MIAMI. DON’T YOU? Death and doom beneath the surface, tugging at all the smiles desperate for a camera. Bodies working hard to keep up with their implants. Implants working hard to keep up with other people’s implants. Everyone … READ ON
DIARY
David Velasco
The Year in Dance
December 2012
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19. A conversation in the Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium at the Museum of Modern Art in New York during the first week of “Some sweet day,” a three-week-long performance series featuring six choreographers. … READ ON
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Ralph Lemon
Ralph Lemon talks about “Some sweet day” at the Museum of Modern Art
October 2012
Ralph Lemon has never been about just one thing. A celebrated dancer, choreographer, writer, and visual artist, Lemon turns toward the curatorial in his latest endeavor, “Some sweet day,” which stands to be a significant touchstone in … READ ON
500 WORDS
Tate Tanks
Stuart Comer and Catherine Wood talk about the Tate Tanks
October 2012
LIVE ART IS HERE TO STAY. On July 18, 2012, Tate Modern launched the Tanks, a subterranean group of cylindrical chambers and other spaces that constitute the first phase in a dramatic expansion of the museum’s building by Herzog & de Meuron.… READ ON
500 WORDS
“XTRAVAGANZA: Staging Leigh Bowery”
October 2012
Curated by Angela Stief Like Jesus, Leigh Bowery left this morbid world at age thirty-three. Hardly a saint, however, Bowery was a complicated man: muse to Lucian Freud, cobelligerent of Michael Clark and Charles Atlas, thorn to straight … READ ON
PREVIEWS
Poet’s Problem
The 30th São Paulo Bienal
September 2012 SÃO PAULO
“IT IS NOT THE CITY that needs the biennial but the biennial that needs the city,” explained Luis Pérez-Oramas, the MoMA-trained chief curator of the Thirtieth São Paulo Bienal. “Unlike Venice or Documenta, we work in a very complex… READ ON
DIARY
David Velasco on Annette Michelson’s “The Dancer and the Dance” and “Lives of Performers”
September 2012
BEFORE SHE BECAME the doyenne of film theory, Annette Michelson was also a champion of what some anachronistically called the New Dance. In her first feature article in Artforum, on André Breton, in the September 1966 issue devoted to … READ ON