art attack: biennial edition...

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It's been so long since I did an Art Attack! Here's the scoop on the Biennial: The Whitney is The Whitney Museum of American Art, but they are pretty loose about the "American-ness" and included foreign born artists living here and American born artists living abroad. I don't think it matters as much as it once did.

In 2004 the show was up-beat and included a lot of young artists that are now highly popular, like the amazing Corey Archangel who has a blog here. Look here for when he hacked into Atari Games.

This year's show is much darker. The title is "Day for Night", which is the name of a French Noir film by Truffaut from 1973. The French title is "La nuit americaine" that literally translates to The American Night. It's a film about making a film (art about art).

Here are some highlights, but as I was looking at the site I realized that I liked more than I originally thought.



1) Richard Serra's "Stop Bush" Abu Gharib prisoner drawing from 2004 - You'll remember he stated that this was not a work of art, but a protest.



2) Troy Brauntuch's series of untitled white crayon on black canvas drawings - This was my favorite thing in the show.



3) Mark Grotjohn's paintings: This is a hot young artist who will get bigger and bigger.



4) Lisa Lapinski's sculpture - I liked the caning and thought this was striking.