Blog entries by Despina Stokou
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by Despina Stokou, 28 Jan 2013One of the things I will definitely miss about NY are the Lower East Side Sundays. The big galleries of Chelsea and midtown are closed on the day of the Lord (for obvious reasons), so the bigger and smaller names of art journalism (and we) are free to join the buzzing residents of Chinatown in a lovely afternoon art... -
by Despina Stokou, 21 Jan 2013MISS or DISS We decided to spice up our weekly What Did I Miss post with a +/- system for you to gage whether or not you came up with the right answer to the all important winter question: "Is it worth leaving my warm bed to freeze my face off and see some art and people?" What we are reviewing here will be... -
by Despina Stokou, 28 Dec 2012As the last days and nights (mostly nights) of 2012 rapidly slip through our sticky-sweet fingers, and since the world has not ended; a retrospection of shorts might be in order. What happened in the last 12 months, where have we been and where are we headed? Inane as it is, the need to look back and evaluate every... -
by Despina Stokou, 10 Dec 2012I AM IN MIAMI, BITCH! *one of the T-shirt Slogans Despite it’s stretching on to three districts North, South Beach and what was very misleadingly called Designer District , where I went expecting petites boutiques and was confronted with warehouses and more graffiti than I was prepared for, with horribly tacky... -
by Despina Stokou, 20 Nov 2012IDIOMS AND PECULIARITIES OF CONTEMPORARY EMAIL COMMUNICATION In the second year (and a half) of its existence, Pigs, then Bigs, and now Bpigs, has admittedly stepped on another toe or two. Your responses, scold, and enthusiasm have been a constant companion, helping us retrace our steps, or just move on. As... -
by Despina Stokou, 14 Nov 2012ON ART AND MORTALITY It is immature and childish and I should probably stop doing it; especially now I actually work with them. In fact, if you are one of my gallerists, please feel unaffected by following statements, or better –stop reading alltogether. We talk, we drink, we laugh, but then it just... -
by Despina Stokou, 12 Nov 2012Julia Sherman, THE DOCTOR AND THE SAILOR- part of the Recess performances @ Moma Over the duration of the evening, the artist and one live model stage Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon *********************** While Chelsea galleries are still fervently working on re-building, re-... -
by Despina Stokou, 29 Oct 2012This, dear Artist, is the Whitney Museum- pronounced We Tni. You will come to show here, when you grow up. During the openings you wait in line, then check your name at the girls with the ipad at the door. The space is candle lit, they have good music, bad wine, and delicious pop corn (and tortillia chips). You are... -
by Despina Stokou, 22 Oct 2012A selection of shows you would have the chance to visit if you were in New York this weekend. Pictures are listed from: Lower East Side towards Chelsea, awesome to weird, and from normal to paranormal. LOWER EAST SIDE Andra Ursuta @ Ramiken Crucible Henrik Olesen @ Reena Spaulings this is... -
by Despina Stokou, 17 Oct 2012rocket Jesus or the best poster I have seen since a long time "Concordia Concordia" Thomas Hirschhorn@Gladstone Gallery through Oct 20th, pic courtesy of the gallery see more “I want to do something Big.“ I nurse a mild contempt for press releases, people who write them (and take... -
by Despina Stokou, 1 Oct 2012*********************** In New York , as in life, you have to move in a firm pace. (Why? Let's say there is no other way). This is not easy when you don't know where you are going. It is hard to keep the tempo with your head bent over your smart phone looking for directions. By the time your first taxi driver... -
by Despina Stokou, 19 Sep 2012Rosa Barba (carlier gebauer) how many gallerists are needed to make something work? To be perfectly honest, I thought abc was kind of blah. Ok let me rephrase that. abc was fine, people liked it, quite a few LOVED IT (our editor Maria Santos for example), it was new, fresh, airy*, very well made, in fact I can... -
by Despina Stokou, 14 Sep 2012If collecting is a virus- I think I got it: Acquire unique objects that will guide, inspire, comfort and maybe even bore and enrage you throughout your life. Objects you and you alone possess (and are possessed by). I get it. To enrich my imaginary collection started at Art Cologne this year I browsed abc yesterday.... -
by Despina Stokou, 13 Sep 2012I am looking at cranes. This is correct yes? Starting backwards- Cyprien Gaillard did it again to our city! abc sneak peeks - during installation David Adamo @Ibid Ignacio Uriarte @FiggevonRosen Jenni Tischler @Krobath Klemm Gallery Der Geist von Kurumba oder Farbe lügt! @... -
by Despina Stokou, 12 Sep 2012In the uncertainty of our ever shifting art times; where anybody could be somebody any minute (and nobody the next), nobody risks disappointing a conversation partner who might eventually outrank him, politeness is religion and negation does not sound like one. It sounds like an affirmation. A few examples.... -
by Despina Stokou, 4 Sep 2012BPIGS, first issue budget plan - June 2010 “The identity of an artist doesn’t have to be a truthful one, they believed. (about Duchamp and Man Ray) What they were doing was unpicking the conventions.” Jennifer Mundy, curator of Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia Tate Modern "Everything is true, only... -
by Despina Stokou, 30 Aug 2012St. Agnes church - Wed night Michaela Meise performed church songs that relate to her recent album Preis dem Todesüberwinder Berlin is apparently a teenager of 772 years old. I am not quite sure how old the art scene in Berlin is, but all everybody seems to be asking (themselves) in the last year is- Is it EVER... -
by Despina Stokou, 22 Aug 2012The only other word that is pronounced with the same eye rolling, self explaining disgust and dot dot dots besides “Artists!...“ is without a doubt the word: “Tourists!...“ As we spend these last summer weeks in what resembles the mood in a heterosexual relationship in demise: hot-storm-...