File under: obscure, meta-conceptual, art heist
As some of you who follow these things might know, the conceptual artist Michael Asher has been doing an ongoing project for the public art exhibition Skulptur Projekte Münster, in which he parks a...
View ArticleMy Own Private Utopia: An Interview with Patrick Killoran
© Patrick Killoran. Lost & Found (Tierra del Mar), 2003. We’ve heard about these places, micronations, tiny republics of one, whose borders are not quite legal and whose leaders are madder than the...
View Article“The Disappearance” Screening in NYUFF
The Disappearance will be screening as part of The Only Possible City — one of many programs in this year’s New York Underground Film Festival. The screening will be at Anthology Film Archives on April...
View ArticleWho made this artwork?
A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine, the artist Judi Werthein, asked me to participate in a book project she is organizing. The project involves, in her words, writing “a story you’ve been told...
View ArticleThree Questions for Shelly Silver
© Shelly Silver. in complete world, 2008. Video still. Courtesy Shelly Silver John Menick: Rather than begin with photo or video, I wanted to bring up the third medium What I’m Looking For deals with:...
View ArticleOpening 1/15: “Paper Exhibition” at Artists Space
John Menick. Plot Points, 2009. Graphite on paper. 18″ x 24″. “Paper Exhibition,” a group exhibition curated by Raimundas Malašauskas, is opening on January 15, 7 pm, at Artists Space (38 Greene...
View ArticleOpening: A Series of Coincidences
I’m showing Hearsay in “A Series of Coincidences,” a group exhibition curated Regine Basha opening this Saturday (Feb 21) at Cabinet’s new exhibition space. Stop by if you get a chance. Details follow....
View ArticleInterview with NYFA
Last week, the New York Foundations for the Arts published an interview with me as part of their “Meet a NYFA Artist” series. (I was a video fellow last year.) Thought I might reproduce the interview...
View ArticleInterview with Melvin Moti in Art in America
I have a new interview with Melvin Moti published on Art in America’s website. From the intro: As film slips into obsolescence, it has increasingly found a home in the visual arts. By ‘film’ I don’t...
View ArticleHow to Tell a Story
A series of eight drawings based on diagrams and texts found in various “how to write” manuals. Sample book subjects include how to write screenplays, romance novels, mystery novels, and science...
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