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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Visual Art Whitney Biennial 2010

Posted by Jen Graves on Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:59 AM

Storm Tharp, Pigeon (after Shunsen) (2009), ink, gouache, colored pencil, graphite, charcoal, and fabric dye on paper

Storm Tharp, Pigeon (after Shunsen) (2009), ink, gouache, colored pencil, graphite, charcoal, and fabric dye on paper

The opening is tonight, and the handicapping of the show simply called 2010 has begun. Jerry Saltz's review's not yet out, but on Facebook, he told people not to bother going. Charlie Finch of Artnet, meanwhile, says it's golden. Linda Yablonsky's got a great take on the work by the ladies in the show—since this is the first time the ladies have outnumbered the guys. Nothing by Roberta yet. Ben Davis takes to Slate on the single artist the curators say is the star of the show (is that even cool?), George Condo.

Yesterday I got an email from PDX Contemporary Art, which represents Storm Tharp, the Portland artist in the biennial. It had four images of the four paintings he'll have in the show attached; a second email announced that after the show, the paintings will come back to Portland (freshly revalued, of course) for sale. Tacky? Then again, the paintings are something.

UPDATE: Vanity Fair sleepwalked through, declaring it the Ambienalle (with pics).

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Jen,

Jerry Saltz here.
Thank you for the mention.
However, I was SO not telling people NOT to see the 2010 Whitney Biennial!
I clearly rued that I didn't want anyone to see the show becasue I didn't want anyone to disagree with my reveiw of the show!
D'oh!
It was my dumb idea of a joke, of showing a little of what an art critic goes through before a big reveiw comes out.
Hello? It was a joke. Really. Hah! Oy!
Anyway, I deleted the entire thread a few hours after I posted it becasue I didn't want to risk ANYONE wrongfully misconstruing what I meant by that.
Oh well.
Keep up the good work. I appreciate your comments on my Facebook Page.

Sigh,

Jerry Saltz

Posted by Jerry Saltz on February 24, 2010 at 1:25 PM