In his second solo exhibition at Invisible-Exports, “Hard & Fast,” Clifford Owens shared the stage with a host of contemporary artists, showcasing performances, paintings, and sculptures by others tha…
Welcome to Part 3 of ‘How to Fix the Art World.’ If you are just now tuning in, here are the links to Parts 1 and 2, and here’s a little background:
Back in August my staff and I embarked on an…
A year ago, in a former bank in Brooklyn, RoseLee Goldberg hosted a postmodern fundraiser featuring a “special food performance” by artist Jennifer Rubell. The event was to celebrate the…
In early September, Clifford Owens’s new show was being installed at the Lower East Side gallery Invisible-Exports, where Owens had just finished a residency. He had been at the gallery…
Clifford Owens's "Five Days" was an ambitious undertaking, if for no other reason than that it occurred on five successive evenings, Nov. 18 to 22, in performances lasting from one to two hours each…
On a Tuesday in late May, I headed to Third Streaming in SoHo, one of the city's most interesting art spaces to have opened its doors in the past couple of years. Artist Clifford Owens had curated a…
One lesson gleaned from Clifford Owens’s “Anthology” is that submitting to other people’s instructions doesn’t rule out first-person provocation. For this project, Owens solicited performance scores f…