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Ron Athey
YOUR BLOODY BIRTHDAY
by Elisabeth Kley

Dec. 20, 2011
Marking his 50th birthday last Friday with his first New York appearance since 2006, London-based extreme performance artist Ron Athey presented Resonate/Obliterate – the final incarnation of a piece created in 2007 and since seen in 18 cities in England, France, Spain, Italy, Poland and Canada.

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Elisabeth Kley Archives

Dec. 6, 2011	Jack Early FOREVER AND TODAY by Elizabeth Kley Less is often more in Jack Early's film, What To Do with a Drunken Soldier?, at Forever & Young in Chinatown.

Nov. 3, 2011	Sarah Braman FRAGMENTATION EN POINTE by Elisabeth Kley Sculptor Sarah Braman brings her deconstructed Lower East Side minimalism to Mitchell-Innes & Nash in Chelsea.

Oct. 11, 2011	Rico Gatson BEAUTY AND RAGE by Elisabeth Kley A 15-year survey of the "formal conflagrations" of New York artist Rico Gatson at Exit Art in Manhattan.

Sept. 27, 2011	Jack Whitten FROM GARBAGE TO GEMS by Elisabeth Kley Alexander Grey mounts a solo show of the pioneering Southern painter's new works.

Sept. 20, 2011	Robert Melee THE SEARCH FOR SHAMELESSNESS by Elizabeth Kley Alcoholic debauchery, erotic escapades and rainbow marbleizing in “Triscuit Obfuscation,” Robert Melee’s new show at Andrew Kreps Gallery.

July 27, 2011	Scott & Tyson Reeder CLUB NUTZ IN NEW YORK by Elisabeth Kley Courtesy of Salon 94 Freemans and Art Since the Summer of '69 galleries, Scott and Tyson Reeder's Club Nutz comes to the Lower East Side.

July 25, 2011	John Bock MODERN AUTOMATON by Elizabeth Kley In his new film at Anton Kern Gallery, German artist John Bock pays homage to German Expressionist film and Dadaist performance.

July 18, 2011	Sigmar Polke HIGHER BEINGS COMMANDED by Elisabeth Kley A rare New York show of photographs by Sigmar Polke at Leo Koenig Inc.

July 11, 2011	Femme Power GENDER ON CANVAS by Elisabeth Kley Gender-bending creativity runs amok in a three-artist exhibition curated by Rhizome executive director Lauren Cornell.

June 10, 2011	Femme Power GENDER ON CANVAS by Elisabeth Kley Gender-bending creativity runs amok in a three-artist exhibition curated by Rhizome executive director Lauren Cornell.

June 10, 2011	FriendsWithYou THE GOOD CHEER ESTHETIC by Elisabeth Kley The Miami art collective FriendsWithYou brings back childlike wonder in a new show at The Hole on Bowery.

June 9, 2011	Art Reviews NEW ART IN TOKYO by Elisabeth Kley Hiroshi Sugito & Jun Aoki, "Zen and the Psychedelic," Shoshiro Matsubara, Kun Ying Lin, Megumi Yamashiro, sangjunRoh, Yosuke Kobashi, Chiyuki Sadagami.

June 1, 2011	CHRIS KRAUS: FILMS FROM THE 1980S AND '90S by Elisabeth Kley Film experiments from the super-8 era by punk intellectual and author Chris Kraus at Real Fine Arts in Brooklyn.

May 17, 2011	Emily Sundblad SUNDAY PAINTERby Elisabeth Kley The Lower East Side gallery éminence grise and performance artist has a painting show at Algus Greenspon.

May 10, 2011	Team Gallery OLE JOSE! by Elisabeth Kley Jose Freire’s Team Gallery opens a new second space at 47 Wooster Street with painter David Ratcliff.

Apr. 27, 2011	Participant, Inc. PARTY UNDERGROUND by Elisabeth Kley Lovett/Codagnone headline a benefit for Lia Gangitano's Particpant, Inc., held at Sikkema, Jenkins & Co.

Apr. 8, 2011	Simon Leung COSMOPOLITAN NOMAD by Elisabeth Kley The peripatetic life of art world intellectual Warren Niesluchowski is the subject of Simon Leung's new docuvideo at CUE Art Foundation.

Mar. 25, 2011	GOTHAM ART & THEATER by Elisabeth Kley Miriam Cahn at Elisabeth Dee, Jonas Wood at Anton Kern, and Frank Calloway at Andrew Edlin.

Mar. 3, 2011	Maria Petschnig: NAUGHTY AND NICE by Elisabeth Kley Questions of erotic intimacy and kinky sexuality in photographs and videos by the Austrian artist Maria Petschnig.

Feb. 23, 2011	Kai Althoff: LONELY HEART by Elisabeth Kley At Gladstone Gallery in Chelsea, artist Kai Althoff constructs a otherworldly narrative of youth and desire.

Feb. 3, 2011	Brice Dellsperger: MULTIPLICITY OF MASKS by Elisabeth Kley Brice Dellsperger’s gender-bending filmic vision turns to Eyes Wide Shut.

Jan. 7, 2011	ALL THE LITTLE PEOPLE by Elisabeth Kley Charles LeDray goes "micro" at the Whitney Museum.

Dec. 27, 2010	ALTER EGON by Elisabeth Kley John Kelly’s performance biography of Egon Schiele.

Dec. 15, 2010	BODY AWARENESS by Elisabeth Kley The wild self-portraits of Austrian painter Maria Lassnig.

Dec. 1, 2010	Brobdingnagian BIJOUX by Elisabeth Kley Anselm Kiefer’s "Next Year in Jerusalem."

Sept. 14, 2010	FREAK FLAG by Elisabeth Kley David LaChapelle, Michael Jackson and the Catholic Church.

Aug. 26, 2010	PITY THE TREE by Elisabeth Kley Kal Spelletich brings forest giants down to a sad human level.

Aug. 11, 2010	ACTION ARRESTED by Elisabeth Kley Babette Mangolte’s Minimalist photographs and films.

July 29, 2010	SOUVENIRS OF SALVATION by Elisabeth Kley Jack Pierson’s exotic souvenirs at Bortolami Gallery.

July 27, 2010	HUMAN CAMERA by Elisabeth Kley Forty years of film art from Michel Auder -- by turns glamorous, lyrical and seedy.

June 11, 2010	DECAYING WORLD by Elisabeth Kley New works by Nate Lowman and Karla Black at Andrea Rosen Gallery.

June 9, 2010	JOHN GIORNO LIVE by Elisabeth Kley The celebrated New York poet does his first gallery installation in Manhattan.

June 1, 2010	WISH YOU WERE HERE by Elisabeth Kley Work and play in Devon Dikeou’s "It’s Déjà vu All Over Again.".

May 24, 2010	GOTHAM ART & THEATER by Elisabeth Kley Edward Kienholz’ Roxys, plus new work by T.J. Wilcox, Colette, Brent Green and Jorge Pardo.

May 14, 2010	GOTHAM ART & THEATER by Elisabeth Kley Lil Picard, Lizzi Bougatsos and Lee Bul.

Apr. 23, 2010	GOTHAM ART & THEATER by Elisabeth Kley Simon Hantaï, Eileen Quinlan and Willie Cole.

Feb. 12, 2010	GOTHAM ART & THEATER by Elisabeth Kley "Rip it Up and Start Again" at Artists Space, "Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journal" at White Columns and "Double Bill" at Art in General.

Jan. 21, 2010	GOTHAM ART & THEATER by Elisabeth Kley Virgil Marti, Claire Fontaine, Omer Fast, Sharon Lockhart, Robin Graubard and Hélio Oiticica.

Jan. 5, 2010	GOTHAM ART & THEATER by Elisabeth Kley Martin Wong, Christian Holstad, Wallace Berman, Tommy Hartung, Kuba Bakowski, Clara Tice.

Dec. 2, 2009	IMMORTAL BELOVED by Elisabeth Kley Slater Bradley studies the mournful aura of Joy Division.

Nov. 19, 2009	GOTHAM ART & THEATER by Elisabeth Kley Tracey Emin, Steve Gianakos, Sister Mary Corita Kent, Jonas Mekas, William Kentridge, Joan Jonas.

Nov. 10, 2009	GOTHAM ART & THEATER by Elisabeth Kley George Grosz, Fernell Franco, Sally Mann, Justine Kurland, Hellen van Meene and Keizo Kitajima.

Oct. 7, 2009	GOTHAM ART & THEATER by Elisabeth Kley Genesis P-Orridge, K8 Hardy, the Bernadette Corporation, My Barbarian, Naomi Fisher and Austé.

Aug. 24, 2009	GOTHAM ART & THEATER by Elisabeth Kley David Goldblatt, Song Dong, Mayer Kirshenblatt, Hurvin Anderson, and Annie Pootoogook.

July 24, 2009	GOTHAM ART & THEATER by Elisabeth Kley Summer group shows at Marian Goodman, Murray Guy, Alexander and Bonin, Lisa Cooley, Harris Lieberman, Casey Kaplan.

June 25, 2009	GOTHAM ART & THEATER by Elisabeth Kley Huang Yong Ping, Patty Chang, Laurel Nakadate, Andrea Fraser, Sadie Benning, Rochelle Feinstein.

May 20, 2009	GOTHAM ART & THEATER by Elisabeth Kley Malcolm Morley, Oliver Herring, Betty Tompkins, Carrie Moyer, Basim Magdy, Glen Baldridge, Michelle Handelman.

Apr. 24, 2009	GOTHAM ART & THEATER by Elisabeth Kley "Late Picasso," John Waters, Kalup Linzy, Kinke Kooi, Thomas Trosch, Richard Allen Morris.

Mar. 27, 2009	GOTHAM ART & THEATER by Elisabeth Kley Carolee Schneemann, Laura Parnes, Paul Sharits, James Castle, Andrew Lord.

Feb. 19, 2009	GOTHAM ART & THEATER by Elisabeth Kley Mary Heilmann, Derek Jarman, Matta, Justin Samson, Peter Caine, Michael Mahalchick.

Jan. 26, 2009	GOTHAM ART & THEATER by Elisabeth Kley Stephen Sprouse, Liz Renay, Nick Cage, Barkley L. Hendricks, "Gothic: Dark Glamour," Don Bachardy.

Jan. 5, 2009	GOTHAM ART & THEATER by Elisabeth Kley Nathalie Djurberg, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Joyce Pensato, Nayland Blake, Lily Ludlow and Allen Cordell, Josef Strau.

Dec. 1, 2008	GOTHAM ART & THEATER by Elisabeth Kley Cindy Sherman, Richard Prince, Jonathan Horowitz, Stan Douglas, Christopher Brooks, Gail Thacker.

Oct. 28, 2008	GOTHAM ART & THEATER by Elisabeth Kley Leon Golub, Berlinde de Bruyckere, Medardo Rosso, Robert Melee, Nicole Cherubini, Aurel Schmidt, more.

Sept. 25, 2008	GOTHAM ART & THEATER by Elisabeth Kley Sue Williams, Bendix Harms, John Bock, Tam Ochiai, Leigh Ledare, Agathe Snow, Genesis P-Orridge, more.

Aug. 7, 2008	GOTHAM ART & THEATER by Elisabeth Kley Group shows galore, at Gavin Brown, Maccarone, Matthew Marks, Greene Naftali, Moti Hasson, D’Amelio Terras and Canada.

July 11, 2008	GOTHAM ART & THEATER by Elisabeth Kley Jane and Louise Wilson, Mat Collishaw, Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, Tetsumi Kudo, Cameron Hayes, Dawn Mellor.

June 20, 2008	GOTHAM ART & THEATER by Elisabeth Kley Natsuki Uruma, E’wao Kagoshima, Kerry James Marshall, Laleh Khorramian and Ellen Cantor.

May 27, 2008	GOTHAM ART & THEATER by Elisabeth Kley Jonathan Meese, Otto Muehl, Joan Mitchell, Gert & Uwe Tobias, David Altmejd, Rachel Feinstein, Delia Brown, Robert Hawkins.

Apr. 18, 2008	GOTHAM ART & THEATER by Elisabeth Kley Marcel Dzama, Henry Darger, Angelo Filomeno, Hope Atherton, Peter Hujar, Mika Tajima, Glen Fogel, Eric Heist.

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