“Impress me, please, without taking your clothes off,” pleaded RoseLee Goldberg to performance artists during yesterday’s press conference announcing commissions for Performa 11 the upcoming biennial in New York, Nov. 1-21, 2011. “I guess I’m becoming kind of a puritan.”
After 20 years, the black bronze allegorical figure of Diana by Anna Hyatt Huntington is gone from the elegant spiral-staircase-lined rotunda at the 186-year-old National Academy Museum and School at 1083 Fifth Avenue (a half-block north of the Guggenheim Museum).
With the Whitney Museum of American Art’s move to the Meatpacking District on the horizon, the institution is taking its annual fall gala from its Upper East Side home for the first time, and bringing it to Hudson River Park at Pier 57.
For whatever reason, The Big Lebowski has inspired a cult fan base so devout that it boasts its own festival, religion (“Dudeism”) and now, just maybe, an art genre.
