James Kalm Frames NY

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James Kalm Frames NY

James Kalm and his hand-held camera infiltrate the New York art scene to bring you undercover reports from the best shows and hottest galleries.

10:49

James Kalm Frames NY: Joe Bradley & Chris Martin...
James Kalm parks his bike and slogs through a late-winter blizzard to partake in the opening of this double show featuring two of contemporary paintings most exciting practitioners. Joe Bradley employs the trappings of high formalism, Minimalism and an austere vision leavened with a unique whimsy and humor, while we are presented with a chance to view some of the massive paintings that brought Chris Martin's work to the public's attention in the late '80s. The contrasting of these two sensibilities provides us a chance to witness the wide spectrum of today's painting practice.

05:21

James Kalm Frames NY: Outsider Art Fair 2010
James Kalm wheels his bike through midtown Manhattan traffic to visit this year’s iteration of the Outsiders Art Fair. With what appears to be fewer and fewer avenues for modernist progress, many avant artists are looking to the naïve or primitive for inspiration. Each year this fair brings fresh revelations and renewed acquaintance with some of the world’s hidden masters. Includes an interview with Bonnie Grossman about her discovery of the work of A.G. Rizzoli.

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08:20

James Kalm Frames NY: Ryan Schneider at PRISKA C....
James Kalm investigates the third one-man exhibition by this young Brooklyn based painter. Although there is a strong contingency of abstraction that still holds sway over large portions of the painting scene in New York, there are talented artists who pursue an expressionistic figuration. Schneider’s oftentimes large canvases carry overt reverences to a New York School sensibility with their physical employment of pigment, drips, and recently poetic notes scribbled over the surface. Homespun imagery mingles with the exotic from the tropics, and continues a legacy extending from the likes of Eric Fischl and David Bates.

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05:36

James Kalm Frames NY: Damien Hirst at GAGOSIAN GALLERY
James Kalm joins throngs of fans, admirers and groupies to elbow his way through “The End of an Era” the latest offering from Damien Hirst. With his worldwide fame peaking from the recent auction of his work, which coincided with the global economic crisis, in “End of an Era Hirst” plays out his opulent critique of materialism. Featuring a pickled bull, a gold-plated case with nearly 30,000 manufactured diamonds and photorealistic paintings of renowned gems this show displays a wide variety of medium and approaches used by the artist..

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Who Is James Kalm? James Kalm is the alter ego of New York artist Loren Munk. With over 30 years' experience as a painter, Munk began making video reviews of the NY art scene in 2006, quickly establishing a YouTube cult following with the Kalm Report.		More to Explore 8 videos New York's Best Galleries and Museums 10 videos Best of the New York Times 10 videos RJ's Street Art London: Highlights

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