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James Kalm returns to the East Village for this tribute exhibition to the golden age of Downtown Grunge. Between 1981 and 1987 the East Village was home to over eighty galleries, with its own night clubs, cabarets and Rock n Roll venues. With its extravagantly decadent life style, this frenzied drug fueled scene was also the nexus of a flowering of gay liberation. The onset of the AIDS epidemic, hit a broad swath of this community, and many succumbed. In short order the entire milieu collapsed. Featuring interviews with Robert Curcio and Rick Prol.

James Kalm towels off, and returns to Chelsea to bring viewers the second installment of Painting: Now and Forever at Green Naftali. This portion of the exhibition has been described as the light side with a more whimsical and ironic take on current painting. Featuring works by Paul Thek, Laura Owens, Paul Sharits, Christopher Wool, R.H. Quaytman, Gelitin, Bjarne Melgaard Stephen Prina and others.

James Kalm risks a soaking deluge to bring viewers the first gallery of this abbreviated glimpse of on of this summer s most discussed painting shows. Presenting a cross section of generational and geographical implications, Painting: Now and Forever, Part II is the second installment of the original exhibition that happened in 1998. At that time the shows were split between Matthew Marks Gallery and the late Pat Hearn s. Though limited in scope these exhibitions display a broad spectrum of current practices while also re-evaluating past movements with in a Post Modernist context. Featuring works by Lily van der Stokker, Jack Goldstein, Martin Kippenberger, Rodney Graham, Binky Palermo and others.

James Kalm peeks in for a selection of today s most challenging performance pieces at English Kills Gallery in MoJo. Maximum Perception: Contemporary Brooklyn Performance , curated by Peter Dobill and Chris Harding, seeks to create an entirely encompassing environment of performance work that will engulf viewers in a more sustained experience. This opening features works by Rob Andrews, Sarah H. Paulson, Holly Faurot and others. There will be continuous performances for the duration of the exhibition. Featuring interviews with curators Peter Dobill and Chris Harding

James Kalm returns to MoJo (East Williamsburg/Bushwick) to introduce viewers to the district s newest arts venue, Factory Fresh. Fresh Meat is a group show of works by gallery artists with a diverse selection of media and intentions that nonetheless displays shared sensibilities from within the community s youngest practitioners. Featuring a complete performance by E. Greem, and brief glances at works by Dresden Pawlick, Nora Lee, Autumn Marie, Jena Kane Lindsey Elsaesser and others.

James Kalm is pleased to bring viewers a surprise studio visit with Brooklyn Rail publisher and artist, Phong Bui. With little to begin with, besides a passionate love for art and artists, Phong has guided the Rail from an amateurishly youthful experiment, to become one of New York City s most influential newspapers presenting an unpretentious critical perspective on arts, politics and culture. During this brief visit, Phong talks about his interview techniques, we view Jonas Mekas The Song of AVILA , peak at Phong s portrait project, and discuss the mission of the Brooklyn Rail.

James Kalm takes a summer Friday and zips to the eastern edge of Williamsburg to bring viewers a glimpse of 5 Identities, 5 Destinations . Andrew Ford has curated a selection of work by five female artists that presents a cross section of what might be called Pop Surrealism, Chick Art or Low Brow. While each artist displays their unique vision, there are commonalities that unify these artists within an enclave of contemporary painting. Featuring interviews with Amy Crehore, Jenn Porreca and Ewelina Ferruso and works by Lizz Lopez and Molly Crabapple.

James Kalm heads to North Chelsea, to take in this intriguing selection of work. As a snow machine churns out fake flakes over the summer streets, we walk in on a performance by Titus Kaphar wherein he excises a classic figure from a painting. Robert Rauschenberg s Erased de Kooning is parodied by Mike Bidlo, and John Baldessari alters a Richard Avedon photo of Marilyn Monroe. Laurie Anderson makes a cameo appearance with pithy remarks by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright .

James Kalm ignores the sweltering heat wave to visit this astounding exhibition of works by legendary San Francisco artist Jess. Since rejecting a career in nuclear physics to pursue his unique vision of art, Jess (Burgess Collins, 1923-2004) has created one of the most influential reputations on the West Coast. With an independence of thought, Jess evolved an unmistakable painting style, as well as carried the tradition of collage to new heights of richness and complexity. This is the first New York gallery show in over twenty years and the first in-depth presentation of the work since the Whitney s Grand Collage retrospective in 1994.

James Kalm checks in to view the curatorial efforts of Maureen Cavanaugh. Admirer is a selection of some of today s most recognized young artists, with a special attention to recent developments in figurative painting from the classic rendering of Ridley Howard and Alex Katz, to the eccentric psychedelic pastiches of Erik Parker. Maureen has included some of the best current abstractionists like Torben Glehler, Brad Kahlhamer and Kristin Baker. Also featured are Claudine Anrather, Kyle Simon, Lauren Luloff, Carolyn Salas et al.

Jmes Kalm bikes around New York s Upper Bay to bring viewers a ground floor look at Olafur Eliasson s Waterfalls. Estimated at $13 million dollars, this is the Icelandic/ Danish artist s largest project to date, with four, ten story towers, sending thousands of gallons of water per minute cascading into the East River. Kalm is accompanied by Lamar Clarkson for a walking tour of the Brooklyn Bridge. Brief glimpses of all the towers are featured, as well as views under lights at night.

James Kalm, a confirmed bike enthusiast, documents a new manifestation of bad-assed biker culture with the BLACK LABEL, Tall Bikers . While taking his usual Sunday afternoon cruse, Kalm spies this group of bike riders heading from Manhattan s Lower East Side to Downtown Williamsburg. Tagging along, Kalm chats with members of BLACK LABEL, a Tall Bike club. Social misfits, or harbingers of a new, up-yours biking attitude, this video shows a new and higher level of NYC s get-down Downtown Bohemian bike scene.

James Kalm battles Manhattan s morning rush hour, peddling twelve miles, to pay homage to the Grand Dame of the New York Art World, Louise Bourgeois. This remarkable retrospective gathers the most extensive selection of Bourgeois works to date, and features her major sculpture, installations, paintings, drawings and graphics. Viewers will see the arc of stylistic development form the early Surrealist to the Biomorphic, assemblage and the installations with sexually charged images that makes Bourgeois an essential Feminist artist. Part II traces the artist s developments from the mid sixties to the present. This exhibition is organized in association with the Tate Modern, London, and Center Pompidou, Paris.

James Kalm battles Manhattan s morning rush hour, peddling twelve miles, to pay homage to the Grand Dame of the New York Art World, Louise Bourgeois. This remarkable retrospective gathers the most extensive selection of Bourgeois works to date, and features her major sculpture, installations, paintings, drawings and graphics. Viewers will see the arc of stylistic development form the early Surrealist to the Biomorphic, assemblage and the installations with sexually charged images that makes Bourgeois an essential Feminist artist. Part I presents works from the early 1940 s till the mid 1960 s. This exhibition is organized in association with the Tate Modern, London, and Center Pompidou, Paris.

James Kalm pedals to 57th Street to view the Harkness exhibit in its last week. Hilary Harkness employs a hyper-detailed technique that recalls the works of old masters Bosch, Altdorfer and Bruegel. Placing many of her paintings in WWII settings, these pieces also present an over the top depiction of female sexual fantasy with blatant references to Lesbianism, Sadomasochism and dominatrix practices.

James Kalm slips into Soho to view the debut exhibition of Susan Hefuna s, Knowledge is Sweeter than Honey and the Fluorescent Furniture and Archival Works of Vito Acconci. The screens and drawings of Egyptian/German artist Hefuna elaborate a concept of the hidden and the unhidden, and elicit various levels of interpretation. Experimental furniture that blurs the boundaries between functionality and sculpture and archival documents of pioneering performances make up the portion of the exhibit presented by Vito Acconci, and the Acconci Studio. Featuring an interview with Vito Acconci.

James Kalm visits the new Andr Schlechtriem Gallery for a walk-through glance of new works by Rosa Loy. Titled close to me many of these paintings depict a world of women, often as twins or double gangers deriving their content from this destiny of gender. Loy s use of fast drying casein produces a tempera-like dryness to the pigment and requires a quick and facile touch. Loy, who is married to Neo Rauch, is one of a very few women artists recognized as part of the influential Leipzig School.

James Kalm trolls his files to present this medley of some of New York s most unusual hidden and forbidden art works. Humor is a powerful tool for artists, and whether it s Art Park , a scruffy square meter of grass, or Marcel Dzama s parody of Duchamp s Etant donn s one need only open their eyes to perceive this wonders. Other sites like the Zhang Huan exhibit (which disallows photography) or Jocelyn Shipley s Secret Life of Sculpture requires the courage to seek, find and photograph. Viewing Julian Schnabel s sculptural courtyard is more in the nature of a peek by a nosey neighbor.

James Kalm pays a visit to this exhibition by one of today s most recognized painters Neo Rauch. As a former student, now professor, of the Leipzig Academy, Rauch is seen as a founding member and leader of this century s first and most dominant painting movement. Using a wane classical technique, and incorporating a Surrealist influence, many of these paintings have allegorical content related to the historical practice of painting and the artist s place in society. Designated as Post Socialist these works question not only the theories of utopian ideals but the accepted norms of pictorial representation.

James Kalm is out and about again bringing viewers a popuri of recent exhibitions. Solid Liquid Eric Sall s latest group of paintings at ATM draws viewers in with their rich use of paint, luscious color and sophisticated abstract compositions. Daniel Richter is yet another of the wild young German painters showing with David Zwirner who have picked up the mantel of bold large scale painting. Fluctuating between figuration and abstraction, Richter employs jarring colors and spontaneous techniques to fashion his disturbing images. In the mid eighties, as Warhol s star was diminishing and Basquiat s was rising, their paths crossed. Van de Weghe Fine Art presents a show spotlighting this short and unique collaborative project, as they produced some of the decade s most striking paintings.

James Kalm encounters yet another of the Young German Painters who have monopolized sizable chunks of Chelsea s exhibition space during the last two months. Jonathan Meese along with Andr Butzer, Daniel Richter and Neo Rauch, all seem focused on restoring a type of massive painterly expressionism which has been sourly lacking from kowtowed New York artists. DICTATORBABY is Meese s parody of an assimilation of politics by art. These heavily pigmented mixed media works present a whimsical take on cultural hegemony with startlingly fascistic implications. Meese fashions his works with an amalgam of Post Punk, Ab-Ex and Germanic military imagery. Most surprising is a group of recently completed sculpture witch demonstrates his feel for mass surface and presents a disturbing memorial to war dead.

James Kalm invites viewers to ride along and sample some exhibitions of interest. The artist team of McDermott Because of Him at Cheim From Heat to Sub-Zero a mural scaled piece that sums up many of her recent concerns regarding the potentials of depiction and its philosophies, at Michael Steinberg. Kim Dorland receives his first New York show at Freight Volume with North . This Canadian painter uses a plethora of techniques from spray-paint to inches thick impasto in his depictions of these denizens of a slacker world.

James Kalm bikes this length of Bedford Avenue in the world famous Williamsburg section of Brooklyn on the lookout for unusual art in unusual places. Includes a bawdy interview with Larry Walczak, who along with co-curator Donna Kessinger, has created this marriage of ART + COMMERCE in street-front store windows. The Artwalking tour includes twenty-eight windows with projects by twenty-eight artists, including Ben Marxen, Catya Plate, Thomas Broadbent, David Kramer, Shari Mendelson, Jonas Mekas and others.

James Kalm peddles through the rain to bring viewers a report on this historic recreation. Opening in 1972 A.I.R. was the first women s co-operative gallery to open in New York. Due to the underrepresented position of female artists, this group came together, organized, built and maintained this gallery dedicated to showing the best quality art produced by women, regardless of its medium. Uniquely, this gallery combined the radical social challenges of Feminist thought with a new experimental spirit in art and helped establish a new creative enclave downtown called Soho. Featuring and interview with co-curator and founding member Patsy Norvell.

James Kalm is privileged to bring viewers this glimpse of the work of one of New York s most seminal and influential painters. Milton Resnick inhabits a unique territory in local painting history. Although a contemporary of the Abstract Expressionists, and the New York School, Resnick pursued a personal vision that set a precedent for color field and Minimal painting yet remained unaffiliated with mere movements. This show tracks his transition and arrival at the mature artistic statement for which he is known.

James Kalm ventures to the peripheries of Williamsburg to bring viewers this double report from the cultural frontiers. Judith Supine, the well regarded street artist provocateur debuts his talents with Dirt Mansion at English Kills Gallery. Combining a 1960s psychedelic feel with punk street action, Supine creates a hallucinatory environment melding images from classic sources with Dadaist bravado. A Roller Coaster In The Dark , curated by Ben La Rocco, at Galleria Janet Kurnatowski, presents a group of artists working with formalist abstract principals in unexpected and unique ways. Exhibition includes Mara Held, Mel Kendrick, Cordy Ryman, Joan Waltemath and Mark Williams.

James Kalm pairs works that share a sensibility that transcends time. Walter Robinson is a pivotal force in the New York art scene. Featured in Last Exit: Painting Thomas Lawson s manifesto of the Pictures Generation in 1981, Eighty s Paintings at Metro Pictures feature works that established his eminence. Elizabeth Payton shows recent works which display the importance for the artist of well observed portraiture, and the documentation of art world personalities in an intricate yet casual fashion.

James Kalm is privileged to bring viewers this report on the opening night of Thomas Nozkowski s debut exhibition at PaceWildenstein Gallery. Because of his contrarian approach to abstraction, and his lone stance challenging many of the accepted modes of New York painting, Nozkowski has battled the consensus of the tastemakers . With over three decades of production that has earned him the loyalty of an underground following, the mainstream has caught up. Featuring comments by Thomas Nozkowski, Chris Martin and Eric Schoonebeek