The new selections are up at PS1 as of this Sunday. It's an impressive and interesting show.





The anchorman is Wolfgang Tillmans, whose reputation is based on personal, casual, snapshot-like images. Little, no frames, and so on. This time he is free from reference - so he has produced big, abstract near liquid images of uncertain photographic origin (lab accident? superzoomed eyelash? flare?).





What's great about PS1 is that it fills for NY the 'Palais de Tokyo' gap -- that Paris (and other cities) serve with perhaps more institutional and regal sites.





So the great thing is work by still-working artists like Jessica Stockholder - this elegant bathtubs-and-electrical wire construction. There is also a great video on the second floor by Johanna Billings(sp?) - the kind of thing that challenges the presentation of video at museums. It's pretty hard to dig it's nuances in 2 minutes.





The other great thing about PS1 is it retains its 'art club' feel. Everyone at the opening is young artists and curators and enthusiasts - very few Trustees and other nonsense. Curator Klaus "Hans" Biesenbach and Deputy Director/Stuyvesant-alumnus Eric Litwin are to be seen, stalking around.





When you check it out, add your take in the comments here.