James Kalm Report
About this original series
James Kalm is a working artist living in Brooklyn New York. He has been an active critic for over twelve years writing for the controversial Brooklyn Rail http://brooklynrail.org/. For more high resolution videos, writings by James Kalm and views of the paintings of Loren Munk visit http://www.lorenmunk.com/.To support the Kalm Report with a donation go to https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=2665446
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# Episodes
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Episodes of James Kalm Report
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Michael Berryhill "Incidental Western" at KANSAS
James Kalm is cruising the lower, Lower East Side, when he drops by a gallery he's been intending to visit for months. Kansas is presenting the opening of Michael Berryhill's "Incidental Western" and your reporter is impressed. Constructing his pictures from a mélange of early Modernist and Metaphysical styles representing the nescient phase of Surrealism, Berryhill scrapes and overworks the pictures until the have the luster of scrimshaw. Imagery is a tangle of representational forms verging ...
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Release date
May 20, 2012
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Runtime
12:33
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Dana Schutz "Piano in the Rain" at FRIEDRICH PET...
James Kalm posted one of his first reports covering a Dana Schutz show. Schutz is a favorite among the New York painting community, and because with this show, she begins working with a new gallery, Friedrich Petzel, your reporter decided to stick with the precedent and cover "Piano in the Rain". With this exhibition, the artist appears to be thinning down her paint, exercising a more virtuosic and slippery brush stroke, and striving for a fresher and more spontaneous style. Melding a goofy fi...
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Release date
May 11, 2012
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Runtime
11:31
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Gilbert & George "London Pictures" at LEHMANN MA...
For six years the artistic team of Gilbert & George collected and categorized over 3,700 postings from British tabloids, transposing their texts over photomontages and installing the resultant groupings of photos as massive grids of screaming headlines. Essentially the "London Pictures" are a poetic representation of a city that is writing itself. This exhibition is the first major showing of Gilbert & George in New York since 2004 and includes installations in three galleries (though your rep...
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Release date
May 3, 2012
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Runtime
10:45
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Forrest Bess at Christie's and the Whitney Museum
James Kalm presents this program for hard-core Forrest Bess fans only. As one of the most mythic and eccentric American painters of the Twentieth Century, Forrest Bess (1911-1977) exerts a force over contemporary art that is hard to measure. Working in isolation and on a small scale, he was nonetheless able to garner the attentions of critical and art world heavyweights. With his inclusion in the Whitney Biennial of 2012, in an installation curated by Robert Gober, and the presentation of a ca...
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Release date
Apr 16, 2012
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Runtime
26:51
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Ron Gorchov at Cheim & Read
James Kalm has the distinct pleasure of bringing viewers this brief tour of recent paintings by one of New York's most enigmatic artists, Ron Gorchov. Though a member of the New York art world since the early fifties, it was in the late sixties that Gorchov devised his unique painting support, often referred to as a "saddle shape". The use of this convex surface was a refutation of Clement Greenberg's dogmatic idea that the picture plane must be flat, and rectangular. Along with his "saddle sh...
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Release date
Apr 7, 2012
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Runtime
13:40
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Arch Connelly at LA MAMA GALLERIA
James Kalm creeps into La Mama's La Galleria just before the opening of the Arch Connelly exhibition to bring viewers and unobstructed view of this timely work. Coming to prominence in the late seventies and early eighties, Arch Connelly established his artistic presence creating exuberant works that straddled the realms of painting and sculpture. Beginning with a formalistic notion of the theory of design, Connelly selected a group of clichéd motifs, and treatments, which he extrapolated to a...
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Release date
Mar 27, 2012
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Runtime
11:00
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Rammellzee: THE EQUATION The Letter Racers at SU...
James Kalm was one of the young artists and scenesters who hung out at what became the epicenter of the East Village art scene, the Fun Gallery. It was at that gallery during the early 80s that your reporter first saw examples of Rammellzee's painting and sculpture. Always unique, the works of Rammellzee were at once more eccentric, and intellectually challenging than much of the Graffiti and Street Art that was popular during that era. The "Letter Racers" exhibition gives viewers a chance to ...
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Release date
Mar 16, 2012
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Runtime
12:01
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The Boneyard Project: Return Trip at the PIMA AI...
James Kalm has been keeping track of, and writing about Street Art and Graffiti for decades now. But when he heard about the plans that Eric Firestone and Carlo McCormick had for their "Boneyard Project" his ears perked up. It didn't hurt that during a visit to LA last summer, your reporter dropped in at LAMCA for the blockbuster "Art in the Streets" exhibition, and heard McCormick hyping the show during a lecture on Street Art. It was a must see when fortuitous circumstances landed Kalm in Tu...
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Release date
Mar 6, 2012
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Runtime
18:47
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Cindy Sherman at THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
James Kalm pumps his bike to the Museum of Modern Art to bring viewers a walking tour of the Cindy Sherman retrospective. Sherman is arguably one of the most prominent American artists of her day. In 2011 one of her photos was sold for 3.89 million dollars. She's been a prominent part of the New York art and fashion scene since the late seventies and is an acknowledged force behind the "Pictures Generation". This show traces the arch of Sherman's career from her days as a student in Buffalo, t...
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Release date
Feb 24, 2012
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Runtime
16:18
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Joyce Pensato "Batman Returns" at FRIEDRICH PETZ...
James Kalm returns to pop in and take a glancing tour of "Batman Returns" the latest exhibition by Joyce Pensato. After working in her Olive Street studio for over thirty years, Pensato relocated her painting space to another nearby local. Using the paint splattered flotsam and jetsam of her old studio, the artist has composed tableaus of stuffed cartoon critters, photos and personal memorabilia as counterpoints to her large gestural enamel paintings. The new works also includes a departure fr...
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Release date
Feb 16, 2012
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Runtime
09:37
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