The movie is impeccably done, a real Nouvelle Vague-type narrative, with arguing marrieds and falls through the ice. At one comic point, husband and wife bark at each other to express their anger. Different kinds of toxicity. Things are pretty dark at Matthew Marks on 24th Street, too, where Nayland Blake has an installation that features images of tar-bunnies crucified on meathooks and a claustrophobic projection of a performance in a bunny costume. Collins, who lives in Brooklyn, was born in Atlanta.
Collectors continue to snap up work by new painters who promise to be serious art-world players.
PC's Mountain, a confection in pink, yellow and green that measures 12 feet square, is dedicated to Paul C zanne . New enamel Photo Realist paintings on metal by Marilyn Minter at XL Xavier LaBoulbenne on West 22nd, are images of green-painted fingernails, armpits, braces and the like that have a kinky frisson. And paintings that are the apotheosis of rubble, which seems to swirl up to heaven through multicolored clouds. Jeff Crane at Silverstein Gallery with an installation that includes a giant blue monochrome canvas, some homemade toy blocks on the floor and a giant concrete cloud hanging from the ceiling on a silver chain. There's sculpture made of dried corn cobs, carved tree roots, chairs and blackboards from a reservation school.