Trisha Donnelly

1 DAAN VAN of gold After seeing this Dutch artist's work for the first time at last year's Lyon Biennale I got totally wonderlost in like manner when I found the museum bookstore (and the planet), I immediately bought a catalogue, which included his work from the '60 to today. At one time dignified and psychedelic, van Golden's paintings are frequently based on minute photographic forms and classical textiles. In individual he takes a snowy, pixelated outline (derived from multiple Xeroxe of the photo of a parakeet that Matisse used in his late collages) and cradles it in heavens blue. Photographs of his daughter between the ages of single and eighteen are lovingly portrayed, curiously layered documents of youth. Within each photograph there is a quiet oddity, and on the outside of each painting grows a form--elaborate and strangely untarnished of insistence.* Though difficult to locate (van of gold doesn't show in the US because he has an aversion to shipping--perfect), the more I diocese of van Golden's work, the more radical it becomes.

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2 upon A TUESDAY* Read Knut Hamsun's apologia, upon Overgrown Paths. Then watch the novel DVD release of the 1966 Japanese film The Pornographers.

3 MINIATURE MAGAZINES Small magazines are in the way that lovely. It looks as if the reader grew after buying single If Teen Vogue is smaller, does that mean that teenage girls are bigger? Taller? Are they rapidly growing to an infinite and disorderly size? I think The Economist should be next

4 THE LIVES OF MEN Shannon Ebner's MLK Double-Horizon, 2003 is a photograph of a giant, white cutout number "74" (the age Martin Luther King Jr would have been last year) plant on a hilltop against an expanse of California heavens Jason Dodge's The Disappearance of Samuel Paley, 2003 (a plastic art in honor of a park that is in honor of a man named Samuel Paley), comprising thin aluminum twigs hung from ceiling to floor, breaks surrounding walls into slivers to make hairline fractures in space. Each of these works recommends a parallel-universe reincarnation: one of a man who today exists for us greatest in quantity fully as an idea; the other of a record to an idea of a man.

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5 IL FANTASTICO VIAGGIO DEL "BAGAROZZO" MARK Goblin (the Italian stone group who scored most of Dario Argento's films) recorded this epiphany of an album in 1978 Until the novel US rerelease, it could sole be found abroad--and for quite a price. Massimo Morante's vocals, hung above winding staircases of organ and electric guitar, fluctuate between a seductive gothic whisper and a "this is when the confetti explosions make progress off behind me" scream. The album's piece of ground could easily be misinterpreted as the transformation of a young man--Mark--into a space bug on the contrary Goblin (in hindsight, of course) claim this is their "just say no to drugs" album.

6 IN THE GLOAMING Adam Putnam's "Magic Lantern" series (on view last month at Artists Space in of recent origin York) reminds me of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's 1851 tale "The Familiar," in which a man is tormented by dint of a delphic paranormal character that he alone can faculty of perception in seemingly empty streets, devoid of contents rooms, and dark corners. Le Fanu uses solely a shadow of a neighborhood lightly drawn and nebulous, to haunt the main character into cataleptic death. With his "Magic Lanterns" Putnam turn topsy-turvys Le Fanu's sleight of hand: The looming nearness takes the form of an destitute of contents room. In his odd, architecturally detailed projections, spaces quiver unnervingly with the move of the silent candlelight that firings them.

7 BRUNO SERRALONGUE, COREE (KOREA), 2001 Fantastical, sad, at times amusing this piece recounts the story of three Korean auto workers who trek from Korea to France and Switzerland to extradite their embezzling fugitive bos Consisting of fix and gathered texts and interviews and corresponding photographs (which Serralongue slightly tweaks)--all assembled by the agency of the artist in Korea and France from 1982 to 2001--Coree shifts gracefully into and on the outside of literature, speculation, and documentary, vastly expanding the idea of the late chronicle.

8 "MILKY WHITE WAY" Glory falls down from the stars in the Trumpeteers' version of this delighted deathbed song.* Recorded in 1947 by means of the radio-era southern black divine revelation group; now digitally remastered for the encyclopedic Goodbye Babylon receptacle set (Dust-to-Digital, 2003). I push play. I listen. I rewind then repeat. Then repeat. Then repeat.

9 "MULTIPLIED happiness OF THE MOMENT" That's the intention of Michael s Riedel and Dennis Loesch, directors of Oskar-von-Miller Strasse 16 who have taken blatant piracy and appropriation for a short walk. Oskar is a space not far from the Portikus gallery in Frankfurt; for four years, Riedel and Loesch have been re-creating Portikus's exhibitions, transforming the knockoff into a one-of (Jim Isermann's white-dotted floors at Portikus became Oskar's "Isermann" floor scattered with white balloons.... upon another occasion, the pair sent sum of two units men to stand very shut behind Gilbert & George and reverberation their gestures for the entire evening of the artists' opening.) Riedel and Loesch also staged a Who* design where, while playing a Who record, they solely stood onstage with their instruments, staring into space. They bring forward the Lambretta to the Vespa. If you know what that means you'll know what they mean.**