James

Joined 31 months ago

Born: second half on the twentieth century in North America’s far west. Widely exhibited painter, graphic artist as well as art critic and writer for the controversial Brooklyn Rail. My current practice evolved out of the concept “the physics of aesthetics” and involves the recontextualization of art history, taste, and perception through maps documenting artists’ communities, diagrams of relationships of artists with philosophers and critics, and the charting of artistic and cultural movements.

Videos (288)

Martin Wong Every Thing Must Go at P.P.O.W.

published 19 hours ago

9:30 | No views

James Kalm pays a heartfelt tribute to one of the legendary artists of the East Village. From 1978 to 1987 a sleazy rundown neighborhood on the butt side of Downtown Manhattan became the most exciting and controversial battleground in the art world...
Mike Kelley Horizontal Tracking Shots at Gagosian

published 5 days ago

9:37 | No views

James Kalm sneaks into the Gagosian Gallery on the “down-low” to take a brisk tour of this recent group of paintings “Horizontal Tracking Shots” by Mike Kelley. Kelley uses the theatrical device of the “set” or “backdrop” as a coloristic ground on...
Chris Martin Lecture at Hunter College Part IIII

published 10 days ago

7:44 | 1 view

James Kalm has been a longtime friend and fan of Chris Martin. When he was informed of this performance/lecture to be given to the students at the Hunter College Graduate studios, he decided to document it for presentation on the internet. In a...
Chris Martin Lecture at Hunter College Part III

published 10 days ago

7:52 | No views

James Kalm has been a longtime friend and fan of Chris Martin. When he was informed of this performance/lecture to be given to the students at the Hunter College Graduate studios, he decided to document it for presentation on the internet. In a...
Chris Martin Lecture at Hunter College Part II

published 10 days ago

8:07 | 3 views

James Kalm has been a longtime friend and fan of Chris Martin. When he was informed of this performance/lecture to be given to the students at the Hunter College Graduate studios, he decided to document it for presentation on the internet. In a...
Chris Martin Lecture at Hunter College Part I

published 10 days ago

8:05 | 2 views

James Kalm has been a longtime friend and fan of Chris Martin. When he was informed of this performance/lecture to be given to the students at the Hunter College Graduate studios, he decided to document it for presentation on the internet. In a...
Gerhard Richter: Abstract Paintings at MARIAN GOODMAN GALLLERY

published 16 days ago

7:09 | 5 views

James Kalm slips in and records a walk through of this exhibition by Gerhard Richter before he is bounced from the gallery. Richter is undoubtedly one of the most highly regarded painters of his generation and the current Godfather of the German...
Philip Guston: Small Oils 1969-1973 at MCKEE GALLERY

published 21 days ago

9:17 | No views

James Kalm is delighted to bring viewers along for a holiday stroll through this exhibition of small works by one of New York’s most influential painters. Executed during a five year period while Guston was developing his “Hooded Figure” and “Roma”...
Robert Williams Conceptual Realism at TONY SHAFRAZI

published 27 days ago

9:08 | 3 views

James Kalm slides through this exhibition just before closing time to bring viewers a glance at works by one of today’s most influential “bad” painters. Robert Williams has been a presence on the West Coast art scene for decades. He came to my...
Phil Pearlstein, Al Held, Five Decades at BETTY CUNINGHAM

published 32 days ago

10:04 | 1 view

James Kalm proffers kudos to the curator who came up with the idea of juxtaposing the works of these two master painters. Philip Pearlstein and Al Held inhabited and influenced the historic flow of the “New York School”. This exhibition contrasts...