Archive for August, 2011

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

MoMA PS1 Curator Peter Eleey on the upcoming ‘September 11′ exhibition at PS1: “Probably the biggest difficulty that 9/11 poses to art, at least to visual art, is contained in the ‘spectacularity’ of the attacks themselves.” [AO Newslink]

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Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

Is this £1,500, internet purchased drawing a lost portrait of Vincent Van Gogh? [AO Newslink]

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Go See – New York: Sol LeWitt at City Hall Park through December 2nd, 2011

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011


Sol Lewitt Installation at City Hall Park, all images courtesy of Gautier Pellegrin for Art Observed.

27 career spanning works from the late conceptual artist Sol LeWitt are now on view at City Hall Park through December 2nd. Curated from museums and private collections around the the world, the landmark exhibition Sol LeWitt: Structures, 1965-2006 is the first outdoor career survey of the groundbreaking artist’s conceptual work.

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Go See – London: “Shape of Things to Come” at Saatchi Gallery through October 16th, 2011

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

 


Dirk Skreber, Untitled (Crash 1) (2009)

The Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture at Saatchi Gallery features 20 sculptors throughout the space, marking the first ever exclusive sculptural exhibition at the Chelsea, London showroom. The international range of artists, some well-known and some up-and-coming, produced mixed media compositions of all sizes. An overarching theme of experimentation pervaded, both with human form and bright-colored whimsy. Geometric and architectural forays are present in the work of Sterling Ruby, Roger Hiorns, and Peter Buggenhout, with more figurative developments by Thomas Houseago and David Thorpe.

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Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

Ai WeiWei pens an editorial on Beijing that is, considering his recent incarceration, strikingly direct, yet also somehow resigned: “you truly believe they can do anything to you. There’s no way to even question it. You’re not protected by anything” [AO Newslink]

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Go See – Rotterdam: “The One and the Many” by Elmgreen & Dragset in the Submarine Wharf at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen through September 25th, 2011

Monday, August 29th, 2011


Elmgreen and Dragset, The One and the Many, via Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Currently on view at the former Submarine Wharf in Rotterdam harbour is an exhibition by Scandinavian art duo Elmgreen and Dragset. It is the second time the wharf has been transformed as part of an ongoing partnership between Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and the Port of Rotterdam. Known for the erection of their Prada Shop in the desert at Marfa, Texas, here Elmgreen and Dragset create an experiential show including a fifteen-minute trip down the River Maas on the Aqualiner.

Elmgreen and Dragset, Celebrity- The One and the Many (interior), via Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

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AO On Site Photoset – MoMA PS1’s “Warm up” Saturday August 20th, 2011

Saturday, August 27th, 2011


Blood Orange during a set, all photos for Art Observed by Gautier Pellegrin

As New York City and the rest of the the Eastern Seaboard hunker down for a storm here is a photoset of last week’s balmy “warm up” at MoMA’s PS1 in Long Island City, New York which featured The Juan Maclean, DFA, Blood Orange, Solange, Pictureplane and others.

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Saturday, August 27th, 2011

Jeanette Ingberman, a founder of 3-decade strong Exit Art in New York, died at age 59 on Wednesday in Manhattan [AO Newslink]

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Saturday, August 27th, 2011

The story of the global powerhouse Pace gallery and the family behind it [AO Newslink]

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Saturday, August 27th, 2011

East Coast Collectors scramble to fortify artwork from expected impact of Hurricane Irene [AO Newslink]

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Go See – Vardø, Norway: Peter Zumthor and Louise Bourgeois “The Steilneset” Memorial

Friday, August 26th, 2011


View of the Vardø, Norway memorial “Steilneset”, 2010. All images via Wallpaper*

Architect Peter Zumthor and artist Louise Bourgeois have collaborated to design a memorial to the victims of the Finmark witchhhunts of the early 17th century.  The Steilneset stands on the edge of the small town of Vardø in Norway, where 91 women were burned at the stake or tortured to death.

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Thursday, August 25th, 2011

The Wall Street Journal interviews Mark di Suvero, “America’s greatest living Constructivist sculptor”
at his studio in Long Island City, New York [AO Newslink]

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Thursday, August 25th, 2011

Dasha Zhukova launches Garage magazine with fashion/art collaborations from Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, John Baldessari, Raymond Pettibon, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Paul McCarthy and Richard Prince [AO Newslink]

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Go See – Madrid: Yayoi Kusama at Museo Reina Sofia through September 12th, 2011

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011


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Yayoi Kusama at Museo Reina Sofía, installation view, via Museo Reina Sofia

A major retrospective of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (born 1929) is on view at Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid until September 12th, 2011. The exhibition assembles Kusama’s multimedia projects and includes drawings, paintings, collages, installation, performance, literary, and design pieces. Organized by the Museo Reina Sofía and the Tate Modern, the exhibition explores the relationship between art and the socio-cultural reality in the past 50 years as reflected through Kusama’s work. Since the late 1950’s, Kusama has been associated with pop, first generation feminist art, minimalism, happenings, conceptual and installation art. Her work addresses and reveals the mental health issues the artist has experienced since the late 1970’s, visible through her “use of repetition, monochrome, and grids.”  However, as the curator Frances Morris reminds, “we need to balance the obvious framework of her mental health with the framework of art history and cultural milieu in which she operated over time.” Already shown in the Pompidou Centre, Paris at the beginning of 2011, this one-artist retrospective will travel to the Tate Modern, London in February 2012 and the Whitney Museum, New York in June 2012.  The exhibition traces Kusama’s artistic development through a number of periods.

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Go See – Los Angeles: Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans at the Museum of Contemporary Art through September 19th, 2011

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011


Announcement for Warhol’s Original Soup Cans Show at Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles in 1962, via MOCA

On view now at Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art is Andy Warhol’s iconic Campbell’s Soup Cans from 1962. Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans are arguably both his most recognizable work, and that of American Pop Art as a whole. The installation opened on the 49th anniversary of both the first exhibition of the paintings at Los Angeles’ Ferus Gallery, and Warhol’s first solo show.


Andy Warhol, Campbell’s Soup Cans (1962), via the Museum of Modern Art

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Go See – Brussels: Jeff Wall “The Crooked Path” at Center for Fine Arts (BOZAR) through September 11th, 2011

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011


Jeff Wall, Boy Falling from Tree (2010) via BOZAR

On view at the Center for Fine Arts (BOZAR), Brussels and curated by Joël Benzakin, the Crooked Path exhibition examines the artistic roots of Canadian photographer Jeff Wall, while pointing out the status of photography in relation to other artistic disciplines such as painting and cinema.  The exhibition features twenty-five photographs by Wall displayed with over one hundred multimedia artifacts by key figures of Western mainstream art since the late nineteenth century onwards, including Eugène Atget, Marcel Duchamp, Frank Stella, and Carl Andre  – artists designated as those who made the strongest impact on Wall’s career. By showing these works, ‘The Crooked Path’ shows the influence of  Minimalism, post-Minimalism, Cinematography, Conceptual and post-Conceptual photography, nineteenth century and contemporary photography on Wall’s work.

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Don’t Miss – Los Angeles: “Post 9-11″ at OHWOW Gallery through August 27th, 2011

Sunday, August 21st, 2011


Ryan McGinley, Tom (Golden Tunnel) (2010), via OHWOW Gallery

On view now through August 27th is “Post 9-11” at Los Angeles’s OHWOW Gallery. The group show features works by  New York-based artists who have in common both their rise to fame in the years since 9/11, and outspoken work that addresses sex, drugs, and the general decadence of the New York art scene at the time. Dan ColenTerence Koh, Hanna Liden, Nate Lowman, Adam McEwen, Ryan McGinley, Agathe Snow, Dash Snow, and Aaron Young  all have work represented in this show that aims to chronicle their relationships, collaborations, and responses to external circumstances of the past decade.

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Sunday, August 21st, 2011

Tracey Emin surreptitiously installs a neon work at David Cameron’s headquarters at No. 10 Downing Street, London [AO Newslink]

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Sunday, August 21st, 2011

The New York Times surveys this summer’s selection of outdoor sculpture in New York City [AO Newslink]

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Don’t Miss – Los Angeles: “It’s Great to Be in New Jersey” curated by Gardar Eide Einarsson at Honor Fraser through August 27th, 2011

Sunday, August 21st, 2011


Albert Oehlen, Blue Diamond Eyes (1994) all images via Honor Fraser

“It’s Great to be in New Jersey” is currently at Los Angeles gallery Honor Fraser, and will be on view through August 27th. Curated by the Norwegian artist Gardar Eide Einarsson, known for multimedia works that celebrate freedom from authority, the exhibition presents works by a diversity of artists including Christopher Wool, Albert Oehlen, Banks Violette, David Ratcliff, Linder, Raymond Pettibon, Wolfgang Tillmans, Oscar Tuazon, and Bea Schlingelhoff. “It’s Great to be in New Jersey” celebrates the influence of British Punk and the ways in which each of these artists interpreted and experienced the movement.

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Sunday, August 21st, 2011

Judge dismisses photographer Janine “Jah Jah” Gordon’s copyright infringement case against Ryan McGinley citing “Such a conception of copyright law has no basis in statute, case law, or common sense” [AO Newslink]

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Sunday, August 21st, 2011

Ai WeiWei interview with LATimes regarding his Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads at LACMA; preoccupation with missing cat [AO Newslink]

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Go See – Frankfurt: Francesco Clemente at Schirn Kunsthalle through September 4th, 2011

Friday, August 19th, 2011


Francesco Clemente, Name, 1983, all images via Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt

Frankfurt’s Schirn Kunsthalle’s “Francesco Clemente. Palimpsest,” an exhibition of work by Francesco Celemente, is the first show of the artist’s work in Germany in over twenty-five years. “Palimpsest” exhibits works spanning thirty years of Clemente’s career, filling three galleries with large paintings as well as jewel-toned watercolors. The show is open through September 4th, 2011.

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Thursday, August 18th, 2011

Larry Gagosian buys $36.5 million , 20,000 sf, 50-foot wide Harkness Mansion at 4 E.75th St.; roughly 200 meters from his Upper East Side Gallery on Madison Avenue [AO Newslink]

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