Sunday, August 21st, 2011
Ai WeiWei interview with LATimes regarding his Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads at LACMA; preoccupation with missing cat [AO Newslink]
Archive for August, 2011
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]
Go See – New York: Sigmar Polke “Photoworks from 1964 to 2000″ at Leo Koenig, Inc. through September 3rd, 2011
Thursday, August 18th, 2011
Sigmar Polke, Untitled (Palermo) (1976), all images via Leo Koenig, Inc.
“Sigmar Polke: Photoworks 1964-2000” is currently on view at Leo Koenig, Inc. in New York City through September 3rd, 2011. Developed in collaboration with Winckler Fine Arts, Berlin, the exhibition displays a carefully curated slice of the thousands of photographs Sigmar Polke made throughout his lifetime. The images chosen demonstrate his enthusiasm for photographic experimentation and the subjects captured range in tone from humorous to serious. The exhibition reveals Polke’s chameleon-like aptitude and capriciousness.
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Go See – Humlebæk, Denmark: David Hockney at the Louisiana Museum through August 28th, 2011
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
David Hockney, composite from “Me Draw on iPad” (2010), all Hockney images are via the Louisiana Museum
On view at Denmark’s Louisiana Museum is “Me Draw on iPad” featuring several hundred of David Hockney’s most recent drawings. Created on his iPhone and iPad using the Brushes application, these drawings make clear both Hockney’s characteristic whimsy and dedication to exploration of new creative methods and media. Curated by Charlie Scheips, “Me Draw on iPad” is on view through August 28th 2011.
David Hockney, composite from “Me Draw on iPad” (2010)
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
Trailer released for Anselm Kiefer: Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow by Sophie Fiennes [AO Newslink]
Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
Assume Vivid Astro Focus and Lady Gaga to collaborate on a holiday window at Barney’s New York [AO Newslink]
Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
Chelsea’s Luhring Augustine gallery establishes new storage and exhibition space on Knickerbocker Avenue in Bushwick, Brooklyn [AO Newslink]
Go See – Copenhagen: Anselm Reyle at Andersen’s Contemporary through August 27th, 2011
Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
Anselm Reyle, Installation Views, 2011. All Images Courtesy of Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen.
German painter and installation artist Anselm Reyle is showcasing 14 recent works at Copenhagen’s Andersen’s Contemporary through August 27th. The art is intended as an exercise in abstract fusion, recreating and reinstating the intent of each object, thus questioning aesthetic, kitsch, and functionality.
Anselm Reyle, Untitled (2011)
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Go See – New York: “Empire” by Eva Rothschild at the Doris C. Freedman Plaza at Central Park through August 28th, 2011
Monday, August 15th, 2011
Eva Rothschild, Empire (2011). All images courtesy are via Public Art Fund.
Installed at the Doris C. Freedman Plaza in Central Park, New York, “Empire” is Irish sculptor Eva Rothschild’s first commissioned public art work in the United States. Appearing at once ominous and playful, “Empire” greets pedestrians at the southeast entrance to the park. The sculpture joins the ranks of past Public Art Fund art installations that have been displayed in the plaza.
Eva Rothschild, Empire (detail) (2011)
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Monday, August 15th, 2011
$250,000 Rembrandt drawing stolen Saturday evening from private art exhibition at Ritz Carlton Marina del Rey in Los Angeles [AO Newslink]
Monday, August 15th, 2011
Hague government pays €1 million to heir of Jewish art dealer for painting looted by Hermann Goering [AO Newslink]
Go See – Hydra, Greece: Doug Aitken’s Black Mirror featuring Chloë Sevigny at Slaughterhouse in Hydra through September 20th, 2011
Sunday, August 14th, 2011
Doug Aitken, Black Mirrors (2011). All Images Courtesy of the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art.
Doug Aitken‘s Black Mirror will be on view on the island of Hydra through September 20th. Showcased in the island’s former slaughterhouse, the film installation features actress Chloë Sevigny, with five channels to explore a fragmented sense of language and identity in a technologically advancing world. In addition to a black-mirrored installation in Hydra, two live performances featuring Sevigny, strippers, singers and live music took place both on a barge at the Port of Piraeus in Athens in June, and which was later moved off the coast of Hydra for a second showing later that month.
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Sunday, August 14th, 2011
Architectural artist Daniel Arsham to design sets for Merce Cunningham Company’s final performance at Park Avenue Armory [AO Newslink]
Saturday, August 13th, 2011
On Friday Aug. 5th, the same woman who attacked an $80 million Gauguin work months ago dismounted and repeatedly slammed a $2.5 million Henri Mattisse work against the wall at the National Gallery in Washington and was subsequently sent to a psychiatric facility [AO Newslink]
Don’t Miss – London: Fred Sandback at Whitechapel Gallery, through August 14th, 2011
Saturday, August 13th, 2011
Fred Sandback, Broadway Boogie Woogie (Sculptural Study, Twenty-part Vertical Construction), 1991/2011. Courtesy of Abstract Critical.
Whitechapel Gallery is exhibiting work of the late artist Fred Sandback, who passed away in 2003. Departing from the somewhat mystical notions of the unreality of objects and the malleability of empty spaces, Sandback’s yarn sculptures slice the gallery’s spatial emptiness with straight angles, mimicking geometrical shapes, which, to the observer’s eye, appear and disappear into thin air.
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Go See – Naples and Milan: Vanessa Beecroft at Galleria Lia Rumma in Milan and Naples, through September 11, 2011
Saturday, August 13th, 2011
Installation shot of Vanessa Beecroft’s “Performance VB70 – VB Marmi” in Milan. All images courtesy Galleria Lia Rumma unless otherwise noted.
In a sprawling gallery space in Milan, women with marbled skin mingle with marble plinths. One hundred and fifty people at a time streamed in to take in the sight of the vivid hues– green onyx, French red ochre, Portuguese pink marble, lapis lazuli, sodalite blue, macaubus light blue, and black Belgian– glowing against a white cube setting. As Roberta Smith said in a 1998 New York Times review of the artist’s work, “It’s art; it’s fashion. It’s good; it’s bad. It’s sexist; it’s not. It’s Vanessa Beecroft‘s performance art.”
Opening in Milan
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Friday, August 12th, 2011
Shepard Fairey assaulted in Copenhagen while being called an”Obama illuminati”: “I have a black eye and a bruised rib” [AO Newslink]
Go See – London: Michelangelo Pistoletto “The Mirror of Judgement” at the Serpentine Gallery through September 17th, 2011
Friday, August 12th, 2011
Michelangelo Pistoletto, Installation view (2011), all images via Serpentine Gallery
Currently showing at the Serpentine Gallery is Michelangelo Pistoletto‘s sprawling labyrinth of one continuous roll of corrugated cardboard. Custom made for the space, the chest-high installation snakes in and out of each room, constantly diverting the viewer’s course and occasionally taking them to one of several main focus points at which large mirrors (a motif repeatedly used by the artist) are located.
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Thursday, August 11th, 2011
Talk with Ryan Trecartin “the most consequential artist to have emerged since the 1980s” Thursday, August 25th at MoCA NOMI [AO Newslink]
