Archive for April, 2012

AO Newslink

Monday, April 30th, 2012

‬Kehinde Wiley interviewed on his experiences growing up in LA, finding his father in Nigeria and creating art for more than art’s sake in which “symbols matter”

(more…)

AO Newslink

Monday, April 30th, 2012

‬Berlin Gallery Weekend coordinated openings at 51 galleries throughout the German capitol, featuring work by Diane Arbus, Douglas Gordon, Jenny Holzer, Robert Longo, and Rikrit Tiravanija, among others

(more…)

AO Newslink

Monday, April 30th, 2012

‬As MAXXI museum in Rome waits 20 day period for government’s final decision on closure of the museum, the Economist features director of Casoria Contemporary Art Museum (CAM) in Naples burning works in protest of government cuts in arts funding

(more…)

AO Newslink

Monday, April 30th, 2012

‬Centre Pompidou plans new international approach, especially targeting Brazil, Russia, India, and China (the BRIC countries) “with temporary projects in existing venues like museums [and] universities, but why not historical monuments, former industrial facilities or shopping malls?” says museum president Alain Seban

(more…)

New York: Frank Stella ‘Black Aluminum Copper’ at L&M Arts through June 2, 2012

Monday, April 30th, 2012


Averroes (1960), Marquis de Portago (1960). All photographs courtesy L + M Gallery.

15 of Frank Stella‘s important early works are on display in Black Aluminum Copper at L&M Arts in New York City’s upper east side. With a heavy sense of history, the show moves from the stark, post-war attitude of works such as Die Fahne hoch! (‘Raise the flag’) & Arbeit Macht Frei (‘Work Liberates’, the sign hung on the gates at Auschwitz) to the more spacious pre-minimalism of Avicenna or Telluride. These works were completed between 1958–61, the period immediately following Stella’s graduation from Princeton and move to NYC.

(more…)

London: Ron Mueck at Hauser and Wirth Through May 26, 2012

Sunday, April 29th, 2012


Ron Mueck, Drift (2009). All images via Hauser & Wirth

Sculptor Ron Mueck‘s first show with Hauser & Wirth is on view now at the gallery’s Saville Row location in London. It is the artist’s first major solo exhibition in the city after more than a decade. Mueck is known for his brand of realism that might be considered graphic or grotesque, and habitually works with surprising scale to compound the power of the work. Mueck’s current show includes four sculptures that sharply contrast from each other, but share a poignant sense of the human condition.

(more…)

Milan: Nate Lowman ‘Swiss Cheese and The Doors: A One Night Stand’ at Massimo De Carlo through May 12, 2012

Saturday, April 28th, 2012


Nate Lowman, Swiss Cheese and The Doors: A One Night Stand (2012). All installation images via Massimo De Carlo and the artist.

Massimo de Carlo is showing 40 new works by NYC-based artist Nate Lowman. The press release states that ‘drawing on histories of collage, appropriation, and assemblage since the 1960s,’ Lowman aims ‘to craft a formal and strategic approach around a personal and cultural identification with images.’ A varied body of works, ranging from alkyd and oil rendered pointilist paintings to the more ‘theatrical’ lighting installations meant to evoke dusk and dawn, Swiss Cheese and the Doors: A One Night Stand is preoccupied with the ‘shift between narrative themes and experiential space.’

(more…)

AO Newslink

Friday, April 27th, 2012

‬Artist David Weiss died this morning of cancer at age 66, half of the Fischli/Weiss duo and represented by Matthew Marks Gallery

(more…)

AO Newslink

Friday, April 27th, 2012

‬Dasha Zhukova’s Garage Center for Contemporary Culture to renovate a 1960s prefab concrete structure with architect Rem Koolhaas for new 5,400 sq meter ‘Garage Gorky Park’ in Moscow, “we have these traces of Russian history as a partner of the art.”

(more…)

AO Newslink

Friday, April 27th, 2012

‬Philanthropist Jo Carole Lauder has headed the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE) since 1996, placing artists such as Ellsworth Kelly and Louise Bourgeois in American embassies across more than 140 countries, “the art in our embassies program waves a less obvious cultural flag for America,” says the foundation’s president Eden Rafshoon

(more…)

AO Newslink

Friday, April 27th, 2012

‬Glenn O’Brien discusses art, music, TV, politics, Andy Warhol and Basquiat in an interview with Open Ceremony; on his show TV PARTY, “I was rebellious but not angry”

(more…)

AO Newslink

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

‬CNNCTD+ to launch ‘sound graffiti’ project May 1, installing 100 Playbutton MP3 players and headphones throughout Manhattan with participants including Cindy Sherman, James Franco, and Bill Powers

(more…)

AO Newslink

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

‬New Museum names curators of third Generational Triennial to be held in 2015: Lauren Cornell, Adjunct Curator at New Museum and leaving her seven-year post as Executive Director of Rhizome; and artist and filmmaker Ryan Trecartin

(more…)

AO Newslink

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

‬Collector and artist widow Corice Arman has filed a lawsuit against Louise Blouin Media Inc. for shattering a sculpture while setting up for a photoshoot, the 2,630-year-old Nigerian terracotta sculpture appraised post-accident at $300,000

(more…)

Los Angeles: George Condo at PRISM through April 28, 2012

Thursday, April 26th, 2012


George Condo, Ghost Figure (1991). All images via PRISM LA.

Fresh on the heels of the large-scale solo exhibition at the New Museum last year titled George Condo: Mental States, the work of George Condo has traveled to the west coast and is currently on view at PRISM. A survey of the artist’s paintings, drawings, and sculptures, the exhibition gives those in Los Angeles a rare chance to see the “fake old masters” for which Condo is so well known. Through gestures of the paint, of the body, and of the expression, Condo finds a means to investigate psychological space and the archetypal symbols connecting the human experience.

(more…)

AO Newslink

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

‬Collector Adam Lindemann to open new 3,200 sq foot Upper East Side gallery named Venus Over Manhattan, referencing a 1940s Art Deco sculpture with the opening show of 50 various works titled ‘À rebours,’ translating to “against the grain”

(more…)

AO Newslink

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

‬Russian oil tycoon and art collector Viktor Vekselberg battles Christie’s in High Court regarding authentication of £1.7 million Boris Kustodiev painting, claiming signature over a decade post-humous

(more…)

AO Newslink

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

‬Chinese artist Zeng Fanzhi profiled in short film by Hong Kong-based filmmaker Ringo Tang as first feature of newly launched Nowness Chinese language site, “…So how can we use the element and form of the East and combine them with the special character of Western paint materials to use lines to create space?”

(more…)

AO Newslink

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

‬Takashi Murakami’s Kaikai Kiki company to open new exhibition space in Berlin named Hidari Zingaro as its first venture beyond Japan, the opening preview April 27-28 to coincide with Berlin Gallery Weekend and include all-day live painting, while the first official exhibition will open in June

(more…)

AO Newslink

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

‬MoMA PS1 and M. Wells Dinette joint application for liquor license supported by local Community Board 2, now must be approved by the State Liquor Authority in time for June launch of the museum’s “proper restaurant” in Long Island City

(more…)

London: Jorinde Voigt at Lisson Gallery through April 28, 2012

Thursday, April 26th, 2012


Jorinde Voigt, Installation view (2012). All images via Lisson Gallery.

Lisson Gallery is currently exhibiting the work of German artist Jorinde Voigt, awarded the 2012 Contemporary Drawing Prize of the Daniel & Florence Guerlain Art Foundation. Voigt’s drawings emerge from a sophisticated interweaving of disparate quantitative and qualitative imagery of the everyday life, resulting in a visually arresting analogical fanfare; a glimpse into an entire universe of synchronous possibilities, somewhat—ironically—abridged by the painstakingly minute notations that attest the artist’s experience of production, but so exponentially vast as to be almost completely devoid of fixed meaning.

(more…)

AO Newslink

Wednesday, April 25th, 2012

‬Recovered Cezanne reportedly worth $130 million returns to Switzerland after Serbian police arrested four suspects earlier this month on April 12

(more…)

AO Newslink

Wednesday, April 25th, 2012

‬Two Alexander Calder works, ‘Untitled’ (1957) and ‘Snow Flurry’ (1950), from the home of the late architect Eliot Noyes join three other Calders at Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale May 8th, individually estimated at $3–4.5 million

(more…)

AO Newslink

Wednesday, April 25th, 2012

‬China bolsters international art presence with “Going Out, Inviting In” strategy, promoting work abroad as well as building 395 museums last year with plans for larger museums to come in Shanghai and Beijing

(more…)