Daniel Arsham details his usual weekend routine with his wife and son in the New York Times this week. The artist takes frequent trips to art museums around the city. “My son knows, if you ask him what we say about art, he says ‘touche pas,’ which means ‘don’t touch’ in French,” Arsham says. (more…)
A work by Lutz Bacher in MoMA PS1’s Greater New York exhibition is drawing attention after Daniel Arsham pointed out the work’s similarity to a set piece from his film Future Relic. Arsham however, doesn’t seem bothered by the comparison. “If they are indeed the same materials, there would have been no way for them to know it was my work unless they follow my Instagram and had seen the set design then,” he says. “If they are indeed the same exact objects, then all I can say is that the artist has a very good eye!” (more…)
Terry Richardson and Pharrell Williams at OHWOW It Ain’t Fair 2012 photo by Aviva for Art Observed
On December 7th, 2012, at 743 Washington Avenue (on the Miami Beach side and not across the bay in the design district) OHWOW inaugurated the fifth and last edition of It Ain’t Fair (IAF), a venue for avant-garde art across all media. It began in 2008 in Miami, concurrent with the main fair, as another way to view work by emerging artists such as Tauba Auerbach, Ashley Bickerton, Cyprien Gaillard, Clayton Patterson and others.
Atmosphere at OHWOW It Aint Fair Miami 2012, all photos by E. Schwartzberg for ArtObserved unless otherwise noted
Agathe Snow, Hear No Evil, See No Evil (2008-2011). All photos on site for Art Observed by Alexandra Bregman.
OHWOW’s It Ain’t Fair lived up to its name as a successful destination apart from the Art Basel main fair last week. Located in Miami’s Design District, the show featured 20 artists in the fourth consecutive curated group show by OHWOW, this year’s theme: Materialism. As explored in Marxist philosophy, materialism at its most literal, tangible entity, focuses on the tactile rather than the abstractly metaphorical. Experimental materials served to manifest the ideology, with David Benjamin Sherry’s sand-filled photograph frame, Justin Beal’s use of plexiglass and plastic wrap, and the unique approach of Angel Otera, peeling and reapplying paint. “There’s not a bad piece in here,” said Operations Director Lydia Ruby. By Saturday evening, the gallery had sold most works on view, and had noted the remarkable curiosity and intellectualism overheard in the showroom.
Architectural artist Daniel Arsham to design sets for Merce Cunningham Company’s final performance at Park Avenue Armory [AO Newslink]
Daniel Arsham‘s recent collaboration with Storefront for Art and Architecture, entitled “DIG,” is comprised of three stages: an exhibition, installation and performances, and is performed by the artist along with the group Snarkitecture, which is “is a collaborative practice operating in territories between the disciplines of art and architecture,” according to their website.
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