On view through October 5, 2009 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York is ‘In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960-1976,’ an exhibition that examines the beginnings of conceptualism and the role that international travel – in this case, particularly between Amsterdam and Los Angeles – played in shaping the movement. The exhibition includes ten American and European artists, from heavy-hitters such as Sol LeWitt and Lawrence Weiner, to the mythologized, like Bas Jan Ader and Stanley Brouwn, to lesser-known and peripheral figures such as Charlotte Posenenske. The focal point is the now-defunct but highly influential Amsterdam gallery Art & Project. Founders Geert van Beijeren and Adriaan van Ravesteijn gifted the museum 230 works in 2007, which make up the majority of the 75 works that appear in the exhibition.
Sol LeWitt’s ‘Area of Amsterdam Between Leidseple Jan Dibbets’s House and Kunstijsbaan Jaapeden,’ via MoMA
“Camp Forestia” (1996) by Peter Doig. Via NY Times.
On view now until early 2010, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has opened the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, which was originally acquired in 2005. The exhibit features over 2,500 contemporary works and surveys “various methods and materials within the styles of gestural and geometric abstraction, representation and figuration, and systems-based conceptual drawings.” Artists showcased in the exhibition include Lee Bontecou, Joseph Beuys, Donald Judd, Hanne Darboven, Elizabeth Peyton, John Currin, Amelie von Wulffen, Mona Hatoum, Lucy McKenzie, Paulina Olowska, Nate Lowman, and more.
James Ensor, “Skeletons Fighting over a Pickled Herring” (1891). Via Thirteen.
On view now, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is showcasing approximately 120 works by Belgian avant-garde artist, James Ensor. This exhibition, which focuses on Ensor’s use of satire and carnival scenes, is located on the sixth floor of the museum in The Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Exhibition Gallery. Following its stay at the MoMA, the exhibition will travel to the Musée d’Orsay in Paris from October 2009 to February 2010.
James Ensor, “The Frightful Musicians”(1891). Via NY Times
From June 24, 2009 through September 7, 2009 the Museum of Modern Art displays their “Project 90,” featuring Beijing-native conceptual artist Song Dong. It is a solo exhibition installation entitled, “Waste Not” (or Wu jin qi gong in Chinese). The piece, done in collaboration between Song Dong and his mother, Zhao Xiang Yuan, was initially unveiled at the Beijing Hua Lang in 2005, and has since traveled to Guangzhou Biennale, the Berlin World Culture Pavilion, as well as the New Art Gallery in Walsall England. “Waste Not” is composed of ordinarily used objects collected by his mother over the span of fifty years, such as pans, plates, buttons, pens, tubes, shirts, buttons, basins, toothpaste and even the original wooden frame of his mother’s home. The moving installation, which occupies 3,000 square feet of the MoMa’s Atrium, is a reconstruction of his parents’ house, which was taken over by Urban Planning in China. Dong’s piece is symbolic of a time when his mother, plagued by poverty, had to abide by the “waste not” dictum as a “prerequisite for survival.”
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Gerhard Richter, Cow, part of an exhibition of the artist’s work at MKM. via the Albertina.
Until August 23, Museum Küeppersmühle is exhibiting 80 paintings by legendary German artist Gerhard Richter. Comprised of works drawn from private collections Burda, Ströher, Böckman, and the artist’s own, ”Paintings from Private Collections” is an exploration of colors, of their uses and limitations. Works included span much of the artist’s career, from the early 60′s to 2007.
Storm Clouds: Sunset with a Pink Sky (1833) by JMW Turner, via Tate Britain
Currently exhibited at the Tate Britain are works by Mark Rothko (1903-1970) and JMW Turner (1775-1851), two of the world’s most influential painters displayed side by side for the first time. The paintings are part of BP British Art Displays which exhibit a unique array of works from the Tate Collection. Visitors have the opportunity to go between the mediative ambiance of six works of Rothko’s Seagram Murals to the display of Turner works from the 1966 MOMA exhibition which includes experimental watercolors such as A Pink Sky above Sea (c.1822) and Storm Clouds: Sunset with a Pink Sky (1833). Such dreamy, loose, and immersive works demonstrate the great affinity between the two painters.
David Zwirner booth at the Armory, showing Yan Pei-Ming, John McCracken, and Rachel Khedoori.
New York Armory Week 2009 is in full swing, with attendance higher than expected moving into the weekend. Despite the absence of several blue chip galleries – including Matthew Marks and Lehmann Maupin – the gallerists’ collective mood seems hesitant but optimistic. 177 contemporary galleries are exhibiting in the Armory’s 11th year, along with the addition of a Modern wing at Pier 92 selling more established, less edgy work.
The Armory Show 2009 and the Armory Modern
Piers 92 and 94
12th Avenue at 54th Street
March 4-8, 2009
Martin Kippenberger – Spiderman Studio (1996) at MoMA. Photo (c) Jason Mandella.
Twelve years after his death at age 44, Martin Kippenberger collectors and fans can rest easy knowing his prolific work is well-represented in MoMA’s retrospective exhibition, organized by Ann Goldstein of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and Ann Temkin, MoMA’s chief curator of painting and sculpture. The German artist, known for his hard living, experimentation, disobedience, and loyalty, managed to amass an astounding amount of work in relatively short career, including paintings, photographs, posters, books, music, and installation work.
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Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective
March 1-May 11, 2009
The Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Exhibition Gallery, 6th Floor
The Museum of Modern Art now has on view a survey of the work of Jasper Johns. The exhibition presents a focus on Johns’ reworking and repetition of ideas and motifs, and celebrates the Museum’s recent acquisition of thirteen new works on paper done by Johns in 2001. These untitled works are based around Johns’ ‘Catenary’ theme, so named for the curve of a string between two points, a figure prominent in most of the works. Johns received leftover, rejected prints from the printshop of two aquatints, ‘Untitled (Positive)’ and ‘Untitled (Negative).’ He used those prints to rework the images, collaging, painting, and drawing over the prints.
Installation view of Pipilotti Rist’s ‘Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters)’ via Artnet
The Museum of Modern Art in New York commissioned Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist to create a site-specific installation in the museum’s second-floor Marron Atrium. Rist filled the 7345 cubic meter atrium with seven twenty-five-foot-high video projections with a large circular eye-shaped sofa in the center of the floor available for reposing visitors. Rist is well-known for her video works that deal with issues of the body, gender, and sexuality. Many of the images of ‘Pour Your Body Out (7354)’ present a lush amalgamation of femininity: gigantic pink tulips, glistening apples, a pool of menstrual blood seeping from a woman’s crotch.
Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave captures three decades of the South African artist’s expressionistic paintings and drawings at her first ever retrospective in the United States at the Museum of Modern Art. Featuring around 70 paintings and 35 drawings, the artist merges painterly aesthetics with political and social themes telling of the complexities of human existence. With often jarringly morbid colors, stained brush stroked canvases, Marlene Dumas depicts lurid yet melancholic scenes of pregnant women, murdered children, and victims of suicide and executions often with personal references.
Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave
The Museum of Modern Art
December 14, 2008- February 16, 2003
Still Life With Old Shoe (1937), Joan Miró via NYTimes
Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927–1937 at MoMA is the first major museum exhibition to display the chronological process of Miró’s practices and ideologies used to attack conventions and disrupt market values in this vital decade. The exhibition uses Miró’s 1927 claim of “wanting to assassinate painting” as its launch point to explore his lineage in 12 groups, which includes 90 paintings, collages, objects, and drawings. The exhibition takes a step-by-step perspective of the reinvigoration and radicalization of Miró’s sustained series. Additionally the exhibition is symptomatic of the European reaction to the end of the roaring twenties and insemination of political tensions that would culminate in 1939. The exhibition begins with a group of works composed on unprimed canvas and concludes with a single painting from 1937: Still Life with Old Shoe and is culmination of works created in Paris, Montroig (a rural village on the coast of Catalonia), and Barcelona. The exhibition is organized by Anne Umland the Curator or the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the The Museum of Modern Art. It will be on view in The Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Gallery, sixth floor, from November 2, 2008, through January 12, 2009.
‘The Night Cafe’ (1888) by Vincent Van Gogh, via New York Times
Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night features nocturnal themes in the artist’s body of work, product of many sleepless nights contemplating the people, cityscapes and countrysides of France and Holland. ‘The Starry Night,’ one of his best known pieces, and the aesthetically- and thematically- related ‘Starry Night over the Rhone’ are among the 23 paintings and 10 works of paper on display at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Van Gogh‘s fascination with the colors, forms and inhabitants of the night is palpable in the paintings, which all feature his signature bold colors and lines.
Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night: Through January 5, 2009
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
‘Study for Agony I’ (1946-7) by Arshile Gorky, part of a Christie’s auction which will include works from the Kathleen and Richard Fuld collection, via Art Market Monitor
“I’ve been selling things for the past few years, but nobody cared until now,” Kathleen Fuld was reported to have said to the New York Times in an interview with Carol Vogel. Kathleen Fuld, trustee of MoMA–and wife of beleaguered Lehman Brothers’ CEO Richard Fuld–recently announced that she will be auctioning 16 works of post-war and contemporary art through Christie’s on November 12th, following a related report (covered by AO) that Lehman may sell some or all of its 3,500-work corporate collection. The Fulds make regular appearances on ARTNews list of Top 200 collectors, and have been collecting since the 1980s, focusing mostly on drawings and studies that yield insight into the artists’ creative process. The auction will include drawings from the likes of Barnett Newman, Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning and Agnes Martin, and is expected to raise $15 to $20 million.
