The First Annual Art Awards via Guggenheim.org

Last night, October 29, marked the inauguration of a new annual art event: Rob Pruitt presented The First Annual Art Awards at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New Yorkin association with the city’s oldest alternative art space, White Columns.

The awards were conceived by artist, Rob Pruitt, as a performance-based artwork; for the occasion he recruited the characters of Index Magazine’s wry satirical web series, Delusional Downtown Divas. The New York Times have reported that “…the Divas schemed to infiltrate the art establishment by any means possible. In one segment they pitched a tent in the Guggenheim, doing their laundry in the lobby fountain.”

Jeffrey Deitch and Kembra Pfahler at The First Annual Art Awards at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum via style.com

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Luc Tuymans, “Against the Day I,” courtesy of Wiels, which is hosting a show by the artist.

The Wiels Contemporary Art Center is now hosting Luc Tuymans’s first solo show in Brussels.  “Against the Day” features twenty new paintings, completed specifically for the show.  This is the culmination of a triptych which began with “Les Revenants,” a series about the Jesuit order, and “Forever. The Management of Magic,” about Disney and its influence mass media.  After its close at Wiels, the exhibition will travel to Rooseum-Moderna Museet, Stockholm.

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Wiels Contemporary Art Center – Luc Tuymans “Against the Day”
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Against the Day: Luc Tuymans Opens at Wiels, the International Laboratory for Creation and Diffusion of Contemporary Art [Artdaily]
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Luc Tuymans: Against the Day [Art Review]
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Luc Tuymans Captures the Moment [Wall Street Journal: interview]

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Luc Tuymans, “Against the Day II,” courtesy of the gallery.

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