MoMA PS1 Curator Peter Eleey on the upcoming ‘September 11’ exhibition at PS1: “Probably the biggest difficulty that 9/11 poses to art, at least to visual art, is contained in the ‘spectacularity’ of the attacks themselves.” [AO Newslink]
Is this £1,500, internet purchased drawing a lost portrait of Vincent Van Gogh? [AO Newslink]
Sol Lewitt Installation at City Hall Park, all images courtesy of Gautier Pellegrin for Art Observed.
27 career spanning works from the late conceptual artist Sol LeWitt are now on view at City Hall Park through December 2nd. Curated from museums and private collections around the the world, the landmark exhibition Sol LeWitt: Structures, 1965-2006 is the first outdoor career survey of the groundbreaking artist’s conceptual work.
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Dirk Skreber, Untitled (Crash 1) (2009)
The Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture at Saatchi Gallery features 20 sculptors throughout the space, marking the first ever exclusive sculptural exhibition at the Chelsea, London showroom. The international range of artists, some well-known and some up-and-coming, produced mixed media compositions of all sizes. An overarching theme of experimentation pervaded, both with human form and bright-colored whimsy. Geometric and architectural forays are present in the work of Sterling Ruby, Roger Hiorns, and Peter Buggenhout, with more figurative developments by Thomas Houseago and David Thorpe.
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Ai WeiWei pens an editorial on Beijing that is, considering his recent incarceration, strikingly direct, yet also somehow resigned: “you truly believe they can do anything to you. There’s no way to even question it. You’re not protected by anything” [AO Newslink]
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Blood Orange during a set, all photos for Art Observed by Gautier Pellegrin
As New York City and the rest of the the Eastern Seaboard hunker down for a storm here is a photoset of last week’s balmy “warm up” at MoMA’s PS1 in Long Island City, New York which featured The Juan Maclean, DFA, Blood Orange, Solange, Pictureplane and others.
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Jeanette Ingberman, a founder of 3-decade strong Exit Art in New York, died at age 59 on Wednesday in Manhattan [AO Newslink]
The story of the global powerhouse Pace gallery and the family behind it [AO Newslink]
East Coast Collectors scramble to fortify artwork from expected impact of Hurricane Irene [AO Newslink]
View of the Vardø, Norway memorial “Steilnesetâ€, 2010. All images via Wallpaper*
Architect Peter Zumthor and artist Louise Bourgeois have collaborated to design a memorial to the victims of the Finmark witchhhunts of the early 17th century. The Steilneset stands on the edge of the small town of Vardø in Norway, where 91 women were burned at the stake or tortured to death.
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The Wall Street Journal interviews Mark di Suvero, “America’s greatest living Constructivist sculptor”
at his studio in Long Island City, New York [AO Newslink]
Dasha Zhukova launches Garage magazine with fashion/art collaborations from Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, John Baldessari, Raymond Pettibon, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Paul McCarthy and Richard Prince [AO Newslink]
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Yayoi Kusama at Museo Reina SofÃa, installation view, via Museo Reina Sofia
A major retrospective of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (born 1929) is on view at Museo Reina SofÃa in Madrid until September 12th, 2011. The exhibition assembles Kusama’s multimedia projects and includes drawings, paintings, collages, installation, performance, literary, and design pieces. Organized by the Museo Reina SofÃa and the Tate Modern, the exhibition explores the relationship between art and the socio-cultural reality in the past 50 years as reflected through Kusama’s work. Since the late 1950’s, Kusama has been associated with pop, first generation feminist art, minimalism, happenings, conceptual and installation art. Her work addresses and reveals the mental health issues the artist has experienced since the late 1970’s, visible through her “use of repetition, monochrome, and grids.â€Â However, as the curator Frances Morris reminds, “we need to balance the obvious framework of her mental health with the framework of art history and cultural milieu in which she operated over time.â€Â Already shown in the Pompidou Centre, Paris at the beginning of 2011, this one-artist retrospective will travel to the Tate Modern, London in February 2012 and the Whitney Museum, New York in June 2012.  The exhibition traces Kusama’s artistic development through a number of periods.
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Announcement for Warhol’s Original Soup Cans Show at Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles in 1962, via MOCA
On view now at Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art is Andy Warhol’s iconic Campbell’s Soup Cans from 1962. Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans are arguably both his most recognizable work, and that of American Pop Art as a whole. The installation opened on the 49th anniversary of both the first exhibition of the paintings at Los Angeles’ Ferus Gallery, and Warhol’s first solo show.
Andy Warhol, Campbell’s Soup Cans (1962), via the Museum of Modern Art
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Jeff Wall, Boy Falling from Tree (2010) via BOZAR
On view at the Center for Fine Arts (BOZAR), Brussels and curated by Joël Benzakin, the Crooked Path exhibition examines the artistic roots of Canadian photographer Jeff Wall, while pointing out the status of photography in relation to other artistic disciplines such as painting and cinema. The exhibition features twenty-five photographs by Wall displayed with over one hundred multimedia artifacts by key figures of Western mainstream art since the late nineteenth century onwards, including Eugène Atget, Marcel Duchamp, Frank Stella, and Carl Andre – artists designated as those who made the strongest impact on Wall’s career. By showing these works, ‘The Crooked Path’ shows the influence of Minimalism, post-Minimalism, Cinematography, Conceptual and post-Conceptual photography, nineteenth century and contemporary photography on Wall’s work.
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Ryan McGinley, Tom (Golden Tunnel)Â (2010), via OHWOW Gallery
On view now through August 27th is “Post 9-11†at Los Angeles’s OHWOW Gallery. The group show features works by  New York-based artists who have in common both their rise to fame in the years since 9/11, and outspoken work that addresses sex, drugs, and the general decadence of the New York art scene at the time. Dan Colen, Terence Koh, Hanna Liden, Nate Lowman, Adam McEwen, Ryan McGinley, Agathe Snow, Dash Snow, and Aaron Young  all have work represented in this show that aims to chronicle their relationships, collaborations, and responses to external circumstances of the past decade.
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Tracey Emin surreptitiously installs a neon work at David Cameron’s headquarters at No. 10 Downing Street, London [AO Newslink]
The New York Times surveys this summer’s selection of outdoor sculpture in New York City [AO Newslink]
Albert Oehlen, Blue Diamond Eyes (1994) all images via Honor Fraser
“It’s Great to be in New Jersey†is currently at Los Angeles gallery Honor Fraser, and will be on view through August 27th. Curated by the Norwegian artist Gardar Eide Einarsson, known for multimedia works that celebrate freedom from authority, the exhibition presents works by a diversity of artists including Christopher Wool, Albert Oehlen, Banks Violette, David Ratcliff, Linder, Raymond Pettibon, Wolfgang Tillmans, Oscar Tuazon, and Bea Schlingelhoff. “It’s Great to be in New Jersey†celebrates the influence of British Punk and the ways in which each of these artists interpreted and experienced the movement.
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Judge dismisses photographer Janine “Jah Jah” Gordon’s copyright infringement case against Ryan McGinley citing “Such a conception of copyright law has no basis in statute, case law, or common sense” [AO Newslink]
Ai WeiWei interview with LATimes regarding his Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads at LACMA; preoccupation with missing cat [AO Newslink]
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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