‪‬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
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.
‪‬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”
‪‬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
‪‬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?”
‪‬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
‪‬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
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.
‪‬Recovered Cezanne reportedly worth $130 million returns to Switzerland after Serbian police arrested four suspects earlier this month on April 12
‪‬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
‪‬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
‪‬Cooper Union, off Astor Place in New York, free of tuition for over 100 years, to charge tuition for graduate programs and other online and continuing-education courses to reduce current $16.5 million annual budget deficit, “It’s a viable strategy,” says President Jamshed Bharucha
Elizabeth Peyton, David Bowie (2012). All images courtesy of Regen Projects, Los Angeles, and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York. © Elizabeth Peyton.
Currently on view at Regen Projects is the sixth solo exhibition of works by New York-based painter Elizabeth Peyton. Peyton, who rose to fame in the 1990s for her portraiture of rock stars like David Bowie, Kurt Cobain, and Keith Richards, delivers in her most recent paintings the twin pillars of accessibility and devotion that have come to characterize her practice.
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All photos on site for Art Observed by Samuel Sveen.
With a “kind of secret” French glue, JR and assistants pasted up a 65-foot mural yesterday in the Soho area of Manhattan at the north west corner of Mulberry and Prince streets. The work is part of the Inside Out Project, JR’s TED-awarded “One Wish to Change the World.” Inside Out is an open invite to submit black and white photographic portraits which are then blown up to various poster sizes and returned to be placed wherever the owner chooses. The image in Soho—with no tear-down date as of yet—is part of the North Dakota Native American project, submitted by Brandon Many Ribs, according to a Facebook post.
‪‬In related news, Occupy Wall Street movement publishes a fake press release from the Whitney Museum announcing museum closure on May Day and various institutional changes in observance of a General Strike on May 1 planned by OWS
‪‬Museum of London adds several Occupy London protest works to its collection including placards, banners, and masks, currently on view online; “The museum tries to document all major events in London history,” says a museum curator Jim Gledhill
‪‬Jeff Koons and Lisa Perry collaborate with apparel and accessories featuring designs from Koons’ entire oeuvre, T-shirts starting at $150 with a portion going to the Koons Family Institute
‪‬The ‘Salon of Art and Design’ forthcoming Park Avenue Armory fair of jewelry, art, and antiques organized by Sanford Smith and the Syndicat National des Antiquaires changes its name to THE SALON: Art + Design to avoid a ‘SAD’ acronym
Installation View. All images courtesy of the Lisson Gallery
On view at London’s Lisson Gallery is the latest exhibition of work by Santiago Sierra, Dedicated to the Workers and Unemployed. The show features fifty-three videos thematically grouped: performance-based works, films, and video documents of sculptural projects. Dedicated to the Workers and Unemployed includes a conversation between Sierra and the curator and critic Hans-Ullrich Obrist and will be open through March 3, 2012.
All photos on site for Art Observed by Elene Damenia.
Charles Atlas’ pioneering work in film has evolved since the early 1970s to today, ever re-defining his medium and the field. As Artist in Residence for the 2012 Whitney Biennial from April 18–22, Atlas showcased his recent exploration of live performance, as well as screening Ocean April 11–15, his full-length film of the legendary Merce Cunningham‘s performance at the Rainbow Granite Quarry in Minnesota in 2008. As Filmmaker-in-residence for Cunningham from 1974–83, Atlas explored the technical possibilities of capturing dance on film, conflating time, scale, and angles to create a multi-dimensional viewing experience for a genre whose single viewpoint documentation often drains the piece of its power and effect. Atlas is the self-proclaimed inventor of ‘mediadance,’ a genre of performance conceived exclusively for video broadcast, demonstrative of his active engagement with performers. Known for his collaborative work with performance artists such as Marina Abromovic, Leigh Bowery, Michael Clark, Douglas Dunn, Yvonne Rainer, Mika Tajima and New Humans, Atlas states, “the essence of my work resides ultimately in the relationships that develop with my subjects and my collaborators.”
‪‬NY Mag publishes Jerry Saltz and others’ 18 rules on how to make it in today’s art world, featuring interviews with Alex Katz, Gavin Brown, Maurizio Cattelan and Massimiliano Gioni, etc., “You need a bicycle to get to interesting places,” says Gioni
‪‬Tate Modern begins construction on new £215m extension project designed by architects Herzog & De Meuron with 75% of funds raised, beginning by converting 30-meter diameter oil tanks into dedicated live performance space
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Lucio Fontana, Concetto Spaziale, Attese (1968). All images via Haunch of Venison and the estates of the artists.
The Elena Geuna curated “Afro Burri Fontana” exhibition is on now at Haunch of Venison‘s Chelsea space, 550 W. 21 St, and focuses on Italian artists Afro, Alberto Burri, and Lucio Fontana. Showing five paintings by each artist, Haunch’s international director Emilio Steinberger explained that the gallery sought to create a balanced show that would make evident the original dialogue between the three post-WWII Italian abstract artists and their American contemporaries.
‪‬Tom Sachs, Cory Arcangel, and Mike Mills among the 17 artists included in Transmission LA: AV Club at MOCA in Los Angeles, a ‘multi-sensory experience’ festival curated by Mike D of the Beastie Boys, also featuring a pop-up restaurant by Roy Choi
