Mariko Mori via Artnet

The Baltic Centre for Contemporary art presents an exhibition of the new works of Mariko Mori from through September 14. The New York based artist, who works often in video, is branching out into different mediums in this exhibit. Mori has paintings and drawings showing her recent interest in Brane cosmology and particle theory. She also has 8 diachronic images on glass exploring consciousness, which has no borders.

Mariko Mori Exhibits at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary [Art Daily]
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Mariko Mori at the Baltic Centre [Baltic Centre]
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Mariko Mori at BALTIC Contemporary Art Center [Hermitage Magazine]

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Self Portrait, Elizabeth Peyton, 1999

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut is featuring the first wide-scale show of Elizabeth Peyton’s photography through November 16. The collection of approximately fifty photographs was taken by the artist between 1994 and 2008.  Of note is that , a major survey of her painting career will be on view in October in “Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton” at the New Museum.

Elizabeth Peyton: Portrait of an Artist, 2006 Larry Aldrich Award Exhibition [Aldrich]
A Painter’s Social Network, Traced in Her Photographs [NYTimes]
Elizabeth Peyton To Recieve 2006 Larry Aldrich Award [Artipedia]
Elizabeth Peyton Returns To Connecticut [YankeeMag]

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P.F.1 in the P.S.1 courtyard via NYSun

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, an affiliate of The Museum of Modern Art, has its summer courtyard installation up and running. This year, the ninth annual MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program selected WORK Architecture Company, from New York, to transform the outdoor courtyard into a fully functional urban farm, called Public Farm One, or P.F.1. The farm will stay at P.S.1 through the month of September.

Farming at the Museum [NYSun]
Works Like a Farm and Celebrating P.F.1 [Men’s Vogue]
Summer Farming at P.S.1 [Artnet]
Amale Andraos on the MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program [Artinfo]
In Farm’s Way: PS1’s Hipster Farm [NYPress]
Going Farming at P.S.1’s Warm-Up Parties [VillageVoice]
P.F.1 (Public Farm One) by Work Architecture Company in P.S.1’s courtyard [PS1]

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Rubin Singleton, Kehinde Wiley via Studio Museum Harlem

Kehinde Wiley is back at the Studio Museum Harlem, where he began his career as an artist-in-residence immediately after earning his MFA from Yale. This time, he is in the Studio Museum in the form of a solo show of his latest work “The World Stage: Africa, Lagos ~ Dakar.”  Wiley is known for his portraiture of urban young African-American men painted in 18th and 19th-century style.  In his “World Stage” series, Wiley is focusing on the urban black man in other countries, studying their history, culture and art. The ten paintings on display in the Studio Museum until October 26, 2008, are from his latest trip to Lagos, Nigeria and Dakar, Senegal.

Portraitist Kehinde Wiley temporarily sets up shop in Africa [TimeOut]
Kehinde Wiley, THE WORLD STAGE: AFRICA LAGOS~DAKAR [Studio Museum Harlem]
Colliding Worlds [The Morning News]
Toppling the Ivory Tower [The Art Newspaper]
Kehinde Wiley: Studio Museum in Harlem [ArtForum]
Kehide Wiley ” The World Stage: Arica, Lagos ~ Dakar” Exhibition [NY Art Beat] (more…)

Deitch Studios exterior by assume vivid astro focus via Deitch

Ever the purveyor of fun, Deitch Studios in Long Island City has been completely taken over by the Brazilian art collective Assume Vivid Astro Focus for the summer, resulting a lively installation entitled Absolutely Venomous Accurately Fallacious (Naturally Delicious). Perched right on the East River, the exterior of the Studios has been covered in a mural, and filled with the colorful and explosive sculpture assume vivid astro focus is known for. It has also been transformed into a literal disco, hosting parties and performances through the run of the exhibition, including a PS1 Warm-Up afterparty on July 26 — a great chance to check out the artwork in all its glory.

Absolutely Venomous Accurately Fallacious (Naturally Delicious) [Deitch]
Video of installation [VBS]
Assume Vivid Astro Focus at Deitch LIC [ArtCal]

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From “99¢ dreams”, Doug Aitken via Galerie Eva Presenhuber

Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich is pleased to announce two simultaneous solo shows by Ugo Rondinone and Doug Aitken. Both Rondinone’s “Twelve sunsets, twenty nine dawns, all in one” and Aitken’s “99¢ dreams” will run until August 2, 2008. While one artist creates sculptures and one photographs, there is a common thread between the two. Each artist touches upon the simplicity of day-to-day life, infusing a sense of longing or yearning for something.

DOUG AITKEN, “99¢ dreams” [ArtNews]
Doug Aitken at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, “99¢ dreams” [ArtNet]
Ugo Rondinone- Twelve sunsets, twenty nine dawns, all in one. [ArtNet]
Galerie Eva Presenhuber: Doug Aitken, Ugo Rondinone [Galerie Eva Presenhuber]

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Red, Andy Warhol, (1978) via Gagosian

Gagosian’s spacious Chelsea gallery presents 13 contemporary artists in ‘Retrospective’: Chris Burden, Marcel Duchamp, Tom Friedman, Piero Golia, Douglas Gordon, Richard Hamilton, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Takashi Murakami, Piotr UklaÅ„ski, Andy Warhol, Martin Kippenberger, and Ed Ruscha. Keeping in company with several thematic group shows this summer, this one has been assembled by Andisheh Avini, Gagosian curator, and artist.

Press Release [Gagosian]
‘Retrospective’: Been There, Sold That [NYSun]
Some Shows For Escape, Some For Introspection [NYTimes]
View video of the Retrospective group show here [Gagosian]

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H BOX, designed by Didier Fiuza Faustino Portuguese, and produced by Hermès International via Bloomberg

Storied french luxury fashion house Hermès International presents the H BOX, a collapsible screening hall designed by Portuguese artist and architect, Didier Fiuza Faustino. The H Box is a traveling screening capsule that exhibits the video art of 8 international artists: Alice Anderson, Yael Bartana, Sebastián Díaz-Morales, Dora García, Judit Kúrtag, Valérie Mréjen, Shahryar Nashat, and Su-Mei Tse. The H Box will be exhibited in the Tate Modern in London until August 17.

Outside The Box [Vogue]
Hermes H Box, Tate Modern [Designtaxi]
The Tate Modern [Tate]
Vuitton’s Richard Prince Bags, Hermes at Tate: Fashion Art [Bloomberg]
Tate’s H-Box screens art films [Digital Arts Online]

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Warhol remains as a chinese winter garden in my heart (self-portrait), 2006, Terence Koh via ArtNews

The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents two simultaneous solo exhibitions by Bavarian artist Michael Sailstorfer and Chinese-Canadian artist Terence Koh. Both Sailstorfer’s “10 000 Stones” and Koh’s “Captain Buddha” make use of ready-mades and found objects to present their own artistic statement. Each artist’s installation work comments on his surroundings, though in different ways.

The Art Newpaper [The Art Newspaper]
Current Exhibitions [Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt]
Terence Koh and Michael Sailstorfer at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt [Artipedia]
Michael Sailstorfer: Tire with popcorn [Art Magazine]
Terence Koh [ArtNews]

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Whalers by Turner via Bloomberg.

From July 1st, through September 21, The Metropolitan Museum of Art is hosting the first retrospective exhibition of J.M.W. Turner. The exhibition will contain 140 diverse paintings. Most works come from Tate Britain which is the most comprehensive collection of the artist’s work in the world. Turner’s paintings represent seascapes, historical subjects, and modern scenes usually with a characteristic use of light.

Turner at the MET [Metropolitan Museum of Art]
J.M.W. Turner at the Metropolitan Museum Slideshow [NYTimes]
Storm-Tossed Visionary of Light [NYTimes]
Bloated Turner Show Arrives at Met Museum in Blaze of Colors [Bloomberg]
Nature Painted With Force [NY Sun]

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Your Dogs, 2008 via Maureen Paley

German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans has an exhibition at Maureen Paley gallery in London’s East End. His first solo exhibition in the UK since 2005, it offers new work as well as older, rarely viewed video. This exhibit is a combination of traditional photographs, photographic sculptures, photocopies and video. Two themes recurring throughout both floors of Tillmans’ work are the photograph as an object and the interaction of nature and man-made objects.

Wolfgang Tillmans, Maureen Paley Gallery [Maureen Paley]
Wolfgang Tillmans [ArtNews]
Wolfgang Tillmans at Maureen Paley [SHOWstudio]
Wolfgang Tillmans at Maureen Paley [Dazed Digital]
Wolfgang Tillmans – Maureen Paley Gallery [Photoicon]
Discover ‘Lighter’, the new solo exhibition from Wolfgang Tillmans [London is Free]

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Paul McCarthy’s “Spinning Room” (2008) at the Whitney Museum of American Art via NYTimes

An exhibition of new and barely seen works from one of America’s most important artists, Paul McCarthy, is open at the Whitney Museum of American Art. McCarthy, who increased his notoriety when he transformed the Maccarone Gallery into a chocolate factory last November, now has “Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement Three Installations, Two Films” at the Whitney through October 12. The show was curated by Chrissie Iles and is designed by McCarthy, in part to address the viewer’s sense of perception.

Whitney to Present Paul McCarthy: Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement [Artdaily]
A Trip Through the Revolving Doors of Perception [NYTimes]
On View Now: Paul McCarthy [The Whitney]
Maccarone now officially home of Peter Paul Chocolates [ArtObserved]
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Cy Twombly, Quattro Stagioni: Autunno, (1993-5) via Tate Modern

From June 19 – September 14, the Tate Modern presents the first solo retrospecitve of Cy Twombly in 15 years.  Twombly, an abstract expressionist painter, is regarded as one of the most influential artists of our time.

Cy Twombly at Tate UK [Tate Modern]
Cy Twombly at Tate Modern, London [Gagosian Gallery]
Cy Twombly – Cycles and Seasons [Digital Arts]
Tate Unites London, New York Versions Of Cy Twombly’s Great Painting Cycle [HulIQ]
Cy Twombly is the only graffiti artist I care about [Guardian UK]

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Lee Bontecou, Composition (1965) via Hauser & Wirth Gallery

The collection of Helga and Walther Lauffs, one of Europe’s most important private collections of 20th century post war art, will be on exhibit at the Hauser & Wirth Gallery in Zürich through July 26. The focus of the Lauff’s collection was new and ground breaking contemporary art.  Their collection contains key American and European artistic currents in the 1960’s and 1970’s.

Selections from the Collection of Helga and Walther Lauffs [ArtNet]
Selections from the Collection of Helga and Walther Lauffs [re-title.com]
VIDEO: Selections from the Collection of Helga and Walther Lauffs/Hauser&Wirth, Zurich [Vernissage]

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Untitled 1992 via Greenberg Van Doren Gallery

Through June 27th, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery in New York is showing the works of Richard Diebenkorn in a solo exhibition  entitled “Ocean Park Monotypes & Drawings”. The title of the exhibition refers to the area of Ocean Park in Santa Monica, California where he worked and was highly influenced by his surrounding landscapes.  He began the  “Ocean Park” series of over 140 paintings and drawings in 1967, which later became some of his best known works. The exhibition includes his paintings, works on paper, and edition prints.

Richard Diebenkorn [Greenberg Van Doren Gallery]
Richard Diebenkorn, “Ocean Park Monotypes & Drawings.” [Time out]

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Le bassin aux nympheas by Monet via BBC News

Rarely seen Monet is up for auction at Christie’s [BBC]
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Berlin as a new artistic and cultural capital of Europe? [NYTimes]
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Jeff Koons joins Gucci jury for Venice film festival in September [Variety]
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The ‘Artek Pavilion,’ sold as an art piece by Sotheby’s, can be used as display space for collectors[NYSun]
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“Louise Bourgeois: the Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine” showing at New York’s Film Forum [Film Forum]
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16 Young British Artists reunite in London for “Freeze 20”[ArtInfo]

Zang Huan via Pace Wildenstein

Through July 25, Chelsea’s Pace Wildenstein is showing Chinese artist, Zhang Huan. The exhibition Zhang Huan: Blessings will take place at the two Wildenstein galleries in Chelsea.  The artist lived in New York for eight years before moving back to Shangai in 2006.  The works are notable if not only for their ambitious scale.

That’s a Nice Piece of Ash [New York Observer]
Zhang Huan: Blessings [Pace Wildenstein]

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Image via NY Mag

The Whitney Museum wil exhibit Robert Mapplethorpe’s Polaroids until September 7.  Curated by Sylvia Wolf, “Polaroids: Robert Mapplethorpe” presents a selection of photographs not usually associated with this artist. This more spontaneous body of work is a combination of portraits, still lifes and erotica and shows links to his later, more recognizable stylized images.  These instant photographs work as a view into the photographic growth of the artist between the years of 1970 and 1975, as well as a testament to the full dynamic of this soon-to-be unavailable medium.

Spontaneity was the message [NY Times]
Shoot to thrill [New Yorker]
Polaroids: Mapplethorpe [Whitney Museum]
Whitney Museum of American Art to Present Polaroids: by Robert Mapplethorpe [ArtDaily]
Robert Mapplethorpe’s Polaroids [The Art Newspaper] (more…)

Goya, Grande hazana! Con muertos via ArtNet

Through August 1, the Peter Blum Gallery in New York presents Goya’s print series “The Disasters of War”, a portrait of cruelty, aggression, atrocities, and man’s inhumanity towards his fellow man.  Violent, gore filled, and graphic in nature, Goya depicts Spain’s War of Independence against Napoleon.

Desastres de la Guerra [Peter Blum Gallery]
Francisco de Goya [NY Times]
Francisco de Goya: Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War) [ArtNet]
Goya Does Gore at Peter Blum [Village Voice]
Francisco de Goya: Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War) [Art Log]
Francisco de Goya [NY Artbeat]

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Image via Telegraph UK

The Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago presents a collection of retrospective work of the influential contemporary artist Jeff Koons, through September 21st.  This is his first major U.S. exhibit in 15 years which contains 60 paintings and sculptures of his most iconic work, including many of his recent works.

Jeff Koons: First Major US Museum Survey in Fifteen Years at Chicago’s MCA [Art Daily]
Jeff Koons exhibit opens at Museum of Contemporary Art [Chicago Tribune]
Jeff Koons opens first major US exhibit after 15 years [International Herald Tribune]
A Jeff Koons Retrospective [The New Yorker] (more…)

What My Dad Gave Me at the Rockefeller Center, Chris Burden via Artdaily

Chris Burden has installed a piece called What My Dad Gave Me at the Rockefeller Center’s Channel Gardens. In brief, it is a 65-foot skyscraper made completely out of small, stainless steel Erector Set pieces. This six-story exhibition is presented by the Public Art Fund and Tishman Speyer.

Erector Set Skyscraper at Rockefeller Center Is Adult Fantasy [Bloomberg]
An Artist’s Vision: Building With Toys, but on a Grand Scale [New York Times]
Chris Burden: What My Dad Gave Me [Public Art Fund]
Public Art Fund Opens Chris Burden’s What My Dad Gave Me at Rockefeller Center [Artdaily]
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George Condo, Orgy Composition (2008) via Gary Tatintsian Gallery

The Gary Tatinsian Gallery presents the works of George Condo through June 11 in Moscow.  Condo is well known for his portrait style caricatures which he mixes with irony and the grotesque.  He creates portraits of non-existent people and draws in many external influences.  His works often contain hidden references to political and corporate scandals.

George Condo, 17.05-15.07 [Gary Tatintsian Gallery]
Genius or kitsch? [Russia Today]
Moscow Express [ArtNet]

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La Rivière Gentille, 2007 via Hauser & Wirth

Hauser & Wirth, Zürich, is currently displaying a new series of works on paper, La Rivière Gentille (2007), by Louise Bourgeois. The exhibit, featuring 42 mixed-media works by the contemporary master mostly known for sculpture, evokes the dual nature of water and memory through imagery and text. The installation wraps around the gallery, reinforcing Bourgeois’ long-held emphasis on architectural and psychological spaces. This show coincides with the traveling, full-career Bourgeois retrospective that visits New York this summer.

Bourgeois Retrospective at Centre Pompidou [moreintelligentlife.com]
La Rivière Gentille in Zurich [Hauser & Wirth]
Louise Bourgeois at Guggenheim [Guggenheim Museum]
Bourgeois Spider Sells for Record $4.5 Million [Bloomberg]
Louise Bourgeois: A Retrospective [Art:21 Blog]

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Balincourt, Good, Bad, Ugly (2008) via Thaddaeus Ropac

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris will host from June 11 until July 26 , the first solo exhibition of Jules de Balincourt. The french artist now lives and works in Brooklyn.

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
Jules de Balincourt [ArtNet]
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac – Paris – France [Art Log]

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