‪‬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
‪‬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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‪‬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.
‪‬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
‪‬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
‪‬Jeffrey Deitch discusses art in his home, famous friends, and how an artist’s work is not a ‘practice’
‪‬Elisabeth Murdoch reportedly donates “seven-figure sum” toward educational facilities in planned £215 million wing of Tate Modern
‬Metropolitan Museum of Art security guard shoots himself in the leg while cleaning gun in basement locker room, the 63-year-old man is in stable condition, and “the public and the staff were never in danger”
Dan Graham, Two 2-Way Mirror Ellipses, One Open, One Closed (2011-2012). All images via Lisson Gallery.
Equal parts graceful and subversive, the pavilion structures of Dan Graham consistently toy with the manufacture and perception of space. Using a combination of mirrors and glass to blur the ideas of internal and external space, Graham invites viewers to participate fully in the physical framework of his pieces while still remaining partially anchored as spectators to their relations with its space. This dichotomy is readily seen in a series of new pavilion structures currently on view at the Lisson Gallery in London.
‪‬ ‘The Clock’ a real time 24-hour video collage by Christian Marclay (recently a Time Magazine top 100 most influential person) returns to New York this summer at the Lincoln Center Festival, July 5 through August 5
‪‬Agata Olek crochets two excavators in her hometown of Katowice, Poland, for the Katowice Street Art Festival opening today through April 29
‪‬Frieze New York announces artists to be included in sculpture park overlooking East River on Randall’s Island, including Louise Bourgeois, Ernesto Neto, Subodh Gupta, Jeppe Hein, and Jaume Plensa, curated by Tom Eccles
‪‬A 474-year-old painting by Italian artist Girolamo de’Romani has been returned to its Jewish heirs since being plundered by Nazis in WWII, the family now deciding to sell the work at Christie’s in New York on June 6, the work insured for $2.5 million