Tag Archives: Pierre Huyghe

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup

In today’s roundup, you’ll read about rabbits and cracked eggs, love in the Ole South, community art making in the Twin Cities, an amusement park in Paris, a family of …

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup

Sparkling Nepalese paper, race and civil rights, a northern island, circular botanics, fluorescent lights, a ton of vinyl records, and a few reviews in today’s roundup: Season 1 artist John …

Letter from London

Letter from London: To The Manner Born

Letter from London

Letter from London: To The Manner Born

It’s good, useless fun to pre-emptively define the times you live in. Nicholas Bourriaud’s confusingly limned term “Altermodern,” used to define works in last year’s Tate Triennial and, by extension, …

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup

This week Art21 artists illustrate NASA’s history, depict child’s play, map the Black Atlantic, render galaxies in glass, leave their mark on the last decade, and reflect on our future: …

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup

In this week’s roundup, Art21 artists play with fire, sign new books, design stained glass, collage basketballs, create new films, and pop up in Miami Beach exhibitions: Carl Solway Gallery …

Play Art Loud: Creating Characters on ArtBabble

Play Art Loud: Creating Characters on ArtBabble

Have you ever pretended to be someone else? Is there a difference between fictional characters and historical figures lost to time? This week we’re looking at videos of artists who …

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup

House of Light (2000), a permanent installation in Kawanishi, Japan by Season 1 artist James Turrell, will be open through September 14 as part of the 2009 Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial. …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Talking with Students about Christian Marclay’s “Video Quartet”

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Talking with Students about Christian Marclay’s “Video Quartet”

With the opening of Christian Marclay’s Video Quartet at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (on view through July 26, 2009), I have been thinking about how to …

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup

Bruce Nauman (Season 1) has won the Golden Lion award for Best National Participation at the 2009 Venice Biennale. Visit the Daily Best Media Gallery to see images of his …

Ping Pong Night

Ping Pong Night

The Gramercy Park exhibition space, Nyehaus, will present its first-ever invitational table-tennis tournament tonight. The private event is held in conjunction with the exhibition Rirkrit Tiravanija: Reflection. The mirror polished aluminum table, Untitled (The …

Pulling Strings in Houston

Pulling Strings in Houston

Opening today at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, The Puppet Show brings together contemporary artworks that explore the imagery of puppets in sculpture, video and photography. The Puppet Show takes …

24-Hour Marathon at the Guggenheim

24-Hour Marathon at the Guggenheim

Tonight, starting at 6pm, the Guggenheim hosts a 24-hour durational event concentrating on the concept of time, including its “myriad philosophical, psychological, biological, sociological, poetic, aesthetic, and economic manifestations… geared …

Happy Relational Thanksgetting

Happy Relational Thanksgetting

Today seems like a good day to practice a little relational aesthetics, which I suspect arguably has its roots in this holiday (or any holiday gathering, for that matter). Just …

There Goes the Neighborhood

There Goes the Neighborhood

Artistic interventions in neighborhoods and community-inspired artworks are popping up all around us, from Pierre Huyghe‘s playfully ritualistic Streamside Day (2003) to Mel Chin‘s New Orleans recovery effort SAFEHOUSE (2008). …

theanyspacewhatever

theanyspacewhatever

Invited by the Guggenheim Museum to collectively formulate a scenario for an exhibition, artists Pierre Huyghe (Season 4), Angela Bulloch, Maurizio Cattelan, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Carsten Höller,  Jorge Pardo, …

Art21 Extended Play

Pierre Huyghe | “Anlee”

Art21 Extended Play

Pierre Huyghe | “Anlee”

EXCLUSIVE: Pierre Huyghe’s videos One Million Kingdoms (2001) and Two Minutes Out of Time (2000), part of the collaborative project No Ghost Just a Shell (1999-2003) with Philippe Parreno. Pierre …

MANIFESTA 7

MANIFESTA 7

Dubbed “The European Biennial of Contemporary Art, ” Manifesta 7 begins on July 19 and runs through November 2. The exhibition occurs in a different city every two years, but this is the first time Manifesta will take place …

Socially Acceptable

Socially Acceptable

My biggest pet peeve in New York City is watching men (and women) of all walks of life, hack and cough, then swiftly discharge a slimy wad of saliva on …

Pierre Huyghe Performance at the Sydney Biennale

Pierre Huyghe Performance at the Sydney Biennale

On Thursday, Jul 10, Art21 artist Pierre Huyghe (Season 4) will discuss the thoughts and processes behind his work including his latest project for the 2008 Biennale of Sydney, A Forest of …

Revolving Revolt: 16th Biennale of Sydney

Revolving Revolt: 16th Biennale of Sydney

From June 18 through September 7, the 16th Biennale of Sydney: Revolutions – Forms That Turn presents the work of 180 artists , including 50 newly commissioned projects. The exhibition …

Beyond the Reel

Beyond the Reel

On Thursday, June 19, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden opens the second installment of The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image, titled Part II: Realisms. While Part …

Catherine Sullivan in BOMB Magazine

Catherine Sullivan in BOMB Magazine

In a BOMB Magazine web exclusive, Season 4 artist Catherine Sullivan (pictured top right) and choreographer Meg Stuart discuss mining the history of the avant-garde tradition and emotional overflow in …

Pierre Huyghe’s first Spanish venture

Pierre Huyghe’s first Spanish venture

Season 4 featured artist Pierre Huyghe is currently enjoying his first solo show in Spain. A Time Score is on view until September 9 at the MUSAC-Museo de Arte Contempor√°neo …

Matthew Barney and Pierre Huyghe in Il Tempo del Postino

Matthew Barney and Pierre Huyghe in Il Tempo del Postino

On July 12, Season 1 featured artist Matthew Barney and Season 4 artist Pierre Huyghe premiered new work in Il Tempo del Postino, a group show of performance presented at …

Three Art21 Artists in Automatic Update exhibition at MoMA

Three Art21 Artists in Automatic Update exhibition at MoMA

MoMA‚Äôs new media exhibition, Automatic Update, features work by Art21 artists Laurie Anderson (Season 1), Paul Pfeiffer (Season 2), and Pierre Huyghe (Season 4). Laurie Anderson‚Äôs short film about cloning …