Walton Ford. "The Rolling Stones, Grrr!," 2012. Image courtesy rollingstones.com.
In this week’s roundup Cai Guo-Qiang is a 2012 prize laureate, Barbara Kruger and Cindy Sherman are honored, Laurie Anderson performs in Albuquerque, several artist celebrate Warhol, Walton Ford designs the Stones’ album cover and more.
- Cai Guo-Qiang won the Praemium Imperiale, an international arts prize patronized by Japan’s ruling dynasty, worth 15 million yen ($192,600). This is a global arts prize awarded annually by the Japan Art Association.
- Barbara Kruger and Cindy Sherman will be honored at the Hammer Museum’s 10th anniversary Gala in the Garden, which will include a performance by singer Katy Perry. Actor Steve Martin will present the tribute to Sherman and MSNBC host Rachel Maddow will make the presentation for Kruger. This year’s Gala is set for October 6.
- Carrie Mae Weems is having her first comprehensive retrospective, which opened at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville, TN). Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video includes some 225 photographs, videos and installations, from her earliest, never-before-published ’70s documentary photographs to brand-new pieces. It will travel to the Portland Art Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Cantor Center for Visual Arts and the Guggenheim Museum. The Frist show is on view through January 13.
- Kalup Linzy celebrated Andy Warhol at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC). Linzy performed as Kaye (who the artist refers to as the “Romantic Loner”) in a video and live performance that comprised this weekend’s Warhol Cabaret. The event was part of the kickoff for the museum’s new exhibition Regarding Warhol which also features work by Ai Weiwei, John Baldessari, Matthew Barney, Vija Celmins, Alfredo Jaar, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Glenn Ligon, Allan McCollum, Bruce Nauman, Catherine Opie, Cindy Sherman, Hiroshi Sugimoto and many more. The exhibition runs through December 31.
- Walton Ford joins a list that has included Andy Warhol, Guy Peellaert and Peter Corriston by designing the Rolling Stones’ 50th anniversary album. For the cover of The Rolling Stones, GRRR!, the compilation album due out in November, Ford recontextualised John Pasche’s iconic lips-and-lolling-tongue logo.
- Laurie Anderson is a featured speaker at the Inter-society for Electronic Arts (ISEA2012) conference in Albuquerque, NM. For A Conversation with Laurie Anderson & Tom Leeser Anderson will speak with Leeser, co-leader for The Cosmos: Radical Cosmologies theme. This event takes place on September 24.
- Laurie Anderson performed Dirtday! on September 23, in conjunction with her ISEA2012 conference keynote address. This new show looks at politics, theories of evolution, families, history and animals in a riotous and soulful collection of songs and stories. Set against a detailed and lush sonic landscape, the stories and music create a unique picture of a hallucinatory world made of dreams and reality.
- Mike Kelley will be remembered at The New York Art Book Fair. An Homage to Mike Kelley is “a portrait in the form of a library” that includes a selection of materials reflecting the cultural and intellectual interests and passions that each contributor to the library associates with the late artist, who committed suicide at the beginning of 2012.The fair takes place September 28 – 30 at MoMA PS1.
- Julie Mehretu, John Baldessari, Richard Serra and Bruce Nauman are among nineteen artists whose works are featured in a portfolio of a limited-edition print set called Artists for Obama, which was created in collaboration with Gemini G.E.L., a Los Angeles-based art workshop and publishing house. (See Art21 blogger Sarah Kirk Hanley’s most recent Ink column for an in-depth discussion of the Artists for Obama portfolio).
- Kara Walker and Kerry James Marshall are the focus of small-group seminars this fall at Sonoma Valley Museum of Art. This series is part of a program with art historian Ann Wiklund. The events will take place on November 19 and December 10.
- William Kentridge: Anything is Possible was recently shown at the Louvre (Paris) as part of the museum’s Films on Art program. The film featuring William Kentridge was part of the cycle for the 5th International Workshop on Film Art – JIFA 2012.