Articles by Trong Gia Nguyen

Renaissance Ware

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Dec 1, 2008

Renaissance Ware

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Dec 1, 2008

Check out all the great limited edition works created specifically for the Renaissance Society.  Founded in 1915 as a cultural program to the University of Chicago, the Society’s nearly 100 …

Happy Relational Thanksgetting

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 27, 2008

Happy Relational Thanksgetting

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 27, 2008

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 …

Psychedelic at SECCA

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 24, 2008

Psychedelic at SECCA

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 24, 2008

There is a very interesting film and video exhibition currently up at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Pyschedelic presents animations that are less about products …

Drawing Review at Ronald Feldman

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 21, 2008

Drawing Review at Ronald Feldman

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 21, 2008

Drawing Review: 37 Years of Works on Paper opens tomorrow at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts. The more than forty artists in the exhibition were or have been represented by the …

SFMOMA’s Explore Modern Art

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 20, 2008

SFMOMA’s Explore Modern Art

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 20, 2008

SFMOMA recently launched their redesigned website with the initiative Explore Modern Art, an online learning environment and interactive space that integrates the museum’s collections information, calendar of public programs and …

High Estimates Got You Down?

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 14, 2008

High Estimates Got You Down?

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 14, 2008

Take a break from the solemnity and doom ‘n gloom of the art world by checking out the work of one Eric Doeringer.  The Brooklyn-based artist has a solo show …

Josiah McElheny Talk and Performance Tonight at Princeton

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 12, 2008

Josiah McElheny Talk and Performance Tonight at Princeton

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 12, 2008

If you are in the Princeton area tonight, Josiah McElheny gives a performance and talk about his work at the Betts Auditorium. The Season 3 artist’s installations, which frequently incorporate …

Shahzia Sikander Awarded Creative Arts Fellowship

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 7, 2008

Shahzia Sikander Awarded Creative Arts Fellowship

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 7, 2008

The Rockefeller Foundation earlier this week held a ceremony at the Langham Hotel in London to honor the 2008 recipients for its inaugural Bellagio Center Creative Arts Fellowship. The three …

Charles Atlas at Vilma Gold

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 5, 2008

Charles Atlas at Vilma Gold

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 5, 2008

Tornado Warning, an exhibition of new works by Charles Atlas opens next week at Vilma Gold Gallery in London. The Art21 artist’s videos often take dance and performance as their …

Serra at Gagosian London

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 3, 2008

Serra at Gagosian London

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 3, 2008

Season 1 artist Richard Serra has concurrent exhibitions at Gagosian Gallery, London. Three new steel sculptures are on view at the Britannia Street space together with “forged drawings” – small, …

Bourgeois at MoCA, Holzer at MCA

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Oct 31, 2008

Bourgeois at MoCA, Holzer at MCA

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Oct 31, 2008

If you missed Louise Bourgeois (Season 2) at the Guggenheim recently, your next opportunity to see the artist’s first major retrospective in 25 years will be at the Museum of …

James Turrell Awarded RIBA Honorary Fellowship

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Oct 27, 2008

James Turrell Awarded RIBA Honorary Fellowship

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Oct 27, 2008

The Royal Institute of British Architects’ (RIBA) Council, which each year awards Honary Fellowships to individuals who have contributed to architecture in the broadest sense, has named this season’s recipients. …

Iceland of Fire, Water and Light

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Oct 20, 2008

Iceland of Fire, Water and Light

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Oct 20, 2008

This past week I was in Reykjavik, Iceland attending and participating in the Sequences Real Time Festival. Needless to say, it was a strange time to have come just days …

Cai Guo-Qiang Awarded 7th Hiroshima Art Prize

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Oct 17, 2008

Cai Guo-Qiang Awarded 7th Hiroshima Art Prize

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Oct 17, 2008

Cai Guo-Qiang (Season 3) has been awarded the 7th Hiroshima Art Prize, which comes with a solo exhibition at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art. Opening October 25th, the …

Josiah McElheny at White Cube

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Oct 15, 2008

Josiah McElheny at White Cube

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Oct 15, 2008

Josiah McElheny opened this week at White Cube’s Hoxton Square space. Island Universe is an installation consisting of five sculptural elements made of chrome-plated aluminum, each composed of a central …

FLAG, Ruscha, Kruger, Brain

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Oct 10, 2008

FLAG, Ruscha, Kruger, Brain

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Oct 10, 2008

The FLAG Art Foundation last week opened the exhibition WALL ROCKETS: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, curated by Lisa Dennison. The title of the exhibition refers to a painting made …

Hubbard & Birchler at Liverpool Biennial

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Oct 8, 2008

Hubbard & Birchler at Liverpool Biennial

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Oct 8, 2008

The Liverpool Biennial is under way. Organized by the Tate Liverpool, this year’s Made Up theme includes nine special new commissions under the subcategory Between the Real. Encompassing painting, sculpture, …

Pound for Pound

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Oct 3, 2008

Pound for Pound

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Oct 3, 2008

If appropriation is the highest form of flattery, then I love this Barbara Kruger Photoshop Tutorial. Of course it couldn’t be called plagiarism because there is no such thing in …

Farnsworth House Flooded

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Oct 1, 2008

Farnsworth House Flooded

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Oct 1, 2008

Record rains on September 14th flooded Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois. 18 inches of water filled the modern masterpiece, damaging fixed wood panels and an armoire, …

Mark Dion Wins 2008 Lucelia Award

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Sep 29, 2008

Mark Dion Wins 2008 Lucelia Award

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Sep 29, 2008

  Mark Dion is the 2008 winner of the Smithsonian American Art Museum‘s prestigious Lucelia Artist Award. Given to an artist under fifty who has shown distinguished vision and achieved …

First Opportunity at MAD and Last Chance at That Was Then…

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Sep 26, 2008

First Opportunity at MAD and Last Chance at That Was Then…

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Sep 26, 2008

Designed by Allied Works Architecture, the bigger and better Museum of Arts and Design opens this weekend in New York. Located in the dizzy vibrant Columbus Circle on the southwest …

Pfaff in Albany, Pfeiffer in Berlin

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Sep 22, 2008

Pfaff in Albany, Pfeiffer in Berlin

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Sep 22, 2008

The College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York inaugurated its new art gallery at the Massry Center for the Arts this past weekend with a one-person exhibition by Season …

Nochlin on Bourgeois at Guggenheim Tonight!

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Sep 16, 2008

Nochlin on Bourgeois at Guggenheim Tonight!

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Sep 16, 2008

Scholar Linda Nochlin discusses Louise Bourgeois’ “late style” within the context of the artist’s long and distinguished career. Focusing on the Bourgeois’ recent stuffed fabric sculptures, Nochlin contrasts this characteristic …

Surprise Barry McGee Show at Ratio 3

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Sep 12, 2008

Surprise Barry McGee Show at Ratio 3

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Sep 12, 2008

Everyone loves surprises. Barry McGee, aka Twist, aka Ray Fong, and now aka Lydia Fong, opened an unannounced exhibition last week in San Francisco at Ratio 3 Gallery. Things looked …

Laurie Simmons at Fashion Week

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Sep 10, 2008

Laurie Simmons at Fashion Week

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Sep 10, 2008

Segueing from the start of the New York fall art season last week to Fashion Week’s spring collections, we have neck and neck competition from the world of the critical …

Jenny Holzer Coming to Guggenheim

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Sep 8, 2008

Jenny Holzer Coming to Guggenheim

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Sep 8, 2008

As Carol Vogel of the New York Times reported, Season 4 artist Jenny Holzer will be illuminating the façade of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum starting September 26. The work …

Mike Kelley’s Day Is Done at PICA

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Sep 5, 2008

Mike Kelley’s Day Is Done at PICA

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Sep 5, 2008

The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art is showing Mike Kelley’s new work Day Is Done as part of selection of films put together with the Northwest Film Center.  The program …

Laylah Ali at DeCordova

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Sep 2, 2008

Laylah Ali at DeCordova

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Sep 2, 2008

Laylah Ali: Notes/Drawings/Untitled Afflictions is currently on view at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park. Ali’s new group of drawings and “notes” on display are scrawled vignettes derived from a …

Artists Respond at MCA San Diego

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Aug 27, 2008

Artists Respond at MCA San Diego

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Aug 27, 2008

Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet opened last week at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. The pioneering artist residency and collaborative exhibition project is the first of …

Dialog:City Launches in Denver

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Aug 25, 2008

Dialog:City Launches in Denver

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Aug 25, 2008

Dialog:City, the exciting community-oriented, art-political showcase in Denver taking place concurrently with the Democratic National Convention, opened this past Friday at an outdoor party with Mayor John Hickenlooper in a …

Cai Guo-Qiang Responds to Olympics Fireworks “Controversy”

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Aug 22, 2008

Cai Guo-Qiang Responds to Olympics Fireworks “Controversy”

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Aug 22, 2008

Over 34 million people watched the dazzling opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Days later, eager buzz-killers were quick to point out that deceptive “augmentations” were actually employed …

McElheny and Mies in Cabinet

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Aug 20, 2008

McElheny and Mies in Cabinet

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Aug 20, 2008

In the current “Underground” issue of Cabinet magazine, Josiah McElheny (Season 3) contributes an essay titled Nowhere, Everywhere, Somewhere.  The paper investigates a series of photographs and mock-ups depicting an …

Maya Lin’s Confluence Project Continues

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Aug 15, 2008

Maya Lin’s Confluence Project Continues

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Aug 15, 2008

Last Thursday at the opening night party of the American Institute of Architects Gallery in Portland, Maya Lin (Season 2) presented an exhibit of drawings and models produced for her …

Electric Light Orchestra

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Aug 11, 2008

Electric Light Orchestra

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Aug 11, 2008

Subtler than the opening ceremony light show in Beijing, James Turrell’s (Season 1) new permanent light installation was recently unveiled at the Franklin Park Conservatory’s Palm House in Columbus, Ohio. …

Cai Guo-Qiang at the Beijing Olympics

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Aug 8, 2008

Cai Guo-Qiang at the Beijing Olympics

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Aug 8, 2008

When the opening ceremony for the 2008 Beijing Olympics kicks off today, the pyrotechnics spectacle silhouetting the “Bird’s Nest” Olympic stadium will spark familiarity to many in the art world. …

Richard Serra at Kunsthaus Bregenz

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Aug 4, 2008

Richard Serra at Kunsthaus Bregenz

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Aug 4, 2008

Currently at the Kunsthaus Bregenz is a major exhibition of more than 60 drawings by Richard Serra (Season 1). It is the first comprehensive presentation of Serra’s graphic work shown …