Articles by Trong Gia Nguyen

Judy Pfaff at Bellas Artes

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Aug 1, 2008

Judy Pfaff at Bellas Artes

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Aug 1, 2008

Recent work by Judy Pfaff is currently on view from August 1-30 in the garden of Bellas Artes. Included are “three-dimensional drawings” that comprise Jardin de los Cuervos, an installation …

Badlands at Mass MOCA

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 28, 2008

Badlands at Mass MOCA

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 28, 2008

Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape is currently on view at MASS MOCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art).  The exhibition considers the traditions of landscape painting and picks up the thread …

Smockshop in Chinatown

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 25, 2008

Smockshop in Chinatown

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 25, 2008

The Smockshop, Andrea Zittel‘s artist run enterprise that generates income for artists whose work is either non-commercial or not yet self sustaining, will be opening a store in Los Angeles …

Kara Walker in Malaga

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 23, 2008

Kara Walker in Malaga

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 23, 2008

The Black Road, a new installation by Kara Walker (Season 2), is currently on view at the Malaga Contemporary Art Center. Inspired by early cinematography, magic lanterns, and 18th century …

Collier Schorr at Villa Romana

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 21, 2008

Collier Schorr at Villa Romana

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 21, 2008

Villa Romana in Florence is currently exhibiting Collier Schorr’s Blumen, the second installment of the artist’s Forest & Fields project. For the last fifteen years Schorr (Season 2) has been …

Eleanor Antin at San Diego Museum of Art

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 16, 2008

Eleanor Antin at San Diego Museum of Art

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 16, 2008

Eleanor Antin: Historical Takes opens this weekend at the San Diego Museum of Art. The exhibition is the first to focus on Antin’s recent series of large-scale tableaux photographs based …

Pretty Ugly at Maccarone and GBE

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 14, 2008

Pretty Ugly at Maccarone and GBE

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 14, 2008

Pretty Ugly is a dual-part summer show that just opened at Gavin Brown Enterprises and Maccarone Gallery in the West Village. The neighboring galleries conceptually explore the back and forth …

Hiroshi Sugimoto (Sort of) at Madame Tussaud’s

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 11, 2008

Hiroshi Sugimoto (Sort of) at Madame Tussaud’s

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 11, 2008

In the June issue of Colloquy, art historian Elizabeth Howie writes about discovering two ‘anonymous’ Hiroshi Sugimoto (Season 3) photographs hanging at Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in London. Though no …

Allora & Calzadilla’s Munich Harmonies

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 9, 2008

Allora & Calzadilla’s Munich Harmonies

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 9, 2008

Check out this interview and footage from Vernissage TV’s coverage of Allora & Calzadilla’s (Season 4) concurrent exhibitions at Kunstverein München and Haus der Kunst in Munich. Kunstverein München includes …

Nancy Spero Retrospective at MACBA

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 4, 2008

Nancy Spero Retrospective at MACBA

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 4, 2008

Appropriately enough, Nancy Spero’s Dissidances opens on Independence Day at the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA).  Long an active voice in contemporary political and feminist art, the exhibition includes …

Louise Bourgeois at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 2, 2008

Louise Bourgeois at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 2, 2008

In the mid-nineteenth-century, Botany was regularly taught to medical students. Because they did not yet have that invention known as the slide lecture, large illustrations of plants were instead hung …

A Year in Drawing at Galerie Lelong

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 30, 2008

A Year in Drawing at Galerie Lelong

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 30, 2008

A Year in Drawing opened last week at Galerie Lelong’s New York space. From the light-handed to the potent, the drawings reflect a wide range of sensibilities, subject matter, and …

Laurie Simmons at Carolina Nitsch

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 25, 2008

Laurie Simmons at Carolina Nitsch

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 25, 2008

Last call to see the Laurie Simmons (Season 4) exhibition closing tomorrow at Carolina Nitsch Project Room. In and Around the House features the artist’s early black and white photographs …

Colab Redux at Brooke Alexander

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 23, 2008

Colab Redux at Brooke Alexander

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 23, 2008

Seminal artist group Colab (short for Collaborative Project) is getting an abbreviated 30-year anniversary look at Brooke Alexander Editions.  Formed in 1978 and active for about 10 years, Colab was …

Mark Dion in Philly and New York

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 20, 2008

Mark Dion in Philly and New York

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 20, 2008

The curtains go up tonight at Bartram’s Garden on Mark Dion’s Travels of William Bartram – Reconsidered. The exhibition compiles artifacts, drawings, and assorted natural and unnatural objects collected and …

Last Call for Lucelia Award Exhibition

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 17, 2008

Last Call for Lucelia Award Exhibition

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 17, 2008

Last chance to see Celebrating the Lucelia Artist Award, 2001-2006 before it closes June 22nd. Installed at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the exhibition features works by each of the …

The Puppet Show in Santa Monica

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 16, 2008

The Puppet Show in Santa Monica

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 16, 2008

Taking Alfred Jarry’s 1896 Ubu Roi as its historic point of departure, The Puppet Show at the Santa Monica Museum of Art includes work by 28 artists, including Art:21 alumni …

Allora & Calzadilla’s Ode to Joy

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 11, 2008

Allora & Calzadilla’s Ode to Joy

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 11, 2008

Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla create public ‘situations’ where the audience commonly plays a communicative or interactive role. Their films, performances, sculptures, site-specific works and actions often address political themes …

McGee Meets Cinelli

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 9, 2008

McGee Meets Cinelli

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 9, 2008

Season 1 artist Barry McGee has collaborated with the legendary Italian bicycle company Cinelli and street-hip lifestyle brand RVCA to create a limited edition Super Corsa Pista bike frame. Only …

AZ in LA at RP

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 6, 2008

AZ in LA at RP

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 6, 2008

Andrea Zittel (Season 1) presents two new installations at Regen Projects in Los Angeles. The first, Energetic Accumulators, is an extension of the Raugh Furniture series, begun in 1998. While …

Barbara Kruger’s “Another” at UCSD

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 4, 2008

Barbara Kruger’s “Another” at UCSD

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 4, 2008

Barbara Kruger (Season 1) has created a wall and floor mural for the 4-story atrium of the Price Center East at the University of California San Diego, where the artist …

Mark Dion at Mildred’s Lane

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 3, 2008

Mark Dion at Mildred’s Lane

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 3, 2008

Somewhere in rural northern Pennsylvania, fashion designer and artist J. Morgan Puett has been steadily building a home and creating an eccentric future that is lost in the past of …

Louise Bourgeois’ River Life at Hauser & Wirth

by Trong Gia Nguyen | May 30, 2008

Louise Bourgeois’ River Life at Hauser & Wirth

by Trong Gia Nguyen | May 30, 2008

Opening this Saturday at Hauser & Wirth Zurich is an exhibition of Louise Bourgeois’ (Season 1) beautiful series on paper La Rivière Gentille (2007). Occupying three tiers around the gallery, …

Matthew Ritchie at White Cube

by Trong Gia Nguyen | May 28, 2008

Matthew Ritchie at White Cube

by Trong Gia Nguyen | May 28, 2008

Matthew Ritchie’s Ghost Operator opened last week at White Cube and will run until June 28. The Season 3 artist’s enveloping installation transforms the entire gallery using an array of …

Maya Lin Awarded Van Alen Prize

by Trong Gia Nguyen | May 21, 2008

Maya Lin Awarded Van Alen Prize

by Trong Gia Nguyen | May 21, 2008

Van Alen Institute announced yesterday that Maya Lin (Season 2) has been awarded the New York Prize Senior Fellowship.  Appointed Senior Fellows are accomplished thinkers, artists and practitioners who have …

Pettibon’s Punk Epocha at BFAS

by Trong Gia Nguyen | May 19, 2008

Pettibon’s Punk Epocha at BFAS

by Trong Gia Nguyen | May 19, 2008

Raymond Pettibon‘s (Season 2) Punk Epocha: 70 Drawings from the Eighties opens this Thursday at Blondeau Fine Art Services in Geneva. The solo exhibition runs through July 19 and includes …

When in Rome 78

by Trong Gia Nguyen | May 16, 2008

When in Rome 78

by Trong Gia Nguyen | May 16, 2008

Through May 22nd at Anthology Film Archives is a retrospective of artist/filmmaker James Nares, perhaps best known for Rome 78, an anachronistic, subcultural take on decadent Rome via New York …

Mark Bradford’s Help Us

by Trong Gia Nguyen | May 14, 2008

Mark Bradford’s Help Us

by Trong Gia Nguyen | May 14, 2008

On view now at the Carnegie International’s Life on Mars exhibition is Mark Bradford’s (Season 4) rooftop installation Help Us, a white stone sculpture that is theoretically visible from Google …

Judy Pfaff Curates at CUE

by Trong Gia Nguyen | May 9, 2008

Judy Pfaff Curates at CUE

by Trong Gia Nguyen | May 9, 2008

Up through May 31st at the CUE Foundation is an exhibition by David Krueger, curated by Art:21 Season 4 artist Judy Pfaff. Krueger has recreated his childhood post office in …

Dialog:City in Denver

by Trong Gia Nguyen | May 7, 2008

Dialog:City in Denver

by Trong Gia Nguyen | May 7, 2008

Later this summer, from August 22-29, the Denver metro area will host Dialog:City, a convergence of education, art and democracy. Slated as an exhibition and cultural event that “catalyzes civic …

Carnegie Prize Goes to Vija Celmins

by Trong Gia Nguyen | May 5, 2008

Carnegie Prize Goes to Vija Celmins

by Trong Gia Nguyen | May 5, 2008

Vija Celmins (Season 2) has been awarded the Carnegie Prize for her work Night Sky in the Carnegie International’s Life on Mars exhibition.  In addition to a monetary award of …

Applebroog Award to Rafael Sanchez

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Apr 30, 2008

Applebroog Award to Rafael Sanchez

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Apr 30, 2008

As reported on Artnet, performance artist Rafael Sanchez has won the $10,000 Ida Applebroog (Season 3) Award at Exit Art in New York, established to nurture outstanding artists at critical …

Louise Bourgeois’ Awakening

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Apr 28, 2008

Louise Bourgeois’ Awakening

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Apr 28, 2008

From yesterday’s Observer there is a fascinating article about the “epidemic”, “affliction” and “nocturnal literacy” that is insomnia. Included is a bit on Louise Bourgeois (Season 1), who the journalist …

An-My Lê: Events Ashore

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Apr 25, 2008

An-My Lê: Events Ashore

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Apr 25, 2008

Vietnam-born, Season 4 artist An-My Lê‘s second solo show at Murray Guy opens this Saturday with Events Ashore, her latest series of photographs shot in coastal waters and regions from …

Andrea Zittel in Basel

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Apr 23, 2008

Andrea Zittel in Basel

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Apr 23, 2008

Schaulager in Basel, Switzerland opens a two person exhibition this Saturday, April 26th, with the work of Monika Sosnowska and Art:21 Season 1 artist Andrea Zittel. Both artists respond to …

Jenny Holzer on Twitter

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Apr 21, 2008

Jenny Holzer on Twitter

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Apr 21, 2008

Current Jenny Holzer (Season 4) Twitter message: INHERITANCE MUST BE ABOLISHED To see more of the artist’s aphorisms on the social networking site, click here.