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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 …

Berliner Salon: Fashion Week and the Paparazzi

by Emilie Trice | Jul 18, 2008

Berliner Salon: Fashion Week and the Paparazzi

by Emilie Trice | Jul 18, 2008

Yesterday inaugurated Berlin Fashion Week, which will continue through the weekend, bringing a number of “celebrities” to town, as well as designers, models and the ubiquitous hangers-on. It’s a pretty …

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 …

Last Chance: The Old, Weird America

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 15, 2008

Last Chance: The Old, Weird America

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 15, 2008

Closing at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston on July 20, The Old, Weird America is the first museum exhibition to explore the widespread resurgence of folk imagery and history in …

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 …

Berliner Salon: Sugimoto at the Neue and Street art in F-hain

by Emilie Trice | Jul 4, 2008

Berliner Salon: Sugimoto at the Neue and Street art in F-hain

by Emilie Trice | Jul 4, 2008

As previously posted, Hiroshi Sugimoto’s retrospective opened today at the Neue National Galerie. Having seen the show in the context of Mies van der Rohe’s brilliantly minimal architectural monument, I …

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 …

Hiroshi Sugimoto Retrospective in Berlin

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 4, 2008

Hiroshi Sugimoto Retrospective in Berlin

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 4, 2008

Opening today, Neue Nationalgalerie presents the work of Hiroshi Sugimoto (Season 3) in what constitutes the Art21 artist’s most comprehensive retrospective exhibition in German-speaking countries. Berlin is the third stop for this traveling exhibition, which also goes to.Düsseldorf, Salzburg (Austria), …

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 …

Facebook: Images of People in Photographs

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 27, 2008

Facebook: Images of People in Photographs

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 27, 2008

Facebook: Images of People in Photographs from the Permanent Collection consists of just fifty photographs from nearly 3,000 prints in the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center collection. On view today …

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 …

Cancelled, Erased & Removed at Sean Kelly Gallery

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 23, 2008

Cancelled, Erased & Removed at Sean Kelly Gallery

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 23, 2008

On view at Sean Kelly Gallery through August 1, 2008, Cancelled, Erased and Removed explores the conceptual and formal practice of contemporary artists canceling, erasing and removing elements from their work. …

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 …

Jenny Holzer at EVO Gallery

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 17, 2008

Jenny Holzer at EVO Gallery

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 17, 2008

Season 4 artist Jenny Holzer was the first woman to officially represent the United States in the 1990 Venice Biennale. Her installation Gallery D earned the Leone d’Oro (Golden Lion) prize for best pavilion. She was …

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 …

Meredith Monk and Ann Hamilton at the Walker

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 16, 2008

Meredith Monk and Ann Hamilton at the Walker

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 16, 2008

If you missed last week’s collaborative performance by composer Meredith Monk and Season 1 artist Ann Hamilton at the Walker Art Center, you can still listen to an audio clip …

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 …

Contemporary Jewish Museum Opens in San Francisco

by Marc Mayer | Jun 10, 2008

Contemporary Jewish Museum Opens in San Francisco

by Marc Mayer | Jun 10, 2008

On Sunday, June 8th, San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum welcomed visitors for the first time in their new building designed by Daniel Libeskind, architect of the Jewish Museum in Berlin. …

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 …

Island of Misfit Toys

by Marc Mayer | Jun 9, 2008

Island of Misfit Toys

by Marc Mayer | Jun 9, 2008

Salon 94 Freemans just announced that Art21 artist Maya Lin (Season 1), will create a site specific installation in their downtown New York City gallery space. This installation is described …

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 …

Que Será, Serra: Artist Gives Commencement Address

by Marc Mayer | Jun 3, 2008

Que Será, Serra: Artist Gives Commencement Address

by Marc Mayer | Jun 3, 2008

Richard Serra (Season 1) addressed the Williams class of 2008 during the celebration of the college’s 219th commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 1. His speech, “If Not Now, When?” reads …

Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle wins Richard H. Driehaus Foundation award

by Marc Mayer | Jun 3, 2008

Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle wins Richard H. Driehaus Foundation award

by Marc Mayer | Jun 3, 2008

Art21 artist Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle (Season 4) is the winner of a 2008 individual artist award granted by the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation. This award recognizes artists living in the Chicago …

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 …

Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 2, 2008

Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 2, 2008

Dargerism: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger at the American Folk Art Museum examines the influence of Darger’s work on eleven artists, who respond not only to the “aesthetic beauty of Darger’s …

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 …

Kerry James Marshall at Jack Shainman Gallery

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 21, 2008

Kerry James Marshall at Jack Shainman Gallery

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 21, 2008

Recent paintings by Art21 artist Kerry James Marshall (Season 1) are on view May 22 through July 3, 2008 at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York. The exhibition, titled Black …

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 …

Jessie Mann Discusses the Role of the Subject in Art

by Christopher DeWan | May 21, 2008

Jessie Mann Discusses the Role of the Subject in Art

by Christopher DeWan | May 21, 2008

This week, photography blog Subjectify is featuring a serialized interview with Jessie Mann, daughter of photographer Sally Mann (Season One) and the subject of much of her mother’s work. (That’s …

Mike Kelley at the National Museum Kraków

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 20, 2008

Mike Kelley at the National Museum Kraków

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 20, 2008

According to Artforum.com and The Art Newspaper, the National Museum, Kraków is scheduled to open a new department of contemporary Western art this month—the first devoted to a collection of …

Berliner Salon: The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize and Alec Soth

by Emilie Trice | May 16, 2008

Berliner Salon: The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize and Alec Soth

by Emilie Trice | May 16, 2008

Disclaimer: the following post is biased, self-indulgent, anecdotal and probably too long for a blog. Yesterday I had the delight of seeing one of my all time favorite people for …

Laurie Simmons: In and Around the House

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 16, 2008

Laurie Simmons: In and Around the House

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 16, 2008

In and Around the House, the first comprehensive survey of early black and white photographs by Art21 artist Laurie Simmons (Season 4), opens tomorrow at Carolina Nitsch Project Room in …

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 …