Tag Archives: Barbara Kruger

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 12, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 12, 2010

This week’s roundup is dedicated to the ladies: On Sunday, April 18, a public commemoration will be held for Season 4 artist Nancy Spero (1926-2009) in Cooper Union’s Great Hall. …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 5, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 5, 2010

One artist in Rome, four artists in San Francisco, three artist talks from the U.S. to the U.K., and more in this week’s roundup: On April 9, Gagosian Gallery Rome …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Feb 22, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Feb 22, 2010

Biennials, cremated canvases, German faces, cashmere sportswear, sculptural tour de force, fashionable shoes, and an iPhone app comprise this week’s roundup: 2010: Whitney Biennial will open at the Whitney Museum …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Feb 1, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Feb 1, 2010

In this week’s roundup you’ll read about two anniversary exhibitions, 6,000 shapes upstate, masterworks in the Midwest, some road trip souvenirs, a whole lotta prints, and a sale you won’t …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 30, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 30, 2009

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 …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Talking with Janine Antoni, Part One

by Joe Fusaro | Oct 7, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Talking with Janine Antoni, Part One

by Joe Fusaro | Oct 7, 2009

To say it was a pleasure to be given the opportunity to interview Janine Antoni for this column is a gross understatement. In 2003, Janine Antoni‘s Season 2 segment was …

BOMB in the Building

Flash Points

Barbara Kruger interviewed by Richard Prince

by BOMB Magazine | Sep 11, 2009

BOMB in the Building

Flash Points

Barbara Kruger interviewed by Richard Prince

by BOMB Magazine | Sep 11, 2009

Welcome back to BOMB in the Building, where each week we’re featuring a vintage BOMB interview relating to a Season 5 artist. This week, we stepped back into our archive …

Play Art Loud: Creating Characters on ArtBabble

by Wesley Miller | Sep 9, 2009

Play Art Loud: Creating Characters on ArtBabble

by Wesley Miller | Sep 9, 2009

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 …

MoMA Trumpets Amsterdam’s Role as Hub of Conceptual Art

by Hrag Vartanian | Aug 20, 2009

MoMA Trumpets Amsterdam’s Role as Hub of Conceptual Art

by Hrag Vartanian | Aug 20, 2009

While today Conceptual Art is utterly ubiquitous, MoMA’s current “In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960-1976” examines a period when only a few cities in the world …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 17, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 17, 2009

Site-specific installations by Mary Heilmann (Season 5), Tony Oursler, Todd Eberle, and Sabina Streeter are currently on view at the Clocktower Gallery in Manhattan. This is the first group of …

BOMB in the Building

Flash Points

James Casebere interviewed by Roberto Juarez

by BOMB Magazine | Aug 14, 2009

BOMB in the Building

Flash Points

James Casebere interviewed by Roberto Juarez

by BOMB Magazine | Aug 14, 2009

Welcome back to BOMB in the Building, where each week we feature a vintage BOMB interview relating to a Season 5 artist or theme. This week we look to the …

Weekly Round Up

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Aug 10, 2009

Weekly Round Up

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Aug 10, 2009

Last year the Guardian asked its sports and art writers to swap pieces for a day. Tennis correspondent Steve Bierley reviewed a Louise Bourgeois (Season 1) exhibition, which Bob and …

Weekly Roundup

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 27, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 27, 2009

Currently showing at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, There Goes the Neighborhood explores the many aspects of community, focusing on the evolution of architecture and landscape as it is …

This Week’s Round-Up

by Trong Gia Nguyen | May 4, 2009

This Week’s Round-Up

by Trong Gia Nguyen | May 4, 2009

On April 22nd, the collector Donald Hess opened the world’s first James Turrell Museum in Colomé, Argentina. The 18,084sf space is based on a plan created by Turrell himself, and …

BOMB in the Building

BOMB is (back) in the building

by BOMB Magazine | Apr 24, 2009

BOMB in the Building

BOMB is (back) in the building

by BOMB Magazine | Apr 24, 2009

After a hiatus, we (the folks from BOMB Magazine) are back to resume our fun and educational guest blogging. We’ll be chiming in once a month with some cool stuff …

Weekly Round Up

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Apr 20, 2009

Weekly Round Up

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Apr 20, 2009

Robert Adams has won the 2009 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography. Based in Astoria, Oregon, the Season 4 artist received the $61,000 prize at a ceremony in San Francisco …

Women in the City – One Year Later

by Nicole J. Caruth | Feb 28, 2009

Women in the City – One Year Later

by Nicole J. Caruth | Feb 28, 2009

Last year, gallerist Emi Fontana curated Women in the City, a public art exhibition spread throughout the streets of Los Angeles. Works by Barbara Kruger (Season 1), Jenny Holzer (Season 4), Louise …

Tropic of Miami

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Dec 18, 2008

Tropic of Miami

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Dec 18, 2008

In addition to the fairs themselves, one of the highlights during Art Basel Miami Beach is the bevy of private collections and foundations. This is the kind of thing that …

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 …

Barbara Kruger at the Graduate Center, CUNY

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 14, 2008

Barbara Kruger at the Graduate Center, CUNY

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 14, 2008

People “Weekly,” the inaugural exhibition of the Amie and Tony James Gallery at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, opened this month and runs through February 28, 2009. The …

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 …

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 …

Hot Topic is not Punk Rock!

by Marc Mayer | Jun 6, 2008

Hot Topic is not Punk Rock!

by Marc Mayer | Jun 6, 2008

Reading Ben Street’s recent post Pop (and) Art, I started to consider links between music and art. It is easy to support Ben’s idea that the relationship between music and …

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 …

Whitney Biennial Model Tees

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Mar 14, 2008

Whitney Biennial Model Tees

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Mar 14, 2008

The Whitney Museum has collaborated with the Gap on a series of t-shirts designed by past Whitney Biennial artists, including Art21 artists Cai Guo-Qiang, Barbara Kruger (her design is pictured …

More Women in the City: installation views

by Kelly Shindler | Mar 5, 2008

More Women in the City: installation views

by Kelly Shindler | Mar 5, 2008

Installation views of West of Rome’s Women in the City project, featuring Art21 artists Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger, as well as Cindy Sherman and Louise Lawler. Thanks to For …

Women in the City: Holzer and Kruger artwork images

by Kelly Shindler | Feb 11, 2008

Women in the City: Holzer and Kruger artwork images

by Kelly Shindler | Feb 11, 2008

Jenny Holzer. Don‚Äôt Talk Down to Me, Selection from Inflammatory Essays, 1979-82. Offset poster. ¬© 2008 Jenny Holzer, Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Jenny Holzer. Destruye, Selection from Inflammatory Essays, …

Kruger and Holzer in Women in the City

by Kelly Shindler | Feb 8, 2008

Kruger and Holzer in Women in the City

by Kelly Shindler | Feb 8, 2008

Women in the City is a viral public art exhibition throughout the streets of Los Angeles that starts today. Timed to coincide with the opening of the Broad Contemporary Art …

The Barbara Kruger – Selfridge’s connection

by Kelly Shindler | Jan 3, 2008

The Barbara Kruger – Selfridge’s connection

by Kelly Shindler | Jan 3, 2008

Season 1 artist Barbara Kruger has been collaborating with British department store Selfridge’s to provide their seasonal advertising artwork. Apparently, she has worked with them in the past as well. …

Barbara Kruger: Picture/Readings

by Ana Otero | Nov 5, 2007

Barbara Kruger: Picture/Readings

by Ana Otero | Nov 5, 2007

An exhibition by Season 1 featured artist Barbara Kruger is on view at Mary Boone Gallery, New York . The exhibition entitled Picture/Readings, is a collection of works from 1978, …