Tag Archives: Exhibitions

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Gabriel Orozco | On Photography

by Wesley Miller | Nov 20, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Gabriel Orozco | On Photography

by Wesley Miller | Nov 20, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Gabriel Orozco discusses recent photographs taken in Mexico and Ecuador in 2007, and the role photography plays in his broader artistic practice. Gabriel Orozco’s sculptures and photographs disrupt conventional …

FEAR at James Cohan Gallery

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 19, 2008

FEAR at James Cohan Gallery

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 19, 2008

A new body of work by Trenton Doyle Hancock (Season 2) will be on view at James Cohan Gallery New York, November 20 through January 10, 2009. FEAR, Hancock’s fourth exhibition at the …

Love Note to Franz West

by Wesley Miller | Nov 17, 2008

Love Note to Franz West

by Wesley Miller | Nov 17, 2008

As the curator of online video here at Art21, I spend a lot of time looking at work produced by colleagues around the world. And while there’s a lot of …

Letter from London

Letter from London: War(hol)! What is he good for?

by Ben Street | Nov 17, 2008

Letter from London

Letter from London: War(hol)! What is he good for?

by Ben Street | Nov 17, 2008

While the prospect of yet another Andy Warhol exhibition will be met by most gallery-goers with an indifferent shrug, Other Voices, Other Rooms, the new show at the Hayward Gallery, attempts to …

Notes on sex, violence and John Brown: A conversation with Laylah Ali

by Monika Navarro | Nov 14, 2008

Notes on sex, violence and John Brown: A conversation with Laylah Ali

by Monika Navarro | Nov 14, 2008

“The first mistake of art is to assume that it’s serious.” -Lester Bangs Last night we braved the rain and bad signage in Lincoln, Massachusetts to hear a conversation with …

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 …

Darwin & Art in Edinburgh

by Hrag Vartanian | Nov 11, 2008

Darwin & Art in Edinburgh

by Hrag Vartanian | Nov 11, 2008

Ellen Gallagher, Watery Ecstatic (2005). Courtesy The Species of Origin The intersection of art and science isn’t commonly discussed in the art world. But one British art school, the Edinburgh …

“New York Times” video on Maya Lin’s “Wave Field”

by Kelly Shindler | Nov 10, 2008

“New York Times” video on Maya Lin’s “Wave Field”

by Kelly Shindler | Nov 10, 2008

The New York Times just published a video on Maya Lin‘s Wave Field at Storm King Art Center in upstate New York. Click here to watch it. Wave Field can …

Kara Walker at Irish Museum of Modern Art

by Seth Curcio | Nov 10, 2008

Kara Walker at Irish Museum of Modern Art

by Seth Curcio | Nov 10, 2008

The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) in Dublin, Ireland is currently exhibiting In Praise of Shadows, on view from November 5 – January 4, 2009. The exhibition, which is …

Martin Puryear in the Bay Area

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 8, 2008

Martin Puryear in the Bay Area

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 8, 2008

The traveling exhibition of sculptures by Season 2 artist Martin Puryear (organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York) has made its way to San Francisco. On view at the San Francisco Museum of …

Roanoke’s Taubman Museum of Art Opens This Weekend

by Hrag Vartanian | Nov 7, 2008

Roanoke’s Taubman Museum of Art Opens This Weekend

by Hrag Vartanian | Nov 7, 2008

I had the good fortune of being in Roanoke, Virginia and seeing the impressive new Taubman Museum of Art (formerly the Art Museum of Western Virginia). A welcome addition to …

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Gabriel Orozco | “Samurai Tree”

by Wesley Miller | Nov 6, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Gabriel Orozco | “Samurai Tree”

by Wesley Miller | Nov 6, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Gabriel Orozco discusses recent paintings from his ongoing Samurai Tree series, including the works Fugaz, Tuttifruti and Red Roots (all 2008), and the computer animation Dandelion Animation (2008), shown …

Sugimoto at Four Venues

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 5, 2008

Sugimoto at Four Venues

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 5, 2008

The traveling retrospective exhibition of works by Hiroshi Sugimoto (Season 3) is on view at the Museum of Art Lucerne in Switzerland through January 25, 2009. The artist has designed the exhibition, previously at the Neue …

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 …

Letter from London

Letter from London: The Turbine Hall

by Ben Street | Nov 3, 2008

Letter from London

Letter from London: The Turbine Hall

by Ben Street | Nov 3, 2008

Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall commissions have set a certain standard for scale in art making at a time when many artists have retreated from the big, brash statement towards the self-effacing, the …

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, …

Global Video Part 3

by Catherine Wagley | Nov 2, 2008

Global Video Part 3

by Catherine Wagley | Nov 2, 2008

“Part of your preparation is to have as many strings in your hand, just not to knot them,” said Cate Blanchett, explaining her approach to acting.  “You don’t want to sort …

I Left My Heart in New Orleans

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 1, 2008

I Left My Heart in New Orleans

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 1, 2008

Prospect. 1 New Orleans, the largest biennial international contemporary art ever held in the United States, opened to the public today. Produced by U.S. Biennial, Inc. and directed by Dan Cameron, …

Global Video Part 2

by Catherine Wagley | Nov 1, 2008

Global Video Part 2

by Catherine Wagley | Nov 1, 2008

Regina José Galindo dips her feet into a white basin of human blood, takes a string of steps, then dips her feet again. She is walking through Guatemala City, her red footprints …

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 …

Reframing Global Video

by Catherine Wagley | Oct 31, 2008

Reframing Global Video

by Catherine Wagley | Oct 31, 2008

I am always dubious when the word “global” begins an exhibition title. Trying to gauge some sort of global cultural pulse seems absurdly ambitious. But yesterday, when I went to see Narrowcast: Reframing Global Video …

Making Art Effable

by Catherine Wagley | Oct 29, 2008

Making Art Effable

by Catherine Wagley | Oct 29, 2008

For the exhibition Index: Conceptualism in California,  MOCA invited four Los Angeles poets to respond to artists’ work. Though the scope of the exhibition–Index  ambitiously explores the ways in which California artists …

Soundings and Songs: Ann Hamilton

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 29, 2008

Soundings and Songs: Ann Hamilton

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 29, 2008

Soundings–an exhibition of sculpture, photography, prints and video by Season 1 artist Ann Hamilton–is on view at Robischon Gallery in Denver, Colorado through November 15. The exhibition expands upon Hamilton’s works from an …

Letter from London

Letter from London: The Contemporary Portrait

by Ben Street | Oct 27, 2008

Letter from London

Letter from London: The Contemporary Portrait

by Ben Street | Oct 27, 2008

It might seem a bit old-fashioned to bemoan the demise of the portrait tradition in contemporary art, but looking at a new show of Renaissance portraits, and having read a short …

The Uncanny at Kontainer Gallery

by Catherine Wagley | Oct 24, 2008

The Uncanny at Kontainer Gallery

by Catherine Wagley | Oct 24, 2008

Few things make me happier than a lyrical, perpetually unresolved video exhibition. Not Figments of a Madman’s Imagination: The Uncanny in Contemporary Romanian Video Art, currently on view at Kontainer Gallery in …

theanyspacewhatever

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 24, 2008

theanyspacewhatever

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 24, 2008

Invited by the Guggenheim Museum to collectively formulate a scenario for an exhibition, artists Pierre Huyghe (Season 4), Angela Bulloch, Maurizio Cattelan, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Carsten Höller,  Jorge Pardo, …

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Lari Pittman | Aesthetics

by Wesley Miller | Oct 23, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Lari Pittman | Aesthetics

by Wesley Miller | Oct 23, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Lari Pittman draws connections between aesthetics and feelings of safety, at his home and cactus garden in Los Angeles. An exhibition of Pittman’s latest paintings opens Friday, October 24th …

Looking at “Art in Odd Places”

by Hrag Vartanian | Oct 21, 2008

Looking at “Art in Odd Places”

by Hrag Vartanian | Oct 21, 2008

Since the days of 19th-century French poet and critic Charles Baudelaire, the flâneur has played a prominent role in our evolving notion of modern art. The flâneur, according to Baudelaire, …

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 …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Serra and Irwin

by Ben Street | Oct 20, 2008

Letter from London

Letter from London: Serra and Irwin

by Ben Street | Oct 20, 2008

Amid the noise and anxiety of the art fairs (read my review of Scope here), two significant exhibitions by major US artists have opened simultaneously in London: Richard Serra at Gagosian and Robert Irwin at …

Arturo Herrera at Sikkema Jenkins & Co.

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 17, 2008

Arturo Herrera at Sikkema Jenkins & Co.

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 17, 2008

  An exhibition of new works by Arturo Herrera (Season 3) opens tomorrow, October 18, at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. and runs through November 15, 2008. Unlike Herrera’s earlier works that lay flat against the wall, this …

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 …

Artist Interviews: Serkan Ozkaya and Pepe Mar

by Rachel Gagnon | Oct 16, 2008

Artist Interviews: Serkan Ozkaya and Pepe Mar

by Rachel Gagnon | Oct 16, 2008

While working on the interviews for my last post, I had an opportunity to meet two artists who were putting the finishing touches on their respective exhibitions. Serkan Ozkaya’s work …

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 …

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 …

Documenting The Light Project

by Rachel Gagnon | Oct 10, 2008

Documenting The Light Project

by Rachel Gagnon | Oct 10, 2008

Wrapping up my previous post’s theme of installation—the online catalogue for the Pulitzer’s outdoor exhibition, The Light Project, allowed me to humor my love of the installation process on a …