Tag Archives: New York City

Ping Pong Night

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 28, 2009

Ping Pong Night

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 28, 2009

The Gramercy Park exhibition space, Nyehaus, will present its first-ever invitational table-tennis tournament tonight. The private event is held in conjunction with the exhibition Rirkrit Tiravanija: Reflection. The mirror polished aluminum table, Untitled (The …

Flash Points

Obama Special, Part 1

by Daniel Quiles | Jan 26, 2009

Flash Points

Obama Special, Part 1

by Daniel Quiles | Jan 26, 2009

What follows is just a bit late for the inauguration, which is appropriate. It is essentially old news. Let’s start with the “Flash Points” question of the week: how can …

Back to “reality”

by Daniel Quiles | Jan 22, 2009

Back to “reality”

by Daniel Quiles | Jan 22, 2009

Reality Check: Truth and Illusion in Contemporary Photography, curated by Mia Fineman, is currently on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where it seems intended to …

Art21 Professional Development at MoMA

by Marc Mayer | Jan 21, 2009

Art21 Professional Development at MoMA

by Marc Mayer | Jan 21, 2009

On Saturday, January 24 Art21 is partnering with the Museum of Modern Art to offer a full day professional development workshops titled Teaching with Objects and Film: Focus on Contemporary …

Our City Dreams

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 21, 2009

Our City Dreams

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 21, 2009

Our City Dreams, a new documentary by Chiara Clemente (daughter of artist Francesco Clemente), will debut at Film Forum, Feb. 4-17, 2009. Filmed over the course of two years, this “love letter” to …

Schorr in Weird Beauty

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 16, 2009

Schorr in Weird Beauty

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 16, 2009

Weird Beauty: Fashion Photography Now is on view at the International Center for Photography (ICP) from January 16 through May 3, 2009. Organized by Vince Aletti and Carol Squiers, the exhibition …

Rare Charles Atlas screening this Saturday in NYC

by Hrag Vartanian | Dec 18, 2008

Rare Charles Atlas screening this Saturday in NYC

by Hrag Vartanian | Dec 18, 2008

In the late 1990s, Art21 artist Charles Atlas created a series of video collages for Martha@Mother at the infamous and now defunct downtown New York nightclub Mother. The non-advertised but …

Gay Witches, pt. 1

by Elijah Burgher | Dec 17, 2008

Gay Witches, pt. 1

by Elijah Burgher | Dec 17, 2008

The show I most wanted to see this past year but didn’t was AA Bronson‘s School For Young Shamans at John Connelly Presents. It seems to have culminated from, or at least focused, …

Flash Points

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Teaching with Controversial Material: “Bodies”

by Joe Fusaro | Dec 17, 2008

Flash Points

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Teaching with Controversial Material: “Bodies”

by Joe Fusaro | Dec 17, 2008

Illustration by Natasha Russel, Senior, Nyack High School Just a few weeks ago, a colleague and I had the opportunity to take three Advanced Placement Studio Art classes to see …

Flash Points

Top Billing at the Guggenheim

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Dec 16, 2008

Flash Points

Top Billing at the Guggenheim

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Dec 16, 2008

I’ve been reading a few reviews of the Guggenheim’s anyspacewhatsoever exhibition recently, including Merrily Kerr‘s insightful take a few days ago. Coupled with the launch of Flash Points and its …

What’s so great about…

by Merrily Kerr | Dec 14, 2008

What’s so great about…

by Merrily Kerr | Dec 14, 2008

Hello again and goodbye for now, Art21 blogging community. As a guest blogger for the past couple of weeks, I’ve loved sharing thoughts on contemporary art in New York City …

Trenton Doyle Hancock in Chelsea (with video!)

by Merrily Kerr | Dec 12, 2008

Trenton Doyle Hancock in Chelsea (with video!)

by Merrily Kerr | Dec 12, 2008

At last! An update from Art:21 Season 2 artist Trenton Doyle Hancock’s Lower Realm has reached us in Chelsea. Hancock recently opened a new chapter in his ongoing saga of the war …

Perfect Strangers – Man or Beast?

by Merrily Kerr | Dec 9, 2008

Perfect Strangers – Man or Beast?

by Merrily Kerr | Dec 9, 2008

Surely one of the stranger sights in the Chelsea galleries this month is the running coyote pack in the window of Claire Oliver Gallery. In sculptor Kate Clark’s first New …

24th Street Showdown: Cindy Sherman v. Richard Prince

by Merrily Kerr | Dec 9, 2008

24th Street Showdown: Cindy Sherman v. Richard Prince

by Merrily Kerr | Dec 9, 2008

Score a victory for female artists in Chelsea galleries this month. Women are still routinely underrepresented in museum collections (see Jerry Saltz’s debate-sparking tally of MoMA’s permanent collection), but not …

Inspired to Dance by Kara Walker: An Interview with Kyle Abraham

by Hrag Vartanian | Dec 4, 2008

Inspired to Dance by Kara Walker: An Interview with Kyle Abraham

by Hrag Vartanian | Dec 4, 2008

Emerging choreographer Kyle Abraham is performing two pieces this week at the Dance Theatre Workshop in New York (Dec. 3-6 at 7:30pm). One of the works, a solo piece entitled Brick, …

The Obamas arrive at the New Museum

by Merrily Kerr | Dec 4, 2008

The Obamas arrive at the New Museum

by Merrily Kerr | Dec 4, 2008

Two big attractions of the season—Carsten Höller’s hotel room and Pipilotti Rist’s video (see my Dec. 2 and 3 posts)—occupy a serious amount of space in their respective museums. A …

MoMA’s Womb

by Merrily Kerr | Dec 3, 2008

MoMA’s Womb

by Merrily Kerr | Dec 3, 2008

The ‘wow factor’ in Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist’s buzz-generating new video installation in the Museum of Modern Art’s atrium is huge. Featuring fields of flowers, Pour Your Body Out (7534 …

Bedding Down at the Guggenheim

by Merrily Kerr | Dec 2, 2008

Bedding Down at the Guggenheim

by Merrily Kerr | Dec 2, 2008

Spending the night in a museum is a childhood fantasy that would seem to better suit the crowded treasure troves of the Metropolitan Museum of Art than the more Spartan …

Let’s Tour!

by Merrily Kerr | Dec 1, 2008

Let’s Tour!

by Merrily Kerr | Dec 1, 2008

‘Tis the season to get out and about and New York’s museums and galleries are perfect places to meet up with friends or enjoy a little downtime in the holiday …

Art21 Extended Play

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 …

Don’t Miss: Catherine Sullivan at The New School

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 18, 2008

Don’t Miss: Catherine Sullivan at The New School

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 18, 2008

  Catherine Sullivan (Season 4) will speak at The New School on Wednesday, November 19 at 6:30pm. The event is part of the Public Art Fund Talks, an ongoing series of discussions …

All the News We Hope to Print

by Marc Mayer | Nov 13, 2008

All the News We Hope to Print

by Marc Mayer | Nov 13, 2008

Living in the afterglow or wake (depending on your political leanings) of the 2008 presidential election, we are left to wonder where this talk of hope and change might lead …

An-My Lê on Michael Heizer tonight at Dia

by Kelly Shindler | Nov 10, 2008

An-My Lê on Michael Heizer tonight at Dia

by Kelly Shindler | Nov 10, 2008

As part of Dia’s Artists on Artists lecture series, Season 4 artist An-My Lê will lecture on Michael Heizer tonight at 6:30. Trap Rock, Lê’s 2006-2007 series of color photographs, …

“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 …

Art21 Extended Play

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 …

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, …

Art21 Extended Play

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 …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Humor and Beauty

by Joe Fusaro | Oct 22, 2008

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Humor and Beauty

by Joe Fusaro | Oct 22, 2008

How can humor be used to say something serious? Can unattractive or disturbing things be represented in a beautiful way? These were just two of the questions posed at last …

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, …

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 …

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 …

A Conversation with Kiki Smith and Others at Deitch Projects

by Seth Curcio | Oct 11, 2008

A Conversation with Kiki Smith and Others at Deitch Projects

by Seth Curcio | Oct 11, 2008

On Thursday evening, Deitch Projects hosted a conversation featuring Kiki Smith (Season Two), alongside Ann Messner and Swoon. The talk was held at Deitch Studios in Long Island City, NY, …

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 …

Art21 Extended Play

Gabriel Orozco | “Obit”

by Wesley Miller | Oct 9, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Gabriel Orozco | “Obit”

by Wesley Miller | Oct 9, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Gabriel Orozco discusses his installation Obit (2008), on view at Marian Goodman Gallery in New York. Gabriel Orozco’s sculptures and photographs disrupt conventional notions of reality. Drawing our attention …