Tag Archives: Richard Serra

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 | Jan 18, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 18, 2010

Sports, the human body and Gap t-shirts come together in this MLK day weekly roundup: Sports and masculinity are central themes of Hard Targets, an exhibition at Ohio State University’s …
Ida Appelbroog, "Group A #9", 1969. Ink on paper, 10 5/8" x 8 1/4". Courtesy Hauser & Wirth.

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 11, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 11, 2010

This week Art21 artists depict nether regions, play with light and space, bundle and fuse old toys, mirror the dandy, reimagine rooftops, photograph electricity, and display cookie cutters by the …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 4, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 4, 2010

This week Art21 artists illustrate NASA’s history, depict child’s play, map the Black Atlantic, render galaxies in glass, leave their mark on the last decade, and reflect on our future: …

Flash Points

Art and Nature at Storm King

by Rachel Gagnon | Dec 16, 2009

Flash Points

Art and Nature at Storm King

by Rachel Gagnon | Dec 16, 2009

Flash Points Editor Rachel Craft interviewed David R. Collens, Director and Curator of Storm King Art Center, about the institution’s focus on the relationship between art and nature. —Ed. Rachel …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 14, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 14, 2009

Making this week’s roundup are an upside down glass house, a floral puppy, fused bicycles and an empty white shoe box, a TV-inspired installation, two exhibitions focusing on American society, …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 7, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 7, 2009

In this week’s roundup of Art21 artist news you’ll read about a forty-million dollar art collection in Las Vegas, a major exhibition of work by Korean and Korean American artists, …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 23, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 23, 2009

From the west to the east coast and over to Taiwan, Art21 artists are involved in a number of new and large-scale exhibitions: Works by Barry McGee (Season 1) and …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 19, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 19, 2009

New photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto (Season 3) are on view at Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco through October 31. Sugimoto’s latest body of work titled Lightning Fields depicts electricity. To …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Kapoortalism

by Ben Street | Sep 30, 2009

Letter from London

Letter from London: Kapoortalism

by Ben Street | Sep 30, 2009

There’s a big lump of birdshit in the eye of Joshua Reynolds. The painter and founder of the Royal Academy, who once literally took a Titian painting to bits to …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Hot Scots, Part Deux

by Ben Street | Sep 7, 2009

Letter from London

Letter from London: Hot Scots, Part Deux

by Ben Street | Sep 7, 2009

Sometimes the most interesting thing about an artist is the disparity between their work and the established perception of it. Eva Hesse, the late German-American sculptor of ratty latex and …

Flash Points

Understanding Pain

by Catherine Wagley | Jul 17, 2009

Flash Points

Understanding Pain

by Catherine Wagley | Jul 17, 2009

A friend of mine told me how she first learned of rape: rape happens when someone forces all your clothes off, her brother explained. My friend was, of course, horrified. …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 25, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 25, 2009

The Cincinnati Art Museum has announced an exhibition of prints by Season 2 artist Martin Puryear. The show is scheduled to open December 2009.   Barbara Kruger (Season 1) is …

Weekly Roundup

by Trong Gia Nguyen | May 18, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Trong Gia Nguyen | May 18, 2009

The Art of Caring: A Look at Life through Photography opened this past weekend at the New Orleans Museum of Art.  The show is comprised of over 200 photographs covering …

Flash Points

How might political change affect art?

by Beth Allen | Feb 3, 2009

Flash Points

How might political change affect art?

by Beth Allen | Feb 3, 2009

Diego Rivera, Detroit Industry, 1932-33. North Wall at the Detroit Institute of the Arts. I must say I’m finding the vociferous opposition in Congress over the allocation of a mere …

Flash Points

Art and Politics: An Introduction

by Marc Mayer | Jan 21, 2009

Flash Points

Art and Politics: An Introduction

by Marc Mayer | Jan 21, 2009

FLASH POINTS is a regular conversational series that focuses on issues relevant to the state of the art world at large, contemporary art education, and issues artists face today. You …

Art21 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

by Marc Mayer | Jan 12, 2009

Art21 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

by Marc Mayer | Jan 12, 2009

Art21 is collaborating with the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) on a public program series titled Art:21 at SAAM. The film series presents episodes from the award winning television program …

Flash Points

Introducing Flash Points: Controversy & Contemporary Art

by Kelly Shindler | Dec 1, 2008

Flash Points

Introducing Flash Points: Controversy & Contemporary Art

by Kelly Shindler | Dec 1, 2008

FLASH POINTS is a monthly conversational series that focuses on issues relevant to the state of the art world at large, contemporary art education, and issues artists face today. You …

SFMOMA’s Explore Modern Art

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 20, 2008

SFMOMA’s Explore Modern Art

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 20, 2008

SFMOMA recently launched their redesigned website with the initiative Explore Modern Art, an online learning environment and interactive space that integrates the museum’s collections information, calendar of public programs and …

Spiders and Steel at the MFA, Boston

by Monika Navarro | Nov 6, 2008

Spiders and Steel at the MFA, Boston

by Monika Navarro | Nov 6, 2008

Currently showing as part of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Art on Film series – Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress, and The Tangerine, by Amei Wallach and Marion Cajoli, …

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, …

Saw:21

by Wesley Miller | Oct 31, 2008

Saw:21

by Wesley Miller | Oct 31, 2008

It’s October 31st — Halloween — in the year 2041. In its twenty-first season, Art21 joins forces with the Saw horror film franchise. Artists Richard Serra, Josiah McElheny, Do-Ho Suh, …

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 …

Installing Art

by Rachel Gagnon | Oct 8, 2008

Installing Art

by Rachel Gagnon | Oct 8, 2008

Art installation = my favorite time to blog. In fact, while writing this, I found an embarrassing number of posts about installation in our archives. I think it plays into …

What is this place, anyway?

by Rachel Gagnon | Oct 7, 2008

What is this place, anyway?

by Rachel Gagnon | Oct 7, 2008

Starting my job as the public relations coordinator at the Pulitzer meant getting a crash course on how to answer all of our “Frequently Asked Questions”:  when we opened, who’s …

Richard Serra at Film Forum

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 20, 2008

Richard Serra at Film Forum

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 20, 2008

Maria Anna Tappeiner’s documentary Richard Serra: Thinking on Your Feet (2005) screens at Film Forum in New York City through September 2nd. The 94-minute film follows Serra (Season 1) through …

Richard Serra at Kunsthaus Bregenz

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Aug 4, 2008

Richard Serra at Kunsthaus Bregenz

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Aug 4, 2008

Currently at the Kunsthaus Bregenz is a major exhibition of more than 60 drawings by Richard Serra (Season 1). It is the first comprehensive presentation of Serra’s graphic work shown …

Berliner Salon: Richard Serra at Kunst Werke

by Emilie Trice | Jul 11, 2008

Berliner Salon: Richard Serra at Kunst Werke

by Emilie Trice | Jul 11, 2008

Last weekend Kunst Werke opened an exhibition of films by Ricarda Roggan, Albrecht Schäfer and Art:21 Season 1 artist Richard Serra. Serra’s part of the exhibition, entitled Thinking on Your …

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 …

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 …

Bantamweight Flickr Battle!

by Rosanna Flouty | May 9, 2008

Bantamweight Flickr Battle!

by Rosanna Flouty | May 9, 2008

After the gorgeously gargantuan show at MoMA that held New Yorkers spellbound in its midtown courtyard, the whole country of France is now making a fuss this week over Richard …

MATRIX/REDUX at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 30, 2008

MATRIX/REDUX at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 30, 2008

The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the MATRIX exhibition program with a year-long series of events, beginning with MATRIX/REDUX (on view through …

2007: a brief recap

by Ana Otero | Jan 9, 2008

2007: a brief recap

by Ana Otero | Jan 9, 2008

2007 was a landmark year for many Art21 artists. Apart from the accolades and prizes bestowed upon such artists as Kara Walker, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Jessica Stockholder, Kerry James Marshall, …

Serra, Celmins, Puryear, and Walker top TIME’s Top 10 Exhibitions of 2007

by Kelly Shindler | Dec 13, 2007

Serra, Celmins, Puryear, and Walker top TIME’s Top 10 Exhibitions of 2007

by Kelly Shindler | Dec 13, 2007

Major exhibitions of work by Richard Serra (Season 1), Vija Celmins, Martin Puryear, and Kara Walker (all Season 2) all made it onto TIME Magazine‚Äôs annual Top 10 Exhibitions list. …

Video: Richard Serra’s Torqued Ellipses at MoMA

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 2, 2007

Video: Richard Serra’s Torqued Ellipses at MoMA

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 2, 2007

Video walkthrough of Richard Serra‚Äôs sculptures Torqued Torus Inversion (2006) and Sequence (2006), on display at MoMA as part of the exhibition Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years. The exhibition is …