Leviathan, 2011, by Anish Kapoor, at the Grand Palais, through June 23. (Photos by Vincent Desjardins. With a hat tip to Yvonne Connasse.)
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Ball-Nogues Studio, Gravity’s Loom, 2010 — currently on display in the entry hallway. (All photographs are courtesy of the IMA, unless otherwise noted.)
From the fall of 2009 to the summer of 2010 I volunteered at the Indianopolis Museum of Art (IMA) under Associate Conservator of Objects & Variable Art, Richard McCoy. While there I documented and filed examination reports on works by artists such as Maya Lin, El Anatsui, and Robert Smithson. I also helped with the installation and maintenance of the Tara Donovan (my current boss) exhibition.
Over the holidays I paid a visit to the contemporary galleries; which during my time at the IMA I’d become very familiar with, so it was nice to return with fresh eyes. Here are some of my favorite installations, both old and new:
Robert Irwin’s, Light and Space III, 2008. (Image from Thoth188.)
In 2008, Robert Irwin made an installation for IMA’s Pulliam Great Hall, which is at center of the IMA’s galleries. The space at the time was dimly lit, adorned with outdated wood décor — lacking any kind of impact for the focal point of the IMA experience. True to Irwin’s style, Light and Space III evolved directly from the requirements of it’s location; in a sense he grew the piece from the space. One of the most amazing experiences I had while interning at the IMA was when this installation was turned off; while walking through the contemporary galleries, I kept feeling as though something was missing; it was the presence of this piece, which is turned off whenever the museum closes. (Learn a little about this piece and Irwin’s process by watching a video of the artist in conversation with my old boss.)
Continue reading ‘Photo Diary: A tour of installation art at the IMA, in Indianpolis.’
Huellas del silencio, 2003 by Paulina Ortiz, in the spa at the Four Seasons, Costa Rica. (Photo by C-M.)
- A history of words and language, via Google Books. (@stevesilberman.)
- Virgencita.
- On surveillance. A fascinating episode of Studio 360 — which includes a segment with Trevor Paglen.
- AA Bronson asks to have his work removed from the National Portrait Gallery’s Hide/Seek exhibit in the wake of the Wojanrowicz controversy. The NPG says no way. Tyler Green has an interview with the artist.
- Related: Hyperallergic reports on yesterday’s protest in NYC against the censorhsip. And Modern Art Notes has a helpful links round up on the latest surrounding the controversy.
- Blu, on the removal of his mural from MOCA in L.A. The museum’s board members don’t appear too concerned about the whole fracas. Related: Ayatollah Deitch.
- The European Commission has ruled that Dan Flavin’s art isn’t art. It’s “light fittings.”
- The Best in Food-Art, 2010.
- Speaking of which: Steak sandwich à la Richard Wentworth. Looks tasty.
- Bad at Sports has an interesting audio interview with Julio Cesar Morales, talking 19th century food and California history, among many other interesting things. Set aside an hour for this.
- Want to understand that Paul Thek show at the Whitney? Read John Perreault’s informative essay.
- Jeff Koons, shopping.
- Play chess with Marcel Duchamp. Or at least his bot likeness.
- The Day in Art Merch: a Josef Beuys-inspired Cape Coat — as worn by a hot chick. And Tracey Emin stationery.
- Vogue magazine, in abstraction. Weirdly fascinating. (ackackack.)
- Today’s Street Art, anteater edition: Ovbal and Sego in Mexico City.
- 3-D animated graffiti. Very Transformers. (The Smithian.)
- “I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists.” — Frank Gehry, on everything.
- Mies’s Farnsworth House, filled with butterflies.
- For Sale: Slightly Used Apocalyptic Warning Sign.
Parking Job: Gonzalo Lebrija’s, Entre La Vida y La Muerte, outside the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver. Part of the exhibit Energy Effect (Elements). (Photos by Ben V.)
Over Thanksgiving break, I paid a visit to the Museum of Contemporary Art of Denver for the first time. Founded in 1996, the museum’s website describes itself as “an activator, content provider and immediate research vehicle of culture in the making — a museum without a front door — a place for public engagement.” That all sounds good, minus the front door bit. The best part of the building was without a doubt the front entrance, which is an imposing, Mordor-esque door which slowly begins to open as you approach. After that grand entrance, it’s a pleasant, well-lit, navigable space for art, designed by rising starchitect David Adjaye.
My favorite aspect of the museum was the Open Shelf Library (see image at right), a curatorial project where displaying artists fill a shelf with the objects that inspired their work. It is stuffed with books, study drawings, test materials, and other objects — a way of making the artistic process a little more transparent.
More photos after the jump. And more from C-Mon contributor Ben V over at Contemporary Art Truck.
Strap-On From Memory, 2010, by Wynne Greenwood. Part of the solo exhibit Strap-On TVs at the Lawrimore Project in Seattle, through Dec. 30. (Image courtesy of Lawrimore.)
- L.A.: Martin Parr, All Things Parr, at Rose Gallery in Santa Monica, opens Saturday.
- S.F.: Postcard Show 14, at the Lab, opens this Saturday at 1pm. Reception is at 7pm.
- NYC: Feng Mengbo, The Long March, at PS1, opens Sunday at noon.
- NYC: The West at Sunset, at the Abrons Arts Center, opens Thursday at 6pm.
- NYC: Graphic Radicals: 30 Years of World War III, at Exit Art, through Feb. 7.
- NYC: The Degenerate Craft Fair, at the DCTV Firehouse, opens this Saturday at noon, through Sunday at 8pm.
- NYC: 12×12, at Mighty Tanaka in Dumbo, opens this Friday at 6pm.
- NYC: Cake, at Brewers Mansion, in East Williamsburg, opens this Saturday at 6pm.
Healthy-delicious. And all it required was the occupation of a full house. (Photo by C-M.)
This past Thursday morning I crawled through a hole in a wall, entered a condemned house and proceeded to help myself to porridge. In one room were the bowls. In another, the spoons. In yet others were bubbling pots of oatmeal and stacks of brown sugar and raisins. While the victuals were tasty, in a fiber-rich, heart-healthy kind of way, the whole thing felt seriously overwrought. Beginning with the warning sign, at the entrance, which cautioned that the installation could be “physically dangerous.” (Clearly, these art nerds have no idea what it really takes to get into a derelict building.)
All of this was part of Jennifer Rubell’s latest food piece, Just Right, at the opening of her family’s art collection space, the Rubell Family Collection, in Miami’s arts district this week. Three years ago, I partook of her hard-boiled egg extravaganza. And as much as I abhor the idea of eating hard boiled eggs with a latex glove, there was a certain freakiness to the installation that I had to respect. This piece, however, felt frivolous – a way for a very well-to-do family to occupy a crestfallen old home within range of their imposing compound. An unwitting metaphor of Miami’s complicated issues of poverty, race, class and real estate.
Continue reading ‘At the Basel Frazzle: Breakfast at the Rubells.’
If you are looking for a fine way to walk off all that turkey (or tofurkey), may I highly recommend the Charles LeDray exhibit at the Whitney. It is intense. It’s hilarious. It makes you think about why we fetishize the things we do. Best of all: I’ve got a slide show of it up at Gallerina.
A still from The Silent Echo Chamber, by Harry Shearer. On view at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, through Jan. 16. Another Bouncing Ball offers a good pairing to this image. (Image courtesy of the Henry.)
- NYC: #TheSocialGraph, showcasing social media art, at Outpost, through Nov. 27.
- NYC: RE: Cycles, at Martinez Gallery, with SINER, CASE 2, RATe and many others, in Brooklyn, through Jan. 31.
- NYC: Dark Days, a group show, at Eyelevel BQE, through Jan. 2.
- NYC: Roxy Paine, Distillation, at James Cohan, through Dec. 11.
- NYC: Balenciaga: Spanish Master, at the Queen Sofia Spanish Insitute, through Feb. 19.
- NYC: Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, through Apr. 10.
- Marfa, Tex.: Chinati at Sunset, this Friday at 5:30pm.
- L.A.: Josef Hoflehner, Sublime, at Stephen Cohen Gallery, through Dec. 30.
- L.A.: Obsidian Mirror-Travels: Refracting Ancient Mexican Art and Archeology, at the Getty Research Institute, through March 27.
- Indian Wells, Calif.: Karl Benjamin, Under the Influence, at Royale Projects, opens Saturday at 4pm.
- London: Carmen Herrera and Peter Joseph, at Lisson Gallery, opens today.
- London: Francesca Woodman, at Victoria Miro, through Jan. 22.
- London: High Society: Mind-Altering Drugs in History and Culture, at the Wellcome Collection, through Feb. 27.
- Berlin: Paul Branca, Couch Crash, at Golden Parachutes, opens tomorrow at 7pm.
Cocoon, by Kate Browne, in Mexico City. Part of a series of public cocoon sculptures she has constructed in various locations around the world. See the building of the Mexico City project here. (Image courtesy of Browne.)
- The Starry Night bra.
- New York Times, busted. Though, I have to say, this guy gives pretty good soundbite. (Art Fag City.)
- Can birds fall in love?
- New species discovered in New Guinea. Complete with awesome photos. (Cool Green Science.)
- Border Bodies: Attempting to identify the remains of those who cross. Amazing piece. (Eyeteeth.)
- Nut job attacks a piece by Enrique Chagoya with a crowbar at a Colorado museum. The work will not be returned to display.
- “The exhibit is a mess, an extravagant hair ball of coughed-up references.”
- Ignoring reality at its peril: An essay by Ben Davis on art in the time of austerity and the art world’s increasingly polarized economics.
- Leather: The latest in important art collector wear. (Modern Art Notes.)
- Slate does up MoMA’s Ab-Ex show in a slideshow. Plus: Look Into My Owl has some AMAZING close-ups of the paintings. If you can’t make it to the show, definitely check these links out.
- Helpful advice to the internet generation, visual arts edition.
- St. Mark’s Place, 1967.
- The Day in Art Merch: The Yayoi Kusama Coke machine. I want, need, have to have…one of those dot cans.
- Banksy’s Simpsons opener.
- Today’s Graff: Hour and Horfe in Paris. Nice placement.
- Trespass: A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art. Definitely a worthwhile street art/intervention book to have. On a related note: Urban Interventions: Personal Projects in Public Spaces is also good in terms of the comprehensive/experimental nature of the work it features.
- Great if your stoned. Watch it full-screen. (Coudal.)