Category: Installation

May 22, 2013

Calendar. 05.22.13.

Bridget’s Bardot, 2009, a Ganzfeld space by James Turrell. Part of the artist’s solo exhibition James Turrell: A Retrospective, at the L.A. County Museum of Art. Opens Sunday. (Copyright James Turrell. Photo by Florian Holzherr.)

L.A.: A. Quincy Jones, Building for Better Living, at the Hammer Museum. Opens Thursday, in Westwood.
Sheboygan, Wisc.: Uncommon Ground, at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center. Through August 18.
Miami: Modern Meals: Remaking American Foods From Farm to Kitchen, at the Wolfsonian Museum. Through September 29, in Miami Beach.
NYC: Edward Hopper, Hopper Drawing, at the Whitney Museum. Opens Thursday.
NYC: Takuma Nakahira, Circulation: Date, Place, Events, at Yossi Milo Gallery. Opens Thursday at 6pm, in Chelsea.
NYC: Jogging: Soon, an exhibition at Still House. Opens Friday at 6pm, in Red Hook.
NYC: Lee Arnold, Rick Caruso, Christina Kelly and Michael Krondle, Natural Selection, at Trestle Gallery. Opens Friday, in Gowanus.
Milan: Mike Kelley: Eternity is a Long Time, at HangarBicocca. Opens today.

May 21, 2013

Miscellany. 05.21.13.

Work (Water), an installation by Motonaga Sadamasa. Part of the exhibition Gutai: Splendid Playground, at the Guggenheim in New York, which closed earlier this month. (Photo by C-M.)

Are Cooper Union’s finances fixable? Felix Salmon does some math.
MOCA’s New Sculpturalism show is back on track — but a lot of questions remain. My latest in ARCHITECT.
When is a Warhol authentic and when is it not? For the authentication committee at the Warhol Foundation, these are serious questions — with some significant legal ramifications.
A new book accuses Joseph Beuys of having close ties to Nazis. Draw your own conclusions — I’d need to read the book and see a more thorough explanation of the evidence before I make up my mind on this one.
Jack Goldstein, GIF artist?
Good read: Ben Davis on Jeff Koons.
Plus: Koons’ balloon consultant. Seriously. (Hyperallergic.)
Turning guns into art.
This piece by Deborah Solomon on WNYC is kind of cockamamie: “Critics have no doubts.” “They specialize in certitudes.” “Their prose is notoriously dense.” Seriously?
The Cedar Tavern is reborn as a waxing salon. (My own look back at the bar can be found here.)
NYU’s Fales Library has put all of David Wojnarowicz’s papers online.
Jörg Colberg’s photography blog, Conscientious, now has a new home. Update your feed readers with the new link!
Michal Chelbin’s portraits of juvenile prisoners in the Ukraine.
The Day in Art Merch: Laurel Nakadate skate decks.
Architect William Pereira’s Oscar-winning giant quid.
The U.S. government’s war against…apostrophes.
And many thanks to Boing Boing, Andrew Sullivan and Lawrence Lessig for linking to my ARTnews story about photography in museums!!!! Very excited to see this piece getting traction.

May 6, 2013

Photo Diary: El Anatsui at the Brooklyn Museum.

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April 22, 2013

Photo Diary: Teach-In at Cypress College Art Gallery.

Costumes worn by the Nationwide Museum Mascot Project (more about them here). I really dug these as pieces of sculpture.

A photo shows the SFMOMA mascot working the museum’s lobby.

With that crafty basket head and those plaid paints, the MoMA mascot was the design antithesis of its staidly modern namesake. (And way freakier than the museum’s Martin Kippenberger.) Would pay cash money to see this one wandering around the museum’s architecture gallery.

The MOCA mascot. The cardboard sign is a nice touch.

Plus: Marshall Astor’s Portrait of An Eye. The circle of videos was strangely absorbing (especially the ape playing the drums).

Okay, so I’m embarrassingly late to this exhibit. Unfortunately, it already closed. But if you live in the vicinity of northern Orange County, Cypress College Art Gallery has a student show opening on May 9.

January 23, 2013

Calendar. 01.23.13.

Wolfgang Laib sifting hazelnut pollen, 1992. For Laib’s installation, Pollen from Hazelnut, in the atrium at the Museum of Modern Art. (Image courtesy Sperone Westwater.)

NYC: Zarina: Paper Like Skin, at the Guggenheim Museum. Opens Friday, on the Upper East Side.
NYC: Nari Ward, at the New Museum. Through April 21, on the Lower East Side.
NYC: Drawing Surrealism, at the Morgan Library. Opens Friday, in Midtown. (I saw this at LACMA. The collages are pretty bangin’.)
NYC: Joan Semmel, A Lucid Eye, at the Bronx Museum of Art. Opens Thursday, in the Bronx.
NYC: Gary Panter: The Magnetic Lady, at Fredericks & Freiser. Opens Friday, in Chelsea.
NYC: Ezra Stoller, Beyond Architecture, at Yossi Milo Gallery. Opens Thursday at 6pm, in Chelsea.
NYC: Répétition: 1960-1975, at Paula Cooper Gallery. Through February 9, in Chelsea.
NYC: Michael Benson, Planetfall, at Hasted Kraeutler. Opens Thursday, in Chelsea.
NYC: Dieter Roth, Björn Roth, inaugurating Hauser & Wirth’s new downtown space. Opens today at 6pm, in Chelsea.
NYC: NYU is hosting a Game Jam this weekend, in which anyone who is interested can show up and help build and design a video game over the course of a weekend. Things get rolling this Friday, at the Tisch School of the Arts, in the Village.
Oakland: Pixelated Drift, at Johansson Projects. Opens this Thursday, with an artist’s reception next Friday, February 1 at 5pm.
L.A.: Tara Geer, When we are at sea in the evidence, at Aran Cravey. Opens Saturday at 6pm, in Venice.
Madrid: Los Carpinteros, Candela, at Matadero Madrid. Opens Saturday.

December 5, 2012

Calendar. 12.05.12.

A window installation made from bags of Utz potato chips, by Brent Birnbaum. Part of the artist’s solo exhibit …And Justice for Mall of America, on view at 2nd street Gallery, in Charlottesville, Va. Through December 21. (Image courtesy of the artist.)

Sarasota: Paolo Veronese: The Master and His Workshop in Renaissance Venice, at the Ringling Museum of Art. Opens Friday.
NYC: Matisse: In Search of True Painting, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Through March 17, on the Upper East Side.
NYC: Cellblock I and Cellblock 2, at Andrea Rosen Gallery. Through February 2, at both of the gallery’s spaces in Chelsea.
NYC: Speaking in Tongues, at Art in Flux Harlem. Opens today, in Harlem.
NYC: Sicilian Sex Ghosts, a lecture by Paul Koudounaris. Next Tuesday, December 11, at 8pm, at the Observatory, in Gowanus.
L.A.: New Bohemia Signs: East on Sunset, at Subliminal Projects. Opens Friday at 8pm, in Echo Park.
Oh, and there’s some stuff going on in Miami…

October 15, 2012

Miscellany. 10.15.12.

River wreck ’12 (bow), at the Cacapon River in West Virginia, a 60-ft intervention by R.L. Croft. Find more images of his outdoor work here. (Photo courtesy of the artist.)

Must. Read.: The self-destruction of the 1%.
A fascinating essay on how women became readers, in the New Yorker. (Subscription required.)
Just because: The Paris Review’s 1981 interview with Gabriel García Márquez.
21 lies writers tell themselves. I’m positive that #13 is directed at me.
Faking it: An essay in the Boston Globe explores the long-running art of photo manipulation, tied to a related exhibit at the Met.
In reference to another Met show: Fred Kaplan thinks Warhol’s imitators aren’t nearly as interesting as the man himself.
An impromptu supper club where the discussion is all about art and race.
On Yellowism, aka vandalizing Rothkos (which, btw, I just couldn’t get worked up about).
Some new billboards from Ox, in France. Some of these are very John Baldessari.
Things that work well together: R. Crumb illustrations of Charles Bukowski books.
Why the internet exists.

October 9, 2012

Paris Photo Diary: Art that’s on fire.

Is Paris Burning? No, but this wax candle sculpture by Urs Fischer was. Part of an installation at the École de Beaux Arts, the piece had already lost his head.

On view through December 31. (Photo by Shoshi Nice.)