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Pulse was a great show this year!! A great mix of known works, emerging artists, and a brilliant variety of media, spaces, artists, and galleries. Myoung Ho Lee at Yossi Milo, Anselm Kiefer preliminary for Sternenfeld. OK Mountain Collective Hanging Mickey Mouse sculpture, Neon Books by Airan King, Airplane sculpture Painting by James Olley at Angell Gallery
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Kim McCarty painting at David Klein I had the extraordinary pleasure of meeting the photographer Denis Darzacq on the Lawrence Miller booth. His work like his character is colourful and dynamic. This series reminds me of the film CashBack directed by fashion photographer turned filmmaker Sean Ellis. Ferran Cano and Bernardi Roig
Categories: Pulse • Tags: Bernardi Roig, Denis Darzacq, Ferran Cano, Kim McCarty
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Held from December 3 to 6, the 8th year of Art Basel Miami Beach brought the best of the international art world to Miami’s Convention Center. Where last year the event locales were scattered throughout the Beach, this year ABMB enveloped the entire convention center, adapting a more user friendly floor plan. Highlights included Olafur Eliasson’s installation in the UBS VIP lounge. Silvester Stalon’s painting debut at Gmurzynaska. James Nares at Paul Kasmin Bischoff Weiss installation Doug Aitken at Regen […]
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Art Basel Miami Beach is the most imporatant art fair in the United States. A cultural and social highlight, as the sister event of Swiss Art Basel. Art Basel Miami Beach combines an international selection of top galleries with an exciting program of special exhibitions, parties, and crossover events featuring music, film, architecture and design. Location : Miami Beach Convention Center. http://www.artbaselmiamibeach.com Art Miami is the city’s original and longest running contemporary art fair. Location: The Art Miami Pavillion on […]
Categories: Art Fairs, Scope • Tags: aqua art, Art Basel Miami Beach, art fairs miami, Pulse Miami Fair, Scope Art Fair, verge
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PINTA is the Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art Fair hosted in New York in late November, which coincides with Christies’s and Sotheby’s Latin American Art acutions. Eleven Rivington showed Valeska Soares’ marble pillow sculptures, marble so delicately chisled to resemble the softest lace and intricate embroidery. Dean Projects presents Reinaldo Sanguino, ceramic sculptures of crowns perched on a pedastal of Tiffany and Hermes boxes. Y Gallery showed Tamara Kostianovsky sculptures of shanks of meat created by stitched together and […]
Categories: Pinta • Tags: Doris Salcedo, PINTA, Priscilla Monge, Reinaldo Sanguino, Tamara Kostianovsky, Valeska Soares
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Launching at Art Basel Miami 2009, the Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art New York is publishing a limited edition of 500 numbered Artists on Their Bicycles New York Calendar. January Philip-Lorca diCorciaFebruary Collier SchorrMarch Ugo RondinoneApril Richard PhillipsMay Amy GranatJune Rainer GanahlJuly Rita Ackermann / Aurel SchmidtAugust NNSeptember Maurizio CattelanOctober Ryan McGinleyNovember Pierre HuygheDecember David Byrne / Cindy Sherman Editors Emma Reeves and Gianni JetzerPhotography Lukas Wassmann, Design Li, Inc. Publisher Swiss Insitute / Contemporary Art, New YorkPrice: $ 45
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The first solo exhibition of Hans Haacke in New York since 1986, Weather or Not showcases a brilliant example of Haacke’s works and practice. This large scale kinetic installation is a beautiful example of how Haacke excels in experiential environments. With an under current in economic-political discourse of the middle east, displaying texts written in Arabic, Hebrew, English and German, this room hosted a visually captivating and meditative installation.
Categories: Alternative Spaces • Tags: Hans Haacke, X-Initiative
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Polish video artist Artur Zmijewski presents a series of his video installations at X Initiative. Well know for his Documenta 11 submissions, Zmijewski’s work discusses in a highly confrontational way issues of culture, religion, and ideology of soico-political difference. The first room is a series of wall mounted video screens showing Democracies, a series of 10 minute clips shot by the artist at public demonstrations around the world. At a modest volume the sound of protests and cries lull to […]
Categories: Alternative Spaces • Tags: Artur Zmijewski, X-Initiative
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Miami in New York: Artlog Party at the Chelsea Art Museum was a glam event to celebrate at once Artlog’s launch of “Artlog Live” mobile platform, pre-party for PULSE art fair’s up coming Miami fair, in conjunction with the opening of Jean Miotte: Spirit of Defiance exhibit. Three great parties rolled into one fun night at the Chelsea Art Museum. Looking forward to checking out the Artlog Live at PULSE booth P-03, some kind of navigation come GPS Twitter iPhone […]
Categories: New York • Tags: Artlog, Chelsea Art Museum, Pulse Miami Fair
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Last Monday, Sotheby’s Auction House hosted POWArts panel titled Visions For Collecting followed by a preview of the impending Contemporary sale. On the panel, Nancy Spector, chief curator of the Guggenheim NY. Alison Gingeras, chief curator of the Palazzo Grassi, featuring the private collection of François Pinault. Lynne Cooke, curator at large of the Dia Art Foundation, deputy director of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. Three of the Art World’s most brilliant and insightful curators shared their […]
Categories: Panel + Symposiums, Uncategorized • Tags: Alison Gingeras, Lynne Cooke, Nancy Spector, POWarts
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The November round of Contemporary auctions in New York brought about astounding results and renewed confidence in quality works achieving record prices.Sotheby’s hit well beyond the global high estimate for this sale, while Christies lagged a bit but recovered on some key pieces. Top 3 works, Andy Warhol, Peter Doig, and Jasper Johns.
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Italy’s MAXXI national museum of 21st century art opens in Rome. Designed by the architect du moment Zaha Hadid, the building took 10 years to complete and is situated at the site of the former montello military barracks. With two distinct collection departments, focusing at once on Art and on Architecture, the mission is to present the national and international artistic production, with special attention to the experience and realities linked to the Italian context.
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The Swiss Institute New York hosted a performance by Ylva Ogland, where she distills campaign boiled with rubies to invoke her twin alterego SNÖFRID that lives in mirrors. An elegy to Snowwhite, the rubies are an element to inspire lust and lustfulness in the 165 proof vodka that is the bi-product of the beautiful heating and cooling distillation process. Traced on the floor were ghostly white chalk drawings of all the elements and objects used in the distillation process.
Categories: Performance • Tags: PERFORMA, Ylva Ogland
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A tongue in cheek… rather tongue in wall dialogue about art, society, commodity culture and how we negotiate through this in art and in contemporary life. Going back to Robert Morris’ Mirrored Cubes towards Urs Fischer’s mirrored cubes distorts the scale and the impact of these daily objects, food, and items that surround us.
Categories: New York • Tags: New Museum New York, Urs Fischer
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I was on my way home from Laguardi airport, and saw this Felix Gonzales-Torres billboard Bed. Getting off a 6am flight, this was the warmest welcome back to NYC. I have a fondness for the Bed Iconotgraphy. Felix Gonzales-Torres was a Cuban-born American, artist who lived and worked in New York Citry. This is a new reinstallation by the MoMA preparing for the retrospective of his work opening soon.
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A part of the 57th Street gallery night, Eric Aho opened a solo show at DC Moore Gallery. The space was thematically divided, on one side large paintings of ice floats and baren winter landscapes, and on the other fierce blazing paintings of California wild fires. Especially liked the swimming pools, some kind of tranquility of calming ice blue within a chaotic blazing landscape.
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The 2009 turner prize exhibition opened at the Tate Britain today.The controversial candidates for the annual competition of contemporary art that is sinonymous with controversy that regularly triggers the debate about what is art and what is not. The winner of the prize gets a fat cheque for £25 000, winner is announced Dec 7. Richard Wright has adorned the far wall of a room with symmetrical, intricate gold-leaf patterns…. he is currently holding the outsider odds, I personally think […]
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: enrico david, lucy skaer, richard wright, roger hiorns, turner prize
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The Lever House building at 54th + Park Ave is a brilliant example of corporate art in the public sphere. With Tom Sachs Hello Kitty sculptures out doors, the lastest exhibition, a black and white ceiling to floor Barbara Kruger installation titled Between Being Born and Dying. As high as 17 feet tall, Kruger uses striking Helvetica type to cover the entirty of the floors windows and walls, interior and exterior of the Lever Building. Curated by Richard Marshall, the […]
Categories: Installations • Tags: Barbara Kruger, Lever House
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national arts journalism summit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdgLay2xXRc&feature=PlayList&p=1E45E13EF8230749&index=0&playnext=1
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Produced by U.S. Biennial, founded by Dan Cameron, Prospect New Orleans is the first biennial art fair in the United States. Situated in New Orleans, it is has been a successful artistic and economic stimulator to the region following the catastrophe of Huricane Katrina. Prospect 2 will launch Novermber 3, 2010, and run till February 12, 2011.Presenting work of local, national, and international artists, from more than 20 countries and diverse cultural generational and artistic backgrounds.
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Since The Armory Show last spring, I have had a quiet fetish for photographs of airplanes. The current show at Bonni Benrubi is a gorgeously presented narrative of globe trotting and travels, bringing together photos of planes, antique globes, and photographs of landscapes and people of this beautiful destinations. I love Abelardo Morell’s massive Camera Obscura interiors, and the Josef Hoflehner Jet Airliners.
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Abelardo Morell, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, Josef Hoflehner
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Marian Goodman presents new works by Jeff Wall. This exhibition features large format large scale prints typical of Wall’s work, with an approach moving towards ‘near-documentary’ conception. Traditionally Wall practice has been a more photographer as witness to spontaneous and fantastic situations, that were staged by the artist to look as if the viewer has intruded in on the moment. These new works move more towards a purity of the documentary tradition away from his narrative cinematic practice.
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Subway Love Letters is an new interactive installation work by Sophie Calle launched in Toulous France. Transport Amoureux allows passengers to send love messages on station screens through a specific website, as away to announce fleeting love to another train rider. We have seen different incarnations of subway poetry programs, but this one is compelling since it is interactive and instantaneous.
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Gagosian Shop is due to open tomorrow at 988 Madison Avenue in New York, selling posters, t-shirts, artist multiples, books and catalogues. The 2500 sq foot space will feature limited editions by John Currin, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, Anselm Reyle, to name a few. The stre will also offer a reading lounge with out of print catalogues and video installation of the current gallery exhibitions. Art collector Aby Rosen is a principal in RFR Realty LLC which owns […]
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J. Crew’s current winter catalogue features artists Ryan McGinness, Chris Dorland, Vito Acconci, Stephen Shore, Lucien Smith, Glenn Ligon, and Billy Sullivan in their studios…. posing for J.Crew talking about art and fashion. Yes, Gap did the Red Campaign, and collaborations with artists for charity is not new…. but this J.Crew feature seems all a bit contrived. Especially with the few too many shots posed non- chalantly drinking Starbucks. At least the reportage was very sincere and unedited. The “what’s […]
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On view at PaceWildenstein‘s 22nd Street location is an entrancing large-scale installation by Maya Lin In Three Ways of Looking at the Earth, Lin has subjected three very different topographies(two real and one imagined) to dramatic shifts in scale that allow a re-imagining of our natural world as threedimensionalenvironments recreated in the interior space of a gallery. Lin further transforms viewers’ perspectives about the land and the sea by inviting them to navigate around, through and under these site-related installations. […]
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Afro Margin, an exhibition of eight pencil drawings by Chris Ofili.Known for his bold paintings incorporating fantasy, black figuration, and urban ethnic dialogue, Ofili distinguished “afro heads,” as a signature motif he began working with in the early 1990s. This a soft departure from his bright vivid paints, possible reflection of calm manifest of his move from London to Trinidad.
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I am writing my memoirs… à la James Frey…. short sweet machine gun rhythm… thanks to Joe Doucet‘s Blackbox printer. MDR LOL LMFAO TTYL BRB A+
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Measuring the Universe, by Slovakian artist Roman Ondák, is a performative collaboration which engages and incorporates the viewers in the evolution of the installation. Over the course of the exhibition, museum docents mark the visitors’ heights, first names, and date of the measurement on the gallery walls. Beginning as an empty white space, over time the gallery gradually accumulates the traces of thousands of people.
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Black Light at Deitch Projects presents preliminary photo compositions that Wiley uses to create his stunning heroic large scale paintings of urban youth. Moving away from the triumphant religious iconography, these warmer romantic portraits capture a early Dutch still life subtlety.
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Young Curators, New Ideas II is a collaboration examining new voices in contemporary art through the perspective of seven New York based curators at P.P.O.W. Highlights, Norma Markley’s Pom-Pom Clouds in dialogue with Tom Fruin’s Untitled neon nooses. Las Hermanas Iglesias Lost Glove, collection of 62 single gloves found in Paris, with a hand made replacement of the lost partner made of gouache on paper. Taylor Baldwin’s I ain’t afraid of no ghosts, mixed media installation has many great elements […]
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British artist Yinka Shonibare was born in London to Nigerian parents, and grew up between UK and Nigeria. His sculptural work features typically headless mannequins that are dressed in eloborate costumes. Refrencing English painting and literature of Wilde and Hogarth, Shonibare creates a fictious narrative by use of Africanized fabric design (Dutch wax printed cotton) and colours in creating his brilliantly tailored elaborate victorian dresses. The best part of this exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum is Shonibare’s infiltration of the […]
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The X-Initiative has taken over the former Dia:Chelsea space, and will exist for one year and present programming over three phases, featuring a lot of video and installation projections that assume the vast floor space of this massive center. British artist Tris Vonna-Michell work is an investigation in language and convoluted narratives. Visual poetry and sound art are harmonized in the way he presents stories and events through fragmented images and chaotic accelerated monologues in frantic speach. It is the […]
Categories: Alternative Spaces • Tags: INABA, Tris Vonna-Michell, X-Initiative
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Exhibit Y: the new spring look book for Yohji Yamamoto’s second line Y’s features curators as the models. How hot are Julien Fronsacq (Palais de Tokyo, Paris); Olivier Sailliard (Musée de la Mode et du Textile, Paris); Hans Ulrich Obrist (Serpentine Gallery, London)Of course the gorgeous women of the art world Léanne Sacramone (Fondation Cartier, Paris); Kaat Debo (Momu Anvers, Antwerp); Angeline Scherf (Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris) Past concepts have included shooting the clothes on graphic […]
Categories: Book • Tags: Angeline Scherf, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Léanne Sacramone
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Black Acid Co-Op at Deitch Project, is a collaborative project by Justin Lowe and Jonah Freeman. Like vitrines of a Museum of Natural History, the labrynth of spaces contrast how mainstream, counter-culture and sub-culture groups are linked and embedded in a hybridized industrial and media based society. The burnt out meth lab, to a Chinatown market, a high society living room, to a shamanic labratory are all conected by gaping holes chiseled out of the walls and rickety stairwells. The […]
Categories: New York - SOHO • Tags: Black Acid Co-Op, Deitch Project, Jonah Freeman, Justin Lowe
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Polaroid is transforming itself from an analog Instant Film Production Company to a global Consumer Electronics and Digital Imaging company. Production of analog Instant Film stopped in June 2008, closing the factories in Mexico (Instant Packfilm production) and the Netherlands (Instant Integral production). Impossible b.v. has been founded with the concrete aim to re-invent and re-start production of analog INTEGRAL FILM for vintage Polaroid cameras. Therefore Impossible b.v. has acquired the complete film production equipment in Enschede (NL) from Polaroid, […]
Categories: ArtJetSet • Tags: Impossible Project, Polariod
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Gawker Arts presents Mom & Pop:ism To celebrate the release of James and Karla Murray’s book Store Front: The Disappearing face of New York, Gawker.com invited 28 Street and Graffiti artists to collaborate on their rooftop installation of New York city streets.
Categories: Graffiti, Street Art • Tags: Gawker, Graffiti, Mom and Popism
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The name of Ron Arad immediately conjures up pieces such as the Bookworm bookcase (1993) and the Tom Vac chair (1997), but his surprising work goes beyond any easy classification and expresses a free creative spirit working without constrictions or frontiers in design, architecture and the plastic arts. Ron Arad defines himself as belonging to “No discipline”. No Discipline is the title of his current retrospective at MoMA. Seen here at the opening, Arad humour and spirit is posted confidently […]
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The Art Bazaar is an OPEN CALL to ANY artist who works in ANY medium (i.e painting, sculpture, photography, fiber, performance, conceptual, WHATEVER – so long as the work fits within the allotted space in the gallery)The artist that generates THE MOST REVENUE during the 7 weekend period will be awarded a solo exhibition at Lyons Wier Gallery in 2010. Doors open to artists at 8am on Saturday for admission & initial installation. Doors open at 10am-12pm on Sunday for […]
Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: Art Bazaar, Lyons Wier Gallery
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