Art Monthly back issues from April 2006:
Documenting documentary: as documentary retreats from the public to the private sphere Sarah James asks why.
Apr 01, 2006; ... Much contemporary art has long been afflicted by a suspicion of the 'real' and the 'objective'. This is something Richard Sennett--one of the most compelling critics of today's tyranny of intimacy--has argued. He goes on to lament the fact that unfortunately this doubt about the reality of ...
Insignificance: David Briers celebrates documentary art that transfigures the everyday.
Apr 01, 2006; ... 'Making History', the valuable survey at Tate Liverpool of the impact of documentary practice on British art since the 30s, is as much about the impact of British artists on documentary practice as the other way around. As Tate acknowledges, there has been 'a sustained, though complex and ...
Holy smoke.(copyright infringement)(Editorial)
Apr 01, 2006 ... Whatever the outcome of the plagiarism trial over how much Dan Brown 'borrowed' from The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail in writing his bestseller, The Da Vinci Code, one thing is certain, all those involved stand to profit: the lawyers, the authors, who between them have sold some five ...
Coum on.(Letter to the editor)
Apr 01, 2006; ... Having just learned about the exhibition of work by Cosey Fanni Tutti in the Tate Triennial, I am concerned that if I do not intervene, art Astory (history) will be written incorrectly. The positioning of these works at Tate Britain--as a conscious utilisation of 'the ...
See you in jail.(Letter to the editor)
Apr 01, 2006; ... This is a response to Jimmy Durham's brilliant boycott of the Sao Paulo Biennial. Aside from the expression 'our Indians', we have another expression in Brazil: 'The left only unites in jail'. (A esquerda so se une na cadeia). After 184 years of right-wing governments, Brazilians have ...
Bath in hot water.(Ormeau Baths Gallery closure)
Apr 01, 2006 ... After several months of internal assessment, the Northern Ireland Arts Council decided on February 13 to end all future funding for Ormeau Baths Gallery in Belfast under its present management. The reasons behind what appeared to be the immediate closure of the gallery have been hotly ...
Creative Scotland.(Creative Scotland Award )
Apr 01, 2006 ... Last month the ten recipients of a 30,000 [pounds sterling] Creative Scotland Award were announced. The awards encompass opera, performance and performance installation, filmmaking, writing, sculpture and musical composition, and among contemporary artists who received the prize this year ...
Comings and goings.(ARTNOTES)(Ralph Rugoff joins Hayward Gallery)(Design Museum appoints Deyan Sudjic )(Gianni Jetzer is director at Swiss Institute)
Apr 01, 2006 ... On May 1, Ralph Rugoff will start work as director of the Hayward Gallery, 22 months after previous director Susan Ferleger Brades resigned. Since 2000 Rugoff--who recently won the New Ordway arts writer/curator prize, worth a cool $100,000--has been director of the CCA Wattis Institute ...
Hole in the ground.(ARTNOTES)(PRS Foundation for New Music gives away award)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2006 ... Last year artist-musician and founder member of the Pogues Jem Finer was awarded the inaugural 50,000 [pounds sterling] New Music Award by the PRS Foundation for New Music, for the creation of his post-digital work Score for a Hole in the Ground that relies purely on gravity and water to ...
Reliant.(ARTNOTES)(expansion plans of The Approach Gallery )(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2006 ... Jake Miller, who founded The Approach Gallery in London almost ten years ago in rooms above the pub of the same name in Bethnal Green (following a precedent for galleries in pubs that had been set by Emma Hill's founding of her gallery in rooms above the Eagle in Clerkenwell in 1991), is ...
Merci / grazie.(ARTNOTES)(Francois Pinault's exhibition)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2006 ... Prominent collector of contemporary art Francois Pinault finally gets a chance on April 28 to display his collection at the former Fiat-owned Palazzo Grassi, located in Campo San Samuele in Venice. The opening must be to the chagrin of French local authorities that lost out from hosting ...
Biennale news.(ARTNOTES)(Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev appointed curator)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2006 ... A few months before the launch of this year's Sydney Biennale, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev has been named as the curator for the Biennale's 2008 edition; she has been chief curator of Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art in Turin, Italy, since 2002, and was co-curator of the ...
Biomap.(ARTNOTES)(Christian Nold launches Greenwich Emotion Map exhibition)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2006 ... The Greenwich Emotion Map by Christian Nold--the first of a series of artists' commissions over the next two years on the Greenwich peninsula in London--was launched on March 30. The aim of this new series of commissions, under the title 'Peninsula', is to explore new territories, cross ...
Baroque moving.(ARTNOTES)(Mimei Thompson's baroque exhibition)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2006 ... Transition gallery was founded by Cathy Lomax and Alex Michon in October 2002 in a former garage near Victoria Park in Lauriston Road in Hackney. There it quickly got a reputation for championing emerging artists such as painter Stella Vine and for publishing the spirited fanzine Arty, ...
Hasselblad.(ARTNOTES)(Hasselblad Foundation International Award honors David Goldblatt)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2006 ... David Goldblatt has been announced as the recipient of the 2006 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography. The prize consists of SEK500,000 (about $70,000), a gold medal and an exhibition at the Hasselblad Center in Gothenburg in November. The award must be some consolation ...
Orange.(ARTNOTES)(Gabriel Orozco wins blueOrange award)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2006 ... Gabriel Orozco has been awarded the 70,000 [euro] second blueOrange prize which includes an exhibition at the Ludwig Museum in Cologne (November 3-January 28). Orozco will also select the 2006 blueOrange emerging artist award, worth 7,000 [euro]. Also shortlisted for the prize were Janet ...
St Ives.(ARTNOTES)
Apr 01, 2006 ... If you are an artist who lives and works in Cornwall and you fancy working in the same studio that Ben Nicholson and Patrick Heron used--and also believe that such an opportunity might help you 'raise the scale of ambition' in your work--then you should apply for the Tate St Ives Artist ...
Terminal.(ARTNOTES)(Langlands & Bell and British Airports Authority sign deal)(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2006 ... Langlands & Bell have won the BAA commission to create a major new artwork, which will be an integral part of the Heathrow new Terminal 5 complex designed by the Richard Rogers Partnership that is currently under construction and due to open in March 2008. Langlands & Bell approached this ...
Nam June Paik 1932-2006.(ARTNOTES)(In memoriam)
Apr 01, 2006 ... Nam June Paik, the pioneer video artist who famously exclaimed that 'the future is now', died at the end of January at his winter home in Miami. In 1956 he had settled in West Germany following his interest and training in musical composition (his masters thesis at Tokyo University had ...
Local Stories.
Apr 01, 2006; ... Local Stories Katerina Seda Modern Art Oxford March 7 to April 30 Katerina Seda shows two strong works at Modern Art Oxford and these fulfil two roles: by themselves they constitute the latest in a series of exhibitions entitled 'Arrivals>New Art From The EU' and simultaneously ...
Tropicalia.
Apr 01, 2006; ... Tropicalia Barbican Art Gallery London February 15 to May 21 Espaco Aberto/Espaco Fechado Henry Moore Institute Leeds February 5 to April 16 'Tropicalia' is a miraculous song by Caetano Veloso, an environment by Helio Oiticica and a moment, concentrated around 1967 ...
The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene 1974-1984.
Apr 01, 2006; ... The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene 1974-1984 Grey Art Gallery and Fales Library New York January 10 to April 1 In the last ten years more than a dozen exhibitions on the Downtown New York art scene of the 70s and 80s have been mounted, all making their point with varying ...
Ed Ruscha.
Apr 01, 2006; ... Ed Ruscha Jeu de Paume Paris January 31 to April 30 The work of Ed Ruscha is increasingly, and perhaps fittingly, being sandwiched between book covers. There are now catalogues raisonnes of his paintings, prints and books, plus a collection of interviews, writings and articles ...
Dan Flavin.
Apr 01, 2006; ... Dan Flavin Hayward Gallery London January 19 to April 2 The reincarnation of Dan Flavin as an artist of luminescence, an innovator of 20th-century art whose work consists of 'dazzling' installations (to quote the posters in tube stations across London touting his current ...
Katy Dove.
Apr 01, 2006; ... Katy Dove Talbot Rice Gallery Edinburgh February 18 to April 8 Man versus technology, the premise on which Katy Dove's work operates, is by no means a new concept for artists to explore. Moreover, the idea of injecting some life into painting by monkeying around with handmade ...
Martin Kippenberger.(portrait painter)
Apr 01, 2006; ... Martin Kippenberger Tate Modern London February 8 to May 14 Benjamin Buchloh once characterised the work of Gerhard Richter as 'one vast, cynical retrospective' of 20th-century painting. The prodigiously varied output of Martin Kippenberger--a generation younger than ...
Mark Titchner.
Apr 01, 2006; ... Mark Titchner Arnolfini Bristol February 25 to April 23 For all that Mark Titchner has offered up sculptures of escalating material intricacy in recent years, their effect continues to hinge upon a relatively intangible conveyance: that of the apodictic phrases inscribed upon ...
Rod Dickinson & Tom McCarthy.(art exhibition)
Apr 01, 2006; ... Rod Dickinson & Tom McCarthy Beaconsfield London February 22 to April 30 On February 15, 1894 Britain experienced its first 'international' (ie non-Irish) terrorist incident. A French anarchist named Martial Bourdin set off a bomb at the foot of the Royal Observatory in ...
Clodagh Emoe.
Apr 01, 2006; ... Clodagh Emoe Temple Bar Gallery and Studios Dublin March 1 to April 8 The trouble with a show that explores emptiness as its central theme is that the lack of inherent existence in things can leave you with a sense of deprivation rather than a vision of the illusory nature of ...
Ian Breakwell.
Apr 01, 2006; ... Ian Breakwell Anthony Reynolds Gallery London March 10 to April 8 Ian Breakwell died of lung cancer in October of last year, and this exhibition operates as both an opportunity to view his final works and as a memorial to the artist. Breakwell was renowned for work that looked ...
You Shall Know Our Velocity: Artists in the North East.
Apr 01, 2006; ... You Shall Know Our Velocity: Artists in the North East Baltic Gateshead January 21 to March 26 The term 'art scene' bobs up again, this time in the wall text for a group exhibition at the Baltic. 'You shall know our velocity', the visitor is told, is a snapshot of the work of ...
Round-Up.(Ideas Leave Objects Standing)(Rifiuti: Rome July 2005)(Twilight Shift)(Hearse Attending 1 to 7)(Progress of a Sculpture 1 to 7)(Istanbul Buildings and Materials)(Book review)
Apr 01, 2006; ... David Bellingham, Ideas Leave Objects Standing, Platform Projects, Edinburgh, 2005, 92pp, illus, hb, edition of 1500, 15.00 [pounds sterling], 0 9546831 5 3. Hadrian Pigott and Hamish Robinson, Rifiuti: Rome July 2005, Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere 2005, [30] pp, illus, hb, 15.00 [pounds ...
General Idea.
Apr 01, 2006; ... 1969 was an extraordinary time for three gay hippies from Canada to found an artistic collective that was to last 25 years. Susan Sontag had proclaimed vulgarity and the camp sensibility as the new cultural vanguard; Guy Debord and the Situationists had reinstated art as a revolutionary ...
Artists Talk 1969-1977.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2006; ... Artists Talk 1969-1977, ed Peggy Gale, The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 2004, 385pp, 26.50 [pounds sterling], b/w illus, pb, 0 919616 40 2 Artists Talk 1969-1977 brings together 15 talks, lectures and conversations delivered by visiting artists at the Nova ...
Rebel without recourse.(ON INSTITUTIONALISATION)
Apr 01, 2006; ... Writing in the publication Chelsea Arts UK, published in 2005 to coincide with Chelsea School of Art and Design's relocation to London's Millbank, the college head, Roger Wilson, observes that it is 'a curious thing' to be organising the many complexities of this difficult move while ...
Report (not announcement).(traveling artists)
Apr 01, 2006; ... The relatively recent proliferation of international biennials and independently curated group shows has led to the emergence of a growing number of peripatetic artists continually travelling from one location to another. Whereas in the not so distant past it was usually a case of ...
Miss Beston steals the limelight.(art auctions)
Apr 01, 2006; ... The bull market for contemporary art continued its rampant run in London last February when Sotheby's and Christie's together amassed a whopping 90m [pounds sterling] of sales over three days. The comparative figure in February 2005 was 54m [pounds sterling]. The backbone of ...
Stealing ideas.(Random House UK)
Apr 01, 2006; ... Random House UK, publisher of The Da Vinci Code, is being sued, at the time of writing, in London's High Court by two of three authors of a book (also published by Random House UK) from 1982, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh are claiming that Dan Brown, ...
Exhibitions.
Apr 01, 2006 ... LONDON The London code is 020 The Agency 18 Charlotte Rd EC2 7729 6249 David Hancock Apr 8-May 20 Alan Cristea 31 Cork St W1 7439 1866 Naum Gabo to Apr 22 Albemarle Gallery 49 Albemarle St W1 7499 1616 Graham McKean Apr 6-29 Albion 8 ...