Recently added articles from Art in America:
Left of the left.(Painting as a Weapon: Progressive Cologne 1920-33; Otto Neurath: The Language of the Global Polis)(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Painting as a Weapon: Progressive Cologne 19220-33; Seiwert-Hoerle-Arntz, by Lynette Roth, Cologne, Museum Ludwig Koln and Walther Konig, 2008; 160 pages, $44.96. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Otto Neurath: The Language of the Global Polis, by Nader Vossoughian, Rotterdam, ...
Proustian hues.(Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to In Search of Lost Time )(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to In Search of Lost Time by Eric Karpeles, New York, Thames & Hudson, 2008; 352 pages, $45. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It took me three years to read Marcel Proust's sprawling novel A la Recherche du temps perdu in translation ....
Santa Fe 09: guide to Santa Fe galleries and museums.(Directory)
Jun 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1. ARTISTAS DE SANTA FE 228B Old Santa Fe Trail, 87501 Tel: 505.982.1320 info@artistasdesantafe.com Exhibiting: Heather Bradley, Joy Campbell, Joan Heiden, Ann Laser, Lee McVey, Mary Neiberg, Mary Parkes, ...
A stone for unica Zurn: an artist of manifold gifts and a deeply troubled soul, Zurn was associated with the Parisian surrealists, by whom she was largely eclipsed, a current show brings her work to light.(WORKS ON PAPER)
Jun 01, 2009; ... UNICA HAS LONG BEEN a semi-mythical figure. Little known and in many ways unknowable, she is inevitably associated with the Surrealist artist Hans Bellmer, whom she met at a Berlin show of his work in 1953. Obsessed throughout his career with realistic female dolls whose body parts could ...
Moonlighting: backed by artists Robert Longo and Jon Kessler, who have led double lives as musicians, actress Barbara Sukowa fronts a band called the X-Patsys.(PERFORMANCE)
Jun 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ON A FRIDAY NIGHT in early March, the multi-guitar pounding of a G-chord rumbled louder and louder before taking possession of the underground performance space (Le) Poisson Rouge in New York's Greenwich Village. Against a shuffling backdrop of projected ...
In the studio Luisa Rabbia with Pieranna Cavalchini.(Interview)
Jun 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WALKING INTO LUISA RABBIA'S SIMPLE STUDIO is like entering a white monastic cell, with a broad open window, gulls wheeling in the bright Brooklyn sky and the salty smell of seawater wafting in from afar. The indigo of Rabbia's porcelains and drawings, ...
Prints & editions.(Directory)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Crown Point Press 20 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105 Tel: 415.974.6273 Fax: 415.495.4220 gallery@crownpoint.com www.crownpoint.com www.magical-secrets.com Through June 2: New color etchings by Chris Ofili June ...
Washington DC.(Directory)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Addison/Ripley Fine Art 1670 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, 20007 Tel: 202.338.5180 Fax: 202.338.2341 Website: www.addisonripleyfineart.com Tuesday-Saturday 11-6 pm Through May 30: Salmagundi: Donald Baechler, Chuck Close, Wayne Thiebaud, ...
New York.(Directory)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Bowery Gallery 530 W 25th St., 4th fl., New York NY 10001 Tel: 646.230.6655 Fax 646.230.6655 Web site: www.bowerygallery.org Tuesday-Saturday, 11:00-6:00 May 19-June 13: Janet Gorzegno, "Paintings: Soul Journey," intimately scaled ...
The Venice Biennale preview.
Jun 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ON JUNE 7TH THE VENICE BIENNALE, mother of all recurring international exhibitions, will enjoy its traditional public opening, a festive Sunday ceremony aimed at welcoming the local community. (That community's patience, of course, will have been sorely ...
Ragnar Kjartansson the beginning of "The End".
Jun 01, 2009; ... When Ragnar Kjartansson came to Luhring Augustine, his New York gallery, last March to discuss his project for the 53rd Venice Biennale, he was wearing a dark pin-striped suit and a creamy retro-patterned silk tie--the look vintage dandy and something of a trademark. The charismatic artist ...
Bruce Nauman deft in Venice.(VENICE PREVIEW)
Jun 01, 2009; ... It's a long way from a horse ranch on the high plains of Galisteo, N.M., to the teeming multicultitudes of the Venice Biennale. There are 7,000 miles of continent and an ocean to leap, a gasp-inducing rise in population density after that, and, most important, the sudden presence of whole ...
Pascale Marthine Tayou: global villages.(VENICE PREVIEW)
Jun 01, 2009; ... "I am an explorer," says Pascale Marthine Tayou. He is explaining the genesis of a new sculpture to me. "This is yin-yang." It's about "the conflict between everyone--the struggle inside." The work in question is lying on a table in the small blue courtyard that links Tayou's home to a ...
Liam Gillick: practical considerations.(VENICE PREVIEW)(Interview)
Jun 01, 2009; ... For over 20 years, Liam Gillick has addressed the question of how art has been used to advance a broad range of social and ideological agendas, and to subvert and exploit the material and political structures that order contemporary life. During this time, he has developed a situated ...
Peter Forgacs: ebb and flow.(VENICE PREVIEW)
Jun 01, 2009; ... The first room of Peter Forgacs's installation in the Hungarian pavilion at the Venice Biennale will be lined with videos of faces set in ornate frames typical of a European portrait gallery--though that is where convention ends. In these video portraits, played in slow motion, the ...
Thai pavilion mental vacation.(VENICE PREVIEW)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Playing on its reputation as the fabled Land of Smiles, Thailand will this year transform its national pavilion into "Gondola al Paradiso Co., Ltd.," a fictive "tourism service company" created by Bangkok-based artists Michael Shoawanasai (b. 1964), Sakarin Krue-on (b. 1965), Suporn ...
Zero & friends: spearheaded by two artists based in postwar Dusseldorf, Zero was too dynamic and heterogeneous to be called a style. Its emphasis on light, movement and ephemeral phenomena attracted like-minded innovators throughout Europe.(Otto Piene and Heinz Mack)
Jun 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE PAST SEASON IN NEW YORK was a particularly rich time for devotees of the movement Zero, whose reputation in Europe has been secure for decades. A motor of avant-garde activity centered in Dusseldorf from 1957 to 1966, Zero made important innovations in ...
Shirin Neshat.(Interview)
Jun 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] OVER THE LAST 12 YEARS, Iranian-born Shirin Neshat (b. 1957) has produced a series of lyrical video installations that touch on such issues as gender politics, cultural self-definition and the authority of religion. Drawing on the artist's experiences as a ...
How German is it? A landmark exhibition of art in East and West Germany from the end of WWII to the fall of the Wall offers a fresh perspective on points of difference, and unity, between former Cold War antagonists.
Jun 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IN HIS PROVOCATIVE BOOK The Germans and Their Art: A Troublesome Relationship (1998), art historian Hans Belting considers the uneasy role visual art has played in German culture since the Renaissance. Belting describes the constant derailment of German ...
David Claerbout extrasensorial: having made his reputation with lengthy videos that challenge viewer endurance, Claerbout now manipulates the experience of light and sound to test the very limits of comprehension.
Jun 01, 2009; ... ANY DISCUSSION OF THE ATMOSPHERIC and engrossing work of 40-year-old Belgian artist David Claerbout inevitably begins with time, although there is much more to his practice than mere clock watching. Claerbout's videos and photography contend with cinematic time and time spent looking, as ...