Recently added articles from ArtUS:
"Black Is, Black Ain't".
Sep 22, 2008; ... The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, IL April 20 * June 8, 2008 [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] In his seminal Race Matters (1993), Cornel West quotes the late activist writer and poet Audre Lorde: "Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute ...
John Armleder Oliver Mosset.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO May 9 * August 3, 2008 Swiss-born John Armleder and Olivier Mosset have long been friends, but former BMPT member Mosset is primarily known for his hundreds of circle paintings from 1966-72 and his ironic 1972-77 appropriations of Daniel ...
Anish Kapoor.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Institute of contemporary art, Boston MA May 30 * September 7, 2008 "Anish Kapoor: Past, Present, Future," the artist's first museum show in North America since 1992-93, offers a compact survey of his career to date: 14 works in a single spacious gallery. Kapoor is a ...
"Action/Abstraction".
Sep 22, 2008; ... The Jewish Museum, New York NY May 4 * September 21, 2008 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Abstract expressionism is the starting point for all ambitious American art. And Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg were its two most important champions. So the intelligent ...
Call me: interview with Joshua Abelow.(First Degree)(Interview)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Having just completed an MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art, I imagine you are currently reviewing your work over the past two years. How does what you're doing now compare with what you did in New York while you were an assistant to Ross Bleckner? I spent a lot of time moving ...
"Lucky Number Seven".
Sep 22, 2008; ... SITE Santa Fe 7th International Biennial, NM June 22, 2008 * January 4, 2009 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In collaboration with 19 Kunsthalles, curator Lance Fung has chosen 22 artists from 16 countries for the 7th SITE Santa Fe Biennial, asking them to make ephemeral art ....
Ghada Amer.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum NY February 16 * October 19, 2008 The Brooklyn Museum may seem a bit off the beaten path for those who swear by Manhattan's Upper East Side. Yet a visit to "Ghada Amer: Love Has No End" is definitely worth the effort ....
Chuck Connelly.(The Art of Failure: Chuck Connelly Not For Sale)(Television program review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... HBO Documentary Films July 7, 2008 Chuck Connelly became a 1980s icon in New York's booming art scene and made millions from the sale of his paintings, which were frequently compared with those of Vincent van Gogh. In addition to representation at Lennon Weinberg Gallery, his ...
Dara Friedman.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York NY May 22 * June 28, 2008 If you turn from reading Tim Clark's The Painting of Modern Life (1985) to looking at contemporary art in the galleries, then you cannot but be a little disappointed. Who is our Degas, Manet, or Pissarro--who, that is, ...
Melody Owen.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland OR July 3 * August 2, 2008 Making a literal virtue of X marks the spot, Melody Owen's "Alexandria, I'm Waiting" presents works produced during residencies at Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris, France; Gil Society in Akureyri, Iceland; and ...
"I Won't Grow Up".
Sep 22, 2008; ... Cheim & Read, New York NY June 26 * August 29, 2008 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Skyrocketing prices, global franchise galleries, and hardcore celebrity artists have all conspired to foment an art scene turned industry that is more adult than adolescent. Now a game for ...
Bill Owens.
Sep 22, 2008; ... James Cohan Gallery, New York NY June 26 * August 1, 2008 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Northern California-based photographer Bill Owens has been documenting suburbia since the early 1970s, capturing the understated abnormality that lies beneath the everyday rituals of ...
"After Everything".
Sep 22, 2008; ... Like the Spice Gallery, Brooklyn NY June 20 * July 6, 2008 There's a new sexual revolution now taking shape among younger artists who are not only challenging art world stereotypes, but also increasing visibility of homosexuality in popular culture. The road to equal rights has ...
Ruth Root.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York NY February 7 * March 16, 2008 In the 1960s, abstract painting and Pop art parted company. Now and then, if truth be told, Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol flirted with abstraction. But on the whole, there was a clear dividing line between abstract ...
2008 Biennale of Sydney.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Various venues, Sydney AUSTRALIA June 18 * September 7, 2008 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Is it too much to ask for just one Sydney Biennale that looks at the sheer hedonism and consumerism of its host city?" That was Brisbane artist Scott Redford late last year, bemoaning ...
Tim Whiten.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto CANADA June 5 * July 31, 2008 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For his seventh solo show at Olga Korper, Tim Whiten, the 67-year-old Michigan-born sculptor who has lived in Toronto for the past 25 years, seems to have created a fantastical ...
Simon Willems.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica CA May 17 * June 21, 2008 An abstract-realist painter who plays with chance and perspective in the mold of Mark Tansey, British artist Simon Willems presents mixed-scale paintings of unattainable utopias, worlds where human connections are ...
On Kawara.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Dallas Museum of Art, TX May 18 * August 24, 2008 For his first exhibition in an American museum since 1993, On Kawara designed a spacious, elegant survey in the contemporary galleries of the Dallas Museum of Art. The permanent architecture, with four square galleries located at ...
Michael Markowsky.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Access Artist Run Centre, Vancouver CANADA June 14 * July 26, 2008 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In his new installation of paintings, drawings, and videos, "Errol and George: Two Sad Swashbucklers," Michael Markowsky gives us an inside view of his journeys of ...
Susan Robb.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Lawrimore Project, Seattle WA April 24 * May 31, 2008 "The Challenge Nature Provides," Susan Robb's first solo show at Lawrimore Project, transforms everyday objects into biomorphic hybrids situated somewhere between the body, nature, and technology. Comprised of a recent video, ...