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Eleanor Antin.(Historical Takes)
Mar 22, 2009; Markle, Leslie ... San Diego Museum of Art | California [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Since she moved to Southern California in 1969, photographer and performance artist Eleanor Antin has occupied a central place in the local art scene, acting as a bridge between early, first-generation ...
Giacometti.(Alberto Giacometti)
Mar 22, 2009; Brendel, Maria Zimmermann ... Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection | Berlin, Germany [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Last fall and winter the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin mounted ten exhibitions on the theme "Immortal! The Cult of the Artist" (through February 15), ...
Triumph of the will: the Jeff Koons Olympiad in Chicago.
Mar 22, 2009; Hixson, Kathryn ... Visiting Jeff Koons's retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art last year offered a bracing lesson in art history. It wasn't the collection of work itself, which was familiar and predictable, something I'd pretty much seen right from the beginning of his career. Chicago saw Koons's ...
Kris Knight.(PROFILE)(Interview)
Mar 22, 2009; Corsano, Otino ... Painter | Toronto, Canada In your last painting show at Katharine Mulherin in Toronto, "How We Quit the Forest" (through December 2007), were you drawing on your experiences of growing up in the small rural community of Ridgetown, the so-called "Friendliest Town in Ontario," or ...
Rachel Whiteread.
Mar 22, 2009; Buitron, Michael ... Gagosian Gallery | Beverly Hills, California In his 1919 essay "The Uncanny," Freud describes that cognitive dissonance triggered in the mind when perceiving apparent instances of the "repetition of the same thing," an upsurge of strangeness rooted in, as the central theme of ...
Karthik Pandian.
Mar 22, 2009; Foss, Paul ... Richard Telles Fine Art | Los Angeles, California [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Presenting three large, multifaceted film installations, "Darkroom" is primarily Karthik Pandian's graduate show at Art Center College of Design last year. Handsomely re-installed in Richard ...
Aftertaste.(exhibit of Matthew Rose, Sunna Wathen, Lisa Salamandra and Nancy Jones)
Mar 22, 2009; Willems, Brian ... The Wall Gallery | Berlin, Germany [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Aftertaste," at Berlin's newly opened Wall Gallery (through January 24), can be interpreted in at least two ways. The term can refer to what remains after the tongue's taste receptors have been activated, or, ...
Ori Gersht.
Mar 22, 2009; Georgievska-Shine, Aneta ... Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden | Washington DC Pomegranate (through April 12), by London-based Israeli artist Ori Gersht, is one of two slow-motion flatscreen works presented in the Hirshhorn's Black Box video room. At once uncannily familiar through its reference to Juan ...
Manifesta 7.
Mar 22, 2009; Spaid, Sue ... Spread between four small towns (populations ranging from 35,000 to 150,000), four disparately themed exhibitions spanned 100 minutes via regional rail from Rovereto, 15 minutes south of Trento, to Fortezza at the Austrian border, 45 minutes north of Bolzano. One needed three days minimum ...
"El libro negro" ~ Mexico City at the front of antifascism.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Merfish, Beth ... El libro negro del terror nazi en Europa: Testimonio de escritores y artistas de 16 naciones (1) (The Black Book of Nazi Terror in Europe: Testimony of Authors and Artists from 16 Nations) was published in Mexico City in 1943 in two editions under the auspices of the exile press El Libro ...
Margiela.(Martin Margiela)
Mar 22, 2009; Spaid, Sue ... Mode Museum | Antwerp, Belgium [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Those who admire or collect clothing (or accessories) designed by Maison Martin Margiela were royally treated to a haptic feast of imaginative inventions and conceptual one-upmanship in Antwerp. Label digits like ...
Ackermann/Jackson.(Franz Ackermann and Richard Jackson)
Mar 22, 2009; Danilowicz, Nathan ... Otero Plassart | Los Angeles, California [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Otero Plassart's Franz Ackermann and Richard Jackson pairing (through April 18), the gallery's third show, plays off painting and actionism in an attempt to expand and intersect these increasingly ...
Shepard Fairey.
Mar 22, 2009; Gaskell, Ivan ... Institute of Contemporary Art | Boston, Massachusetts [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Shepard Fairey is a clean-cut, upstanding, all-American guy. He remains true to skateboard culture and "bombing," plastering his stickers and wheat-pasting ...
Laylah Ali.
Mar 22, 2009; Gaskell, Ivan ... DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park | Lincoln, Massachusetts [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Laylah Ali's departure in this new body of work (through January 4) is to layer text over and beneath her drawings. The drawings are familiar Ali: faux naive human figures that evoke a ...
Omer Fast.
Mar 22, 2009; Foumberg, Jason ... Betty Rymer Gallery | SAIC Chicago, Illinois Omer Fast's single-channel 2008 video Looking Pretty For God (After GW) fits in the same category of black humor as the TV series Six Feet Under and Evelyn Waugh's 1948 novel The Loved One. In Fast's hands, the modern American funeral ...
The butterfly and the potato Vilem Flusser on design.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Smith, Chadwick Truscott ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] There can be no purely "Flusserian" theory of design, if by that we mean something that recommends a program. A theory of design is by nature a practical thing: it comes from a particular field, according to the needs, ...
Whatever Happened to Sex.
Mar 22, 2009; Davis, Jacquelyn ... Office for Contemporary Art | Oslo, Norway [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Inaugurating OCA's new premises in Oslo, "Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia?" (through February 1)--a three-tiered program consisting of an exhibition, public ...
S&M Live!
Mar 22, 2009; Razdow, Max ... The Commons, Barney Building | New York University, New York [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] S&M Live!" was the live performance component of "S&M: Shrines and Masquerades in Cosmopolitan Times" (through last December 6 at 80 Washington Square East Galleries), a group show ...
Martin Kippenberger.
Mar 22, 2009; Satorius, Katherine ... Museum of Contemporary Art | Los Angeles, California [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In 1997, shortly after Martin Kippenberger's early death at age 44, Roberta Smith wrote in The New York Times: "Kippenberger's refusal to settle, his determination to keep on moving ...
Oranges and Sardines: painting's naked box lunch.(Oranges and Sardines: Conversations on Abstract Painting)(Essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Satorius, Katherine ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The idiosyncratic main title of "Oranges and Sardines: Conversations on Abstract Painting," one of Gary Garrels's parting exhibitions as Hammer chief curator, is derived from Frank O'Hara's 1956 poem "Why I Am Not a Painter," in which O'Hara, who counted ...
