| HWKN, winner of the 2012 Young Architects Program at MoMA PS1, present winning project | | Description of all Hendrick Goltzius prints now available; Rijksmuseum exhibits selection of works | | "Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties" opens at the Cleveland Museum of Art | 
Installation view of HWKN’s Wendy at MoMA PS1, 2012. Photo: Matthew Septimus.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 announced HWKN (Matthias Hollwich and Marc Kushner, New York) as the winner of the annual Young Architects Program (YAP) in New York. Now in its 13th edition, the Young Architects Program at MoMA and MoMA PS1 has been committed to offering emerging architectural talent the opportunity to design and present innovative projects, challenging each year’s winners to develop creative designs for a temporary, outdoor installation at MoMA PS1 that provides shade, seating, and water. The architects must also work within guidelines that address environmental issues, including sustainability and recycling. HWKN, drawn from among five finalists, designed a temporary urban landscape for the 2012 Warm Up summer music series in MoMA PS1’s outdoor courtyard. The winning project, Wendy, opening at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, is an experiment that tests how far the boundaries of arch ... More | | 
Hendrick Goltzius after Bartholomeus Spranger, Mars and Venus, engraving, 1588.
AMSTERDAM.- Last month the catalogue New Hollstein Hendrick Goltzius was published. This catalogue is the first to describe and illustrate all 380 prints by Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617). The collection kept by the Department of Prints and Drawings provided the basis for this standard reference work, which is being published in collaboration with the Rijksmuseum. To mark the publication, the Rijksmuseum is hosting the exhibition Honour Surpasses Gold: Hendrick Goltzius’s Print Firm, which features more than 30 prints and drawings from the Rijksmuseum’s own collection. New Hollstein Hendrick Goltzius consists of four volumes, compiled by the art historian Marjolein Leesberg and edited by Huigen Leeflang, curator at the Rijksmuseum. The first two volumes contain extensive catalogue information and reproductions of all prints attributed to Goltzius. The third and fourth volumes, which will be publish- ... More | | 
Thomas Hart Benton, Self-Portrait with Rita (detail), 1922. Oil on canvas; 124.5 x 100 cm. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jack H. Mooney.
CLEVELAND, OH.- The Cleveland Museum of Art presents Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties, a wide-ranging exhibition which brings together for the first time the work of more than sixty painters, sculptors, and photographers who explored a new approach to realism in the years between World War I and the Great Depression. Youth and Beauty will present more than 130 works by artists including Ansel Adams, George Bellows, Thomas Hart Benton, Stuart Davis, Aaron Douglas, Walker Evans, Edward Hopper, Isamu Noguchi, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Grant Wood. Organized and presented by the Brooklyn Museum, Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties will be on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art from July 1 through September 16, 2012. Cleveland is the final venue to present Youth and Beauty, ... More |
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| First U.S. exhibition of Chinese artist Wang Guangle on view at The Pace Gallery | | Paris Photo will launch its first American edition in Los Angeles April 24 to 28, 2013 | | "Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity" opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago | 
Wang Guangle, 120403, 2012. © Wang Guangle. Photo: Kerry Ryan McFate/ Courtesy The Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace presents the first U.S. exhibition of Chinese artist Wang Guangle, on view at 534 West 25th Street, New York, through August 17. The exhibition features seven new works from Wang's Untitled series, which extends from his Coffin Paint series (begun in 2004). These large-scale paintings are made by applying layers of acrylic paint to a canvas in a pre-determined order, resulting in heavily-built surfaces that take on illusionistic depth as the tone scale varies, with the lighter gray area surrounding the dark center functioning as a frame. Born from the Fujian tradition of elders’ preparing their coffins with a coat of lacquer for each year until their impending death, Wang adds paint to his canvas twice daily, with each layer farther removed from the painting’s edge. As the pigment accumulates, the center of the canvas builds and becomes nearly sculptural in dimension. The paintings transform ... More | | 
A woman reads a book in front of photographs by Nigerian photographer Okhai Ojeikere displayed during Paris Photo Fair at the Grand Palais.
PARIS.- Following the success of the Fair in Paris last year, Paris Photo will launch its first American edition in Los Angeles. Jean-Daniel Compain, Senior Vice President Culture & Leisure division, Reed Expositions France, and Julien Frydman, Director of Paris Photo announced the creation of Paris Photo L.A. The first edition of Paris Photo L.A will be held in Los Angeles from April 24 to 28, 2013 and will bring together a selection of 80 French and international galleries at the heart of the iconic site of the Studios at Paramount. Over the last 16 years, Paris Photo has become a key player in the art world today gathering photography professionals, collectors, artists as well as a larger audience. The 2011 edition held for the first time at the Grand Palais presented more than 135 exhibitors and attracted over 50,000 visitors. Based on this success, Reed Expositions has decided to move ... More | | 
Chris Burden, Chrysler Building, detail, 2011. Private collection, New York. Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles. Photo: Brian Forrest.
CHICAGO, IL.- This summer, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity, a selection of contemporary artworks that consider the form, technology, myth, and message of the modern skyscraper. The MCA brings this iconic building structure to life in Chicago, a city that is widely known as the birthplace of this architectural type. Over fifty international artists working in the 20th and 21st centuries are featured with works ranging from film and video to painting, sculpture, and photography. Skyscraper is on view from June 30 to September 23, 2012, and is curated by Michael Darling, MCA James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator, and Joanna Szupinska, MCA Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow. Artists and architects, along with writers, filmmakers, and poets, have an enduring fascination with the human and spiritual desire to build ... More |
| African American quilts materialize the power of abstraction at Bellevue Arts Museum | | Exhibition of works made with pencil and paper on view at Poppy Sebire in London | | Sculpture by Chakaia Booker and Manolo Valdés on display at the Georgia Museum of Art | 
Controlled Crazy Quilt, Indiana, 1970s. Polyester, 100 x 78 in. Collection of Corrine Riley. Photo: Anthony Scoggins.
BELLEVUE, WASH.- Featuring more than 50 quilts made throughout the American South between 1910 and the 1970s, Bold Expressions: African American Quilts from the Collection of Corrine Riley is on view at Bellevue Arts Museum from June 14 through October 7, 2012. Occupying the entire 3rd floor galleries, Bold Expressions is the largest historical quilt collection to be shown at BAM. Stunning color combinations and distinctively free patterns epitomize an artistic vision that is unique to the American folk art tradition. African American quilts, made entirely by women, are celebrated for their bold improvisation and modern take on traditional quilting patterns, such as the House Top or Log Cabin, Star of Bethlehem and Pine Burr. Many of the quilts are made from materials that were readily available to the makers, including flour sacks, old blue jeans, work clothes and fabric remnants. This early form of recycling and reuse w ... More | | 
George Condo, ‘Don Pepito’, Pencil on paper, 19.6 x 14.3 cm. Photo: Courtesy Poppy Sebire.
LONDON.- This exhibition explores the power, subtlety, humour and ephemerality of the most basic of artistic tools: pencil and paper. It presents a selection of original and rarely-seen works, including two pieces created specifically for this show by Michael Raedecker and Chris Ofili. And it makes the case for these simple media, by demonstrating their limitless potential. Pencil is often thought of as a tool for preparatory sketches. But some of those preparatory sketches have qualities to which the finished works could never aspire. Johannes Phokela’s exquisite contribution to the exhibition was originally intended a
study for a sculpture of Atlas. George Condo’s ‘Don Pepito’ has a lyrical rawness, a swiftness of touch and a casual charm unique to the medium. Thomas Scheibitz’s piece is destined for its place in a full colour rendering of the same motif, but holds its own as an intimate doodle. Other drawings in this show were made by artists returni ... More | | 
Chakaia Booker (American, b. 1953), Holla, 2008 Rubber tires and stainless steel 96 x 48 x 60 inches On loan courtesy of Marlborough Gallery, New York.
ATHENS, GA.- Two exhibitions of sculpture, “Defiant Beauty: The Work of Chakaia Booker” and “Remixing History: Manolo Valdés,” are currently on view at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia. Four of Booker’s assemblages of steel and rubber, in the Jane and Harry Willson Sculpture Garden, and three of Valdés’s bronze sculptures, on the grounds of GMOA and UGA’s Performing and Visual Arts Complex, are on view now until April 30, 2013. Referred to as a “radial radical,” Booker, an African American artist born in New Jersey, is known for using discarded tires in her monumental abstract works. To create such towering and intricate forms as “Shhh,” one of the more imposing sculptures on view at GMOA, Booker must first rip the tires apart, cutting through bands of steel with industrial-strength tools. She then slices, twists, folds and mounts the strips of ... More |
| Faktor, Robakowski, Sandfort, Walther: Pioneers of the Social Media at the ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art | | Fascinating paper constructions by Joan Giordano on view at June Kelly Gallery | | MoMA's new iPad app features art-making activities and inspires creative play | 
“Sechzehn und eine Farbe[Sixteen and one color]”,1990. Oil on cardboard and plywood, sixteen-part, 208 x 308 cm, Sammlung Marli Hoppe-Ritter © Bernhard Sandfort.
KARLSRUHE.- ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art opened three exhibitions on distinct artistic approaches the common features of which are difficult to discern. What does unite all three artists, however, is the influence that respective avant-gardist aspirations exerted on them during their time. Franz Erhard Walther, whose presentation has already been opened on the May 25, complements the sequence of these avant-gardist tendencies. Ivan Faktor and Józef Robakowski count among the pioneers who took up the challenges of the new media technologies in the arts, and whose later transformation of such innovations was exemplary. Like the artists Zbigniew Rybczyński and Gábor Bódy before them whose work may be viewed till August 19 at the ZKM | Media Museum, Faktor and Robakowski represent formative advances within eastern ... More | | 
Joan Giordano, Whitewashed, 2012, Mixed media with international newspaper, 62 x 54 x 3 inches. Photo: Courtesy June Kelly Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Newspapers from around the world -- black and white and color, pasted flat, torn or rolled into compact shafts – are the principal elements of the fascinating paper constructions by Joan Giordano in an exhibition entitled Spin Out that opened at the June Kelly Gallery, 166 Mercer Street. The work will remain on view through July 31. As newspapers everywhere struggle to adapt and survive in a time of profound and revolutionary technological change, it is important to recall their long history and the strong emotional bonds they have had with their readers and the vital role they have played in everyone’s daily life. Giordano draws on a deep reservoir of memory and respect in her homage to the printed word. Giordano’s large constructions, which hang on the wall, incorporate other found paper and corrugated cardboard that she tears and burns to create jagged, charred edges, as well as gr ... More | | 
MoMA Art Lab app. Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art, NY.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art introduces the MoMA Art Lab app for the Apple iPad, the Museum's first art-making app. Inspired by MoMA Art Labs, a series of interactive spaces at the Museum where kids and adults can engage with art through hands-on activities, the app offers an open-ended exploration of the various ways in which simple shapes and lines can be transformed into art. Through diverse activities and prompts for creative ideas, the Art Lab app encourages kids ages seven and up to think about artistic processes and experiment with shapes, lines, and colors—inspiring digital play. Activities, inspired by modern and contemporary artworks from MoMA's collection, include using virtual scissors to cut out shapes in the spirit of collages by Henri Matisse; shaking digital scraps of paper across the screen in homage to Jean (Hans) Arp's chance collages; covering rooms in colorful line designs, as in the work of ... More |
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 Matters of Decay: Paintings by Constance Mallinson at the UCR Culver Center of the Arts RIVERSIDE, CA.- UCR Culver Center of the Arts presents the solo exhibition, Matters of Decay: Paintings by Constance Mallinson, who uses the traditional genre of landscape painting to suggest a new way of looking at the world. The exhibition features several works including two eighteen-foot long paintings, every inch painted in a mesmerizing trompe l’oeil technique. For the last 25 years, Mallinson’s large scale oil paintings have consisted of a unique, painted "collage" technique in which she constructs panoramic landscapes from thousands of photo derived images via an Old Masters technique. In addition to expanding the traditional, single view landscape to incorporate multiple views, perspectives, time frames, and narratives simultaneously, her paintings have dealt with the complex global environmental issues we are now facing. In the past few years, she has used her collage ... More Do It Yourself: A solo exhibition of paintings by Eli Gabriel Halpern at Sue Scott Gallery NEW YORK, NY.- Sue Scott Gallery announced Do It Yourself, a solo exhibition of paintings by Eli Gabriel Halpern running through July 27, 2012. This series of paintings envisions a community that governs itself based on a “do it yourself” philosophy and the back-to-the-basics approach that permeates our culture from politics to home décor. The inhabitants build their own homes, fish when they are hungry, and construct elaborate attire out of scraps of carpets, blankets, window shades, and other random detritus. An enthusiasm for simpler times prevails, whether it’s the Tea Party’s deification of the Founding Fathers and its obsession with the Constitution, or the voguish trend of making everything out of reclaimed barn wood. Coupled with the dread of various apocalyptic scenarios – nuclear war, financial collapse, or climate change – this longing leads us to the notion that we would all be ... More Jill Magid's first solo show in Los Angeles on view at Honor Fraser Gallery LOS ANGELES, CA.- Honor Fraser Gallery is showing Failed States, Jill Magid's first solo show in Los Angeles. Magid launched her new book, also entitled Failed States, in conjunction with the exhibition. Failed States is an exploration of coincidence and poetics amid the barriers and bureaucracy of governmental power. In January 2010, while on a trip to research the history of snipers in Austin, Texas, Magid witnessed a mysterious shooting on the steps of the State Capitol. After attempting to speak with a state employee a young man named Fausto Cardenas exited the building and —in full view of security- fired six shots from a small caliber gun into the Texas sky. Cardenas has offered no explanation for his actions. Last August, after eighteen months of incarceration, he took a plea bargain, ultimately silencing himself. In Failed States, Magid acts as eyewitness and dramaturge, drawing ... More Edouard Malingue Gallery to present a solo exhibition by Korean artist Song Hyun-Sook HONG KONG.- Edouard Malingue Gallery presents a solo exhibition by the Korean artist Song Hyun-Sook from 3 July to 1 September, 2012. The minimalist paintings of Song Hyun-Sook are compelling in their simplicity and expressive feeling. Delicate and powerful at the same time, they are composed of only a few brushstrokes yet possess a depth of emotion. Song Hyun-Sook’s career has spanned East and West and explored different media. Born in 1952 in a mountain village in South Korea, in 1972 she travelled to West Germany. From 1976 to 1981 she studied at the College of Fine Art in Hamburg. After returning to Korea to study Korean Art History at Chonnam National University in Gwangju from 1984-1985, she subsequently settled in Germany where she began a career as an illustrator, documentary film maker and artist. Song Hyun-Sook has developed a unique painting style in ... More Contemporary Connections: Cristi Rinklin on view at the Currier Museum of Art MANCHESTER, NH.- Museum visitors will be absorbed in an imaginary landscape of dazzling color and light when they enter Cristi Rinklin’s new environmental artwork created specifically for the Currier Museum of Art. Boston-based artist Rinklin combines hand-painting and digital technologies for this immersive installation inspired by a floor-to-ceiling wall of windows in the Currier’s Putnam Gallery. The museum’s collection of 19th century American landscape paintings also inspired Rinklin’s project, titled “Diluvial.” Billowing cloud and meandering waterfall forms in blue, green and purple wrap across the large expanse of windows and nearby walls, surrounding visitors in an awesome spectacle of nature’s destructive forces. Light pours through the window, and much like stained glass, projects colored imagery into the gallery. Nearby walls – completely covered in patterns that evoke histor ... More More than 1,200 visitors on Royal Cornwall Museum gallery's launch day CORNWALL.- More than 1200 people visited the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro for the launch of ‘Unwrapping the Past’ – a brand new permanent exhibition that has Iset-tayef-nakht, an unwrapped Egyptian mummy, as its centrepiece. Children and adults of all ages flocked to see a wide range of ancient artefacts – including several on loan from the British Museum – and take part in activities including building a pyramid, a Greek temple and a Roman villa, listening to great works of literature from the likes of Socrates and Plato being spoken in their native tongue and finding out how to make a mummy at the show’s mummy factory. Iset-tayef-nakht’s sarcophagus is one of the exhibition’s highlights – displayed in its own case with lighting that makes the very best of the wonderful hieroglyphics both inside and out. The story behind those hieroglyphics – revealing the E ... More |
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