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Cao Fei. "House of Treasures" 2013. Photo by Laurent Fievet.

Cao Fei. “House of Treasures,” 2013. Photo by Laurent Fievet.

In this week’s roundup Cao Fei celebrates abundance, Julie Mehretu has two concurrent solo shows, Raymond Pettibon and Judy Pfaff are honored, several artists’ works help recall the year 1993, and much more.

  • Cao Fei installed a giant inflatable pig sculpture on the Promenade at West Kowloon (Hong Kong). House of Treasures is meant to be light-hearted while exploring the roots of its projected aura of fun. The work is on view through June 9.
  • Julie Mehretu‘s work will be on view at the Marian Goodman Gallery (NYC). Liminal Squared includes a series of new paintings and a suite of five new etchings. According to the gallery, “The works were created over the past three years in New York in the aftermath of events of the Arab Spring which were the point of departure for the monumentally scaled Mogamma (In Four Parts), 2012, recently presented at Documenta (13), 2012, Kassel.” The exhibition will be open to the public May 11 – June 22.
  • Julie Mehretu also has her first major solo exhibition in London, at the White Cube Bermondsey. Liminal Squared will include more new paintings, “some of which will be presented within a specially constructed environment designed by David Adjaye in close collaboration with the artist,” the gallery said in a press release. This will run concurrently with the show at the Marian Goodman Gallery. It is on view through July 7.
  • Tim Hawkinson is presenting new work at the Pace Gallery (NYC). The self-titled Tim Hawkinson draws inspiration from the artist’s own garden and its sculptures focus on the interplay of movement, gravity, and environment. The exhibition runs through June 29.
  • El Anatsui, among others, will be in Abu Dhabi as part of Guggenheim Abu Dhabi’s Talking Art Series of discussions and workshops. The events will take place May 6 – 8.

  • Erin Shirreff has a second solo exhibition at Lisa Cooley (NYC). Day is Long features a variety of new work about the unease of the studio environment. The show closes June 16.
  • Roni Horn, Goetz Collection is currently on view at Sammlung Götz (Munich). The large overview of works by Roni Horn from the Goetz Collection is curated in close collaboration with the artist and, according to the gallery, offers a “representative insight into all aspects of this unique oeuvre.” This exhibition is open to the public through August 31.
  • Raymond Pettibon was honored by BOMB Magazine at the publication’s 32nd anniversary gala at New York City’s Capitale. The artist and other honorees were awarded with Pink BOMBs.

100 Artists: Julie Mehretu

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100 Artists is a yearlong celebration of the 100 artists who have appeared to date in Art21′s award-winning film series Art in the Twenty-First Century. Throughout 2013, we are dedicating two to three days to each artist on our social media platforms—Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and here on the Art21 Blog. Our current featured artist is Julie Mehretu.

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Julie Mehretu. “Beloved (Cairo),” 2013. Ink on acrylic on canvas. 10 x 24 ft. Installed at Marian Goodman Gallery in “Liminal Squared,” 2013. Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery.

Liminal Squared, a major solo exhibition by Julie Mehretu, is on view at Marian Goodman Gallery in New York. Featured are new large-scale paintings and a group of smaller etchings, many of them bearing Mehretu’s signature sea of marks, erasures, smudges, and architectural tracings.

On the occasion of this show, Art21 has released a previously unpublished interview with the artist. Conducted in Mehretu’s Berlin studio in October 2008, she discusses her process and how several different references might be embedded in just one of her paintings. Here’s an excerpt:

Art21: How much does the viewer need to know? How much of the underpinnings do you wish to reveal?

Julie Mehretu: There are different types of information that go into the picture, depending on the painting, and especially in the work now. In certain paintings that information is very readable and it’s just pure geometry—geometric shapes that mimic architecture. So you look at the structure and you can’t really define anything, but you know that it’s really just created out of geometric shapes. Then there’s other work in which I incorporate a lot of specific architectural plans. As the works progress, the more the information is layered in a way that’s hard to decipher what is what. And that’s intentional. It’s almost like a screening out, creating a kind of skin or layer of just this information that we recognize. So if a building is from Baghdad or New York or Cairo is not so important. I don’t necessarily reveal which building is from which place. It’s more that this information is part of the DNA (that’s how I keep thinking about it) of the painting—part of the ancestral makeup of what it is and the information that informs your understanding or your vision of it.

I’m attracted to images, different types of images, and usually that’s because of what’s going on in the world. And because I used to work with this information more directly, I think I’ve become much more well-versed in the language of architecture. So all of that comes into the work in different ways, but I don’t really spell out exactly that this is, for example, an image from Baghdad. This painting is not a description. I want the work to be felt as much as read.

Read the entire interview here.

Liminal Squared continues through June 22, 2013. See more images from the exhibition after the jump.

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Julie Mehretu. “Chimera,” 2013. Ink and acrylic on canvas. 96 x 144 in. Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery.

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“Liminal Squared” installation, 2013. Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery.

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Julie Mehretu. “Fever graph (algorithm for serendipity),” 2013. Graphite, ink and acrylic on canvas. 96 x 120 in. Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery.

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Julie Mehretu. “The Round City (Hatshepsut),” 2013. Graphite, ink and acrylic on canvas. 96 x 132 in. Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery.

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Julie Mehretu was featured in Season 5 of Art in the Twenty-First Century; watch her segment at Art21.org.

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Krzysztof Wodiczko. "Hirshhorn Projection," 1988-2000. Public projection: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Lelong.

Krzysztof Wodiczko. “Hirshhorn Projection,” 1988-2000. Public projection: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Lelong.

In this week’s roundup Kerry James Marshall has a big solo, Paul McCarthy gets interviewed, and more.

  • Alfredo Jaar and Krzysztof Wodiczko are included in Summer Exposure, a group show at Galerie Lelong (New York, NY). This exhibition of photographic works focuses on themes of political and social injustice, identity, and contemporary conflicts between man and nature. On view through August 2.
  • Maya Lin is one of three artists in Lehmann Maupin’s Summer Group Show (New York, NY). Alongside three of Lin’s sculptures are new minimalist paintings by Mary Corse, and a variety of wall works by Teresita Fernández. On view through August 16.
  • Mika Tajima‘s work is included in a two-artist show at Halsey McKay (East Hampton, NY). Tajima continues her series of reverse spray enameled thermoformed acrylic objects titled Furniture Art. Each piece is subtitled by a geographic location: Okinawa, Vieques, Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes, Da Nang, Bahia de Cochinos. Sam Moyer & Mika Tajima: Midori Mambo Black Russian is on view through July 8.
  • Paul McCarthy and his son/collaborator, Damon McCarthy, sat down with curators Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Tom Eccles to discuss WS—McCarthy’s much talked about installation at the Park Avenue Armory—and its seven-hour, four-channel video. Their conversation has been posted online.
  • Julie Mehretu was interviewed by Jason Farago for the British publication The Guardian. Mehretu discusses her preparation for upcoming shows and how they tap into global events. Read the interview here.
  • Kerry James Marshall has a solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.). In the TowerMarshall’s first exhibition in Washington, explores a sequence of works that both precede and follow his piece Great America, which was acquired by the National Gallery in 2011. The exhibition is on view through December 7.
  • Richard Serra‘s drawing, Double Rift #5, will be on view for a limited time at the Yellowstone Art Museum (Billings, Montana). Double Rift #5 is part of a series of works for which Serra applied oil-based paint stick to handmade paper, heightening the sense of mass.

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Hiroshi Sugimoto, Dioramas (Alaskan Wolves), 1994. Private collection. © Hiroshi Sugimoto.

Hiroshi Sugimoto, Dioramas (Alaskan Wolves), 1994; gelatin silver print; 47 × 73 inches. Private collection. © Hiroshi Sugimoto.

Hiroshi Sugimoto has a retrospective exhibition in Korea, Julie Mehretu and Carrie Mae Weems are featured in Elle magazine, Mark Bradford designs lift tickets, and more in this week’s roundup.

  • Hiroshi Sugimoto’s retrospective exhibition is on view at the Samsung Museum of Art (Seoul, Korea). The artist’s installations, videos, and well-known photographs of the last forty years are on view through March 23, 2014.
  • Jacolby Satterwhite, Saya Woolfalk, and Coco Fusco will participate in a public conversation about afrofuturism and STEAM education on January 9. (I will moderate the discussion.) Organized by the Studio Museum in Harlem, the event is being held in conjunction with their current exhibitions, The Shadows Took Shape and Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, which feature works by Satterwhite, Laylah AliEllen Gallagher, and Trenton Doyle Hancock.
  • Kalup Linzy is the first artist to teach performance in the Visual and Environmental Studies Department at Harvard. In an article on Huffington Post Linzy provides a recap of his two recent courses, sharing pictures of class lectures, videos created by his students, and a class playlist.
  • Kerry James Marshall was interviewed by Ellen Mara De Wachter for Frieze magazine. In the article “What You See” Marshall discusses “visibility, identity, and black people on Mars.”
  • Mark Bradford has designed this season’s lift tickets for Aspen Skiing Company in partnership with the Aspen Art Museum. Bradford based his design on merchant posters. The brightly colored tickets include messages like “Rich Boy, Sober Living” and “Artist of the Year.”
  • Julie Mehretu is one of eight women featured in the December 2013 issue of Elle magazine. “Elle Women in Art” turns the spotlight on artists, curators, dealers, and other professionals who are “changing the art world today.”

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Marina Abramović Institute + OMA, rendering of the “Crystal Room.” ⓒ OMA

Marina Abramović reports on her performance institute, Richard Serra sits down with Charlie Rose, Do-Ho Suh’s work hangs in Louis Vuitton, and more in this week’s roundup.

  • Marina Abramović has contributed to Creative Time Reports, sharing her vision for an institute devoted to interdisciplinary thinking, long-durational art, and techniques for concentration in an age of multitasking. She asks, “How often do we see people rush past a few works of art in a museum, exit and immediately tweet about what they’ve just seen?”
  • El Anatsui will have an exhibition at Mount Holyoke College Art Museum (South Hadley, Massachusetts). New Worlds will include six large-scale works by the artist that, according to the curators, “resonates deeply with contemporary world culture, personifies global engagement, and exemplifies the work the Museum does through its creativity initiative.” On view January 21–June 8.
  • Kara Walker recently had an exhibition at the Camden Arts Centre. It was her first in the U.K. In a new video interview, she discusses the inspiration behind her work for the show.
  • Do-Ho Suh’s sculpture Cause and Effect (2013) is the centerpiece of a Louis Vuitton store in Shinjuku, Tokyo. According to Blouin Artinfo.comCause and Effect consists of 42,000 clear acrylic resin human figures hanging from a ceiling frame crafted out of stainless steel and aluminum. This is a new iteration of Suh’s 2007 work of the same title.
  • Richard Serra recently appeared on Charlie Rose’s talk show; watch the interview here. Serra has an exhibition spread across two Gagosian galleries in New York City. New Sculpture on West 21st Street closes February 8. New Sculpture on West 24th Street closes March 15.
  • Julie Mehretu will lecture at The University of Utah Department of Art and Art History as part of the Art 158 Lecture Series. The event will take place on January 15 at 4:30pm.

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Ai Weiwei in The Sand Storm, directed by Jason Wishnow.

Ai Weiwei stars in a science fiction film, El Anatsui creates new work for the Royal Academy, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Mary Reid Kelley receive Guggenheim fellowships, and more in this week’s roundup.

  • Ai Weiwei: According to What?—the first North American survey of Ai Weiwei’s work—opens at the Brooklyn Museum on April 18. This is the first large-scale museum exhibition of Ai’s work in New York and the final presentation on the exhibition’s national tour. The Brooklyn Museum installation will include several major works not seen in previous venues. On April 19, the museum will screen a series of films about Ai, including Art21’s segment on the artist for Art in the Twenty-First Century, and our new release, Phil Tinari on Ai WeiweiThe exhibition closes August 10.
  • Ai Weiwei’s latest project, a science fiction film called The Sand Storm, made waves last week in the form of a Kickstarter campaign. It has already exceeded its funding goal two fold. Billed as a “dystopian science fiction film set in the not-too-distant future,” Ai will play the role of a water smuggler living in a world that is quickly drying up.
  • Robert Mangold has new works up at Pace Gallery (New York, NY). In a recent interview with Alex Bacon of the Brooklyn Rail, Mangold discussed his work and career. “At different points in my work I have played with the idea that a part is not only a part,” said Mangold, “but a complete thing, even if there is an implied continuation.” Read the interview here
  • Tim Hawkinson’s sculpture Scout (2006-2007) is included in Initial Public Offering, a permanent collection exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art (San Jose, CA). The works on view “exemplify the SJMA’s surprising and playful take on the art of our time.” Closes August 24.
  • Julie Mehretu will speak at the High Museum of Art (Atlanta, GA) on April 21 as part of the series “Conversations with Contemporary Artists.” Mehretu will discuss her work and career, including Mogamma (A Painting in Four Parts): Part II (2012), which the High Museum recently acquired.

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Cai Guo-Qiang. The Ninth Wave, 2014. Courtesy Power Station of Art.

Cai Guo-Qiang. The Ninth Wave, 2014. Courtesy Power Station of Art.

Cai Guo-Qiang sends art up the river in Shanghai, Doris Salcedo, Janine Antoni, and Cindy Sherman receive awards, and more in this week’s roundup.

  • Cai Guo-Qiang floated an ark of stuffed animals up Huanpu River in Shanghai, China on July 17, as part of his exhibition The Ninth Wave, opening at the Power Station of Art on August 8. The exhibition focuses on global environmental and ecological crises through traditional Chinese aesthetics and philosophy. Closes October 26.
  • Doris Salcedo has been awarded the ninth Hiroshima Art Prize. Established in 1989, the award recognizes artists worldwide who spread the spirit of world peace through art. In conjunction with the award, two works by Salcedo are on display in a special exhibition at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art until October 13.
  • Janine Antoni is a recipient of the 2014 Philanthropy Advisors’ Anonymous Was A Woman Award. All recipients are women over forty years of age who have significantly contributed to their field, while continuing to grow and pursue their work.
  • Ai Weiwei’s recently unveiled collaboration with Navajo artist Bert Benally, titled Pull of the Moon, is featured in the documentary TIME (Temporary Installations Made for the Environment). Watch it here.
  • Julie Mehretu spoke to Porter magazine about Africa’s emerging presence in contemporary art. Regarding this development, the artists says, “This is a fascinating moment in time as the terms and notions of African art are reconsidered. As an artist I feel my work is being repositioned as the landscape broadens.”
  • Cindy Sherman was honored at LongHouse Reserve, a sixteen-acre sculpture garden in East Hampton, NY. Sherman’s 1983 chromogenic color print Untitled #119 served as inspiration for the attendees’ attire.

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Allora & Calzadilla, Apotomē (still), 2013. Super 16mm film transferred to HD video, 23:09 minutes looped. Courtesy Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris.

Allora & Calzadilla. Apotomē (still), 2013. Super 16mm film transferred to HD video; 23 minutes and 9 seconds looped. Courtesy Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris.

Cai Guo-Qiang mounts iPads on the backs of tortoises, Allora & Calzadilla mix music with natural history, Kiki Smith exhibits a new bronze fountain, and more in this week’s roundup of ART21-featured artists.

  • Cai Guo-Qiang’s exhibition Moving Ghost Town is at the Aspen Art Museum (Aspen, CO). In the show, three African Sulcata tortoises—Big Bertha, Gracie Pink Star, and Whale Wanderer—roam freely on natural turf. With iPads mounted to their backs, the tortoises feature video footage of three ghost towns in Colorado, “which were filmed by the creatures themselves.” The museum has designed a habitat to sustain their health and comfort. Closes October 5.
  • Allora & Calzadilla’s video Apotomē (2013)—which focuses on the bone remains of two elephants and subsonic notes that only animals as large as elephants are able to hear—is showing at the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater of REDCAT (Los Angeles, CA). A complementary live performance, in which the artists continue their investigation into biosemiotics and biomusicology, was presented in June. The video remains on view through August 24.
  • Cindy Sherman’s self-portrait Untitled (2008), from her Society Portraits series, is part of Art Everywhere US, “the largest outdoor art show ever conceived.” The nearly sixty artworks that comprise the campaign can be seen on billboards from coast-to-coast throughout August. Watch a video about the project here.
  • Kiki Smith has a solo show at Galleria Continua (San Gimignano, Italy). According to the organizers, Path explores the “relationship between the human being and nature, between the body and the world, between the natural kingdom and the spiritual one.” The exhibition features, among other objects, a new bronze fountain. Closes August 30.

The Walker Curates the News: 08.25.14

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Ai Weiwei filming "The Sandstorm," directed by Jason Wishnow.

Ai Weiwei filming The Sandstorm, directed by Jason Wishnow.

Despite friction between artist and director and budgetary bumps that stalled production, Jason Wishnow’s short sci-fi film The Sandstorm is expected to premiere soon. In his acting debut, Ai Weiwei will play a tuk tuk-driving water smuggler in a dystopian, H20-free world.

  • Dubbing him a “groundbreaking counter-surveillance artist,” the online civil liberties group EFF (the Electronic Frontier Foundation) announced that it’ll be honoring Trevor Paglen with a Pioneer Award, created to recognize those who help us “understand how technology and civil liberties are interwoven into our lives and … work to protect our freedom and fight abuses.” Receiving the same honor at the October 2 ceremony in San Francisco will be United Nations Special Rapporteur Frank La Rue and U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren.
  • Considering Thomas Hirschhorn’s Gramsci Monument in the South Bronx one year later, Art F City’s Whitney Kimball connects with those who encountered it, from Hirschhorn and Dia curator Yasmil Raymond to neighborhood residents. “[T]he one-time nature of projects like these reinforce the idea that sympathies and political ideals can be compartmentalized and laundered only through an art project as a hypothetical, single-authored proposition,” she writes. “As is the case in so many recent large-scale public artworks, it comes down to a question not of how to implement a better system, but how to make the ethical compromise for art.”
  • Zaha Hadid is suing the New York Review of Books and its architecture critic, Martin Filler, for defamation over a book review that accused her of “showing no concern” for the deaths of hundreds of migrant construction workers in Qatar, where she designed the 2022 World Cup Stadium. Author and architecture critic Paul Goldberger tweeted in response: “Zaha proves Goldberger’s Law: the greater the success, the thinner the skin. Hadid sues over book review.”
  • Inspired by Robert Frank’s book/photo series The Americans, photographer Alec Soth is traveling the USA in a minivan with folk singers Billy Bragg and Joe Purdy. While he interviews railroad workers, Bragg has been singing: to striking teachers,  inmates, and—hopefully—protesters in Ferguson, Missouri. The trio will share the results of the trip in a photo/music performance in tribute to Frank at The Open Road Benefit Party in New York October 21, with proceeds going to the Aperture Foundation.
  • Passings: Richard Attenborough, an actor for 25 years before his directorial debut at age 46, has died at 90. His films include Cry Freedom (1987), A Chorus Line (1985), and Gandhi (1983), which won eight Academy Awards. And Deborah Sussman, designer of the 1984 Summer Olympics’ environmental graphics, died last week at age 81. She said the signature large, colorful “supergraphics” that animated urban landscapes were meant to be “bigger than the architecture.”
  • The Smithsonian American Art Museum has named nominees for its biennial James Dicke Contemporary Art Prize, created to encourage artistic experimentation. The 13 selected artists: Njideka Akunyili, Cory Arcangel, Trisha Baga, Paul Chan, Barnaby Furnas, Theaster Gates, KAWS (Brian Donnelly), Josiah McElheny, Dave McKenzie, Julie Mehretu, Frances Stark, Swoon (Caledonia Curry), and Mickalene Thomas. The winner, to be announced in November, takes home $25,000.

Follow Art News From Elsewhere on the Walker Art Center homepage or via @walkermag, the Walker’s editorial-focused Twitter feed.

The Walker Curates the News: 01.19.15

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David Oyelowo (center) as Martin Luther King in Ava DuVernay’s Selma.

“Even for the Oscars—even for the Oscars—this is a really, really lot of white people,” writes NPR’s Linda Holmes of the newest slate of nominees (dubbed the “whitest Oscars since 1998“). “Every nominated actor in Lead and Supporting categories—20 actors in all–is white. Every nominated director is male. Every nominated screenwriter is male.” The 2015 awards’ lack of diversity sparked the hashtag #Oscarssowhite, while many in the media characterized the omission of MLK biopic Selma, which received a lone nomination, by the Academy as a “snub” (Google News currently shows more than 6 million results for the search Oscar + Selma + snub).

  • The celebrated humanitarian design group Architecture for Humanity has closed abruptly after nearly 16 years. At its peak, the San Francisco–based nonprofit had more than 60 chapters that organized community-based design projects, often in response to natural disasters like hurricanes, tsunamis, and earthquakes.  “It’s easier to find funding for an app,” one observer noted, than for a group that “transforms lives in places most Americans don’t know exist.”.

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Liz Magic Laser. "The Thought Leader," installation view, 2015. Single-channel video, running time: 8 min. Featuring actor Alex Ammerman. Courtesy the artist and Various Small Fires.

Liz Magic Laser. “The Thought Leader,” installation view, 2015. Single-channel video, running time: 8 min. Featuring actor Alex Ammerman. Courtesy the artist and Various Small Fires.

The U.S. State Department’s Art in Embassies program selects a new class of Medal of Arts recipients, Liz Magic Laser creates a fictional TED talk, and work by ART21-featured artists included in exhibitions throughout the world in this week’s roundup.

Artist stages fake TED talk

Liz Magic Laser presents new video works for The Thought Leader at Various Small Fires (Los Angeles, CA), including (2015) and My Mind is My Own (2015), which are installed alongside related props and sculptures. For the show the artist created a fictional TED talk out of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “Notes From Underground.” Closes February 21.

Art in Embassies awards artists

Julie Mehretu, Maya Lin, and Mark Bradford have been selected by the State Department’s Art in Embassies (AIE) program to receive a Medal of Arts. The program brings artwork to over 200 American consulates and embassies around the world as part of the State Departments efforts to promote cultural diplomacy. Secretary of State John Kerry will bestow the medals on the artists at a ceremony held in Washington, DC, on January 21.

Retrospective opens in four Houston venues

Mel Chin was interviewed by Molly Glentzer for the Houston Chronicle in conjunction with Rematch, a retrospective opening at four venues—the Blaffer Art Museum, Asia Society Texas Center, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and the Station Museum of Contemporary Art—with an adjunct show at Art League Houston. The shows include works made from about 1974 to the present. On view starting January 17.

200-year survey of African American art

Works by Martin Puryear, Carrie Mae Weems, and Glenn Ligon are featured in Represent: 200 Years of African American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA). The exhibition explores the evolving ways in which African American artists have expressed personal, political, and racial identity through paintings, sculpture, photographs, drawings, and prints as well as furniture, ceramics, silver, and textiles. Closes April 5.

Women artists explore utopia and dystopia

Herland at 60 Wall Gallery, Deutsche Bank (New York, NY) includes works by Cao Fei, Judy Pfaff, Carrie Mae Weems and other women artists. The show’s loosely references a 1915 novel of the same name by pioneering American feminist and sociologist, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and touches on themes of cultural hybridity, memory and transformation, nature and landscape, and personal and collective identity. Closes March 17.

Exploring human flaws as sites of interest

Work by Cindy Sherman is included in Fetching Blemish at Invisible-Exports (New York, NY). This group exhibition of portraiture and figurative work addresses human flaws as sites of revelation and distinction, and “revels in flaws, deformities and the grotesque, rendering or expressing internal conflicts and anxieties,” as a portal of identity and self-horror as a form of self-recognition. Closes February 15.

Group show features printmaking

Works by Richard Tuttle, Elizabeth Murray, and Kiki Smith are included in the Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE) Group Show at Talley Dunn Gallery (Dallas, TX). The exhibition features lithographs and intaglio prints as well as recently a completed project by Tuttle created in collaboration with master printmakers at ULAE. Closes March 7.

Open-ended performances in Houston

Oliver Herring‘s Areas for Action is on view at DiverseWorks (Houston, TX) from January 21 through March 7. This accumulative exhibition consists of “daily performances, improvisatory sculptures, and real-time collaborative artworks created on-site with different groups of volunteers over several weeks.” Visitors are invited to participate or simply observe. Herring will give an artist’s talk on January 21 at 6:30 p.m.

Exploring theater photography in Italy

Hiroshi Sugimoto‘s self-titled exhibition at Galleria Continua (San Gimignano, Italy) includes previously unseen photographs from the Theaters series, including Cinema Teatro Nuovo (2014), a shot of the former cinema-theatre in San Gimignano where the gallery is based.

Exploring the sculpture and drawing relationship

Arlene Shechet: Blockbuster will be on view at Lora Reynolds Gallery (Austin, TX). This exhibition of sculpture and drawing by Arlene Shechet is inspired by working with clay and, according to the artist, “The things that I build…grow over months because I might be able to add only one inch of material in a day.” On view January 24–March 21.

Contemporary art in a digital world

Mary Reid Kelley with Patrick Kelley will present work in “Not Really”: Fictive Narratives in Contemporary Art at the Castle Gallery at The College of New Rochelle (New Rochelle, NY). The show is an “artistic exploration of the illusory, fabricated, and contrived nature of our mediated and digitalized contemporary world,” through painting, sculpture, installation, video, and photography. On view January 27–April 19.

The Walker Curates the News 10.26.15

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Ai Weiwei with a self-portrait in Legos, via Instagram.

Ai Weiwei with a self-portrait in Legos, via Instagram.

“Everything is awesome!” Or so goes The Lego Movie’s slogan, but Ai Weiwei is finding that’s not quite the case. In September, the Chinese artist was told that the toy company couldn’t fill his bulk order for plastic bricks—intended for use on a series of portraits of political dissidents to be exhibited at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne—because “they cannot approve the use of Legos for political works.” Characterizing the corporation’s actions as “an act of censorship and discrimination,” he noted on Instagram this week that “a British firm formally announced that it will open a new Legoland in Shanghai as one of the many deals of the U.K.-China ‘Golden Era.’” But fear not: Ai will likely have all the Legos he’ll need. Thanks to the hashtag #legosforweiwei, the artist has been inundated with messages from supporters wanting to donate Legos to his cause.

  • Mark Bradford, known for multimedia works that combine painting and collage, has been commissioned to create his most massive work yet, for the Hirshorn Museum’s Inner Circles gallery. The first artwork to fill the space in its entirety, the site-specific “circular fresco” could represent a power move by director Melissa Chiu, who has been criticized for her not-so-site-specific plans to hold the DC museum’s annual gala in New York. This site-specificity, as well as its identity as a fresco, also lends a new level of complexity to Carolina Miranda’s comment that Bradford’s works “channel urban landscapes that have been constructed and obliterated, only to be constructed and obliterated again.”
  • “I was committed to helping make this film happen in any way I could,” says Addis Ababa–born artist Julie Mehretu of selling her art to finance and produce the film Difret, which tells the the true story of a 14-year-old Ethiopian girl who fights the tradition of marriage-by-abduction. Mehretu describes the film’s creative team as being among the new African modernists, who have greatly inspired her own work. The artist has since been passionately helping the film reach the widest possible audience, a mission in line with her desire to participate directly in political action.
  • In his millennial work, Frank Stella’s signature, vibrant color palate takes a new turn. “His solo show at Bernard Jacobson is an example of the artist’s masterful ability to continuously challenge the medium of painting,” writes Jeppe Ugelvig. Ideas about both the past and perhaps the future lead to one of these works’ greatest successes–that they seem to defy being situated temporally. Ulvig notes that many of the works recall the past. Several are named after famous Turkish archeological sites, and themselves “resemble excavation sites, with what looks like unusual artifacts half-embeddedd into silvery slabs like remnants of past civilizations uncovered from the soil.” Simultaneously, Ulvig says that the works are “prophetic at times, recalling the scrolling aesthetics of Tumblr, for example, but pre-dating the platform’s rise to popularity by nearly a decade.”
  • “The days of museums hoarding information are over.” Now more than ever, “an audience-focused fusion of programming and communications” is a popular solution to balancing the numerous roles of museums, from preservation to research to public events. This trend represents a shift from the “monastery” to the “public square” model for museums, as described by Vasif Kortun, director of research and programs at SALT. This shift is leading the museums of today to more closely resemble “spaces for ideas” than “temples of knowledge,” like the museums of the past.
  • For his first major installation since his wife Jeanne-Claude’s death in 2009, Christo will place “200,000 floatable cubes covered in glittering, dahlia-yellow fabric fashioned from tightly woven nylon” on the surface of Italy’s Lake Iseo for 16 days next June. Visitors will be able to walk on The Floating Piers, which the artist says promises to “be very sexy, a bit like walking on a water bed.”

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This Week in Art: 4.4-4.10

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Left: “No Title (President.),” 1985. Right: “No Title (Kennedy would die …),” 1987. Courtesy of David Zwirner Books.

Raymond Pettibon. Left: No Title (President.), 1985. Right: No Title (Kennedy would die …), 1987. From the newly released book Raymond Pettibon: Homo Americanus. Courtesy of David Zwirner Books.

Last week Omer Fast’s 2011 film 5,000 Feet Is the Best, exploring a drone operator’s experience of remote destruction, was acquired by the UK’s Towner Gallery and Imperial War Museum. Meanwhile Season 2 artist Martin Puryear is being honored with the Yaddo Artist Medal, and Season 5 artist Julie Mehretu won the Skowhegan Medal of Painting. And in more good news, Tania Bruguera’s Kickstarter for the Institute of Artivism is fully funded with three days to go!


“Conceptual art wasn’t about art that had a concept, but about interrogating the concept of art.”

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This Week in Art: 5.16-5.22

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Martin Puryear. Big Bling in Madison Square Park, 2016. Photo by Scott Lynch/Gothamist.

Martin Puryear. Big Bling in Madison Square Park, 2016. Photo by Scott Lynch for Gothamist.

This week’s art news highlights are largely community-based, involving one of our all-time favorite things: bringing visual art to as many people as possible.


Events & exhibitions

NYC

  • Two exhibitions of Richard Serra’s work are currently on view at Gagosian galleries until July 29th:

USA

Around the world


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This Week in Art: 7.4-7.10

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Katharina Grosse. Rockaway! at Fort Tilden, 2016. Photo by New York Off Road on Instagram.

Katharina Grosse. Rockaway! at Fort Tilden, 2016. Photo by New York Off Road on Instagram.

Last week our short film series New York Close Up won the Cine Golden Eagle for Digital Series. Congrats to Wes, ART21’s curator, and Nick, our Director of Production, who created and produced the series! Also this week:


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This Week in Art: 9.26-10.2

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Jenny Holzer’s LED-stream commission in a rendering of the Transbay Transit Center. Photo: Courtesy Of Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects and the SF Chronicle.

Jenny Holzer’s LED-stream commission in a rendering of the Transbay Transit Center. Photo: Courtesy of Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects and the SF Chronicle.

Season 4’s Jenny Holzer was in the news a lot last week! The text-driven artist created created a footstool to benefit the NYC AIDS Memorial, opening this fall at St. Vincent’s Triangle. She also won a million-dollar LED art commission for San Francisco’s new Transbay Transit Center. The installation will combine the artist’s texts with that of Bay Area authors. Also this week:


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This Week in Art: 10.10-10.16

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Todo lo demás Doña Flor (Adriana Barraza)

Natalia Almada. Everything Else (film still), 2016.

Lots of ART21 artists in the news this week! Leonardo Drew talks about his art-making practice in Interview Magazine; Julie Mehretu discusses her new paintings on view at Marian Goodman Gallery with the New York Timesand Richard Serra sat down with fellow Yale Art School alum Michael Craig-Martin for an artist-to-artist interview. Also in the news this week:


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This Week in Art 1.9-1.15: Artists Call for Inauguration Day Strike

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Barbara Kruger. Untitled (I shop, therefore I am), 1987. Photographic silkscreen on vinyl; 111 x 113 inches. Courtesy of Mary Boone Gallery, New York.

Barbara Kruger. Untitled (I shop, therefore I am), 1987. Photographic silkscreen on vinyl; 111 x 113 inches. Courtesy of Mary Boone Gallery, New York.

This week was all politics for Art21 roster artists. More than 130 artists and critics including Cindy Sherman, Richard Serra, Joan Jonas, Barbara KrugerTrevor Paglen, and Julie Mehretu have signed a petition calling for cultural institutions to close on the day of President-elect Donald J. Trump’s inauguration, Friday, January 20. While some are skeptical of the strike’s potential impact, others argue that it’s a necessary statement against “normalizing” the new president, while others purport that the proposed strike is only sowing seeds of divisiveness.

Also this week:


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NYC

Washington D.C.

SF

  • Saturday, January 14 | 8pm—Trevor Paglen will be performing a new work titled Sight Machine for one night only at Historic Pier 70. Created in collaboration with Kronos Quartet, the piece “explores the way machines see and interpret the experience of watching a musical performance.” Get tickets.

LA

  • A new solo exhibition by Season 8 artist Theaster Gates, But To Be A Poor Race, is opening this Saturday at Regen Projects. The artist and the executive director of LAXART, Hamza Walker, will be at the gallery for a conversation about Gates’ work this Sunday, January 15 at 2pm.

London

Cape Town, South Africa

  • Goodman Gallery’s Summer Show, featuring artists Alfredo Jaar and Shirin Neshat among others is ending its month-long run this Saturday, January 14.

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This Week in Art 2.20-2.26: William Kentridge Launches Arts Incubator

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The Centre for the Less Good Idea website. Screenshot, February 20, 2017.

William Kentridge has started an arts nonprofit dedicated to experimental projects. Called The Centre for the Less Good Idea, the Johannesburg-based organization will facilitate a series of performance-based installations March 1-5 of this year. “I want to start a small art centre, where people could do experimental art, productions, operas, things they wouldn’t get to do elsewhere,” the artist told The Financial Times in a September interview.

The name of the project stems from the artist’s fascination with what he calls the “less good idea.” “By which I mean the secondary idea,” Kentridge explained in the Guardian, “You start with one plan and then something better emerges from the periphery that would have been impossible without the first thought.”

In other news this week:


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Baltimore

Los Angeles

  • Thursday, February 23 | 7-8:30pm—Alfredo Jaar will be giving a talk at the Getty titled “It is Difficult,” in conjunction with the exhibition Breaking News: Turning the Lens on Mass Media (December 20–April 30). The lecture’s title references a poem by William Carlos Williams: “It is difficult / to get the news / from poems / yet men die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found there.”
  • Thursday, February 23 | 6:30-8pm—Catherine Opie will discuss her life and work at the Annenberg Space for Photography as part of the Iris Nights Lecture Series.

San Jose

  • Diana Al-Hadid’s Liquid City is opening on Friday at the San Jose Museum of Art, where it will remain on view through September 24.

Houston

  • Diana Thater’s nine-monitor video installation Starry Messenger is opening on Friday, February 24 at Rice University’s Moody Center for the Arts. The work pays tribute to Houston as a city at the forefront of space exploration, and will remain on view through February 2018.

Mexico City

London

Frankfurt, Germany

Iceland


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This Week in Art 2.27-3.5: Rashid Johnson’s Directorial Debut

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Last week it was announced that New York Close Up artist Rashid Johnson will be directing his first feature length film—an adaptation of Richard Wright’s 1940 novel Native Son. “I came up with the project originally,” the artist told artnet News, “and then I was able to find great partners to participate with it.” Also this week:


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Durham, NC

Houston


London

Denmark

  • Humlebaek—William Kentridge’s Thick Time opened last week at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition, centered around “colonized, regulated, oppressed, fleeing or dreaming humanity,” is on view through June 18.
  • Denmark—Pierre Huyghe’s 2014 video installation Untitled (Human Mask) is on view at Copenhagen Contemporary through May 21.

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This Week in Art 3.20-3.26: Artists Rally Behind the NEA

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Image courtesy of Killer Infographics.

This week, more than 230,000 people signed a PEN America petition opposing President Trump’s plan to defund the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). So far, twelve Art21 artists including Kiki Smith, Cindy Sherman, and Richard Serra have signed.

Also this week:


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Chicago

Potomac, MD

Fayetteville, AR

  • March 24, 7-8pm—Marina Abramović is kicking off the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art’s 2017 Distinguished Speaker Series, intended to “inspire new ways of thinking.” Get tickets.

Phoenix, AZ

  • Yeohlee/Serra, a new exhibition pairing gowns by fashion designer Yeohlee Teng with large-scale prints by Richard Serra opened on Friday at the Phoenix Art Museum where it will remain on view through May 29.

Akron, OH

San Francisco / Bay Area


Naples, Italy

Tel Aviv

  • This is the last week to see Tommy Hartung’s exhibition at Braverman Gallery. Lilith closes tomorrow, March 21.

Reykjavik, Iceland

  • March 16-April 9—Artists Matthew Barney, Ragnar Kjartansson, and Gabríela Friðriksdóttir have collaborated with the Iceland Dance Company to create Sacrifice, a series of performances celebrating modern rituals. [Learn more in the Iceland Monitor.]

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This Week in Art 3.27-4.2: 100+ Ai Weiwei Installations Coming to NYC

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Rendering of one piece in the multi-site Public Art Fund project Ai Weiwei: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors. Courtesy of Ai Weiwei Studio.

This morning, the New York Times announced Good Fences Make Good Neighbors, a series of Ai Weiwei installations coming to various sites around New York City in October 2017. More than one-hundred of Ai Weiwei’s works will be installed in public spaces as part of the Public Art Fund project, which attempts to highlight the city’s historical role as a gateway to the U.S. for millions of immigrants.

“I was an immigrant in New York in the 1980s for ten years and the issue with the migration crisis has been a longtime focus of my practice,” says the artist. “What’s important to remember is that while barriers have been used to divide us, as humans we are all the same. Some are more privileged than others, but with that privilege comes a responsibility to do more.”


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Washington D.C.

  • Wednesday, March 29, 7pm—Ann Hamilton will be speaking with designer, builder and educator Emily Pilloton at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, to facilitate a discussion on the question “How can makers change the world?”

Dallas

  • Friday, March 31, 2pm—As part of the Nasher Prize Dialogues series, the Nasher Sculpture Center is hosting a conversation between National Gallery of Art Senior Curator Lynne Cooke and 2017 Nasher Prize Laureate Pierre Huyghe, about his artistic philosophy and practice.

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Milan

Hong Kong


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This Week in Art 5.15-5.21: Jeff Koons’ Inflatable Ballerina Comes to Rockefeller Center

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Jeff Koons. Seated Ballerina, 2017. Installation view at Rockefeller Center. Photo courtesy of Street Art News.

New York City opened a new public art installation last week, co-presented by the Art Production Fund and Kiehl’s. Jeff Koons’ large-scale inflatable ballerina, a 45-foot work titled Seated Ballerina, was unveiled Friday at Rockefeller Center, where it will be on view through June 2.

Also this week, James Turrell will be presented with the 2017 SMFA Medal Award by the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University.


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New York City

  • Sunday, May 21, 7pm—New York Close Up’s newest artist Raúl de Nieves will be performing K8 Hardy’s Beautiful Radiating Energy at Participant Inc. The piece first debuted at Reena Spaulings Fine Art in 2004, and features a “part-cheerleader, part-militant” character who screams “Ready!” over and over again.

Chicago

San Francisco

  • Thursday, May 18, 6:30-7:30pm—Leonardo Drew is giving an artist talk at the de Young Museum titled “On and Beyond Number 197,” in conjunction with his large-scale installation on view in the museum’s atrium.

London

  • A sound installation by Bruce Nauman opens at Tate Modern today. Raw Materials premiered over 10 years ago in Turbine Hall, and is composed of 22 speech fragments recorded over 40 years and transmitted from 22 speakers. It will be on view through August 20.

Norwich, England

Porto, Portugal

Shanghai


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This Week in Art 6.19-6.25: Tania Bruguera Opens “Talking to Power”

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Tania Bruguera. The Francis Effect (2014). Courtesy of Studio Bruguera. Photography by Gaetano Olmo Stuppia.

An unprecedented survey of Tania Bruguera’s 30-year career, Talking to Power / Hablándole al Poder, opened Friday at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) in San Francisco. On view through October, the new exhibition includes free lectures and workshops, many taught by the artist herself, as part of a fully functioning school inside YBCA’s galleries entitled Escuela de Arte Útil​ (School of Useful Art​) (2017).

“The threat of the Trump presidency puts basic assumptions about the identity of this country at risk, and has made the political role of art even more urgent,” says the artist. “This is more relevant than ever, as art allows us to say and do what cannot be said or done under systems of repression and violence.”

Also this week:


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Athens

  • Tomorrow, June 20 Kara Walker’s Figa—the left hand of her sugar-sphinx monument A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Babyis opening in Greece at DESTE Foundation’s Project Space, an ancient slaughterhouse on the island of Hydra. On view through September 30.

Rome

Humlebæk, Denmark

  • On Thursday, Marina Abramović opened her first major retrospective in Europe at The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. Featuring reperformances and more than 100 works that spans 50 years, including early concept sketches, paintings and sound works, The Cleaner is on view through October 22.

Münster, Germany

  • Pierre Huyghe’s futuristic installation After ALife Ahead, is on view as part of the decennial public sculpture show Skulptur Projekte Münster. Featuring bees, peacocks, and algae, an incubator growing cancer cells, and an augmented reality app, the artist describes the piece as a “haunted living organism” deconstructing the “promise of a digital horizon.” Installed inside an old ice-skating rink, the piece is on view through October 1.

Basel, Switzerland


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This Week in Art 7.24-7.30: The Brooklyn Museum’s “Legacy of Lynching”

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Shirah Dedman, Phoebe Dedman, and Luz Myles visiting Shreveport, Louisiana, where in 1912 their relative Thomas Miles, Sr., was lynched (2017). Photo: Rog Walker and Bee Walker for the Equal Justice Initiative.

On Wednesday the Brooklyn Museum is opening a powerful new exhibition on the history of lynchings in the U.S. Entitled The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America, the exhibition includes work by Sanford Biggers, Kara Walker and Glenn Ligon alongside an interactive exhibit by the Equal Justice Initiative. Based on research of 4,000 lynchings of African-Americans between 1877 and 1950, the interactive exhibit includes a short film, audio stories, an interactive map, and is also available online.

“Our nation’s history of racial injustice casts a shadow across the American landscape,” said EJI Executive Director Bryan Stevenson. “This shadow cannot be lifted until we shine the light of truth on the destructive violence that shaped our nation, traumatized people of color, and compromised our commitment to the rule of law and equal justice. We all must engage this history more honestly.”


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New York City

  • Tuesday, July 25, 6-10pm—The Brooklyn Museum is hosting a talk between the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, Bryan Stevenson, and artists Sanford Biggers and Glenn Ligon. Organized in conjunction with the museum’s new exhibition The Legacy of Lynching, the panel discussion will be moderated by poet, essayist, and playwright Elizabeth Alexander.
  • Tuesday, July 25, 6:30pmTrevor Paglen will be in conversation at the Guggenheim Museum with the director of the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, Ben Wizner. Addressing surveillance and civil liberties in the age of hacking, the talk will be moderated by the museum’s Curator of Performance and Media, Nat Trotman.
  • New York Close Up artist Jaimie Warren has a new solo exhibition opening at The Hole this Wednesday. Titled One Sweet Day, the exhibition’s opening reception will be held Wednesday from 6-9pm, and it will be on view through August 27. [Read a feature on the artist in VICE.]
  • Friday, July 28, 6:30–7:30pm—Artists Caroline Woolard, Alexander Rosenberg, Helen Lee, and Lika Volkova, will be discussing their collaborative project, Carried on Both Sides, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s MetFridays. Reflecting on the future of communication, the project was the subject of our most recent New York Close Up film, “Caroline Woolard’s Floating Possibility.” Register here.
  • This is the last week to see Unfinished Conversations: New Work from the Collection, closing this Sunday at MoMA. Featuring work by Kara Walker among others, the exhibition “considers the intertwining themes of social protest and the effect of history on the formation of identity.” [Read a review in Hyperallergic.]

Rockland, ME

Columbus, OH

Santa Fe

Los Angeles

Honolulu

London


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This Week in Art 8.7-8.13: Cindy Sherman’s Instagram Goes Public

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This week Cindy Sherman was in news—from W Magazine to The New York Times—for unlocking her Instagram account, making 593 posts available for public consumption. Artnet first noticed the switch last Wednesday, as the artist changed her handle from @misterfriedas_mom (in honor of her pet macaw) to @_cindysherman_, and began posting selfies using Snapchat-like filters that look a lot like the work she installs on gallery walls.

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Saratoga Springs, NY

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Stillwater, OK

Stanford, CA

Buenos Aires


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This Week in Art 8.28-9.3: Trevor Paglen and Ai Weiwei Projects Hit Kickstarter

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A rendering of one piece in Ai Weiwei’s multipart Public Art Fund project Good Fences Make Good Neighbors at Washington Square Park. Courtesy of Ai Weiwei Studio / Frahm & Frahm.

Just in time for the eclipse, and coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the Voyager space probe launch, last week Kickstarter announced a new series of campaigns called Projects of Earth—two of which feature new work by Art21 artists. Already launched is Ai Weiwei’s Public Art Fund installation series, Good Fences Make Good Neighbors, which will bring fence-inspired sculptural works to multiple sites around New York City in October.

Launching soon is a project by Trevor Paglen in collaboration with the Nevada Museum of Art. Paglen is currently working with aerospace engineers to develop and launch Orbital Reflector, a reflective sculpture that will be visible in the night sky—the first satellite to exist purely as an artistic gesture.

Also this week:


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New York City

Austin

London

  • Whitechapel Gallery’s current group exhibition features the work of 30 artists and photographers including Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, and Jeff Wall. Entitled A Handful of Dust, the show closes Sunday, September 3.

Lille, France

  • This is also the last week to see Capital Africa, a group exhibition featuring work by El Anatsui at the cultural center, Gare of Lille-Saint-Sauveur. Presented by lille3000, the show closes on Sunday.

Venice

  • Ai Weiwei’s new film on the refugee crisis, Human Flow, is premiering this week at the 74th Venice Film Festival. It’s screening twice on Friday, September 1.

Tuscany, Italy

Mumbai

This Week in Art 9.4-9.10: Women Artists Bring Protest Messages to Times Square

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Installation view: House of Trees. Word on the Street, 2017. Courtesy of Maria Baranova for Times Square Arts.

A new public art commission is bringing political banners by female artists and writers to street poles and trash receptacles in Times Square. Times Square Arts’ Word on the Street presents designs by poet Anne Carson and artists Carrie Mae Weems, Amy Khoshbin, and Wangechi Mutu through February 2018. The phrases featured, like “Action Comes From the Backbone, Not the Wishbone” and “I Was Born for Love Not Hatred,” were originally created for the post-inaugural Women’s March.

Also this week:


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New York City

This Thursday and Friday there are a flurry of solo exhibitions opening in New York galleries:

Buffalo, NY

Savannah, GA

  • Also opening Thursday is the SCAD Museum of Art’s Lines of Influence, a group exhibition commemorating the hundredth birthday of African American painter Jacob Lawrence. On view through February 4 and including both historical and contemporary artists, the exhibition features work by Josef Albers, José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, Hank Willis Thomas, Jack Whitten, and Kara Walker among others.

Detroit

Minneapolis

Los Angeles

London

  • On Friday the David Roberts Arts Foundation is opening the final exhibition in its Camden gallery space: (X) A Fantasy, which collectively questions the boundaries between public and private spheres. Including work by Theaster Gates and Tala Madani among others, the exhibition closes October 7.

Healesville, Australia

  • Cao Fei was selected as one of five artists featured in the third iteration of the TarraWarra International at the TarraWarra Museum of Art. On view through November 12 and titled All that is solid …, all the work presented was created through “non-solid” processes like tearing, melting, chewing, and piercing.

Art21 News Roundup: Julie Mehretu Recontextualizes the History of American Landscape Painting

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Last week we released a special Extended Play film on Julie Mehretu’s monumental commission for the new SFMOMA. Art21 was granted exclusive access to film the artist and her team at work over the course of a year to create this ten-minute short.

While we’ve been busy releasing films online, Art21 films have been screening in museums all over the world: the British Museum, the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow, and SFMOMA to name a few. To screen an Art21 film at your organization, reach out to us. We have many more new films in the works, all set to premiere throughout the coming year.

Next summer we’ll open registration for the Art21 Screening Society, which offers organizations the unique opportunity to screen an episode of our upcoming biennial broadcast series Art in the Twenty-First Century, free of charge. To receive an email when registration opens, sign up for the Art21 Screening Society email list, or follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram to be the first in the know about fall film releases and all things Season 9.


New Video Featuring Julie Mehretu

Julie Mehretu: Politicized Landscapes

Premiered September 13, as part of the Art21 digital series Extended Play

Shown working on two site-specific paintings for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Julie Mehretu recontextualizes the history of American landscape painting by merging its sublime imagery with the harsh realities not depicted.

“What does it mean to paint a landscape and be an artist in this political moment?” she asks from the decommissioned Harlem church used as her studio for the project.

Watch the film.


Featured Art21 Playlist

Site-Specific

Site-specific works are created in dialogue with their surroundings–the location of their installation is a part of the work itself. Remove a site-specific artwork from its intended place, and the work loses some, or even all, of its meaning. As Richard Serra famously said about his 1981 installation Tilted Arc, “To remove the work is to destroy the work.”

These artists use place as a jumping off point, creating works informed by the environment in which viewers encounter them.

Watch the playlist.


Highlights from the Art21 Magazine

Cai Guo-Qiang. Fireflies, 2017. Photo: Jeff Fusco. Courtesy Association for Public Art.

From the September / October “Invention” issue:

  • NEW INC director Julia Kaganskiy joins the magazine as guest editor, and introduces the issue by drawing an important distinction between invention and innovation.
  • Philadelphia writer Heather Holmes offers her thoughts on Cai Guo-Qiang’s Fireflies project and the power of public space.

Read the issue.


Featured Video from the Art21 Library

Julie Mehretu: Workday

From the Art21 digital series Extended Play

Filmed in her Berlin studio, Julie Mehretu discusses the ups and downs of her daily studio practice.

“Sometimes it can take days to know what to do next,” says the artist. “I think that’s part of the work, just being in here, just looking at the work for a long time, and really realizing the painting.”

Watch the film.


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As an Art21 member, you will enjoy inimitable access to some of today’s greatest artists through special events, studio visits, collection tours, and more, all while supporting the production of Art21’s award-winning films.

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This Week in Art 10.2-10.8: Artists Create Posters Opposing Trump’s Immigration Ban

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Barbara Kruger. Art Against the Immigration ban poster, 2017. Courtesy of the Guggenheim.

Last month the Guggenheim published a blog post about a recent delivery the museum had received: a set of posters denouncing Trump’s most recent travel ban, printed as high-quality archival prints. Nine artists, including Joan Jonas, Barbara Kruger, and Julie Mehretu, created the works as the collective “Artists Against the Immigration Ban,” and the printed posters were mailed unsolicited to 30 leading contemporary art institutions.

Each package came with an introductory letter asking museums to make their own judgements about what to do with the posters. “Artists don’t normally send stuff to museums out of the blue,” a representative for the project told artnet News. “If these get accepted into collections, it means that there’s a record of this time that’s very different from a protest or an exhibition.”

Also this week:


Events & exhibitions

Corning, NY

Providence

Boston

Chicago

  • Tuesday, October 3 from 6:30-8pm—Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle will be in conversation with art historian Hannah B Higgins at the Chicago Cultural Center as part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial.

Evanston, IL

Detroit

  • Thursday, October 5 from 6:30-9pm—As part of this year’s Culture Lab Detroit, Edgar Arceneaux will be participating in a panel on “Alternative Facts,” along with Christopher and Dominic Leong, the founders of architect and design studio Leong Leong, and conceptual entrepreneur Martine Syms. The panel will be moderated by the president of the Wright Museum of African American History, Juanita Moore.
  • Friday, October 6 from 6:30-9pm—Mel Chin is also participating in a Culture Lab Detroit panel, alongside critic Hilton Als, and artist and writer Coco Fusco. The panel will be moderated by United States Artists president Deana Haggag and tackle the topic “The Lie that Tells the Truth.” Both panels are free to attend but require advance registration via Eventbrite.

Billings, MT

  • Tuesday, October 3 at 6:30pm—Andrea Zittel will be giving a lecture at Rocky Mountain College. Entitled “How to Live,” the talk is free and open to the public.

Boulder, CO

  • Boulder Creative Collective’s fall exhibition Art for Social Change features a new work by Mary Mattingly. Currently participating in The Boulder Office of Arts and Culture’s “Experiments in Public Art Program,” Mattingly is presenting her new project Everything At Once, and the exhibition will be on view through October 27.

Santa Fe

San Francisco

  • On Saturday, the For-Site Foundation is opening a new exhibition entitled SanctuaryFeaturing 36 wool prayer rugs handmade by master weavers in Lahore, Pakistan, each of the rug’s designs were commissioned from 36 artists from 22 countries, including Ai Weiwei, Diana Al-Hadid and Alfredo Jaar. On view through March 11, 2018 at Fort Mason Chapel.

Carmel, CA

  • Saturday, October 7 at 7:30pm—This year’s Philip Glass Days and Nights Festival includes “An Evening with Laurie Anderson,” in which the artist will perform at the Golden Bough Theatre.

Los Angeles


London

Madrid

  • Doris Salcedo’s latest work is opening on Saturday at the Palacio de Cristal. The new water-based installation piece, entitled Palimpsesto, is a memorial honoring drowned migrants. The Reina Sofía is also hosting a conversation between the artist and historian Estrella de Diego as part of the opening on Friday. Palimpsesto will be on view through April 1, 2018.

Düsseldorf

Høvikodden, Norway

This Week in Art 10.9-10.15: Jeff Koons Collaborates with Snapchat

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Jeff Koons’s Balloon Dog in an augmented reality collaboration with Snapchat.

Last week Snapchat released an augmented reality collaboration with artist Jeff Koons, virtually “placing” his iconic sculptures in ten locations around the world. If you’re in one of those locations, you can see and capture the digital work using the Jeff Koons Lens in the Snapchat app. It wasn’t long before the virtual sculpture was virtually vandalized by graffiti artist Sebastien Errazuriz, who created a mockup of a graffitied Balloon Dog as a means of questioning the power corporations have over our shared digital spaces.

Also this week:


Events & exhibitions

New York City

Philadelphia

Washington D.C.

Tampa

  • A survey exhibition of Tim Hawkinson’s work opened last week at the University of Tampa’s Scarfone/Hartley Gallery. Entitled Tim Hawkinson: BodyCon, the exhibition is on view through November 3.

Chicago

Cleveland

  • The Museum of Contemporary Art just opened the group exhibition A Poet*hical Wager, which features work that uses abstraction, minimalism, and assemblage to explore complex ideas that can’t be addressed through representation. The exhibition includes work by Abraham Cruzvillegas and Rashid Johnson, and will be on view through January 28, 2018.

Conway, Arkansas

  • Thursday, October 12 at 6:30pm—The Los Angeles episode of Season 8 of Art in the Twenty-First Century is screening at the University of Central Arkansas’s Baum Gallery. The screening is free and open to the public.

Dallas

  • Kiki Smith’s new exhibition at Dallas Contemporary, Mortal, explores “life as a pilgrimage” and features works from the last decade of the artist’s career. [Read a review in D Magazine.]

Los Angeles

  • Friday, October 13 and Saturday, October 14 at 8pm—Stan Douglas’s Helen Lawrence is being performed twice this weekend at the Center for the Art of Performance.

West Bretton, UK

Woodstock, UK

  • The Blenheim Art Foundation recently opened SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace. Featuring newly commissioned site-specific installations, the exhibition is on view through the end of the year. [Read a review in VICE.]

Santander, Spain

Basel

  • This is the last week to see Richard Serra: Films and Videotapes at Kunstmuseum Basel. A presentation of 16 works made between 1968 and 1979, the exhibition closes this Sunday, October 15.

Lausanne, Switzerland

Johannesburg

Art21 News Roundup: Jamian Juliano Villani Paints Under Pressure

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Our recently released film on Jamian Juliano-Villani seems to have struck a chord. Students identify with Jamian’s anxiety about deadlines, and artists have shared their mutual feelings of self doubt. Above all, it’s the artist’s honesty that stands out–there is no final epiphany moment nor final project. Instead, Jamian tirelessly puts in the work, exemplifying a dedication that inspires us all.

Art21 films like Jamian’s are on view all month here in New York at the Ace Hotel, in a special Art21 exhibition entitled Documenting the Creative Process. We’re also participating in the 2017 Nitehawk Shorts Festival, with a screening event next month featuring New York Close Up artist Meriem Bennani. Please join us!


New Video Featuring Jamian Juliano-Villani

Jamian Juliano-Villani Gets to Work

Premiered October 6, as part of the Art21 digital series New York Close Up

Under near constant deadlines for the last four years, painter Jamian Juliano-Villani grapples with the demands of consistently producing new and better work. Her paintings have received widespread attention, including gallery and museum exhibitions, adding to the stresses of growing as an artist.

“The main pressure is maintaining integrity and making work that you feel good about,” says the artist, “even under pressure, which is really difficult.”

Watch the film.


Art21 Celebrates a Decade of Filming with Julie Mehretu

Last month’s film featuring Julie Mehretu’s SFMOMA-commissioned paintings marked a momentous milestone for our relationship with the artist. We first filmed with the artist nearly ten years ago for the fifth season of our Art in the Twenty-First Century series. Since the premiere of that episode, we have produced five additional films delving into different aspects of the artist’s work.

“Mehretu’s work is a staple of our film and education programming especially as it applies to conversations about contemporary painting,” said our executive director and chief curator Tina Kukielski. “She truly is a visionary artist.”

Watch all of Mehretu’s Art21 films.


Art21 Events: Nitehawk Shorts Festival & Ace Hotel Gallery

Join Art21 this fall for two events in New York City. Through November 1, our films are on view at the Gallery at Ace Hotel, as part of the special Art21 exhibition Documenting the Creative Process.

And on November 8, Art21 is participating in a special public program at the 2017 Nitehawk Shorts Festival. We’ll be screening the New York Close Up film “Meriem Bennani’s Exploded Visions” along with a selection of shorts curated by Bennani, followed by a Q&A with the artist.

Wednesday, November 8 at 7:30pm
Nitehawk Cinema, Williamsburg
Get tickets.


New Playlist by Marela Zacarías

Playing with Tension

New York Close Up artist Marela Zacarías has curated a new Art21 playlist featuring eight films in which artists find balance amongst the contrasting elements in their work.

“In art, like in poetry, there are moments of many opposite forces converging all in one place,” says the artist. “There are no easy answers to these moments of tension. It is in all the contradictions existing at once that artists find an activated space to create.”

Watch the playlist.


Highlights from the Art21 Magazine

Stephanie Syjuco. Installation view of CITIZENS, 2017. Courtesy of the artist and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York. © Stephanie Syjuco.

From the September / October “Invention” issue:

  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s chief digital officer Loic Tallon sits down with NEW INC director Julia Kaganskiy to discuss the future of museums’ digital presence and influence.
  • In Stephanie Syjuco’s CITIZENS, textiles and cloth become signifiers of the battles over patriotism and identity.

Read the issue.


Film Festival Screenings at DOC NYC & Around the World

Art21 is proud to share that our first New York Close Up series film to feature artist Jordan Casteel has been accepted to this year’s DOC NYC film festival. The film will be screening as part of the “Shorts: City Lights” event, on Tuesday November 14 at Cinepolis Chelsea.

Art21 films were also accepted to five other festivals so far this year, including the NYC Independent Film Festival, Krafta Doc international in Scotland, and the Sunderland Short Film Festival in England.


Featured Video from the Art21 Library

Abigail DeVille’s Harlem Stories

From the Art21 digital series New York Close Up

Artist Abigail DeVille stalks the streets of Harlem with a trash-laden push cart, creating temporary sculptural interventions along the way. Over Super 8mm film footage of contemporary Harlem, DeVille describes a landscape under the constant pressure of development and gentrification.

“It feels like the earth is shifting,” says the artist. “New groups of people are moving in and old groups of people are being pushed out. So it’s almost like migratory patterns of birds.”

Watch the film.


Join Art21 on a Day Trip

Take a day trip with Art21 on Saturday, November 4 to visit two incomparable artistic sites north of the city: the private collection of Sherry and Joel Mallin and Buckhorn Sculpture Park; and the Glass House.

Saturday, November 4
8:00am – 5:30pm

Tickets $195 per person*; admission is free for Art21 members and Contemporary Council. Registration includes transportation to and from New York City and between sites, admission fee, and a box lunch.

*Join as a member today and use your ticket purchase towards your annual membership at any level! Art21 members enjoy inimitable access to some of today’s greatest artists through special events, studio visits, collection tours, and more, all while supporting the production of Art21’s award-winning films.


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This Week in Art 10.23-10.29: New Graphic Novel Chronicles the Life of Graciela Iturbide

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© J. Paul Getty Trust Text © Isabel Quintero Illustrations © Zeke Peña Photographs © Graciela Iturbide. Courtesy of Getty Publications

Tomorrow the Getty is releasing a graphic novel on the life of Graciela Iturbide entitled Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide. A mix of an art book, biography and graphic novel, the new book features the artist’s photographs alongside illustrated versions. “The book is very experimental because we’re trying to be art historical and factual and contextual,” the book’s illustrator Zeke Peña told Remezcla, “but we’re also trying to speak in her language, speak about the experience of her work and her unique process.”

Also this week:

  • Collier Schorr scrawled and underlined the word “NO” over a 1966 film still for an Instagram post that called out the systemic abuse by those in power in creative industries. Posted in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, the artist and fashion photographer wrote, “This fantasy is OVER.”
  • On Tuesday Ai Weiwei was prevented from boarding a flight from New York to São Paulo after airline staff claimed his Brazilian visa had expired. Ai was allowed to travel the following day after the Brazilian consulate confirmed his visa was valid, but not before the entire ordeal was documented on the artist’s Instagram.
  • Tomorrow Glenn Ligon will be presented with the Archives of American Art Medal by fellow artist Byron Kim at the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art Annual Benefit.

Events & exhibitions

New York City

Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

  • Monday, October 23 and Tuesday, October 24 at 5pm—Maya Lin is speaking at Bard College twice this week as part of the school’s Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities. Tonight’s lecture is entitled “An Evening with Maya Lin: at the Intersection of Art and Architecture,” her talk on Tuesday will be “Topologies: Process & Projects.”

Washington D.C.

  • Thursday, October 26 at 6:30pm—The artistic director of Creative Time, Nato Thompson, is leading a panel conversation with artists Laurie Jo Reynolds, Pedro Reyes and Paul Ramírez Jonas at the Hirshhorn. Presented in conjunction with the museum’s exhibition Ai Weiwei: Trace at Hirshhorn, the talk is titled “In Conversation: Awareness, Action and Dissent (Part I).”

Gainesville, FL

Chicago

  • A new exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art pairs the work of artists Alexander Calder and Jeff Koons. Entitled Heaven and Earth, the exhibition will be on view through 2019.
  • Wednesday, October 25 at 6pm—Abraham Cruzvillegas is giving a talk at Northwestern’s Block Museum of Art in conjunction with the Chicago Architecture Biennial. The artist will be speaking about a new series of work, The Water Trilogy, which focuses on water in urban contexts, specifically dealing with the issues of pollution and water shortage.

San Francisco

Los Angeles


Ottawa, Ontario

London

Madrid

  • Cai Guo-Qiang’s solo exhibition at the Prado, The Spirit of Painting, opens Wednesday. Featuring the artist’s signature burnt gunpowder pieces, the works were created in dialogue with masterworks by Velázquez, Goya and El Greco in the museum’s collection, during the artist’s residency in the Hall of Realms.

Seoul

Beijing

Parkes, Australia

  • The National Gallery of Australia’s new exhibition Hyper Real features uncanny figures both physical and digital. The show includes work by Cao Fei and Paul McCarthy among others, and is on view through February 18, 2018. [Read a review in the Guardian.]

This Week in Art 10.30-11.5: Performa 17 Starts Wednesday

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Julie Mehretu and Jason Moran, in rehearsal for their November 16 Performa commission. Photo: Damien Young. Courtesy of Performa.

On Wednesday the biennial performance art festival Performa is starting here in New York, and will bring a series of installations, performances, and events to the city through November 19. Participating Art21 roster artists include William Kentridge, Barbara Kruger, and a collaborative performance by Julie Mehretu and Jason Moran.

Also this week:

  • Trenton Doyle Hancock is designing a series of masks just in time for Halloween tomorrow. “I’m always thinking of layers,” says the artist about the series, “and who gets access to see behind them.”
  • And a painting by Jordan Casteel (featured in our first film on the artist) is on the cover of the latest edition of Frieze Magazine.

Events & exhibitions

New York City

Carlisle, PA

Richmond, VA

  • Saturday, November 4 from 10:15-11am—Shahzia Sikander will be speaking at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts’ Cheek Theater as part of the 7th Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art.

Houston

Fayetteville, AR

  • Friday, November 3 from 7-8pm—Lynda Benglis is giving a lecture at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art as part of the 2017 Distinguished Speaker Series.

Los Angeles

  • Tuesday, October 31, from 6-8pm—Pepón Osorio is giving a lecture on his art practice​ at USC Roski School of Art & Design.
  • On Saturday Hauser & Wirth is opening an exhibition of new work by Ellen Gallagher entitled Accidental Records, which will be on view through January 28, 2018.
  • A solo exhibition by Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle is also opening on Saturday at Christopher Grimes Gallery. Entitled The Garden of Delights, the show will be on view through December 29.
  • On Thursday, Gagosian’s Beverly Hills gallery is opening an exhibition of new watercolor paintings by Walton Ford. His first show with the gallery, Calafia will be open through December 16.

Rotterdam, Netherlands

Athens

This Week in Art 11.6-11.12: Artists Fights Sexism and Harassment with #NotSurprised

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Jenny Holzer. Truisms, 1982. Installation view, Times Square, New York. Photo: Public Art Fund.

Laurie Anderson, Cindy Sherman, Abigail DeVille, Barbara Kruger, Catherine Opie, Tania Bruguera, and thousands of other artists, writers, curators and directors have signed an open letter condemning Artforum publisher Knight Landesman, who resigned last month after a lawsuit accused him of sexual harassment. The campaign, titled Not Surprised, pledges to fight against sexism and sexual harassment in the art world, and takes its name from a 1982 Jenny Holzer Truism, “Abuse of power comes as no surprise.”

Also this week:


Events & exhibitions

New York City

Nyack, NY

  • Beginning Friday, November 10, Carrie Mae Weems will be presenting her series of photographs, Beacon, at the Edward Hopper House. The show is being held as part of the artist winning the Edward Hopper Citation of Merit for Visual Artists, and will be on view through February 25, 2018.

Baltimore

  • Saturday, November 11 from noon–3:30pm—Mark Bradford will be speaking at the Baltimore Museum of Art with the museum’s director Christopher Bedford in a discussion entitled “Making a Path.”

Philadelphia

Washington D.C.

  • On Wednesday Mark Bradford is debuting one of his largest works to date at the Hirshhorn Museum. Entitled Pickett’s Charge, the monumental new commission spans nearly 400 feet and will be on view through November 12, 2018.

Sarasota, FL

Nashville

  • On Friday the Frist Center for the Visual Arts is opening a solo exhibition by Nick Cave. Entitled Nick Cave: Feat., the show will be on view through June 24, 2018.

San Francisco

  • Friday, November 10 at 8pm & Saturday November 11 at 2pm & 8pm—William Kentridge’s chamber opera Refuse the Hour will be premiering on the West Coast this weekend at American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.).

Montreal

Paris

  • Last week a new solo exhibition by Hiroshi Sugimoto opened at Marian Goodman Gallery Paris. Entitled Surface Tension, the show is on view through December 22.

Moscow

  • This is the last week to see Cai Guo-Qiang’s first exhibition in Russia. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts commissioned a new series of works by the artist for the October Revolution’s centenary, and October closes this Sunday, November 12.

Istanbul

This Week in Art 11.27-12.3: Theaster Gates Creates a Material Memorial for Tamir Rice

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© AP Photo/Tony Dejak.

Materials from the gazebo where 12-year-old Tamir Rice was shot in 2014 by Cleveland police are now on view at Theaster Gates’ Stony Island Arts Bank in Chicago. The gazebo’s wood and brackets are stacked alongside memorial objects and ephemera left by the community ahead of the site’s dismantling in 2016. Gates told The Art Newspaper, “This seemingly insignificant piece of architecture allows us to deeply examine the racial, political and economic crises of this country.”

Tamir’s mother, Samaria Rice, prevented the City of Cleveland from demolishing the gazebo, intending to preserve it as a place for care and engagement. Now, the Arts Bank has organized a series of conversations with archivists, historians, scholars, and artists to contextualize the materials through the winter of 2018. There are plans to reinstall the gazebo outdoors on the Stony Island Arts Bank lawn next year.

Also this week:


Events & exhibitions

New York City

Chicago

Miami

  • On Friday a new Miami museum is celebrating its grand opening with the exhibition The Everywhere Studio, featuring work by Andrea Zittel. The inaugural exhibition will be open at the new Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami through February 26, 2018.

San Francisco

  • A video installation of Edgar Arceneaux’s Until, Until, Until… is opening Friday at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts alongside his work Library of Black Lies—both featured in the artist’s Season 8 segment. On view through March 25, 2018, Until, Until, Until… will be performed live in the gallery space February 22–24.

Los Angeles

  • Wednesday, November 29 at 7pm—Chronicle Books is hosting a pop-up exhibition and book signing with William Wegman at Marc Selwyn Fine Art to promote the artist’s newly released book, Being Human.
  • November 30 – December 3—Tesseract, a performative collaboration with choreography by Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener, mixed and projected live by Charles Atlas, is coming to REDCAT this weekend as part of the Sharon Disney Lund Dance Series.

Mexico City

  • kurimanzutto’s latest exhibition Never Free to Rest presents works that use abstraction to question the history of Black representation and systems of control. On view through December 16, the show features work by Mark Bradford, Julie Mehretu, and Kara Walker among others.

Buenos Aires

  • A new solo exhibition by Ai Weiwei opened last week at Fundación Proa. Dedicated to the artist’s public work and interventionist pieces, Inoculation is on view through April 3, 2018.

London

Paris

Amsterdam

  • The Amsterdam Light Festival kicks off this Thursday, and features a special installation by Ai Weiwei. The artist’s thinline will run like a red thread of light along the entire route of the festival’s water exhibition, which will continue through January 21, 2018.





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