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Taking Place

by Abhilasha Singh
Karel Appel, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Willem de Rooij, Jan Dibbets, Rineke Dijkstra, Ger Van Elk, Morgan Fisher, Hans Haacke, On Kawara, Martin Kippenberger, Barbara Kruger, Germaine Kruip, Louise Lawler, William Leavitt, Navid Nuur, Roman Ondák, Diana Thater, Mario Garcia Torres, Lawrence Weiner at Stedelijk Museum August 28th, 2010 - January 9th, 2011
Posted 11/1/10

Taking Place reintroduces the Stedelijk Museum by addressing its history, the spatial and temporal conditions of the unfinished building and the ways in which artists use, occupy and animate museum spaces. The historical, functional and architectural conditions of the museum are both subject and material for this special presentation of works by local, national and international contemporary artists, who range from well-known and established figures to emerging art... [more]

The Big Questions

by Abraham Ritchie
Francis Alÿs, Robert Barry, Joseph Beuys, George Brecht, James Lee Byars, John Cage, Maurizio Cattelan, Paul Chan, Lygia Clark, Tony Conrad, Tacita Dean, Jason Dodge, Trisha Donnelly, Marcel Duchamp, Harold Edgerton, The Institute For Figuring, Ceal Floyer, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roger Hiorns, Douglas Huebler, Pierre Huyghe, Paul Ramírez Jonas, Stephen Kaltenbach, On Kawara, Christine Kozlov, David Lamelas, Louise Lawler, Paul Etienne Lincoln, Mark Manders, Kris Martin, Steve McQueen, Helen Mirra, Catherine Murphy, Bruce Nauman, Rivane Neuenschwander, Claes Oldenburg, Roman Ondák, Giuseppe Penone, Susan Philipsz, Anthony Phillips, Adrian Piper, Steven Pippin, Charles Ray, Tobias Rehberger, Hannah Rickards, Arthur Russell, Michael Sailstorfer, Roman Signer, Simon Starling, John Stezaker, Mladen Stilinović, Sturtevant, Shomei Tomatsu at Walker Art Center April 24th, 2009 - September 27th, 2009
Posted 8/7/09

The theme of the Walker Art Center’s exhibition “The Quick and the Dead” got personal, quickly, when I observed that an On Kawara date painting near the entry was the same date as an uncle’s birthday. Made by Kawara to mark the passage of time, the ongoing series implies its own end in the artist’s death, just as birthdays imply to many of us that there are only so many left. This exhibition announces its’ intentions to examine The Big Questions of Life at the outset in th... [more]

Paintings By

by Nicholas James
John M Armleder, Merlin Carpenter, Matias Faldbakken, On Kawara, Martin Kippenberger, Sherrie Levine and Christopher Wool at Simon Lee August 4th, 2009 - August 26th, 2009
Posted 8/7/09

When is a painting not a painting? An exhibition at Simon Lee poses this conundrum with a selection of enigmatic works by gallery artists. The premise of the show is found in the word accrochage, the principle of hanging or coupling works in the tradition of a summer exhibition. However this carries a further twist; on closer examination none of the paintings is a proper painting, in conventional terms of expressive handwork and composition. The show starts with the veteran... [more]

Fama and Fortune Bulletin

by Vera Neykov
Paweł Althamer, Thomas Baldwin, Herbert Brandl, Gilbert Bretterbauer, Helmut Draxler, Kim Gordon, On Kawara, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Peter Kogler, Liz Larner, Timothy Martin, Albert Oehlen, Frances Stark, Haim Steinbach, Catherine Sullivan, Franz West, Christopher Williams, Christopher Wool, Vadim Zakharov at 2nd Cannons November 21st, 2008 - January 10th, 2009
Posted 12/1/08

The current exhibition of catalogues entitled Fama and Fortune Bulletin at 2nd Cannons is sexy. Partially because of the design: brown, recycled paper, soft covers with uniformed layout and matte pages. Somewhat because of their presentation: aligned on four white shelves with warm spotlights. But mostly because of their content: every issue one or two artists are invited to design, write and format the contents of the publication. Albert Oehlen, Franz West, Martin Kippenberger, Frances Stark an... [more]