Cildo Meireles by Cynthia Valdez Cildo Meireles at Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo (MUAC)
>
Worldwide
Mexico City
July 4th - January 10th, 2010
Posted
11/22/09
The trouble with Cildo Meireles is that his work doesn't quite feel like it belongs in a museum.
The Brazilian artist plays with colors, shapes, sounds and environments in a way that hearkens back to jungle gym days, when breaking stuff, losing track of time and going barefoot were acceptable behavior. Luckily I was able to restrain myself enough to not get kicked out of the retrospective at the MUAC.
For Meireles, perception is the most direct point of access- in Red Shift I. Impre... [more]
Copenhagen’s art-hub called Karrier is a subversive top-tier art installation, because it actually functions as an every day restaurant-bar. The food is not serving the art; it's the other way around. In this sense, Karrier is at once the most "digestible" and the most subversive mixture of food and art.
The food and drinks at Karriere are classic, comforting, seasonal and healthy, but the main draw is the interactive and conceptual pieces of exclusive, site-specific art on display... [more]
Have you ever wondered how you would behave—what you would do, how you would comport yourself while doing it-- if others were watching your “private actions?” I suppose this sort of rumination is the secular update of the classic notion that God is always watching. Perhaps the need for this feeling is still there, despite the jump from deep interiority to radical exteriority that much of modern consciousness seems to have taken. What if there were a public audience for your private actions?
... [more]
Eco-Action by Yaelle Amir Andrea Bowers at Andrew Kreps Gallery
>
New York
October 24th - December 5th
Posted
11/22/09
In the continuous discussion on the effectiveness of activist art, Andrea Bowers provides a strong case in its favor. In her current exhibition, Mercy Mercy Me she focuses on nonviolent acts of dissent that raise awareness to the direct consequences of climate change and manmade environmental disasters. Although she references activists from Nigeria to California, she appears to have been primarily inspired by her visit to Northern Alaska in August, where she spent time at Arctic Village ... [more]
Shannon Ebner’s new exhibition Invisible Language Workshop derives its name from MIT’s influential Visible Language Workshop, co-founded in 1975 by groundbreaking graphic designer Muriel Cooper. This facility researched the intersection between visual communication, graphics and artificial intelligence—leading the way to designing for a burgeoning computer culture. Ebner discovered the program’s practice while working on her recent monograph with graphic design team Dexter Siniste... [more]
Re:ConstructionVarious locations in downtown ManhattanOrganized by Downtown Alliance, New York
Head downtown to see the ongoing transformation of mundane terrains into urban masterpieces. Downtown Alliance continues its Re:Construction initiative—commissioning New York artists to convert construction barriers like fences and temporary walls into colorful and playful artworks. Current projects on view are Nina Bovasso’s Botanizing on the Asphalt along Hudson River Park; C... [more]
Reconstruction by David Yu Stephen G. Rhodes at Vilma Gold
>
London
October 15th - December 20th
Posted
11/22/09
A scene from William Friedkin’s The Exorcist (1973) is isolated and collapsed into questionable cinematic depictions of the formless period of America’s Reconstruction, in particular the forgotten Tennessee Johnson (1942). Shot in the desert involving subjects manically and inscrutably performing a fort da ritual of the Iraq archeological dig scene from the opening of The Exorcist. Bodies dig, wait, and bang on green boards as if trying to summon both the exorcist and the repres... [more]
Soy Mi Madre by David Yu Phil Collins at Victoria Miro Gallery
>
London
November 24th - December 18th
Posted
11/22/09
Eliciting the complex and ambiguous relationship between the camera and its subject, Phil Collins' work examines individual and collective systems of representation. Collins' multifaceted practice is based on a close engagement with place and community, and has addressed issues of ethnicity, gender, and political and linguistic identity through participatory events often organised in regions of social upheaval. In producing these projects, which have ranged from castings to a dance... [more]
Duncan Campbell by David Yu Duncan Campbell at Chisenhale Gallery
>
London
November 13th - December 20th
Posted
11/22/09
For his first solo public exhibition in London, Chisenhale Gallery premieres a new film by Glasgow-based artist Duncan Campbell co-commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery, Film and Video Umbrella and Tramway, Glasgow. Combining archive news material with newly-filmed footage, the film looks back over the history of the failed Belfast-based car plant set up by engineer and businessman John DeLorean, with the help of £85 million in public grants from the British Government. The film cons... [more]
Duncan Campbell by David Yu Duncan Campbell at Chisenhale Gallery
>
London
November 13th - December 20th
Posted
11/22/09
For his first solo public exhibition in London, Chisenhale Gallery premieres a new film by Glasgow-based artist Duncan Campbell co-commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery, Film and Video Umbrella and Tramway, Glasgow. Combining archive news material with newly-filmed footage, the film looks back over the history of the failed Belfast-based car plant set up by engineer and businessman John DeLorean, with the help of £85 million in public grants from the British Government. The film cons... [more]
add to mylist
forward by email
print
subscribe
