Cildo Meireles by Cynthia Valdez Cildo Meireles at Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo (MUAC)
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Mexico City
July 4th - January 10th, 2010
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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?
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Eco-Action by Yaelle Amir Andrea Bowers at Andrew Kreps Gallery
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New York
October 24th - December 5th
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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]
Bucking Tradition by Robyn Farrell Roulo Group Show at Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA)
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Chicago
November 14th - February 14th, 2010
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11/21/09
“Italics: Italian Art Between Tradition and Revolution 1968-2008” sheds light on nearly a half century of contemporary art not otherwise seen outside of Italy. The brainchild of international curator, writer and critic, Francesco Bonami, and co-presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and the Palazzo Grassi in Venice, the exhibition gives new insight to the conventional definition of “Italian Art”. Presenting work by more than 100 works from nerly 80 artists, “... [more]
If ever there was an issue with transparency between the artist and the community, Studio Chicago is the answer. Aptly named for its focus to explore, promote and better understand the practice of Chicago artists and their spaces, Studio Chicago presents the relevance of the studio to the creative process, the structures themselves and their place within the community. The collaboration kicked off last month as part of Chicago Artist’s Month 2009 with continued programming... [more]
Viktoria Binschtok's photographs are as blurry and mysterious as the situations that her subjects have been hired to navigate. In "Suspicious Minds," we never see the photographs' central subjects.
Rather than displaying the entire news photograph that she appropriates and blows up to massive proportions, the Russian-born photographer zooms in the people around the periphery hired to protect whomever's appearance is the reason why the image was taken.
Binschtok's source mat... [more]
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Recent Impressions and Experiences from
‘Biennale di Chianciano Terme 2009’
13th - 27th of September 2009
It is with my mind filled with hopeful joy and satisfaction I now sit down and summarise my views and reflections on the Biennale di Chianciano Terme 2009. Never in my life before have I seen or being a participant at such a high level quality exhibition of contemporary visual art, anywhere in the world. I'm also referrin... [more]
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