New York at a Glance
Catherine Opie
@Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Exhibitions | Monday, 01/05
Since the early 1990s, Catherine Opie has produced a complex body of photographic work, adopting such diverse genres as studio portraiture, landscape photography, and urban street photography to explore notions of communal, sexual, and cultural identity. From her early portraits of transgender people and performance artists to her expansive urban landscapes of cities like Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and New York, Opie has offered profound insights into the conditions in which communities form and the terms in which they are defined. All the while she has maintained a strict formal rigor, working in stark and provocative color as well as richly toned black-and-white.
Design Loves a Depression
found by Nish / about 15 hours ago / Source: www.nytimes.com
Few of the arts benefited from the late economic boom more than design. After all, when the wealth is flowing, people don’t covet the concerts you see or the books you read. They covet the couch you bought, and then they buy a cooler one. In the recent giddy years, signature architects and designers came to be known by their first names — Rem, Philippe, Zaha — and they were photographed as prolifically as Bono in new design hotbeds like Miami and Dubai. Brooklyn designers became the apotheosis of indie cool (thin portfolios notwithstanding), and the British collective Established & Sons and other skilled maneuverers learned to breed their self-conscious furniture selectively into limited editions that sold for the kind of prices more often found in the art world.
New York at a Glance
Pipilotti Rist: Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters)
@Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Exhibitions | Friday, 01/02
Pipilotti Rist’s lush multimedia installations playfully and provocatively merge fantasy and reality. MoMA commissioned the Swiss artist to create a monumental site-specific installation that immerses the Museum’s Marron Atrium in twenty-five-foot-high moving images. Visitors will be able to experience the work while walking through the space or sitting upon sculptural seating islands designed by the artist.
Best Album Art Covers of 2008
found by Nish / about 15 hours ago / Source: www.artvinyl.com
“Fleet Foxes have picked up the Best Art Vinyl prize for having the best album cover of 2008. The group won the award for the front of their self titled record which according to MTV’s art experts features a painting from 1559 by Pieter the Elder.Second in the list of 50 cool covers was the more modern Roots Manuva cover for Slime & Reason. Coldplay’s Viva La Vida got third prize for their reversion of Liberty Leading the People by Eugene Delacroix (1830 fact fans).” (MTV)
Museums acquiring art that vanishes the moment it’s made
by Nish / 7 days ago / Source: nymag.com
MoMa brought together 80 of the most influential forces in art—and, last March, started scheduling private workshops to figure out some rules for preserving ephemeral art. Curator Klaus Biesenbach invited in artists (like Abramovic, Matthew Barney, and Francesco Vezzoli), curators (the Whitney’s Chrissie Iles and Shamim Momin), and performers of all kinds (Antony Hegarty of Antony and the Johnsons, Laurie Anderson, Jason Sellards of the Scissor Sisters). “The sessions go on forever—like, hours,” Biesenbach says. “People just do not leave.” They addressed everything from the discrepancies between a performance and its remnants to legal quirks to the appropriateness of an institution’s owning work created to subvert institutions.
New York at a Glance
Catherine Opie: American Photographer
@Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Exhibitions | Monday, 12/29
Since the early 1990s, Catherine Opie has produced a complex body of photographic work, adopting such diverse genres as studio portraiture, landscape photography, and urban street photography to explore notions of communal, sexual, and cultural identity. From her early portraits of transgender people and performance artists to her expansive urban landscapes of cities like Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and New York, Opie has offered profound insights into the conditions in which communities form and the terms in which they are defined. this exhibition provides audiences with a valuable opportunity to examine firsthand the interconnections between Opie’s various styles and subjects.
Bold, Brilliant, Mildly Lunatic Public Art NY Mag
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“In the post–Central Park Gates age, New York has become a giant canvas on which artists may realize their wackiest dreams. This year, Olafur Eliasson’s Waterfalls generated an estimated $69 million for the city (while only damaging a few salt-water-phobic trees). Zaha Hadid touched down her Chanel spaceship in Central Park. And David Byrne turned the Battery Maritime Building into an instrument. And that’s just a smattering of 2008’s public-art offerings.” NY Mag asked artists around the world to propose projects for ’09 .
A Year in Design
found by staff / 14 days ago / Source: www.architecturaldigest.com
Architectural Digest reviews the best images of the year. Above is the modern log cabin of Pritzker Prize-winning architect Antoine Predock in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains.
Snow Storm... Joseph Mallord William Turner
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Snow Storm—Steam Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth Making Signals in Shallow Water, and Going by the Lead. The Author Was in this Storm on the Night the Ariel Left Harwich, exhibited 1842 Tate, London, Turner Bequest, 1856
