Christopher Williams and Fred Sandback exhibit at Museum Morsbroich

LEVERKUSEN.- The exhibition “Christopher Williams. For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 15)” comprises more than 20 photographic works by this artist, who was born in Los Angeles in 1956. The presentation at Museum Morsbroich, which alludes to the book Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Industrial Society: 18 lessons, 1964) by Raymond Aron published in France in 1962, is part of an exhibition series which the artist began in 2005 and has since continued consistently in the most diverse [...]

LACMA’S Inaugural Art + film Gala honors Clint Eastwood and John Baldessari and raises $3 million

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art hosted its inaugural Art + Film Gala honoring actor and filmmaker Clint Eastwood and artist John Baldessari on Saturday, November 5, 2011. Co-chaired by actor Leonardo DiCaprio and LACMA Trustee Eva Chow, the evening celebrated the art of the moving image and brought together luminaries from both communities. The evening raised $3 million, with proceeds going to support LACMA’s initiative to make film more central to the museum’s curatorial programming, while also funding [...]

Los Angeles Modern Auctions to Present Exhibition During Pacific Standard Time

LOS ANGELES, CA.- As a participating gallery of Pacific Standard Time, an initiative of The Getty, Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) presents Collecting in Los Angeles 1945-1980, a three week exhibit that explores an ideal Pacific Standard Time collector of art, Mr. Richard Dorso, at the height of his collecting from 1945 – 1980. The three week exhibit will conclude with an auction of Mr. Dorso’s entire collection on October 9, 2011. Born in San Francisco in 1909, Richard Dorso, an active participant [...]

The Tampa Museum of Art Presents Syntax: Drawn from the Hadley Martin Fisher Collection

TAMPA, FL.- The Tampa Museum of Art presents Syntax, an exhibition that examines the current generation of artists’ interest in text, symbolism, and means of information transference. Drawn from the Hadley Martin Fisher collection in Miami, this project is the first opportunity to experience the depth of this fascinating new collection of contemporary art. The exhibition is on view from July 9 through September 25, 2011. The 20th century began with the inclusion of written text within the collages of Pablo Picasso and [...]

Galeri Manâ: A New Contemporary Art Space in Istanbul Opens with Idea-Driven Show

ISTANBUL.- The inaugural exhibition, Nereden Nereye, a Turkish phrase that translates “From Where to Where,” includes sixteen works by eleven artists, and explores the function of images and the nature of representation. Nereden Nereye features paintings, drawings, photographs and video works by Murat Akagundüz, John Baldessari, Lewis Baltz, Mel Bochner, Diana Al-Hadid, Tamar Halpern, Sol LeWitt, Albert Oehlen, Robin Rhode, Charles Sandison and Nasan Tur. The exhibition runs through July 23, 2011. Curated by Suzanne Egeran, NEREDEN NEREYE features paintings, drawings, [...]

The Giacometti Variations, an Original Project by John Baldessari, at the Prada Foundation

MILAN.- The Prada Foundation presents “The Giacometti Variations,” an original project by John Baldessari (born 1931, National City, CA), curated by Germano Celant, featured at its space in Via Fogazzaro 36, Milan, from October 29 to December 31, 2010.  “The Giacometti Variations” is an installation conceived specifically for the exhibition spaces of the Prada Foundation and consists of nine sculptures made of resin and steel and sprayed with bronze, each 4.5 meters tall. Inspired by the imagery of the Swiss sculptor, the [...]

Metropolitan Museum of Art Honors Artist John Baldessari with Retrospective Exhibition

NEW YORK (REUTERS).- More than 120 works, including two huge canvases commissioned for the exhibition, are included in a retrospective of legendary American artist John Baldessari at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. The show, “John “Baldessari: Pure Beauty” which opens on Tuesday, is the first for the Los Angeles-based artist in New York for 20 years and includes works dating back to 1962. John Baldessari’s Palm Tree/Seascape hangs in the museum lobby of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in [...]

Ron Terada: Who I Think I Am at The Hayward Gallery Project Space

LONDON.- This autumn, the Hayward Gallery Project Space presents an exhibition of work by Canadian artist, Ron Terada. Terada is a well known figure in his home country with a wide ranging conceptual practice that includes painting, signage, photography, interventions, books and music. His work often draws from past art historical figures and popular culture to evoke nostalgic and sometimes familiar narratives while ruminating on aspiration and failure. This exhibition is the first solo exhibition of Terada’s work in London. [...]

LACMA Presents Most Extensive Retrospective of John Baldessari to Date

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents John Baldessari: Pure Beauty, the most extensive retrospective to date of Los Angeles-based artist John Baldessari (b. 1931), on view June 27 to September 12, 2010. Organized by LACMA in association with Tate Modern, the exhibition will bring together more than 150 works and examine the principal concerns of Baldessari, who is widely regarded as one of the most important artists working today. LACMA’s presentation will be the [...]

Art Institute of Chicago Intertwines Sound & Vision in Exhibition

CHICAGO, IL.- Even before Bowie united them in song, sound and vision had been closely intertwined in the visual and audio art recordings of the early 1970s. This focused exhibition of a dozen works in various media explores the symbiotic relationship between art and music, presenting humorous yet rigorous investigations in which the two do not connect in any synesthetic sense but rather come together via acts of transposition—balls cast aloft are made to resemble notes in a musical score, [...]

Whitney Announces Exhibitions of Artists Working with Performative Actions

NEW YORK, NY.- Conceived as a two-part exhibition, Off the Wall brings together thirty performative actions by artists, in works made from 1946 to the present, and seven iconic performance works by Trisha Brown. The exhibition takes place at the Whitney Museum of American Art in the second-floor Mildred & Herbert Lee Galleries and the Kaufman Astoria Studios Film & Video Gallery, and extends beyond the Museum in the fall with Part 2’s presentation of Brown’s works, which includes the [...]

LOOP – THE PLACE FOR VIDEOART LOVERS 2010 at Barcelona

Barcelona, Catalonia. – LOOP was born in 2003 to celebrate video and its infinite creative possibilities. The two week-long festival and accompanying 3-day fair have grown since their inception without sacrificing its distinctly independent, local flavour. The LOOP 2010 Festival will take place from May 12-22 and the LOOP 2010 Fair from May 20-22. The Fair is an excellent opportunity to check out new experimental and independent video pieces as well as to hobnob with gallery owners, collectors, critics, museum [...]

Largest John Baldessari Retrospective Exhibition Ever Mounted in Spain

BARCELONA.- Thirteen minutes and one same hand that writes a single phrase, “I will not make any more boring art”, over and over again on a blank sheet of paper, like the most banal of school punishments. The work is in fact entitled I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art (1971) and its author is John Baldessari (National City, California, 1931). “I love the idea that, in a world in which everything has a use, it’s possible to make [...]

First Major Presentation for Christopher Williams in Scandinavia

BERGEN.- For over 20 years Christopher Williams has worked in the field between photography as art and the application of the photographic medium to documentation, advertising and journalism. The exhibition in Bergen Kunsthall will be the first major presentation of Williams in Scandinavia. In the 1970s Christopher Williams studied under pioneers of American conceptual art like John Baldessari, Michael Asher and Douglas Huebler. This background in American conceptual art is a central context for the reading of his photographs. In [...]

Exhibition Links Works from S.M.A.K.’s Collection to Gagarin Magazine

GHENT.- “GAGARIN The Artists in their Own Words” is a unique international artist’s magazine (°2000), entirely dedicated to the publication of especially written and unpublished texts by artists who are now working, anywhere in the world. The texts are published in their original language (from Albanian to Italian) with the addition of an English translation. Since its foundation in 2000 the periodical has developed into a unique project that has acquired its own special place in the international world. In [...]