White Cube Looks at the Pivotal Role of Drawing in Current Practice

LONDON.- White Cube Hoxton Square presents Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action. Looking at the pivotal role of drawing in current practice, the exhibition features over 200 works on paper by some of the most significant artists working today. The German term ‘Kupferstichkabinett’ describes the special collection of prints and drawings within a museum, ‘kabinett’ originally deriving from the small space within a castle where personal collections were kept by the wealthy and aristocratic. These regal compilations of art on paper [...]

Friedman Benda Presents Work by Post-War and Emerging Artists

NEW YORK, NY.- Other than Beauty will present work by post-war and emerging artists, whose ground-breaking practices have established new paradigms of art-making and new criteria for beauty. Tracing the emergence of process, performance, language, video, and political action as new or subversive components of artistic expression, the exhibition considers a broad range of artists who have disregarded the primacy of formal and aesthetic beauty. Some works investigate materiality; some are acutely self-reflective, others offer unconventional platforms for mundane or [...]

Bruce Nauman’s Days Fills MoMA’s Special Exhibitions Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- The single-work, sound installation Bruce Nauman: Days will fill The Museum of Modern Art’s Special Exhibition Gallery, from June 2 to August 23, 2010. Days (2009), by Bruce Nauman (American, born 1941), was created for the artist’s solo exhibition at the 2009 Venice Biennale, where he represented the United States. The work, a recent addition to the Museum’s collection, consists of a continuous stream of seven voices—men and women, old and young—emanating from fourteen speakers, reciting the [...]

Hamburger Bahnhof Opens First Major Exhibition of American Artist Bruce Nauman in Berlin

BERLIN.- This summer, the Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof is presenting Bruce Nauman. Dream Passage, the first major exhibition of the American artist Bruce Nauman in Berlin. The exhibition is being held on the occasion of the installation of the spectacular architectural sculpture Room with My Soul Left Out, Room That Does Not Care from 1984, which was recently donated to the Nationalgalerie by the collector Friedrich Christian Flick. Thus the largest interior sculpture by the artist can now be exhibited [...]

SFMOMA Acquires Conceptual Art Collection with Works by Bruce Nauman

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) announced today a major acquisition of 25 works from the collection of Count Giuseppe Panza di Biumo of Milan, Italy, featuring five important early works by American artist Bruce Nauman. Part gift from SFMOMA Trustees and part museum purchase, the acquisition also includes major works by Robert Barry, Joseph Beuys, Hanne Darboven, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, and Lawrence Weiner, among others, and further strengthens SFMOMA’s collection of American and [...]