The ATW Feed

In Which Dave Hickey Offends Canada, and Says Something True

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 10:49:07 -0400

In Which Dave Hickey Offends Canada, and Says Something True:

Blouin ArtInfo’s Sky Goodden tells a tale of revered, crotchety, newly retired art critic Dave Hickey offending an auditorium full of academics from Guelph University in Canada.

Many of you who know Hickey’s writing, or even just read his Dear John letter to the art world a few months ago, will maybe not be completely surprised by this incident, considering Hickey’s reputation for being, to put it mild, abrasive.

Do his inflammatory remarks ring true in the end? Click the link and decide for yourselves! Let us know what you think.

manpodcast: This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast...

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:05:51 -0400

manpodcast:

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast spotlights “Gutai: Splendid Playground” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. The program’s first guest is Alexandra Munroe, who co-curated the exhibition with Ming Tiampo. The exhibition’s beautiful and important (but index-lacking) cataloguewas published by the Guggenheim and the show’s website is rich with information, images and a 10-minute introductory video.

Gutai was a two-generation Japanese art movement that was active from about 1954-72. Gutai artists built upon post-war openness and explored art as a particular kind of freedom, making work that embraced performance, including audience in artworks and non-traditional materials.

This is Motonaga Sadamasa’s Water (1956, re-created for the Guggenheim exhibition). It was originally installed at an outdoor Gutai exhibition in 1956.

Alexandra Munroe is the senior curator of Asian art at the Guggenheim. Her previous exhibitions include “Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity, “The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia 1860-1989, and “Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe” and a 1989 retrospective of Yayoi Kusama.

How to listen: Download the show to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe to The MAN Podcast via iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher or RSS. See images of art discussed on the program.

atavus: Hans Namuth - Rothko in his 69th Street studio with...

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 23:34:51 -0400

atavus:

Hans Namuth - Rothko in his 69th Street studio with Rothko Chapel murals, 1964

manpodcast: This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features two...

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:52:41 -0400

manpodcast:

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features two of the top exhibits of Italian art on view in the United States: “Bernini: Sculpting in Clay” at the Kimbell Art Museum and “Piero della Francesca in America” at The Frick Collection. The first guest on the program is Kimbell curator of European art C.D. Dickerson III, who co-curated “Bernini” along with Frick director Ian Wardropper. Then “Piero” curator Nathaniel Silver joins me to discuss Piero. “Bernini” is at the Kimbell through April 14, while “Piero” is on view through May 19.

“Bernini” reveals how the artist developed his ideas in clay and on paper, ideas that resulted in some of the most dramatic statuary in Rome. It includes about 40 of Bernini’s terracotta sketch models together with about 30 drawings. Its rich catalogue was published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and is distributed by Yale University Press. Silver’s show is the first monographic exhibition of Piero in the United States. It brings together seven works at the Frick (and an eighth, which is unable to travel, in the catalogue).

This week’s program will also feature a special bonus: An extended clip of Llyn Foulkes playing his Machine at the Hammer Museum on Feb. 26. The Hammer is featuring a retrospective of Foulkes’ work through May 19. The Machine is a Foulkes-created one-man apparatus featuring lots of horns, a water jug, cowbells, organ pipes and plenty more. You can view the entire performance — and it’s a blast — on the Hammer’s website.

How to listen: Download the show to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe to The MAN Podcast via iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher or RSS. See images of art discussed on the program.

The Modern Art Notes Podcast is an independent production of Modern Art Notes Media. The program is edited by Wilson Butterworth. The MAN Podcast is released under this Creative Commons license.

Spring Break!

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 12:55:23 -0400

Anybody going to be on Spring Break next week? Make sure to have some art encounters as well!

Rumor has it that admission to the Nasher will be half price for Spring Break and there is so much happening all over DFW! Check out our calendar of events at artthisweek.com and get something special out of this Spring Break.

Twenty Questions: David McGee’s Favorite Work of Art Courtesy...

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:00:41 -0500

Twenty Questions: David McGee’s Favorite Work of Art

Courtesy of Glasstire.com!

Looking from Solitude: Dore Ashton in conversation

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:00:58 -0500

Looking from Solitude: Dore Ashton in conversation :

lookingfromsolitude:

The renowned art critic and art historian talks about her life and work.

Rail: Would that lead in any way to the way you felt about Duchamp when you were first exposed to his work? In fact you probably were the last person who interviewed him.

Ashton: I did interview him. But I was not…

jshea89: carlosbaila: Marina Abramovic meets Ulay“Marina...

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:10:41 -0500

jshea89:

carlosbaila:

Marina Abramovic meets Ulay

“Marina Abramovic and Ulay started an intense love story in the 70s, performing art out of the van they lived in. When they felt the relationship had run its course, they decided to walk the Great Wall of China, each from one end, meeting for one last big hug in the middle and never seeing each other again. at her 2010 MoMa retrospective Marina performed ‘The Artist Is Present’ as part of the show, a minute of silence with each stranger who sat in front of her. Ulay arrived without her knowing it and this is what happened.”

O Geez, too many feels…

Not sure if y’all have seen this gif set yet, but it is definitely one of many powerful moments in time in Marina Abramovic’s The Artist is Present at MoMA in 2010.

Looking from Solitude: Picasso as Anti-Fascist

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 14:00:56 -0500

Looking from Solitude: Picasso as Anti-Fascist:

lookingfromsolitude:

A fascinating talk delivered by DORE ASHTON at Modernism-Fascism-Postmodernism, a conference held at the University of New Mexico in 2006.

Now, to Picasso as anti-fascist: I will start with a defense of Picasso’s prescience. Why defense? Because more than once his assiduous biographers and…

dailyartspace: THE DAILY STORY Stolen Ai Weiwei seeds sprout...

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:19:52 -0500

dailyartspace:

THE DAILY STORY

Stolen Ai Weiwei seeds sprout new exhibition

Couriers of Taste will open at Danson House in Bexleyheath in April and, with a little help from Ai’s light-fingered international fans, aims to explore themes of “international trade, cross-cultural influences and authorship”. Those with a stolen seed (and a guilty conscience to assuage) should emailseeds@dansonhouse.org.uk by 8 March. The curators promise to keep seeds separate and return them to their “owners” in October. No questions asked. [From the Independent]

It seems that Dallas finally realized there are no artists in...

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:03:37 -0500

It seems that Dallas finally realized there are no artists in the Arts District! Check out the plan to try to fix that, as reported by the Dallas Morning News

The ATW Calendar!

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:00:57 -0500

The ATW Calendar!:

Hey, Dallas art-types! Looking for what is happening in art in the DFW area? Check out the ATW calendar of events! Find out what’s happening and GO SEE SOME ART.

Maxwell Anderson: Giving back art — how museums see it

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:00:46 -0500

Maxwell Anderson: Giving back art — how museums see it:

Maxwell Anderson (the Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art and chair of the Association of Art Museum Directors’ Task Force on Archaeological Materials & Ancient Art.) contributed an op-ed piece to The Dallas Morning News on Friday which addresses a persistent issue in the art/museum world. The issue of priceless antiquities being looted from their home lands to fill galleries and homes across the world, the correct channels for dealing with ill-gotten goods, and the way to approach using these pieces once responsibly recovered are questions that have been around for decades and which will continue to be an issue for as long as we are discovering new sites of archaeological import. Anderson’s perspective on the issue is definitely worth the read!

Hey, guys! Been keeping up with our videos at...

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:00:55 -0500

Hey, guys! Been keeping up with our videos at www.artthisweek.com? Check out our latest.

manpodcast: This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Los...

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:00:45 -0500

manpodcast:

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Los Angeles County Museum of Art curator Britt Salvesen and artist Catherine Opie on the occasion of LACMA’s presentation of three Robert Mapplethorpe portfolios: The ‘X Portfolio,’ which features sadomasochistic imagery; the ‘Y Portfolio’ of floral still-lifes and the ‘Z Portfolio’ of nude portraits African-American men.

LACMA installed the three portfolios — apparently the first time an American art museum has exhibited them since the late 1980s — in October, 2012. They’ll remain on view in the museum’s Ahmanson Building, in a gallery just inside the front door, through March 24. Salvesen, who organized the installation, hung the three portfolios in staggered horizontal rows on dark red walls. (For some installation shots, click through to the jump.) The installation is LACMA’s first presentation of Mapplethorpe’s work since LACMA, the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute jointly purchased Mapplethorpe’s art and archive, including over 1,900 editioned prints, more than 1,000 non-editioned prints, 200 unique mixed-media objects, over 160 Polaroids, 120,000 negatives and related archival material. The museums are planning a major retrospective for 2016.

Salvesen is the head of LACMA’s photography department. Previously she was the director and chief curator of the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona. She has curated exhibitions of Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand, Harry Callahan, Danny Lyon and a group exhibition re-examining the landmark “The New Topographics” show.

Opie was the subject of a retrospective at the Guggenheim in 2008. Her “Twelve Miles to the Horizon: Sunrises and Sunsets,” is on view at the Long Beach Museum of Art through March 24. She will debut a new series of work at Regen Projects in Los Angeles later this month. Opie is widely considered the foremost synthesizer of Mapplethorpe’s work: Not only has Opie also focused her lens on leather and SM communities as did Mapplethorpe, but she shares his interest in portraiture and composition. In 1999 Opie made a series of seven phtographs titled the ‘O Portfolio,’ a response to Mapplethorpe’s ‘X Portfolio.’

Listen to the program: Download the program or listen in your browser. Subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes, SoundCloud or RSS. See images of artworks discussed on the program.

Cooper Union Art School Faculty Formally Rejects Tuition-Based Proposals

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:01:04 -0500

Cooper Union Art School Faculty Formally Rejects Tuition-Based Proposals:

Cooper Union, the merit-based, free tuition bastion of social reform in education made an interesting announcement recently in that the Art School will now start charging tuition for its graduate programs. The decision came about as a solution to solving the school’s $17 million deficit. In this article, The Village Voice catalogues the ongoing battle and highlights the faculty outcry to the decision, including excerpts from a letter penned by them for the Dean of the college.

manpodcast: This is a detail from Bernardo Daddi’s A Crowned...

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 17:34:48 -0500

manpodcast:

This is a detail from Bernardo Daddi’s A Crowned Virgin Martyr at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. For decades Daddi has most often been considered Florence’s second-greatest painter, after Giotto.

It’s included in the exhibition “Florence at the Dawn of the Renaissance: Painting and Illumination, 1300-1350” is on view at the Getty through Feb. 10. It opens at the Art Gallery of Ontario on March 16. Show curator Christine Sciacca is the lead guest on this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast.

Her exhibition argues for the existence of a link between manuscript painting and panel painting, two practices that scholars have long considered as unrelated disciplines. It also argues for a significant re-evaluation of Pacino di Bonaguida, a little-studied near-contemporary of Giotto. (Giotto is represented in the exhibition with an astonishing seven paintings.) Sciacca also edited the exhibition’s terrific, richly illustrated and readable catalogue. The exhibition was included on MAN’s 2012 top ten list. The Getty’s Iris blog has a super lineup of posts on the show.

Listen to the program: Download the show to your PC/mobile device by clicking here. Subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes, SoundCloud or RSS. See images of artworks discussed on the show.

Image: Bernardo Daddi, A Crowned Virgin Martyr (detail), 1340s. Collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Collage of Arts and Sciences

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:00:47 -0500

Collage of Arts and Sciences:

First, let me just say… Art This Week loves Smithsonian Magazine. Just getting that out of the way. Beyond that, have y’all checked out their arts and sciences blog yet? We all know how closely intertwined the arts and sciences actually are, but this blog is a wonderful expression of the fact and exploration of those connections and synapses that make our world such a fascinating place. Olfactory art installations, Ornithologists, Origami… Wow, that’s a lot of O’s.

Click the link and check it out! And make sure you’re also following our videos at Art This Week!

Update: Dallas Contemporary Returns Artwork to Artists After eBay Gaffe, Donated Print Emerges at Employee’s Gallery

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:00:52 -0500

Update: Dallas Contemporary Returns Artwork to Artists After eBay Gaffe, Donated Print Emerges at Employee’s Gallery:

Frontrow’s Peter Simek updates us on the Dallas Contemporary’s Ebay snaffoo. In case you missed the story… Catch up on all the gory details through the link. Needless to say, Director Peter Doroshenko and the Dallas Contemporary board of directors have been meeting to figure out just what happened and to do what they can to salvage the situation (taking down the errant Ebay site, apologies, etc.)

Happy Birthday, Paul Cezanne!

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 11:54:01 -0500