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    STOREFRONT is pleased to announce On Display, a three-person exhibition curated by Hrag Vartanian featuring paintings by Sharon Butler and Cathy Nan Quinlan with sculptural objects by Joy Curtis. On Display offers three challenging new perspectives on abstraction. Each artist employs familiar forms, but in different and idiosyncratic ways. Their work thus embodies an inventive and wide-ranging exploration of crucial elements of visual language: framing, illusion, and ultimately imperfection. Hrag Vartanian is a Brooklyn-based writer, blogger, and cultural worker. He edits the art blogazine Hyperallergic. A full-color catalogue with essays by Butler, Curtis, Quinlan, Vartanian accompanies the exhibition. If you New Yorkers ever decide to listen to me on my suggestions of what to see in NY, this is the time. There is no place I would rather be than to see this show. It’s up through August 22 so you have a modicum of time to see it. I hear that there will be free vodka at the opening, and on those cold NY nights, you need something to warm the blood, right?

    STOREFRONT is pleased to announce On Display, a three-person exhibition curated by Hrag Vartanian featuring paintings by Sharon Butler and Cathy Nan Quinlan with sculptural objects by Joy Curtis.

    On Display offers three challenging new perspectives on abstraction. Each artist employs familiar forms, but in different and idiosyncratic ways. Their work thus embodies an inventive and wide-ranging exploration of crucial elements of visual language: framing, illusion, and ultimately imperfection.

    Hrag Vartanian is a Brooklyn-based writer, blogger, and cultural worker. He edits the art blogazine Hyperallergic.

    A full-color catalogue with essays by Butler, Curtis, Quinlan, Vartanian accompanies the exhibition.

    If you New Yorkers ever decide to listen to me on my suggestions of what to see in NY, this is the time. There is no place I would rather be than to see this show. It’s up through August 22 so you have a modicum of time to see it.

    I hear that there will be free vodka at the opening, and on those cold NY nights, you need something to warm the blood, right?



    Tags: Hrag VartanianArtCurationNew York

    August 06, 2010, 9:59am  

    » Moscow Curators Face 3 Years in Prison for 2007 Exhibition

    One painting depicted Jesus Christ as Mickey Mouse, another as Vladimir Lenin. The 2007 exhibit was part of an effort to fight censorship of the arts, but the Russian Orthodox Church was horrified.

    Now, after a 14-month trial, the two prominent Moscow art curators who put on the show are facing the prospect of three years in prison.

    Artists and rights activists have appealed to the Kremlin to put a stop to the prosecution of Yury Samodurov and Andrei Yerofeyev, warning of a return to Soviet-era cultural censorship with the rules now dictated by a conservative and politically powerful church.

    Even Russia’s culture minister says the two men did nothing to break the law against inciting religious hatred.

    But the prosecutors refuse to back down and have demanded a three-year prison sentence when the judge makes her ruling on July 12.

    Let’s hope that the judge rules in favor of the curators.  I know I live in a liberal bubble where these types of actions are considered beyond ludicrous, but it really is a nice slap of reality that this type of censorship still goes on and could potentially be punished.



    Tags: CurationPrisonMoscow

    July 08, 2010, 10:35am  

    “Private initiative is something we should appreciate, but what would have happened if one of the country’s richest women had suggested a sculpture park with works depicting only men. Who would have taken her seriously?”

    — Marianne Hultman, director of the Oslo Kunstforening (Fine Art Society) in regards to the real estate developer who says he plans to create a sculpture garden dedicated to “celebrate women”.



    Tags: ArtMarianne HultmanGenderFeminismSculptureCuration

    June 29, 2010, 4:00pm  

    “I would happily trade yet another old master costing tens of millions of pounds for the chance to find out what the many “undiscovered” artists around the world are doing—right now.”

    — David Barrie in his article about how curators today need to be leaders, not followers.



    Tags: David BarrieCurationContemporaryHistoryArt History

    June 28, 2010, 4:00pm  

    “When BAM first asked me to curate a show, I knew I wanted it to be a photography show and I knew I wanted it to be about New York. I kind of thought it was going to be a broad survey, showing New York in some of its many incarnations. But when I started putting images together, I found that what I was doing was building a picture of New York as it was when I was growing up. I wanted to talk about how the city felt in the late ’80s in early ’90s, and how it felt to be a kid and then a teenager here. It’s a place and a time I have a lot of nostalgia for.”

    — Skye Parrott on curating “Younger Than I’ll Be”



    Tags: New YorkPhotographyCurationArtBAM

    April 07, 2010, 1:18pm  

    “(T)he art handlers marked various options on the wall, and I taped out approximately where the other paintings would hang. But as they lifted Watson up—it takes five people—and it rose past the lower line, I stopped them. It was clearly going to look too high. And then I realized that at the NGA it hangs on the wall all by itself, and it doesn’t matter how high it is there. Context is everything.”

    — Bruce Robertson, Consulting Curator, American Art at LACMA talking about hanging one of my all-times.



    Tags: John Singleton CopleyLACMACuration

    March 01, 2010, 11:18am  

    New magazine that I will lust over alert: The Exhibitionist, a new journal made by curators, for curators, focusing solely on the practice of exhibition making. The objective is to create a wider platform for the discussion of curatorial concerns - encourage a diversification of curatorial models, and actively contribute to the formation of a theory of curating. It is published by ARCHIVE BOOKS and will be distributed internationally, selling at major and specialty bookstores and newsstands. I don’t want to go to the website because I don’t want to see that it’s $30 an issue 2x a year. Alright, I just checked anyway and it’s only half that, if you subscribe.

    New magazine that I will lust over alert:

    The Exhibitionist, a new journal made by curators, for curators, focusing solely on the practice of exhibition making. The objective is to create a wider platform for the discussion of curatorial concerns - encourage a diversification of curatorial models, and actively contribute to the formation of a theory of curating. It is published by ARCHIVE BOOKS and will be distributed internationally, selling at major and specialty bookstores and newsstands.

    I don’t want to go to the website because I don’t want to see that it’s $30 an issue 2x a year. Alright, I just checked anyway and it’s only half that, if you subscribe.



    Tags: CurationExhibitionsMagazine

    February 08, 2010, 2:37pm  

    “

    Such private-collector-centric “fluff shows” have proliferated this year, particularly in New York, where the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum and New York University’s Grey Art Gallery have shown private collections. Most recently, the New Museum has announced its intention to create a series of such shows and has given it the bizarre title “The Imaginary Museum”. The New Museum’s initial “Imaginary Museum” show will be of the private collection of Dakis Joannou.

    These shows are unethical, improper and raise questions about the museums’ adherence to guidelines the US government lays down for non-profit institutions. (It is important to note that I’m criticising only exhibitions of private collections, not exhibitions of works donated to museums by collectors.) I’m especially disappointed that the New Museum has planned such a poorly considered show and series. It has a unique history as a feminist-created, experiment-driven, alternative space. Its decision to exhibit private collections turns the museum from a kunsthalle into a vanity space.

    ”

    — Tyler Green on the New Museum business and other museum’s programming decisisons.



    Tags: New MuseumEthicsCurationTyler Green

    November 19, 2009, 3:27pm  

    Robin Rhode Monument to the Chairman 2008 I am very excited about this exhibition that is coming up at LACMA next year. I’m also curious as to how the curation is going to play out now that Charlotte Cotton is gone and that new chick is there…Curious indeed.

    Robin Rhode Monument to the Chairman 2008

    I am very excited about this exhibition that is coming up at LACMA next year.

    I’m also curious as to how the curation is going to play out now that Charlotte Cotton is gone and that new chick is there…Curious indeed.



    Tags: Robin RhodeartLACMACuration

    September 29, 2009, 2:00pm  

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