Kim Rugg Melt, 2009
hyde or die
Antony Gormley Event Horizon
You New Yorker’s have all the luck. Gormley’s Event Horizon goes live on March 26, so keep your eyes to the sky. You won’t want to miss this!
A few of Gormley’s sentinels will be installed early on 10 March around the Madison Square park area, with a view to eventually inhabiting vertiginous vantage points and eye-popping eyries high above street level, on the Flatiron and Empire State buildings among others. via..
Steve Craig Where Am I Supposed to Put This 2010
Lana (Johnson, Collections Manager) had commissioned the work on view from Senior Art Preparator and artist Steve Craig. Inspiration came to Steve from a conversation with Lana where she told him of her never-ending quest to find space for the storage and protection of LACMA’s permanent collection as well as the crates that contain them—a dilemma that often prompts her to ask herself: Where am I supposed to put this? via…
Fact: Preparators are frequently the best artists.
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture’s new project How Many Billboards? Art in Stead is starting to take shape, with the official opening next weekend.
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House is pleased to present its most ambitious project to date: How Many Billboards? Art in Stead. This large-scale urban exhibition debuts 21 newly commissioned works by leading contemporary artists, presented simultaneously on billboards in Los Angeles in February and March 2010.
Billboards are a dominant feature of the landscape in Los Angeles. Thousands line the city’s thoroughfares, delivering high-end commercial messages to a repeat audience. Given outdoor advertising’s strong presence in public space, it seems reasonable and exciting to set up the possibility for art to be present in this field. The sudden existence of artistic speech mixed in with commercial speech provides a refreshing change of pace. Commercial messaging tells you to buy; artistic messaging encourages you to look and to think.
I can’t wait to see these going up around town.
